Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 353 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 12:38am | IP Logged |
...when you stub your toe, and your first instinct is to swear in a language other than your native tongue.
QiuJP wrote:
Johntm wrote:
When you have a hard time trying to keep yourself from trying to learn several more languages when you are still working on your first... |
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Guilty. I have wanderlust to pickup Malay or Indonesian when I need to spent more time on Russian! |
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I've been bitten by the wanderlust bug too (...again). I'm struggling to juggle five languages as it is, and now I want to study Dutch too!
Edited by Levi on 11 February 2010 at 12:41am
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meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5960 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 354 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 2:09am | IP Logged |
We are really the nerdiest word nerds on the internet, but we would be even NERDIER if we knew how to declare our status in several languages. This is somewhat lazy research from Google Translate, so please correct/add to the list if you know the correct term!
I think I like Linguanerd the best! That would be a cool username.
Albanian: budalla gjuhën
Croatian: jezik glupan
Czech: Jazyk nerd
Estonian: keel nerd
Greek: nerd γλώσσα
French: langue nerd
Hungarian: Nyelv nerd
Afrikaans/Dutch: Taal nerd
Icelandic: Tungumál
Indonesian: bahasa aneh
Italian: lingua nerd
Japanese: 言語オタク
Danish: Sprog nerd
Irish: nerd teanga
Finnish: kieli moukka
German: Sprache nerd (one word looks better: Sprachenerd?)
Persian: زبان
Macedonian: јазик nerd
Romanian: Nerd limbaj
Russian: Язык NERD
Swahili: lugha nerd
Turkish: dil nerd
Edited by meramarina on 11 February 2010 at 2:09am
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kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5546 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish
| Message 355 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 3:15am | IP Logged |
I would say "kielinörtti." I've never seen "moukka" before and had to look it up. Kieli moukka translates to something like "language boor/peasant" xD
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7149 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 356 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 3:17am | IP Logged |
"Mä oon kielinörtti", funny. I should remember that.
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Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5415 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 357 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 6:08am | IP Logged |
kyssäkaali wrote:
I would say "kielinörtti." I've never seen "moukka" before and had to look it up. Kieli moukka translates to something like "language boor/peasant" xD |
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Language peasant...I like that. Thats funny.
You might be a language nerd when you complain to yourself about how school and homework are getting in the way of your learning...language learning, that is.
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unityandoutside Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6007 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin, Mandarin
| Message 358 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 6:59am | IP Logged |
Johntm wrote:
You might be a language nerd when you complain to yourself about how school and homework are getting in the way of your learning...language learning, that is. |
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You might be a language nerd if the homework that you make this complaint about is for a course in your target language. "But I already know how to use the instrumental, can't we do something more stimulating?!"
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ember Triglot Groupie CyprusRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5396 days ago 63 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French, Greek, Polish
| Message 359 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 9:35am | IP Logged |
Something like "повернутый на языках", it is not always easy to find a good equivalent for the word 'nerd' in Russian
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elysandler Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5397 days ago 22 posts - 25 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew, English*, French Studies: Latin, Spanish, Russian
| Message 360 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
When you stare endlessly at a painting on a friend's wall trying to figure out what script it's written in... only to
discover it was supposed to be a map.
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