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espejismo
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 Message 2985 of 3737
02 July 2013 at 3:32am | IP Logged 
When you get excited for a forum regular who moves a language from "Studies" to "Speaks."

When you remember the meaning of a word in one language because you know what it means in a closely
related language. Like bala in Portuguese means 'bullet' (and 'ecstasy'), and that's easy to remember
thanks to Lola Rodríguez de Tió's unforgettable lines: "Cuba y Puerto Rico son de un pajaro las dos alas.
Reciben flores y balas sobre el mismo corazón." :P

Edited by espejismo on 02 July 2013 at 4:10am

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Serpent
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 Message 2986 of 3737
02 July 2013 at 4:16am | IP Logged 
When you add this example to anki, although you already know the word from criminal case.
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DaraghM
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 Message 2987 of 3737
02 July 2013 at 1:27pm | IP Logged 
karaipyhare wrote:
When you feel you've wasted your commuting time and feel really bad about it when you don't prepare a Pimsleur lesson


Or you feel you've wasted the commute time listening to Pimsleur, when you should've used something more challenging.

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SamD
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 Message 2988 of 3737
03 July 2013 at 8:59pm | IP Logged 
When you watch the trailers for the movie Despicable Me 2 and try to figure out which language the minions are speaking...or at least which language it most resembles.

The minions are those yellow creatures that seem sort of like sentient tater tots.
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Zarmutek
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 Message 2989 of 3737
04 July 2013 at 10:10pm | IP Logged 
Kevin Hsu wrote:
When you feel ecstatic when you find out that the next polyglot conference is going to
be
in Montreal, because it gives you an excuse to learn French, but then feel really
disappointed because that will mean less time for German!

When you're willing to avoid restaurant food for the entire school year just to save up
money for a summer trip to a foreign country.

When you have so many Skype language exchange partners that your study schedule is
seriously threatened by it.

Funny you would say that, because the next polyglot conference will actually be held in Berlin, Germany
June 2014, while the American one next year (from my understanding) will be held in November 2014 in
Montreal. So, in essence, you could actually continue your German study!
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MarlonX19
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 Message 2990 of 3737
04 July 2013 at 11:04pm | IP Logged 
AndyMeg wrote:
When you know how to say something in a foreign language but not in your own (native
language).

It happened to me! XD!



This has happened to me a lot lately by the way. Sometimes I know how to say stuff in English but on the other hand I don't know how to say the same stuff in my native language (Portuguese). And I am always forgetting what the word ''Selfish'' means in Portuguese, I know what it means in English but I always forget its meaning in portuguese, no matter how many times I've looked it up on dictionaries...
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Amerykanka
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 Message 2991 of 3737
05 July 2013 at 12:57am | IP Logged 
When an acquaintance's offer to teach you Arabic makes you consider changing all your well-organized plans
for your linguistic future. Sigh. Why do all languages have to be so tempting?
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DaraghM
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 Message 2992 of 3737
05 July 2013 at 11:58am | IP Logged 
When you learn a word in your target language, only to discover, it also exists in your native language. The word was xylophage.



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