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| GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 3673 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes  Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French | Message 1809 of 3737 16 July 2011 at 3:43pm | IP Logged |
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...the first thing you think to do once you come home from you two week vacation in Italy
is to look at all the new YKYLNW posts ... while looking at the ancient Italian sights you notice you are the only one taking pictures of the rock slabs with Latin on it ... you're becoming the translator between your brothers and your Italian cousins is the high point of the trip ... on the plane trip to Italy you are messing around with the little tv in front of you and find a game that teaches you foreign languages and you spend a good 3 hours on it ... you can't understand why your brothers would rather listen to English channels when you could rather watch Italian news live Edited by GRagazzo on 16 July 2011 at 3:44pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 3762 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 1810 of 3737 17 July 2011 at 5:32am | IP Logged |
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When you by a bottle of wine, in witch you don*t care for, just because the name of it is "Fünf" the German number for 5 and you actually take a picture of it and set it as your facebook profile pic.
When you teach your little cousin (who is 2 and a half) how to count in German and actually get a bit irritated because he can't pronounce the umlaut letters to your standards, I do admit when he says Fünf, it sounds sooo cute, lol. When you overhear guys(guessing from the ball and chain, it was a batchelor party) at a German resteraunt chanting DAS BOOT over and over, because they are playing a drinking game that comprises of drinking out of/passing around a glass boot, but this irritates you like no other because Boot is actually the German word for boat, Stiefel is the word for boot... and you are over half tempted to correct these men. I know it sounds like all I do is drink... I'm really not an alcoholic....:) Edited by LebensForm on 17 July 2011 at 5:34am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Bobbi Newbie United States Joined 3734 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 1811 of 3737 17 July 2011 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
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when you buy a new microwave/oven and you're thrilled that the instruction booklets come in English and French with a separate panel sticky that you're considering putting up because at least 2 in the family speak French and another wants to learn. And you've warned your husband not to throw any of the paperwork away. Packaging in foreign languages is like a mini-vacation.
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| strummer Diglot Newbie Switzerland Joined 3634 days ago 38 posts - 53 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1812 of 3737 17 July 2011 at 4:56pm | IP Logged |
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..when you can sing songs in japanese and mandarin but you know none in your native
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| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 4018 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian | Message 1813 of 3737 17 July 2011 at 11:56pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I sing songs in Italian, Russian, German, French, English and even Navajo, but no song in Norwegian.
But I am a general nerd of many areas. Obs: I have not learnt any Finnish song yet. That's a shame. Edited by Aquila123 on 17 July 2011 at 11:58pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 3775 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 1815 of 3737 19 July 2011 at 10:37am | IP Logged |
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- when you find it funny and can't help but point out this bad translation on the sweet bread cabinets at a store:
Sticker: "Please use wax paper." Spanish translation on sticker: "Por favor usar papel favor usar." (Isn't it ironic that this Texan store is called "Fiesta"?) - when in that same store, you trace back your steps to look for a box of herbal tea you had just glanced at. It was written in a language you didn't recognize, a Slavic one if your guesses were correct. When you find out it's in Croatian (and stomp the urge to buy it, despite the fact that you hate tea and have no intentions in learning Croatian), you can now go back home with peace in mind. - when you will bring your camera the next time you go and take pictures of these foreign labels. - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 19 July 2011 at 10:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| strummer Diglot Newbie Switzerland Joined 3634 days ago 38 posts - 53 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1816 of 3737 19 July 2011 at 2:12pm | IP Logged |
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when you can recognize yourself in the stories of this topic.
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