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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4491 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes  Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 2553 of 3737 17 August 2012 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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@psy88: I'm very well, thank you. :-)
It seems that ball pythons originate in Africa, so perhaps I should actually be learning a dialect of Igbo? (Or maybe just Parseltongue would do the trick... There, I'm also a Harry Potter nerd.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4616 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2554 of 3737 17 August 2012 at 8:13pm | IP Logged | ||
I went looking to see how possible this was; probably not very, but this was fun anyway. http://www.smashinglists.com/10-fictional-languages-that-can -be-learnt-2719/ 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5355 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2555 of 3737 18 August 2012 at 2:52am | IP Logged | ||
I feel your pain. In retrospect, I feel awful for missing out on the opportunity to practice my Chinese with two customers at work who were speaking Chinese today, but I couldn't think of a non-awkward way to intrude on their conversation. I suppose I should have just been awkward and tried anyways. Edited by Levi on 18 August 2012 at 2:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5379 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2556 of 3737 18 August 2012 at 4:15am | IP Logged | ||
when you can't this image out of your mind and you wake up at 4:00AM thinking about it. Trying to fall back to sleep you think of another image and decide to share it here (if you could manage to remember it), You do and so you can share it. As I thought of the extreme dedication of doing your language studies with a python attached to you, I thought what might be even more extreme. I got an image of someone facing a firing squad in a foreign country, his language study book in hand. He refuses a blindfold because he is trying to get a few more moments of studying before they fire. As the order is given,"ready, aim" he wonders if the word the word for "fire" in this language has the same literal meaning of "fire" as in English or if its equivalent would be closer to the English word "shoot". At four in the morning this seemed really funny and worth sharing, but now... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5355 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2557 of 3737 20 August 2012 at 3:49am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you've watched every episode of China's version of "The Voice" more than once, but you've never seen the version that's aired in your country.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5355 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2558 of 3737 20 August 2012 at 5:56am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you use language tutoring as the pretext for a date.
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| demonsheep Newbie United States Joined 4267 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese | Message 2559 of 3737 20 August 2012 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you actually enjoy the headache that comes from learning a new language. It makes
me feel like I'm still learning something even when some grammar topics confuse me or I'm swamped in vocabulary I don't know. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| etranger Pentaglot Newbie Australia Joined 4268 days ago 5 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Danish, Irish | Message 2560 of 3737 21 August 2012 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
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When you start wondering how many extra languages you can add to your tally here at this forum by counting forms of your native language that you understand as a language, e.g; 'I speak English AND 'strine AND Kiwi AND U.S Hillbilly AND Chinglish AND...'.
EDIT: And..Forgetting the word for 'flabbergasted' in German keeps you up at night. FINAL EDIT (I hope!): And...You start cruisng bars looking for a casual linguistic encounter. Edited by etranger on 21 August 2012 at 11:47am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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