psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5389 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 2113 of 3737 27 January 2012 at 3:49am | IP Logged |
jdmoncada wrote:
vikavictoria wrote:
when your roommates come home with a new flavor bottle of vodka and say, "I'm looking forward to this". And you, being the lang nerd, think to yourself, I'm looking forward to my new "750 Verbs and How to Use them" book! :) |
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See, I thought you were going to write that you were looking forward to reading the foreign language writing on the bottle! You had me fooled. :) |
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You know you really are when you also thought this and you feel very disappointed that it was not to read the label, and, you now are curious about the labels from vodka bottled in Sweden,Finland, Russia, etc., and now want to buy them so you can read and compare them...and you don't even drink.
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4864 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 2114 of 3737 27 January 2012 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
YKYALN when you follow FCBarcelona and RealMadrid on twitter in Spanish and you don't watch soccer.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6395 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 2115 of 3737 28 January 2012 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
Kartof wrote:
YKYALN when you follow FCBarcelona and RealMadrid on twitter in Spanish and you don't watch soccer. |
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LOL!
Try Marca or El Mundo Deportivo, these should provide a good overview of the Spanish football. Also, I collected some great fun accounts in Spanish in this thread :)
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4864 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 2116 of 3737 28 January 2012 at 2:04pm | IP Logged |
Serpent wrote:
Kartof wrote:
YKYALN when you follow FCBarcelona and RealMadrid on twitter in Spanish and
you don't watch soccer. |
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LOL!
Try Marca or El Mundo Deportivo, these should provide a good overview of the Spanish football. Also, I collected
some great fun accounts in Spanish TID=30271&PN=1">in this thread :) |
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Wow, thanks! These will be useful!
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vikavictoria Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 4847 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, German, Spanish, Tajik Studies: Russian
| Message 2117 of 3737 29 January 2012 at 3:00am | IP Logged |
psy88 wrote:
jdmoncada wrote:
vikavictoria wrote:
when your roommates come home with a new flavor bottle of vodka and say, "I'm looking forward to this". And you, being the lang nerd, think to yourself, I'm looking forward to my new "750 Verbs and How to Use them" book! :) |
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See, I thought you were going to write that you were looking forward to reading the foreign language writing on the bottle! You had me fooled. :) |
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You know you really are when you also thought this and you feel very disappointed that it was not to read the label, and, you now are curious about the labels from vodka bottled in Sweden,Finland, Russia, etc., and now want to buy them so you can read and compare them...and you don't even drink. |
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Except that my roommates don't know less-good vodka from worse vodka, and always buy Smirnoff, but it always just says, "smirnofskaya vodka" on the bottle, and Stoli says, "Stoli" on the bottle with a russian L for the liter mark. Not that interesting. Now, had it been some of the more RUSSIAN vodkas, and not those just popular in USA, then, yeah, I'd be happy to read it :)
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4864 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 2118 of 3737 29 January 2012 at 4:24am | IP Logged |
You know you're a language (and math!) nerd when you're tempted to take out a textbook on advanced Calculus in
Spanish (and French too :D) from the library :)
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jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4832 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese
| Message 2119 of 3737 29 January 2012 at 6:56am | IP Logged |
...when you're the only one in the theater who laughs at this subtle joke
[From the movie War Horse]
Colin (English soldier): You speak English good.
Peter (German soldier): I speak English well.
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wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 2120 of 3737 29 January 2012 at 1:38pm | IP Logged |
YKYALN when, flipping channels on the TV, you stop to watch an evangelical sermon in Spanish! Something you'd
always pass on if it were plain old English. Anything for target language practice!
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