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Warp3
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 Message 2993 of 3737
05 July 2013 at 12:07pm | IP Logged 
DaraghM wrote:
When you learn a word in your target language, only to discover, it also exists in your native language. The word was xylophage.


I'm right with you on this one. I've actually learned several new English words (and some French and German words from loan words in Korean that came from those languages) while learning Korean.
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Amerykanka
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 Message 2994 of 3737
07 July 2013 at 12:55am | IP Logged 
When you are watching a television show, the characters suddenly start speaking Latin, and you can
understand almost everything (with a bit of help from the subtitles). Furthermore, you're pretty sure that you
caught some grammatical errors!


Warp3 wrote:
DaraghM wrote:
When you learn a word in your target language, only to discover, it
also exists in your native language. The word was xylophage.


I'm right with you on this one. I've actually learned several new English words (and some French and
German words from loan words in Korean that came from those languages) while learning Korean.


My English vocabulary has also expanded due to my language learning!
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DaraghM
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 Message 2995 of 3737
08 July 2013 at 3:52pm | IP Logged 
Even though the performance is very poor, you wait patiently for the forum to come back, to see the new posts.

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 Message 2996 of 3737
08 July 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged 
When you crane your neck and shuffle closer and closer to overhear a conversation in Bulgarian in a noisy bar, and almost end up toppling into the neighbouring booth.
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meramarina
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 Message 2997 of 3737
09 July 2013 at 3:33am | IP Logged 
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When you crane your neck and shuffle closer and closer to overhear a conversation in Bulgarian in a noisy bar, and almost end up toppling into the neighbouring booth.


When, if this happened to you the other way around, with a non-native English learner falling into YOUR bar booth because he wanted to hear English, you would really be totally OK with it. In fact, you'd want to start up a little language exchange session right away!

OK I have one too: When a relative confesses to you that, a few years ago, he stole a few books from your shelf. He didn't look very carefully though, and says that when he got them home, he realized that one was German and one in Spanish. And you're not angry at all, because you can't remember noticing any language books missing, and when he comes to visit, you can look forward to getting two "new" ones!

Then he arrives. He forgot the books.

NOW you are angry.


Edited by meramarina on 09 July 2013 at 3:35am

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SamD
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 Message 2998 of 3737
09 July 2013 at 6:13pm | IP Logged 
When you are in the library's computer lab listening to one of your target languages using headphones, and the guy next to you complains thathe can hear you and gives you a particuarly strange look.

And to make matters worse, he is talking on his cell phone and making far more noise.
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MarlonX19
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 Message 2999 of 3737
09 July 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged 
When one of your classmates/friend tell you that he's gonnna start learning English and you act like the happiest person in the world 'cause now you're not the only one who speaks English.


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Amerykanka
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 Message 3000 of 3737
10 July 2013 at 2:58am | IP Logged 
When you're watching live coverage of the emergency session of the OAS (Organization of American States)
in Spanish and you are thrilled when they translate the EU's representative's speech into Spanish (from
English).

When you aren't sure whether to be irritated or delighted when they don't translate the Brazilian
representative's speech into Spanish. You're irritated because you were having fun following all the speeches
and now it's harder for you to keep up, plus you're losing valuable Spanish listening time - but you're
delighted because you understand a lot of the Portuguese and you are now having fun comparing the
Portuguese words with their Spanish equivalents!

When you think that, some day when you have a lot of free time, it might be fun to study the difference
between Portuguese and Spanish sound patterns and then listen to a lot of Portuguese - relying on your
knowledge of Spanish to help you understand.

Edited by Amerykanka on 10 July 2013 at 3:01am



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