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garyb
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 Message 1601 of 3737
28 April 2011 at 12:46pm | IP Logged 
You receive a relatively technical phonetics book in the post, and for the rest of the day you're looking forward to getting home so you can read it. However, you have no time to read beyond the preface because you have a language meetup to attend that evening. During the quieter periods at the meetup, the book again enters your thoughts and you wonder if you'd have been better off staying home and reading it (probably not of course). The next day you're sitting at work and hoping that this evening you'll finally have time to make a proper start on it. You have a long weekend coming up so you look forward to spending a good portion of it getting stuck into the book.

EDIT: And you also have the full intention of going outside to read it and practice the sounds if the weather's nice during this long weekend. Probably sitting at reasonable distance away from other people.

Edited by garyb on 28 April 2011 at 1:09pm

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Alexander86
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 Message 1602 of 3737
28 April 2011 at 1:17pm | IP Logged 
When you're in the language section of your local bookshop and you overhear the assistant doing a stock take: 'get
by in German', after they've been looking for a while you show them where it is... (happened today!)
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Iversen
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 Message 1603 of 3737
28 April 2011 at 5:59pm | IP Logged 
When you write a long long essay about something as speculative as the origin of language(s) instead of taking a bus to town to fetch your holiday photos.
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Fasulye
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 Message 1604 of 3737
29 April 2011 at 1:19pm | IP Logged 
.. when you celebrate it as a real success that now your family is informed about which languages you are are currently studying, so you can now talk openly about what you are doing so often a week. Perhaps I could have informed them earlier, but I didn't dare to do so.

Fasulye
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Haukilahti
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 Message 1605 of 3737
29 April 2011 at 1:24pm | IP Logged 
... when you point out the following:


Phantom Kat wrote:
You correct her that there's actually 15 cases. You're happy there's someone who actually cares about this tidbit of information.

Though it tends to be viewed more and more as 14 cases only, the accusative being considered more as a "function" of genetive and nominative than a "case".
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maydayayday
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 Message 1606 of 3737
29 April 2011 at 8:08pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
When you write a long long essay about something as speculative as the origin of language(s) instead of taking a bus to town to fetch your holiday photos.


And you know that so many people don't understand your first version you also write a version in your own language and versions in your other languages.... but still sitting on a tram and reading the [Polish] version of your essay out loud gets you a date with the passenger next to you..... [insert language of choice here]

to be continued .....

Edited by maydayayday on 29 April 2011 at 8:13pm

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Teango
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 Message 1607 of 3737
29 April 2011 at 11:22pm | IP Logged 
When you go out for a curry and say спасибо for the hot towel and mints.
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psy88
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 Message 1608 of 3737
30 April 2011 at 3:02am | IP Logged 
When you are excited about tomorrow being the eve of the 6 Week May Challenge.After a lot of internal debate and indecision about which of your two target languages(Spanish or French) to use, you feel good that you settled, finally, on Spanish(and you hope that you don't change your mind again!)
    Your first instinct was Spanish, but you had some doubts. You had thought that since May 1 is considered "May Day" and "may day" sounds like the French for "help me" that perhaps you should pick French. And then you thought that it would benefit you more to do Spanish. But then you thought, "I will do both". Then you thought "that's silly and defeats the whole purpose of the challenge."
And you realize how much time you wasted trying to decide, so you finally go with your first choice, Spanish.
You plan to organize all your study materials tomorrow so as to get off to a good start on May 1. You almost fear that you will be unable to sleep as you anticipate the start of the 6 weeks.
And, you do all this without "officially" entering the Challenge.


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