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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3793 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3577 of 3735 22 May 2015 at 6:18am | IP Logged |
When you kick yourself for visiting Wales umpteen times yet having never stopped at this famous location [source: Wikipedia]:
Meaning: Parish [church] of [St.] Mary (Llanfair) [in] Hollow (pwll) of the White Hazel [township] (gwyn gyll) near (go ger) the rapid whirlpool (y chwyrn drobwll) [and] the parish [church] of [St.] Tysilio (Llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo[f] goch). Pronunciation: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysil iogogogoch. Edited by Teango on 22 May 2015 at 6:39am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 3081 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 3578 of 3735 22 May 2015 at 3:29pm | IP Logged |
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There's a fun song teaching you how to pronounce the name of this village:
How to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch It's really catchy and I learned to pronounce the whole name after listening to it for a few times. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Rem Groupie United Kingdom Joined 1994 days ago 66 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Czech, French | Message 3579 of 3735 22 May 2015 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
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When everyone around you is talking excitedly about Eurovision and you're despairing
because so many of the songs are in English. :( 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5146 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3580 of 3735 22 May 2015 at 11:27pm | IP Logged |
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..when you're watching videos of older Eurovision songs and sing along in languages you don't yet know.
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 3372 days ago 753 posts - 663 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 3581 of 3735 23 May 2015 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
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When you realize that trying to master at least 10 languages is nearly impossible.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 3828 days ago 467 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 3582 of 3735 24 May 2015 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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When this is one of your favorite sites (particularly this thread!) but you feel proud of the fact that you stayed away because you were actually devoting your time to studying your target languages instead of entertaining yourself by reading the postings. Not to imply, of course, that studying is not entertaining, but it usually does not make you laugh aloud as does this thread.
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| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5146 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3583 of 3735 24 May 2015 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
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...when you're watching Eurovision, decide that whoever wins, you'll study the native language of that country - and get disappointed when Sweden wins.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 4834 days ago 9753 posts - 15776 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 3584 of 3735 24 May 2015 at 7:31pm | IP Logged |
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You should've had a backup plan :) I made the same decision at Euro-2012, and my plan was to study old English or Russian if they won, and Corsican or another minority language if France won.
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