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maydayayday
Pentaglot
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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564 posts - 839 votes 
Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2
Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese
Studies: Urdu

 
 Message 3177 of 3737
19 December 2013 at 10:15am | IP Logged 
When you are giving a visiting work colleague a ride back to the airport in the car and she flicks the stereo on to find that there are 6 CD's in the in the player and none of them are music: or even in English. The SD cards are all TL too.

And the wants to listen to (and already understands) your Arabic lessons because she did the same course.   
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Teango
Triglot
Winner TAC 2010 & 2012
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United States
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2210 posts - 3734 votes 
Speaks: English*, German, Russian
Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona

 
 Message 3178 of 3737
21 December 2013 at 7:14am | IP Logged 
A bit of reverse language nerdery today...I saw this t-shirt from the distance stretched mercilessly over a very big tourist's belly and automatically thought "yep, that's a gut all right".



Then I realised it was actually in German. I guess this is payback for failing to notice the issue with having "BAD" written in big letters on my bath mat (almost four years ago today on this very thread).
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Mooby
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Scotland
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707 posts - 1219 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Polish

 
 Message 3179 of 3737
21 December 2013 at 9:43am | IP Logged 
When you're racking your brains trying to figure out how to slip an hour of language study in, on Christmas Day..... without anyone noticing.
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Iversen
Super Polyglot
Moderator
Denmark
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Joined 6453 days ago

9078 posts - 16473 votes 
Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan
Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian
Personal Language Map

 
 Message 3180 of 3737
21 December 2013 at 2:45pm | IP Logged 
When you already have made prints of maybe fifty or sixty pages of bi- or monolingual texts for the Christmas days - in the hope (shared with Mooby) that there will be time to study at least some of them.
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luke
Diglot
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United States
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Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: Esperanto, French

 
 Message 3181 of 3737
21 December 2013 at 7:33pm | IP Logged 
When you wonder if "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is available in your Target Language and get
excited having found it. Then you start to wonder about the truthiness of the
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and wonder if
your self improvement project will only be effective in the Target Language.
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Einarr
Tetraglot
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United Kingdom
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Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian
Studies: Swedish

 
 Message 3182 of 3737
21 December 2013 at 8:59pm | IP Logged 
When a friend of yours chats in you in a ambiguous mixture of German and Russian, without
giving up though you know your German is rubbish.

And especially when you try to convince the people around you that involving yourself in
studying several languages at a time won't mess them up in your brain, and is absolutely
essential in order for you to keep yourself up with your obsession.

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Amerykanka
Hexaglot
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United States
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657 posts - 890 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian

 
 Message 3183 of 3737
25 December 2013 at 10:35pm | IP Logged 
When you freak out the first time you notice that it now says "tetraglot" under your name.

When you can't believe that most people are ignorant of the meaning of this fascinating word. In fact, you
keep on running into people who don't know what polyglots are. Greek roots, anyone?
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Henkkles
Triglot
Senior Member
Finland
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544 posts - 1141 votes 
Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish
Studies: Russian

 
 Message 3184 of 3737
26 December 2013 at 11:20am | IP Logged 
I just found an almost perfect Finnish verb paradigm (only the base forms but not all possible permutations with endings) and I realized I don't have a clue about the rare optative forms and I didn't even know that you could combine potential with conditional to create the eventive. I'm effectively studying verb tables of my native language here.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/henrihe/tiede/verbikaava.html


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