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Henkkles
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 Message 3393 of 3737
03 September 2014 at 5:22pm | IP Logged 
When each attempt at cutting down active languages results in new ones surfacing.

"I don't have time to learn Hungarian... holy crap a Basque course is being offered at my university! Don't mind if I do..."

"I'll have to put any Romance language on hold for now... but Duolingo's Danish course is in beta, I guess I'll try it out..."
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Serpent
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 Message 3394 of 3737
05 September 2014 at 1:38pm | IP Logged 
When you have to add your (computer) bookmarks from scratch, and you start a folder for HTLAL where you bookmark some of the subforums and also several important threads, including this one.
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Ari
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 Message 3395 of 3737
16 September 2014 at 9:02am | IP Logged 
You know you're a language nerd when your mom calls you and says she's inviting the
family to a holiday on Cap Verde, "and that's great, because they speak Portugese, so you
could be our guide!"
"Mom, I don't speak Portugese."
"Well, you've got six months."
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Serpent
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 Message 3396 of 3737
16 September 2014 at 10:58am | IP Logged 
challenge accepted, it seems?
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Cavesa
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 Message 3397 of 3737
16 September 2014 at 1:01pm | IP Logged 
Ari wrote:
You know you're a language nerd when your mom calls you and says she's inviting the family to a holiday on Cap Verde, "and that's great, because they speak Portugese, so you could be our guide!"
"Mom, I don't speak Portugese."
"Well, you've got six months."


When your friend wants to visit Portugal with you some day and forbids you to learn Portuguese ("You already know too many languages!") :-D

But otherwise, it is the same thing. My dad plans to buy a car in Germany next year so I'd better speed up my progress!
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Ari
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 Message 3398 of 3737
16 September 2014 at 1:04pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
challenge accepted, it seems?

Challenge accepted! I'm now 30 lessons into Assimil Brésilien, so by the time we go to
Cap Verde I'll be able to fail to understand their Portuguese just like a native
Brazilian.
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Via Diva
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 Message 3399 of 3737
16 September 2014 at 1:31pm | IP Logged 
A little bit post factum, but:
... when you write a poem in German despite your self-persuaded A1-A2 and then hear that it's actually not bad.
Oh, and then continue doing that even despite the absence of any comments.

Edited by Via Diva on 16 September 2014 at 2:27pm

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Humbaraci Ahmet
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 Message 3400 of 3737
17 September 2014 at 3:57am | IP Logged 
Levi wrote:
...when you can tell somebody what their Chinese character tattoo means.

...when you can't tell what the tattoo means, so you try to quickly memorize it so you
can look it up later.


When you immediately notice that "tell" has a different meaning in each of these two
sentences


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