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| sbelskie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4597 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Serbian, French | Message 1 of 12 28 November 2011 at 3:49am | IP Logged | ||
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When studying my target language it always gives me a boost of confidence when I look up a word from something I am reading and stare blankly at the translation in my native language because i have no idea what it means. Its nice when the only words I don't know when reading a foreign language are ones I have never heard of in English.
Does anyone else find this enjoyable or do other little things help let you know that you have arrived, so to speak? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5253 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 12 28 November 2011 at 5:57am | IP Logged | ||
I do. Edited by tractor on 28 November 2011 at 5:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6239 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 12 28 November 2011 at 6:51am | IP Logged | ||
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What I find even more fun is when I only recognize what a word in one of my stronger languages means due to it being cognate with a word I learned in one of my weaker languages. I've occasionally understood Italian and even English words due to roots I've learned from literary Esperanto.
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6420 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 4 of 12 28 November 2011 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||
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At this point, it is not unusual for me to have to look things up the other way, at least in certain subjects. Sometimes when I don't know a word in English (my native language), I look it up in Norwegian and think, "Oh, so that's what that means."
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6503 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 5 of 12 28 November 2011 at 11:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I tend to become irritated when the words I look up aren't found in my dictionary. But thanks for making me realize that it also represents some kind of triumph if none of the words I look up are found there. I hadn't looked at it from that perspective.
Maybe I'm slightly cranky, but I also tend to become irritated when I look a word up and see a translation which I don't understand. It rarely happens in Danish, but if I use for instance a dictionary based on German there will be some words which I don't understand - for instance plant names or old farming tools. I don't like it, but that's life. And in this case it is even more difficult to see anything positive about it. Thanks for trying to cheer me up. Edited by Iversen on 28 November 2011 at 11:26am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| On_the_road Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4556 days ago 23 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish | Message 6 of 12 28 November 2011 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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That sometimes happens for me too, so then I have to consult my Swedish dictionary as well :) And I agree that it is quite irritating when you cannot find words in the dictionary. This has happened quite often for me reasently when looking up German words, so now I have just ordered a new dictionary from the bookstore :)
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6397 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 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 7 of 12 29 November 2011 at 3:53am | IP Logged | ||
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| sbelskie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4597 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Serbian, French | Message 8 of 12 29 November 2011 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
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For the most part I find reassuring in the sense that if I don't know it in my native language it is cool thinking that I learned the word in my target language before my native language.
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