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| Alois M. Heptaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 3980 days ago 10 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Dutch Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Hindi, Greek, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Arabic (classical), Swedish, Turkish | Message 1457 of 3737 27 February 2011 at 10:47pm | IP Logged |
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.... when language learning-related material occupies 25 GB of your PC's hard-disk.
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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 3832 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes  Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 1458 of 3737 27 February 2011 at 11:02pm | IP Logged |
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...when you're excited that the metrocard you bought has only Spanish text on the back...
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 5469 days ago 9078 posts - 16472 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1459 of 3737 27 February 2011 at 11:10pm | IP Logged |
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I have been listening to Latin videos on Youtube for an hour or so, more specifically a series about humanism, spoken by 'Aloisius Miraglia' and uploaded by 'Baeticus' (no.1 here). On my TV there is a program about bluidy murder cases with Danish subtitles - not something I find very interesting. What drove me to this thread was that I suddenly realized that each time I looked at the TV I found myself translating the Danish subtitles into Pig Latin... Edited by Iversen on 27 February 2011 at 11:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alois M. Heptaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 3980 days ago 10 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Dutch Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Hindi, Greek, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Arabic (classical), Swedish, Turkish | Message 1460 of 3737 02 March 2011 at 2:27pm | IP Logged |
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- When you have translations of the same book into various languages, and read them simultaneously (in my case, presently with Tony Judt's Post-war, a History of Europe since 1945 - Geschichte Europas von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart - Pós-Guerra: uma História da Europa desde 1945).
- When you keep a notebook perpetually open in front of your PC to write down the new words you come across surfing the Internet, one couple of pages for each of a dozen of languages. - When you study Sanskrit through German, and Japanese through French, Basque through Italian..... at the same time. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
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