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johntm93
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 Message 769 of 3737
01 July 2010 at 6:02am | IP Logged 
ellasevia wrote:
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.)


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.
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.


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. :)
Lucky :P
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josht
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 Message 770 of 3737
01 July 2010 at 1:10pm | IP Logged 
... the copy of Teach Yourself Danish arrives, and you can't help but sit down right away and read the preface and general introduction, even though you bought it just in case you might someday want to learn Danish.
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Teango
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 Message 771 of 3737
01 July 2010 at 3:17pm | IP Logged 
josht wrote:
...the copy of Teach Yourself Danish arrives, and you can't help but sit down right away and read the preface and general introduction...

Join the gang...I guess it's the equivalent of reading through the card that tells you all the fillings in a box of chocolates (and perhaps even nibbling on a nougat swirl or two before putting them guiltily back in the box)...but it's just oh so mouth-wateringly tempting! :P

Edited by Teango on 01 July 2010 at 3:18pm
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josht
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 Message 772 of 3737
02 July 2010 at 4:44pm | IP Logged 
... you pack your Assimil French course and a dictionary into your bag to work on later in the day, only to find that you accidentally packed the wrong dictionary, as you have Langenscheidt Pocket dictionaries for practically all of your languages.
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psy88
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 Message 773 of 3737
04 July 2010 at 2:55am | IP Logged 
When you are introduced to a woman named "Corey" and you chuckle because it makes you think of the similar sounding word in your target language "corre", which is the imperative of "correr" meaning "run!"
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johntm93
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 Message 774 of 3737
04 July 2010 at 5:50am | IP Logged 
psy88 wrote:
When you are introduced to a woman named "Corey" and you chuckle because it makes you think of the similar sounding word in your target language "corre", which is the imperative of "correr" meaning "run!"
Great, now I get to think of this whenever I meet people named Corey.
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Tally
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 Message 775 of 3737
04 July 2010 at 10:38am | IP Logged 
johntm93 wrote:
psy88 wrote:
When you are introduced to a woman named "Corey" and
you chuckle because it makes you think of the similar sounding word in your target
language "corre", which is the imperative of "correr" meaning "run!"
Great, now I
get to think of this whenever I meet people named Corey.


Haha same here
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Levi
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 Message 776 of 3737
04 July 2010 at 10:42am | IP Logged 
...when you chuckle every time you meet a woman with the name "Andrea", because you know it has its etymological roots in a Greek word meaning "manly".


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