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Mauritz
Octoglot
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Sweden
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223 posts - 325 votes 
Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French
Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans

 
 Message 2161 of 3737
24 February 2012 at 9:58am | IP Logged 
When your ultimate goal with Old English is to translate The Lord of the Rings into it.
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Hekje
Diglot
Senior Member
United States
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842 posts - 1330 votes 
Speaks: English*, Dutch
Studies: French, Indonesian

 
 Message 2162 of 3737
24 February 2012 at 6:08pm | IP Logged 
Mauritz wrote:
When your ultimate goal with Old English is to translate The Lord of the Rings into it.

On that same theme: when the notebook in which you jot down new vocabulary is more valuable to you than the
Precious.
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Cavesa
Triglot
Senior Member
Czech Republic
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3277 posts - 6779 votes 
Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1
Studies: Spanish, German, Italian

 
 Message 2163 of 3737
25 February 2012 at 11:52am | IP Logged 
When you feel lucky when you have found a French textbook you had wanted some time ago in
a second hand bookshop. And then, you flip through the pages and find three four-leafed
clovers dried inside. Isn't it some kind of a sign?

In the same bookshop, I found the textbook I had been learning from when I was nine or
ten years old. It is a bit old (but phrases like "Michel et Monique jouent au cache-
cache." don't change that much) and some chapters mention Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union
(our teachers had sticked a paper over those and replaced the dialogues with new ones), I
still think it is waaaaay better than most modern textbooks aimed at children. I have
reserved the book till next week and perhaps, it will serve my sister or brother one day
(at least I tell myself it is the reason to buy it. In fact, it is pure nostalgy).
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Serpent
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Russian Federation
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Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

 
 Message 2164 of 3737
25 February 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged 
Today I was waiting for a prof, for really long. Fortunately, there was a Spanish class in the next classroom, and the door was open so I could hear everything they said. Fun!!! :D
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Iversen
Super Polyglot
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Denmark
berejst.dk
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9078 posts - 16473 votes 
Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan
Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian
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 Message 2165 of 3737
25 February 2012 at 6:15pm | IP Logged 
I had filled out my sudoku booklet in the plane from Taiwan to Germany, and then I began copying Chinese signs with their Pinyin values and meaning in German into the empty spaces in the booklet just for fun. And I'm not even going to learn Chinese - my Wanderlust is under control.
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druckfehler
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Germany
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Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean
Studies: Persian

 
 Message 2166 of 3737
25 February 2012 at 7:02pm | IP Logged 
When you suddenly get an unstoppable urge to find and list all available material for studying Samoan even though you live in Europe and there's probably no Samoan to be found anywhere in a radius of 8000 kilometers :)
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drp9341
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United States
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115 posts - 217 votes 
Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Studies: Japanese

 
 Message 2167 of 3737
02 March 2012 at 2:41am | IP Logged 
When you're a freshman in college sitting in a library, and you recognize the guys sitting in front of you is very
black, and is speaking what sounds like sped up Arabic. So you go on youtube and type in Amharic and listen to him
on the phone while you compare his speech to Amharic. You conclude he is from Ethiopia and is speaking Amharic.
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Zireael
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Poland
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518 posts - 636 votes 
Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish
Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English

 
 Message 2168 of 3737
03 March 2012 at 10:28am | IP Logged 
When you prefer using English or Spanish Wikipedia to Polish one. Not only 'cause they have more articles. But just for keeping in contact with the language.


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