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Teango
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 Message 873 of 3737
25 July 2010 at 12:14am | IP Logged 
When you look around at every level surface in the room, and realise that the ceiling is the only place that doesn't have at least one language learning book or poster on it...yet!
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josht
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25 July 2010 at 12:40am | IP Logged 
Hey, now there's an idea: taping verb / declension charts to the ceiling. If you get lost, just look up.
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psy88
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26 July 2010 at 1:53am | IP Logged 
When you feel really upset that July is almost over because that leaves only one more month before everything goes back to "normal" for you in September and you will have less time to devote to you language studies.
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johntm93
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 Message 876 of 3737
26 July 2010 at 3:19am | IP Logged 
staf250 wrote:
When you encounter a lady pushing a buggy carrying a little dog with great but cloudy eyes staring at you.
YOU CALL IT A BUGGY?!?
Sorry, I thought mainly people from Georgia (the state) used that term, it's kind of shocking seeing a European using it. One of my friends immediately identified me as a Georgian when he first heard me say that...

I second the polyglots as role models thing. I could care less about who's getting married to who in Hollywood, but I'm interested in Prof. Arguelles language learning methods.
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johntm93
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26 July 2010 at 3:23am | IP Logged 
gogglehead wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
gogglehead wrote:
and when you can't help but laugh when Benny the Irish Genius compares himself to Dr
Arguelles

Whoa. Hold up. He compared himself to Professor Arguelles? How exactly did he put this comparison?


Don't get me wrong, I love Benny's blog and have learned a lot from it. I can't find the exact page where he wrote it, but the line goes something along the lines of "(learners)..who want to be polyglots like Myself, Professor Arguelles and Moses McCormick". Dr Arguelles devoted his life to acquiring an encyclopedic mind, mastering some very exotic languages, and even authoring scholarly works on the subject.

Benny, you are a great polyglot (as is Mr McCormick), and an inspiration to many (in fact you are much more "my style" of linguist than some more academic/conventional polyglots) but, likening yourself to Arguelles, however lightly, may actually discourage others from taking your blog seriously (which is EXCELLENT, by the way).
I think he was just saying they were all polyglots, not the same type of polyglot. I definitely wouldn't put him on the same page as Prof. Arguelles though (no offense, but you aren't there yet)


Teango wrote:
When you look around at every level surface in the room, and realise that the ceiling is the only place that doesn't have at least one language learning book or poster on it...yet!
I should tape language learning charts and stuff to my ceiling so I can read them while falling asleep at night...


psy88 wrote:
When you feel really upset that July is almost over because that leaves only one more month before everything goes back to "normal" for you in September and you will have less time to devote to you language studies.
DON'T REMIND ME! I DO NOT WANT SCHOOL TO START.
Not just because I lose all of the free time I have for languages, but I'll have work for stupid subjects like English (why do I have to take a class about my native language?) and I won't be able to study foreign languages!

Edited by johntm93 on 26 July 2010 at 3:23am

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Rina
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 Message 878 of 3737
26 July 2010 at 5:10am | IP Logged 
When you've only been in Nürnberg a couple of days and can already locate all the bookstores in the Altstadt and know how good their language sections are. I found one that was almost a whole room. I could have fainted.

When you buy something you had no intention of buying just because the sales lady kept speaking to you in German even when she found out you were from the US.









Edited by Rina on 26 July 2010 at 5:12am

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mashmusic11235
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 Message 879 of 3737
26 July 2010 at 5:23am | IP Logged 
When you can say that you learned more about English from studing foreign languages than you did in your English class at school, things like what a prepostion is, what the direct and indirect objects are, and what the schwa sound is.

I think I'm going to make Chinese vocabulary lists of characters that I can't recognize on sight and tape them to my cieling, so that I can look at them before I fall asleep and when I wake up. I had a teacher who said that right before bed and right when you wake up are the best times to learn things, as you remember them better.

When you've actually been called a nerd to your face for telling someone (while in a new-book high, of course) that you just bought A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese: Simplified Character Edition and Integrated Korean: Beginning 1 at a newly-discovered bookstore and they're both really great and on and on. I would call me a nerd too, if I said that to myself...
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johntm93
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 Message 880 of 3737
26 July 2010 at 5:35am | IP Logged 
mashmusic11235 wrote:
When you can say that you learned more about English from studing foreign languages than you did in your English class at school, things like what a prepostion is, what the direct and indirect objects are, and what the schwa sound is.

I haven't learned much about English grammar (I've been trying to avoid it, I've always hated learning like "This is the passive perfect active, it's used when blah blah blah), but I've learned more about grammar than from English classes.


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