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zerothinking
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Australia
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Speaks: English*

 
 Message 65 of 204
19 November 2008 at 4:36am | IP Logged 
I'd be flattered if someone got my name and age and actually spent hours tracking me
down and finding out where I live, eliminating all the other possibilities. Then
getting on a plane for 5 or so hours to come break into my house with a screwdriver to
hide in my wardrobe for a further 12 hours waiting for me to come home from work and
then go to bed so that when I fall asleep they can burst out and stab me 21 times.
Very flattered indeed.
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Alvinho
Triglot
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Brazil
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Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish

 
 Message 66 of 204
19 November 2008 at 5:47am | IP Logged 
zerothinking wrote:
I'd be flattered if someone got my name and age and actually spent hours tracking me
down and finding out where I live, eliminating all the other possibilities. Then
getting on a plane for 5 or so hours to come break into my house with a screwdriver to
hide in my wardrobe for a further 12 hours waiting for me to come home from work and
then go to bed so that when I fall asleep they can burst out and stab me 21 times.
Very flattered indeed.


If I accomplished this mission you've set, you'd pay me lots of beer bottles and a thick 5000-page English-Spanish dictionary then?....hehehe
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jez
Diglot
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Netherlands
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37 posts - 37 votes
Speaks: Dutch*, English
Studies: Spanish

 
 Message 67 of 204
20 November 2008 at 7:29am | IP Logged 
Yeah, I'm quite sure people won't find out anything about you when you post your age on a forum about languages...
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Leopejo
Bilingual Triglot
Senior Member
Italy
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675 posts - 724 votes 
Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English
Studies: French, Russian

 
 Message 68 of 204
20 November 2008 at 7:42am | IP Logged 
jez wrote:
Yeah, I'm quite sure people won't find out anything about you when you post your age on a forum about languages...

Well, they'll find out... your age.
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Alkeides
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Bhutan
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 Message 69 of 204
20 November 2008 at 8:04am | IP Logged 
Leopejo wrote:
jez wrote:
Yeah, I'm quite sure people won't find out anything about you when you post your age on a forum about languages...

Well, they'll find out... your age.


I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe

I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those?

Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken


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patuco
Diglot
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Gibraltar
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Speaks: Spanish, English*
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 Message 70 of 204
21 November 2008 at 11:22am | IP Logged 
zerothinking wrote:
I'd be flattered if someone got my name and age and actually spent hours tracking me down and finding out where I live, eliminating all the other possibilities. Then getting on a plane for 5 or so hours to come break into my house with a screwdriver to hide in my wardrobe for a further 12 hours waiting for me to come home from work and then go to bed so that when I fall asleep they can burst out and stab me 21 times. Very flattered indeed.

You'll also be very dead indeed.
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JW
Hexaglot
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United States
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1802 posts - 2011 votes 
22 sounds
Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew
Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian

 
 Message 71 of 204
21 November 2008 at 12:02pm | IP Logged 
amphises wrote:

I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe

I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those?

Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken

Touché and kudos, nice verse...

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Fasulye
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Germany
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Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto
Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish
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 Message 72 of 204
22 November 2008 at 6:40am | IP Logged 
I am 47 years now.

English: I started learning English when I lived with my family in the USA at the age of 7. (2nd grade elementary school)

Latin: I started with Latin in grammar school at the age of 12. (7th grade)

French: I started with French in grammar school at the age of 14. (9th grade)

Ancient Greek: This language I started simultanously with French in grammar school at the age of 14. (9th grade) After having left school I abandoned this language completley.

Dutch: I started learning Dutch at university at the age of 22.

Italian: I started learning Italian at university at the age of about 24.

Esperanto: I started learning Esperanto with private lessons at the age of 30.

Spanish: I started learning Spanish at university at the age of 31.

Portuguese: I attended 4 courses of Portuguese at university beginning at the age of 33, but after those courses I abandoned this language completely.

Turkish: I started with learning Turkish at the age of 33 simultanously at university and at an adult education centre. Later I had to stop the learning process again and I have restarted learning Turkish nowadays at the age of 46.




Edited by Fasulye on 22 November 2008 at 3:38pm



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