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psy88
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 Message 2113 of 3737
27 January 2012 at 3:49am | IP Logged 
jdmoncada wrote:
vikavictoria wrote:
when your roommates come home with a new flavor bottle of vodka and say, "I'm looking forward to this". And you, being the lang nerd, think to yourself, I'm looking forward to my new "750 Verbs and How to Use them" book! :)


See, I thought you were going to write that you were looking forward to reading the foreign language writing on the bottle! You had me fooled. :)




You know you really are when you also thought this and you feel very disappointed that it was not to read the label, and, you now are curious about the labels from vodka bottled in Sweden,Finland, Russia, etc., and now want to buy them so you can read and compare them...and you don't even drink.
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Kartof
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 Message 2114 of 3737
27 January 2012 at 11:41pm | IP Logged 
YKYALN when you follow FCBarcelona and RealMadrid on twitter in Spanish and you don't watch soccer.
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Serpent
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 Message 2115 of 3737
28 January 2012 at 8:53am | IP Logged 
Kartof wrote:
YKYALN when you follow FCBarcelona and RealMadrid on twitter in Spanish and you don't watch soccer.
LOL!
Try Marca or El Mundo Deportivo, these should provide a good overview of the Spanish football. Also, I collected some great fun accounts in Spanish in this thread :)
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Kartof
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 Message 2116 of 3737
28 January 2012 at 2:04pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
Kartof wrote:
YKYALN when you follow FCBarcelona and RealMadrid on twitter in Spanish and
you don't watch soccer.
LOL!
Try Marca or El Mundo Deportivo, these should provide a good overview of the Spanish football. Also, I collected
some great fun accounts in Spanish TID=30271&PN=1">in this thread :)


Wow, thanks! These will be useful!
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vikavictoria
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 Message 2117 of 3737
29 January 2012 at 3:00am | IP Logged 
psy88 wrote:
jdmoncada wrote:
vikavictoria wrote:
when your roommates come home with a new flavor bottle of vodka and say, "I'm looking forward to this". And you, being the lang nerd, think to yourself, I'm looking forward to my new "750 Verbs and How to Use them" book! :)


See, I thought you were going to write that you were looking forward to reading the foreign language writing on the bottle! You had me fooled. :)




You know you really are when you also thought this and you feel very disappointed that it was not to read the label, and, you now are curious about the labels from vodka bottled in Sweden,Finland, Russia, etc., and now want to buy them so you can read and compare them...and you don't even drink.


Except that my roommates don't know less-good vodka from worse vodka, and always buy Smirnoff, but it always just says, "smirnofskaya vodka" on the bottle, and Stoli says, "Stoli" on the bottle with a russian L for the liter mark. Not that interesting. Now, had it been some of the more RUSSIAN vodkas, and not those just popular in USA, then, yeah, I'd be happy to read it :)
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Kartof
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 Message 2118 of 3737
29 January 2012 at 4:24am | IP Logged 
You know you're a language (and math!) nerd when you're tempted to take out a textbook on advanced Calculus in
Spanish (and French too :D) from the library :)
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jdmoncada
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 Message 2119 of 3737
29 January 2012 at 6:56am | IP Logged 
...when you're the only one in the theater who laughs at this subtle joke

[From the movie War Horse]

Colin (English soldier): You speak English good.

Peter (German soldier): I speak English well.
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wv girl
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 Message 2120 of 3737
29 January 2012 at 1:38pm | IP Logged 
YKYALN when, flipping channels on the TV, you stop to watch an evangelical sermon in Spanish! Something you'd
always pass on if it were plain old English. Anything for target language practice!


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