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Marc94
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 Message 1273 of 3737
27 November 2010 at 11:52pm | IP Logged 
When your day just becomes the best ever when you stumble upon an international magazine place in New York City. You just have to love New York! Now I've been reading a 100 page German Newspaper and its 50 page magazine supplement over the past two days. It is a Wochenzeitung, or week-long paper and it's called Die Zeit.
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Teango
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 Message 1274 of 3737
28 November 2010 at 6:45am | IP Logged 
When you can't believe your luck as you walk out of the cinema, after having watched the latest installment of Harry Potter, and there's a market stall directly opposite advertising "free Spanish with Flamenco, and Italian and French cinema" as part of a local language festival.

Did I pick up a flyer and start chatting away to the woman in broken Spanish? You can bet your bottom dinero I did! :D
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MegatronFilm
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 Message 1275 of 3737
02 December 2010 at 12:45am | IP Logged 
Marc94 wrote:
When your day just becomes the best ever when you stumble upon an international magazine
place in New York City. You just have to love New York! Now I've been reading a 100 page German Newspaper and
its 50 page magazine supplement over the past two days. It is a Wochenzeitung, or week-long paper and it's called
Die Zeit.


Where is this? I'm moving to New York soon! :)
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Levi
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 Message 1276 of 3737
02 December 2010 at 5:21pm | IP Logged 
...when you get your replacement for a language course book because you wore it out till its cover fell off then left it on the bus, and you're as excited as the day you got your first copy.
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LanguageSponge
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 Message 1277 of 3737
02 December 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged 
Levi wrote:
...when you get your replacement for a language course book because you wore it out till its cover fell off then left it on the bus, and you're as excited as the day you got your first copy.


I had exactly the same thing with my first copy of the New Penguin Russian Course - it fell apart about a year after I got it, I bought a second and now that's near becoming unuseable again.

...when you don't know which language to greet your girlfriend in in the mornings (as in my case because my girlfriend's half Belgian) - English (bah!) German (now becoming much more usual) or whether to embarrass myself and speak French with her - which I don't ever do.
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Levi
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 Message 1278 of 3737
02 December 2010 at 6:30pm | IP Logged 
LanguageSponge wrote:
Levi wrote:
...when you get your replacement for a language course book because you wore it out till its cover fell off then left it on the bus, and you're as excited as the day you got your first copy.


I had exactly the same thing with my first copy of the New Penguin Russian Course - it fell apart about a year after I got it, I bought a second and now that's near becoming unuseable again.

What a coincidence, that's exactly the book I was talking about! :)
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ellasevia
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 Message 1279 of 3737
03 December 2010 at 12:09am | IP Logged 
Levi and LanguageSponge, how could you possibly allow this much harm to come to your dear books? I barely let people near my books and start screaming when they touch them. I almost had a mental breakdown when my brother tore most of a page out of my favorite Swahili book this summer...

Edited by ellasevia on 05 December 2010 at 12:13am

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kottoler.ello
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 Message 1280 of 3737
03 December 2010 at 7:10am | IP Logged 
When you crack under the stress of college applications and school and start very unadvisedly learning German, Swahili and Portuguese without meaning to. Should be an interesting spring semester.

Also, when the few things on your Christmas list are all language-related.

Edited by kottoler.ello on 03 December 2010 at 7:11am



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