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cmmah
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Ireland
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Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: French, Irish

 
 Message 2617 of 3737
15 September 2012 at 10:28pm | IP Logged 
When you whistle to yourself, people ask: "You're not learning bird language, are you?"

When you wonder why Foreign
Language Elephant
hasn't become a popular meme.

When you shadow Japanese radio in public, and get some funny looks for it.
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Josquin
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Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian

 
 Message 2618 of 3737
17 September 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged 
... when during lunch break you find yourself sitting between a Turkish conversation on your left and a Spanish conversation on your right and don't think it's odd.

... when after hearing that your colleague has worked as an au-pair in Sweden, you immediately ask her: "Talar du svenska?"

... when you're disappointed that she doesn't want to speak Swedish with you and simply keeps talking German instead.

... when after watching this video, you want to learn Japanese immediately.

Edited by Josquin on 17 September 2012 at 7:24pm

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mick33
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Finnish
Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

 
 Message 2619 of 3737
18 September 2012 at 8:21am | IP Logged 
When I have a bad case of the flu and my biggest concern last week was that I hadn't learned, or had forgotten, the words for nausea, headache, dizziness and insomnia in any of my target languages.
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QiuJP
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Singapore
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Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French
Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese

 
 Message 2620 of 3737
18 September 2012 at 4:47pm | IP Logged 
QiuJP wrote:
...when you know where to get printed newspapers without going overseas
in these
languages: Thai, Burmese, Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Vietnamese, French,
German. Sadly no one brings in the Russian newspapers which will interest me a lot!   


... When, in addition to the languages mentioned earlier, you also know where to get
Japanese, Korean and Spanish magazines together with publications in the 4 official
languages of Singapore (English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil).

... When you know where to meet native speakers of all the languages mentioned in these
two posts, because the place where the newspaper and magazine are sold, is the place to
encounter them.

... When you feel like introducing these places to meet the native speakers of various
languages if a fellow language learner would visit this island....
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cmmah
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Ireland
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Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: French, Irish

 
 Message 2621 of 3737
18 September 2012 at 7:36pm | IP Logged 
When you hear a song in your native language that you like, and think what a pity it is that it wasn't recorded in a
foreign language - then you just might have bought it.

Continuing on with the music theme...
When you couldn't name a single song in your native country's charts, but you know who's all the rage in Ecuador.
When "what type of music do you listen to?" is an awkward question to answer. "Umm...do you mean in English?"


When you have more Skype contacts than close friends.

When you know words for things in Spanish that the majority of anglophones wouldn't know in English.
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patuco
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Gibraltar
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 Message 2622 of 3737
18 September 2012 at 10:33pm | IP Logged 
When you've just bought a new graphical calculator (because your trusty old one got drenched) and you spend a good proportion of your evening reading the various user manuals (in ten languages) and comparing how to carry out various mathematical functions in those languages.
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Ogrim
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France
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Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian
Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian

 
 Message 2623 of 3737
19 September 2012 at 10:58am | IP Logged 
When you are in a hotel room in Zagreb and you spend 30 minutes watching a Turkish TV show with Croatian subtitles, although you don't speak either language, but decide to put them on your target list.
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DaraghM
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Ireland
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Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian

 
 Message 2624 of 3737
19 September 2012 at 4:52pm | IP Logged 
You flick aound the various EuroNews satellite channels to see if they've added any new languages.

... and it annoys you that EuroNews Russia still doesn't use the Cyrillic alphabet.

Edited by DaraghM on 19 September 2012 at 4:56pm



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