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egill
Diglot
Senior Member
United States
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418 posts - 791 votes 
Speaks: Mandarin, English*
Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch

 
 Message 1706 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 4:16am | IP Logged 
When on a roller-coaster ride and your ipod flies out of your unzipped pocket, and your
first thought is: "Nooo, my anki progress!!!", only then followed by "Nooo, my ipod!"
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jdmoncada
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Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish
Studies: Russian, Japanese

 
 Message 1707 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 5:57am | IP Logged 
nway wrote:
^ Woops! When I had originally read LazyLinguist's comment, I had assumed he was speaking to J. D Moncada. >_<

Anyway, here you go.

Sadly, only 1 of 3 people thought that post added to the discussion. :(


I am so impressed you found this! I would have had to go looking for it.



My latest language nerdiness:
Today I was watching X-Men: First Class, and I was amused that I knew all languages being spoken. I didn't need subtitles for the German or the Spanish (my Russian isn't that advanced), and I was annoyed when they broke a scene to go back into English. I realize it was for dramatic purposes, but the language nerd in me was complaining that it would never be like that if those discussions had been happening for real.
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TRENDY
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Spain
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Speaks: Spanish*, English
Studies: Mandarin

 
 Message 1708 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 10:07am | IP Logged 
When you try to work out if you know that chinese character tattoo on somebody`s skin.
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nikorizzo
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Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: Mandarin, Greek, French

 
 Message 1709 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 1:38pm | IP Logged 
TRENDY wrote:
When you try to work out if you know that chinese character tattoo on somebody`s skin.

....I do that all the time, even though I only know a hundred fifty characters.... But most of the time it's like 愛 or 幸
福 or 和平 or something like that.
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Diara
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France
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Speaks: French*, English
Studies: German, Italian, Spanish

 
 Message 1710 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 3:42pm | IP Logged 
When you are working on your German whereas you have 2 weeks left to get ready for THE test of the year.
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FuroraCeltica
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 Message 1711 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 4:25pm | IP Logged 
When you explain to people that you sometimes use materials in L2 to learn L3...then wait to see if they looked impressed
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Phantom Kat
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Speaks: Spanish*, English
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 Message 1712 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 10:28pm | IP Logged 
- when you're absolutely heartbroken at learning that a website with many books in Finnish only ship to Finland.

- when you find out that "Get/Got off the car," something you've been saying since forever, is not correct but merely something most people you know adopted from Spanish. You are now on a mission to find more peculiar tidbits between Spanish and English.

- Kat

Edited by Phantom Kat on 06 June 2011 at 10:30pm



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