meramarina
Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: German, Italian, French
Personal Language Map
25 June 2013 at 2:43am | IP Logged
When you have a bad dream that you have to take a very important Spanish exam, and you believe that you are doing well and you leave the exam room feeling very good, but then the nightmare takes hold and you realize that all your answers were in German.
. . . and, what's more, in waking life you haven't even taken a language class or exam in almost twenty years!
kujichagulia
Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
When you become angry when your disgruntled co-worker comes over to you on the train to complain about his job for the whole commute, hijacking your precious language-learning time.
EDIT: ... and even doing it in English when he, as a native Japanese speaker, could have done it in Japanese, helping me out a bit! (Granted, he said that he wanted to speak in English, so he wouldn't get in trouble with the boss.)
Edited by kujichagulia on 25 June 2013 at 3:30am
Studies: Danish, Welsh
27 June 2013 at 7:51pm | IP Logged
When you go back to the city where you were born (and haven't seen in decades) and among
other things, visit the ancient cathedral where you spent many happy hours as a boy (I
was probably an odd boy...), and pick up the visitor leaflet in English and German
(although it turned out not to be a translation, but totally rewritten in a different
style), and would have taken the Danish one, but there wasn't one, and you are now
regretting not having taken the Swedish one (which was there).
Hexaglot
Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian
Teango wrote:
When you spy the words "Polish Station" on a sign whilst out with your wife, experience a
sudden flicker of childlike joy, and then watch that flame fizzle out as you realise it's just a bunch of nail
varnish.
This happens to me a lot, too. Once I saw a big warehouse with the word POLISH across the front and for a
moment was convinced that I had to dash in and see what it was all about! Then reality slapped me across
the cheek.
anethara
Speaks: English*, Sign Language
29 June 2013 at 11:10pm | IP Logged
When drunk or overly tired (or the first thing in the morning), you incoherently switch
between languages.
Duke100782
Bilingual Diglot
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Speaks: English*, Tagalog*
Studies: Spanish, Mandarin
karaipyhare wrote:
When you feel you've wasted your commuting time and feel really bad about it when
don't prepare a Pimsleur lesson or a language podcast to listen to while going to work or
back home.
Bingo! My favorite one!
...When you stay up all night studying the grammar rules of a language that you don't even speak in your everyday life while you had to be studying for that math test that you're gonna have in the morning.
This has happened to me a lot.
Octoglot
serpent-849.livejour
9753 posts - 15776 votes
Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
Yep, familiar. My motivation for German is at its highest whenever I need to prepare for an exam in another subject.