Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 3234 days ago 991 posts - 1893 votes     Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 3625 of 3737 08 July 2015 at 11:31am | IP Logged |
When the first thing that comes to your mind when you follow the news about the crisis in Greece is: Why on earth did I give up studying Greek two years ago?
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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 2829 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes     Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 3626 of 3737 08 July 2015 at 11:44am | IP Logged |
Ogrim, all the reasons to pick it back up, get cash and go to Greece)
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When people think it's awesome that I learned all that German by myself and I'm annoyed because: a)
there's not so much German after all b) there are people who do it much better
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 3814 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes    Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 3627 of 3737 08 July 2015 at 12:57pm | IP Logged |
solocricket wrote:
When you decide to not buy the Catalan translation of a popular young adult book you just
happened across in a bookstore in Boston, because you don't plan to, and have never
wanted to, study Catalan, and you're already spending money on a French sci-fi novel and
TWO Hungarian fantasy novels that you'll learn to read someday, and you really have to
draw the line somewhere.
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When you carry an eraser everywhere - to rub out the lines you'd drawn .....
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Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 3766 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes    Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian
| Message 3628 of 3737 08 July 2015 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
When it seems like you spend half of your time trying to convince people that a) "all those exceptions" don't
make English the hardest language in the world or that b) "no cases and no noun gender" don't make English
the easiest language in the world. When you point out that really, the difficulty of any language is going
to depend on what your native language is and how many other languages you know, they look at you like
you've gone insane.
When it seems like you spend the other half of your time answering the question, "How many languages
are you fluent in?"
Edited by Amerykanka on 08 July 2015 at 4:27pm
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 5192 days ago 9753 posts - 15778 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 3629 of 3737 08 July 2015 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
When your main reaction is: what language is that?
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numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5378 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes     Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin
| Message 3630 of 3737 08 July 2015 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
When you are considering making one of those vanity videos where you attempt to speak all your
languages.
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Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 4700 days ago 707 posts - 1219 votes     Speaks: English* Studies: Polish
| Message 3631 of 3737 08 July 2015 at 10:58pm | IP Logged |
Serpent wrote:
When your main reaction is: what language is that? |
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Catalan :)
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solocricket Tetraglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 2271 days ago 68 posts - 106 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Italian, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Icelandic, Korean, Polish
| Message 3632 of 3737 08 July 2015 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
When you regularly receive 4-5 daily Russian spam emails on your work computer, and you
read each one of them without fail.
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