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MarlonX19
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Speaks: Portuguese*, English
Studies: French

 
 Message 3001 of 3737
10 July 2013 at 9:44pm | IP Logged 
staf250 wrote:
When, instead of opening the packet of chocolate, you're looking first the text on the fold, in Arabic ...


Hahaha I always do that even though I don't understand a thing in Arabic (only a few words actually) plus, in my family's car there is something written in several languages and I always TRY to read the sentences in a language I have never seen before, I'm always trying to figure out how those words are pronounced.
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Phantom Kat
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Speaks: Spanish*, English
Studies: Finnish

 
 Message 3002 of 3737
12 July 2013 at 2:29am | IP Logged 
- when you decide to dabble in a language that your friends are studying in order to make
quicker progress than them and help them with grammar (because it seems everybody that
you know has a high aversion to grammar and tend to ignore it)
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garyb
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Studies: Spanish

 
 Message 3003 of 3737
12 July 2013 at 11:06am | IP Logged 
You are given an Amazon.co.uk gift certificate, and as much as you appreciate the gesture, you're really not sure what to buy with it and you're a bit sad that it's not redeemable on Amazon.fr or Amazon.it, on which you'd have no problem finding things to spend it on.
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MarlonX19
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 Message 3004 of 3737
13 July 2013 at 9:07pm | IP Logged 
When someone pronounces a word in your native language that sounds like a word in another language and you laugh while no one else understands the reason why you're laughing. For exemple, I have a classmate whose name is Kauane but every body calls her ''Kau''. Kau is pronounced the same way as ''cow'' lol and I'm not sure about English but in Portuguese ''cow'' is also a bad word like ''bitch'' or something, so when I hear someone calling her ''cow'' I laugh. There's also a word the is pronounced like ''cock'' and so on but now these are the only one that came to my mind.
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Zireael
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Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish
Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English

 
 Message 3005 of 3737
13 July 2013 at 9:10pm | IP Logged 
Well, 'cow' can be seen as offensive ('you daft/ugly cow') in English, too!
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PaulLambeth
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 Message 3006 of 3737
14 July 2013 at 5:00am | IP Logged 
Amerykanka wrote:
When you try to teach your 5-year-old sister, who is still learning to read in English, how to read in Polish.
(Several years have gone by since this experiment, but you still remember the day you tried to teach her the
pronunciation of "c", "ć/ci", and "cz". She didn't quite catch on to it, although she did have a lot of fun
trying.)

When your family thinks it's perfectly normal to hear you talk all about the books you are reading in three
different languages (your native language + two others).

When your 8-year-old sister goes around saying she wants to learn Swedish just because you showed her
some Rosetta Stone demos a few months ago. (Can language nerdery run in the family? It would be
awesome if it could!)


Of course it can! A few years ago I was dabbling a little in Finnish, and when walking with my 9-year-old cousin, I found a Finnish vocabulary list in my pocket and showed it to her. Then she asked me how to say 'oak tree' in Finnish. I had no clue. I still don't.
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Einarr
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 Message 3007 of 3737
14 July 2013 at 9:31am | IP Logged 
When you, once again, listen to a song in Portuguese you've long time forgotten,your heart skips a beat, and the next moment you end up having like a dozen of manuals in the language.
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beano
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 Message 3008 of 3737
14 July 2013 at 10:55am | IP Logged 
You are stopping over in a country where you don't speak the language. Yet you flick through a few TV
channels in your hotel room in order to hear it being spoken.

You are genuinely surprised to find out that many people turn the volume down when watching sports
broadcasts in a language they don't understand.

Edited by beano on 14 July 2013 at 10:58am



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