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wv girl
Diglot
Senior Member
United States
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174 posts - 330 votes 
Speaks: English*, French
Studies: Spanish

 
 Message 1289 of 3737
05 December 2010 at 6:23pm | IP Logged 
You return to the car park to find your car is missing and your first thought is, "Oh no! My Champs Elysees CDs
were in there!" Then when the police track the car down, you are surprised, quite pleasantly, to find that they
weren't stolen.
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ThisIsGina
Groupie
United Kingdom
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56 posts - 72 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French

 
 Message 1290 of 3737
05 December 2010 at 6:45pm | IP Logged 
Teango wrote:
When you change the language settings on a device out of sheer interest, and then can't work out how to quickly change it back later and use it...because it's all now in a foreign language (lol)!


I do this, too. My phone is always in Spanish (there is a very disappointing choice of languages on my phone, I can only get English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Turkish. That's not really very good considering that's only one of my three target languages), but my iPod has lots of language options so I basically just change it whenever I feel like it. It's in Greek at the moment, but before that it was in Korean, when I can't even read Korean script, so that made navigating it a bit awkward, but that's OK because it's easy enough to find my music and the language list, so I can switch it to a language I understand if I need to do anything more difficult than listening to music. So it's almost always in Spanish, Romanian or Greek if I want to understand what I'm looking at, or if not I'll just have it in some other language just for fun, LOL.
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Levi
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United States
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2268 posts - 3328 votes 
Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian

 
 Message 1292 of 3737
06 December 2010 at 4:56am | IP Logged 
...when you write poetry about your languages.

De temps en temps,
je me sens
vide
comme si ma vie
ne tient à rien.
Dans ces moments,
je pense à mes langues
et le vide
disparaît.

EDIT: Had to fix my bad French. :-p

Edited by Levi on 06 December 2010 at 9:30pm

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ReneeMona
Diglot
Senior Member
Netherlands
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Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2
Studies: French

 
 Message 1293 of 3737
06 December 2010 at 2:16pm | IP Logged 
...when you get the DVD of Inception for Sinterklaas and are ecstatic to find out it has French and Spanish audio so you spent about half an hour watching your favourite scenes in those languages.
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Préposition
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France
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186 posts - 283 votes 
Speaks: French*, EnglishC1
Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine)

 
 Message 1294 of 3737
06 December 2010 at 2:24pm | IP Logged 
Your whole life switches from being left to right to being right to left because of the language you're studying. My French flag is now red white and blue…
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Teango
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Speaks: English*, German, Russian
Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona

 
 Message 1295 of 3737
06 December 2010 at 2:35pm | IP Logged 
When several of your supermarket buys are influenced by whether or not they're packaged in another language or have mulitlingual instructions on the back cover.

And when you extend your love of languages to the kitchen by indulging in various "themed nights" throughout the week (secretly just for an excuse to use the language whilst juggling ingredients). :P
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muflax
Diglot
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Germany
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Speaks: German*, English

 
 Message 1296 of 3737
07 December 2010 at 5:02pm | IP Logged 
...when you are thinking about finally getting a Facebook account, but can't decide which language to set your account up in. English, my thinking language? Would alienate some friends. Japanese? Don't know anyone who could even read it. German? Would alienate others. Pali? Not good enough yet. (I should have taken the Sumerian classes when I had the chance...)

Nah, probably better to not spend time on this social stuff and just learn more. Who needs people when you can have books?

Edited by muflax on 07 December 2010 at 5:05pm



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