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| GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4743 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes  Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French | Message 2505 of 3737 27 July 2012 at 7:27am | IP Logged | ||
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~When you spend a good hour searching online for a website that hosts the series "Avatar
the last airbender" or "Avatar: La leggenda di Aang" in Italian. ~When you spend all day watching Avatar in Itlalian 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jsg Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4289 days ago 30 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 2506 of 3737 27 July 2012 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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...When you get up at noon, ostensibly to study, but log in to HTLAL and spend 18 hours reading this entire thread instead. Now I'll try to get in an hour of revision before I collapse lol. Edited by jsg on 27 July 2012 at 9:13pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4845 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2507 of 3737 27 July 2012 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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- when every time you go to your local Half Price bookstore and do the following three
things + search the Foreign Language section for any Finnish books + check if the book about Icelandic grammar has gone down from its $30 price + stare at a a very complete Teach Yourself Latvian course for $6, wondering if you're ever going to buy it - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 27 July 2012 at 11:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TheSeaWolf Newbie United States Joined 4394 days ago 14 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 2508 of 3737 28 July 2012 at 4:21am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you go into a bookstore looking for a book that has nothing to do with languages
and then walk out of the store with a German vocab book. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4485 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 2509 of 3737 08 August 2012 at 1:18am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're sitting in an alcove eating your lunch and gradually realize that a nearby
couple is speaking Afrikaans. You're so thrilled to hear a cousin of Dutch in your city, you almost spring out of the booth to share... but catch yourself at the last minute, realizing that being accosted by a stranger babbling in a language that diverged from yours 300 years ago is something only a true language nerd would appreciate. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mSiNi Newbie United States Joined 4419 days ago 12 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Slovak | Message 2510 of 3737 08 August 2012 at 6:42am | IP Logged | ||
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This happened to me recently. I was leaving class one day and outside there was someone
Skyping and they were speaking Russian. So i decided to "wait for my friends" near him instead of getting a head start to lunch to try and understand what he was saying. A bit creepy but i don't think he noticed.'( i was actually waiting for friends and left when they came) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5314 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2511 of 3737 08 August 2012 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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…HTLAL goes offline for a few days, so you build a big, searchable language database and
translate the user interface into French. 15 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4489 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2512 of 3737 08 August 2012 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | ||
They would likely still understand a lot ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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