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Dreadslinger
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 Message 1833 of 3737
26 July 2011 at 11:03pm | IP Logged 
...when you read 230 pages of this thread, smiling to yourself the entire time.
...when www.how-to-learn-any-language.com is your homepage on all three of your preferred web browsers.
...when, while watching Fiddler on the Roof with your Jewish mother and sister, you wonder aloud why none of the characters speak Yiddish, Hebrew, or Russian, and only Tevye has an accent.
...when you decide that you will raise your two year old son to be bilingual in English and Russian, despite a lack of fluency on your part, and a lack of any practical reason for Russian fluency in your area.
...when you sincerely wish you had the money to upgrade your membership to HTLAL.

Edited by Dreadslinger on 26 July 2011 at 11:06pm

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psy88
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 Message 1834 of 3737
27 July 2011 at 4:05am | IP Logged 
[QUOTE=hjordis] [QUOTE=LebensForm]
when you go to an *Italian* resteraunt, where they give you crayons to write on the table, (long sheets of paper for table cloth) the resteraunt is actually a bit upscale, even though it doesn't sound like it, but you end up filling the table cloth with random German, including conjugating German verbs and writing awkward German love phrases... .







I am not sure if it is a common thing but there is one franchise chain that has the crayons and paper tablecloth.The one I had gone to had singing waiters one night, and so-YKYALN when you ask him to sing, he sings a piece from an Italian opera, and you then translate the lyrics for those at your table and the surrounding tables.



edited to separate my post from the quote

Edited by psy88 on 27 July 2011 at 4:07am

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LebensForm
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 Message 1835 of 3737
27 July 2011 at 5:18am | IP Logged 
hjordis wrote:
LebensForm wrote:

when you go to an *Italian* resteraunt, where they give you crayons to write on the table, (long sheets of paper for table cloth) the resteraunt is actually a bit upscale, even though it doesn't sound like it, but you end up filling the table cloth with random German, including conjugating German verbs and writing awkward German love phrases...
Wait is that a common thing at Italian restaurants or something? Our Italian restaurant does that too, though I'm not sure I'd describe it as a bit upscale.


Ya, I don't know if it's an Italian thing or not, but this place has that dim, mood lighting thing going on, a pretty extensive wine list and they provide this bread with olive oil at your table and whatnot, so it seemed up scale to me, lol I'm a poor college student, so it doesn't take much for me to think it's upscale lol, anyway, then, you go into the bathroom and their is a video/audio thing that "teaches" you Italian, so my friend, who is learning Italian, will go in there and won't come back to the table, for like 20 min, At first, I thought she had a serious issue, them I found out there is an Italian video thing and that explained her long trips to the bathroom for no apparent reason thing, which left me to conjugate German verbs, like haben and sein :) on the table with my purple crayon...

Anyway.... when you find out one of your brother's friends has the last name of Liebe, and you immediately Facebook this person and write a what could be taken borderline creepy message on her wall, telling her how jealous you are that her name means love in German, asking her if she even realizes this. Remind you, I never met this person in real life, lol funny thing is, literaly 10 seconds after I posted that comment, my brother "liked" it :)
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Dreadslinger
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 Message 1836 of 3737
27 July 2011 at 6:12pm | IP Logged 
...when you sit in the reference section of Barnes and Noble, nursing the same cup of coffee and reading the various language books for so long that the manager asks you (very politely, mind you) to buy something or leave, as they are about to close.
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Levi
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 Message 1837 of 3737
05 August 2011 at 6:30am | IP Logged 
...when you spend your entire work shift resisting the temptation to sing the bilingual Spanish-German song that's stuck in your head.
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maydayayday
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Studies: Urdu

 
 Message 1838 of 3737
05 August 2011 at 9:00am | IP Logged 
Levi wrote:
...when you spend your entire work shift resisting the temptation to sing the bilingual Spanish-German song that's stuck in your head.


..... a real nerd wouldnt be able to resist.....
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Kartof
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 Message 1839 of 3737
05 August 2011 at 4:28pm | IP Logged 
...when you're disappointed that all of the foreign language dictionaries in your public
library can't be taken out because they're in the reference section.
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Phantom Kat
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 Message 1840 of 3737
05 August 2011 at 9:56pm | IP Logged 
Levi wrote:
...when you spend your entire work shift resisting the temptation to sing the bilingual Spanish-German song that's stuck in your head.


... when your plans for the day stop so you can learn the German lyrics of this song.
... when you are typing and come across a weird-looking typo; instead of deleting it, you stare, trying to see which language that typo could be a word of.

- Kat

Edited by Phantom Kat on 05 August 2011 at 9:58pm



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