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Amerykanka
Hexaglot
Senior Member
United States
Joined 4921 days ago

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

 
 Message 3609 of 3737
08 June 2015 at 8:26pm | IP Logged 
When, although YouTube is on silent, you can tell after watching a woman's lips move for 10 seconds that
she speaks English with a British accent.

When the "in use" section of your desk currently includes a Greek textbook, a Polish novel, two collections of
Spanish short stories, TY Beginner's Arabic Script, and the complete works of Horace (in Latin, of course).
And then there are the piles of flashcards.


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Via Diva
Diglot
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Russian Federation
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Joined 3984 days ago

1109 posts - 1427 votes 
Speaks: Russian*, English
Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek

 
 Message 3610 of 3737
09 June 2015 at 7:50am | IP Logged 
When you wish you'd found HTLAL earlier.
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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
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 Message 3611 of 3737
09 June 2015 at 10:03am | IP Logged 
When you photograph and buy a drożdżówka trójsmak in Katowice because you like the word. OK, I also liked the three tastes when I finally ate it in the train to Ostrava...
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Rem
Groupie
United Kingdom
Joined 3507 days ago

66 posts - 96 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, Mandarin, Czech, French

 
 Message 3612 of 3737
10 June 2015 at 4:01pm | IP Logged 
When you look like your attempting an impression of a mad conductor but you’re actually
trying to practise your Mandarin tones (the arm waving really does seem to help btw).
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soclydeza85
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United States
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357 posts - 502 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, French

 
 Message 3613 of 3737
16 June 2015 at 12:42am | IP Logged 
When you're driving to your boss's house, you're listening to Pimsleur Norwegian with the GPS speech set to German while you're trying to remember how to sing Hotel California in Italian.
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soclydeza85
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United States
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357 posts - 502 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: German, French

 
 Message 3614 of 3737
25 June 2015 at 6:58pm | IP Logged 
Yesterday I was making a call for the owner of the company. They asked what my relation
to him was and I blanked out and could only think "Angestellter" (the conversation was in
English, of course), and ended up having to dumb down my English to say "I work for him"
just to answer quickly.

What makes me a language nerd about this is I was happy afterward, seeing this as a sign
of progress.
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g-bod
Diglot
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Speaks: English*, Japanese
Studies: French, German

 
 Message 3615 of 3737
25 June 2015 at 10:20pm | IP Logged 
When someone asks you about the "fabrics" in your home town, and you just know that they meant to say "factories".
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Teango
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2210 posts - 3734 votes 
Speaks: English*, German, Russian
Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona

 
 Message 3616 of 3737
26 June 2015 at 12:30am | IP Logged 
When you complete Hawaiian translation worksheets in your sleep...and I donʻt mean that figuratively!

Now if I can only train myself to write down the answers and put them under my pillow the next morning...


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