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datsunking1
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 Message 89 of 3737
03 October 2009 at 5:26pm | IP Logged 
When you watch a movie, hear a foreign language, and say to yourself "hey I think I'll learn that one.." :D
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LanguageSponge
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 Message 90 of 3737
03 October 2009 at 5:41pm | IP Logged 
... you start a new language, and, when making vocabulary lists, don't use a consist language for the translations. Sometimes when I am writing vocabulary notes for Slovenian, sometimes they're in French, German, Italian, Russian or even Latin. And the best thing is, I don't even think which one I want the translation in, it just flows.. it's weird :]

Jack
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patuco
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 Message 91 of 3737
03 October 2009 at 5:47pm | IP Logged 
ennime wrote:
Bao wrote:
patuco wrote:
Forgot about the last part. Not a problem though, because I actually will learn it all even, if it does take the next few hundred years :)

... one of your life goals is to invent a longevity drug, just to be able to finish 'em
all?

... or you believe in reincarnation and wish you could retain your knowledge/language
skills and you're books for your next life?

I don't believe in reincarnation and I'm afraid to say that I haven't got any longevity drugs (wish I had, though!). I was actually thinking along the same lines as Levi, minus the drool (Volte's right, not only does spoil the undigitized material but it could even short out my new electronic brain).
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mick33
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Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

 
 Message 92 of 3737
11 October 2009 at 1:09am | IP Logged 
drfeelgood17 wrote:
Levi wrote:
...if, as you read this, you have within arm's reach books in or about at least three
different languages.


Even worse, I often carry these books around with me in my bag wherever I go!
Guilty on both counts and I'll add some of my own.
...When you create a YouTube channel for listening to music in your target languages.
...When you choose to learn a language just because you like it's orthography.
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
...if you rate this thread among your favourites.
...if you've taken the test presented in that thread.
...if you scored particularly high.
...If you take that test every couple months to see if your score improves.

Edited by mick33 on 11 October 2009 at 1:36am

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MegatronFilm
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 Message 93 of 3737
11 October 2009 at 3:20am | IP Logged 
When you have a tattoo about learning languages.
I have on my ribs "Kolik jazyků znáš, tolikrát jsi člověkem"
Its a czech saying meaning for every language you learn you gain a new life. I got it in Prague.

I also have another tattoo in Spanish. Its a the last 3 lines of Pablo Neruda's poem The Heights of Machu Picchu. I
got that in Cusco, Peru.

I plan to get more foreign language tattoos in my travels.
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Levi
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 Message 94 of 3737
11 October 2009 at 4:15am | IP Logged 
...when you have to stop and think what language it was that you were just using, or are
in the middle of using, because you don't remember.
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xtremelingo
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 Message 95 of 3737
11 October 2009 at 10:12pm | IP Logged 

.. when you post on this forum and have hundreds of posts in less than 2 weeks.

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psy88
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 Message 96 of 3737
12 October 2009 at 2:24am | IP Logged 
When, if you speak English and are learning Spanish, a family member walks in while you are watching television and sarcastically congratulates you for finally watching an English language show...and it is really only because you were changing channels to find a Spanish telenovela that the English show was on.



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