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Teango
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| Message 761 of 3737 30 June 2010 at 5:48pm | IP Logged |
I've got a introductory course in Ojibwe on my bookshelf too. :) I have absolutely no intention of ever reading it, but it's like Kary said, you never know...
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| psy88
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| Message 762 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 3:36am | IP Logged |
When, first, your bookcase could no longer hold all your language books,courses, and CD's .And,so you then started piling your language stuff on the floor, and ,now, you are embarrassed to ever let anyone see how you now have your stuff on the floor in several piles in different rooms. And, no, the target languages are not separated into different piles or different rooms. And, no they are not alphabetical, but rather are stored like an archaeological dig with the oldest stuff buried on the bottom and more recent stuff towards the top.
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| johntm93
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| Message 763 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 4:33am | IP Logged |
psy88 wrote:
| When, first, your bookcase could no longer hold all your language books,courses, and CD's .And,so you then started piling your language stuff on the floor, and ,now, you are embarrassed to ever let anyone see how you now have your stuff on the floor in several piles in different rooms. And, no, the target languages are not separated into different piles or different rooms. And, no they are not alphabetical, but rather are stored like an archaeological dig with the oldest stuff buried on the bottom and more recent stuff towards the top. |
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...I know this is what my apartment/house will be when I get older. Or at least some rooms of it.
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| Kary
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| Message 764 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 4:46am | IP Logged |
johntm93 wrote:
psy88 wrote:
| When, first, your bookcase could no longer hold all your language books,courses, and CD's .And,so you then started piling your language stuff on the floor, and ,now, you are embarrassed to ever let anyone see how you now have your stuff on the floor in several piles in different rooms. And, no, the target languages are not separated into different piles or different rooms. And, no they are not alphabetical, but rather are stored like an archaeological dig with the oldest stuff buried on the bottom and more recent stuff towards the top. |
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...I know this is what my apartment/house will be when I get older. Or at least some rooms of it. |
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Well, I temporarily solved that problem with a trip to IKEA a few weeks ago. After adding five new bookcases, each with six shelves, I now have my books (and most of my husband's) neatly organized. Our living room looks like a library and we have bookshelves in two other rooms.
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| johntm93
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| Message 765 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 4:56am | IP Logged |
Kary wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
psy88 wrote:
| When, first, your bookcase could no longer hold all your language books,courses, and CD's .And,so you then started piling your language stuff on the floor, and ,now, you are embarrassed to ever let anyone see how you now have your stuff on the floor in several piles in different rooms. And, no, the target languages are not separated into different piles or different rooms. And, no they are not alphabetical, but rather are stored like an archaeological dig with the oldest stuff buried on the bottom and more recent stuff towards the top. |
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...I know this is what my apartment/house will be when I get older. Or at least some rooms of it. |
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Well, I temporarily solved that problem with a trip to IKEA a few weeks ago. After adding five new bookcases, each with six shelves, I now have my books (and most of my husband's) neatly organized. Our living room looks like a library and we have bookshelves in two other rooms. |
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Haha maybe I'll get rich and have a huge library. Since I'm only 16, I don't buy too much stuff like crazy, but I've downloaded stuff for languages I don't even plan on learning (I don't know why I have a Cantonese course and a learning Indonesian podcast, among other things.)
Edited by johntm93 on 01 July 2010 at 4:56am
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| johntm93
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| Message 767 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 5:36am | IP Logged |
paranday wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
| ...Haha maybe I'll get rich and have a huge library. Since I'm only 16, I don't buy too much stuff like crazy, but I've downloaded stuff for languages I don't even plan on learning (I don't know why I have a Cantonese course and a learning Indonesian podcast, among other things.) |
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Trust me, age 16 is great. You know you are a language geek when you kick yourself occasionally for not starting this madness much earlier in life. |
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Ha I'm kicking myself for not starting this even earlier. I realize how lucky I am to find this out while I'm still pretty young, but I still wish I was like Akao and other members (he was the only one I could think of) that started at around 13.
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| ellasevia
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| Message 768 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 5:41am | IP Logged |
johntm93 wrote:
paranday wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
| ...Haha maybe I'll get rich and have a huge library. Since I'm only 16, I don't buy too much stuff like crazy, but I've downloaded stuff for languages I don't even plan on learning (I don't know why I have a Cantonese course and a learning Indonesian podcast, among other things.) |
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Trust me, age 16 is great. You know you are a language geek when you kick yourself occasionally for not starting this madness much earlier in life. |
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Ha I'm kicking myself for not starting this even earlier. I realize how lucky I am to find this out while I'm still pretty young, but I still wish I was like Akao and other members (he was the only one I could think of) that started at around 13. |
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Now that I think of it I also started about when I was 13 (I'm almost 16 now), and even I'm wishing I had started earlier, even with having the advantage of already speaking Spanish from my bilingual elementary school and Greek from my family!
EDIT: Oops. I just remembered that my first attempt at self-studying a language was Mandarin when I was 12. :)
Edited by ellasevia on 01 July 2010 at 5:42am
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