When you are at a cash machine in Valencia, Spain, which gives you the option to choose between seven languages (Spanish, Catalan, Valencian, Basque, English, French, German), and you spend so long wondering which language to choose that your timed out and your card is returned.
When the second time you try, you quickly choose Valencian, withdraw your money, and then put the card back in a third time to choose Catalan, just to see what the difference is between the instructions in Valencian and Catalan.
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Ogrim wrote:When you are at a cash machine in Valencia, Spain, which gives you the option to choose between seven languages (Spanish, Catalan, Valencian, Basque, English, French, German), and you spend so long wondering which language to choose that your timed out and your card is returned.
When the second time you try, you quickly choose Valencian, withdraw your money, and then put the card back in a third time to choose Catalan, just to see what the difference is between the instructions in Valencian and Catalan.
I can imagine this I have done this in England and I like to see which languages they offer the different things. Often this are the ones in other alphabets (but not the cash machine, but for example the borough's letters)
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When after reading this thread, the first thing you plan to do after landing in Valencia is go and withdraw money.
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vogeltje wrote:n_j_f wrote:You quit your job so you can spend all your free-time learning languages, but then go back to work after six months so you can buy more Assimil and Linguaphone books
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Ogrim wrote:When you are at a cash machine in Valencia, Spain, which gives you the option to choose between seven languages (Spanish, Catalan, Valencian, Basque, English, French, German), and you spend so long wondering which language to choose that your timed out and your card is returned.
When the second time you try, you quickly choose Valencian, withdraw your money, and then put the card back in a third time to choose Catalan, just to see what the difference is between the instructions in Valencian and Catalan.
I would've so done this
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