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| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5554 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes  Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 121 of 3737 23 October 2009 at 9:43am | IP Logged | |||||
Haha ditto. I wouldn't say I'm "mad" at them, just frustrated. I also have the same problem as Megatronfilm in that all of my older step-siblings were raised bilingual in Spanish and English, yet my younger brother and I got the short end of the stick. I realise it's because my mother doesn't speak a lick of Spanish and wouldn't have wanted it spoken in the house, but still... half of who I am has been robbed of me. So many monolingual family members that I can never get to know. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5822 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic | Message 122 of 3737 23 October 2009 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
Haha! That would be me ^_^ 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 123 of 3737 24 October 2009 at 12:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you're a language nerd when you realise that all the music you ever listen to anymore is in at least one foreign language, and in some cases, the music uses more than one foreign language in the same song, in my case :]
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 124 of 3737 24 October 2009 at 2:11am | IP Logged | |||||
Hmm...I am listening to a Korean song as I read your post here. I just don't see the point of listening to music in English. It's not an aesthetically pleasing language (to me), and it's overdone. Everybody sings in English nowadays, because it's the hip thing to do. I find the artists who resist this trend tend to be in general more original and creative, and more interesting as they often incorporate instruments and musical genres from their native culture. Edited by Levi on 24 October 2009 at 2:12am 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 125 of 3737 24 October 2009 at 2:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you are a real language nerd when you can't wait for your day to end so you can get on the computer and write "you know you are a language nerd when you wonder how to say 'language nerd' in your target language(s.
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| theallstar Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5803 days ago 81 posts - 85 votes Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 126 of 3737 24 October 2009 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
I listen to music in foreign languages all the time too (right now in Korean coincidently enough!). Not only that, but I listen to pop music - something I'd never do if it was in English ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 127 of 3737 24 October 2009 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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People will find me a language nerd, when I am sitting in public cafes or bistros all alone with my Turkish or Danish textbook and my headphones on, reading or shadowing Danish or Turkish dialogues or excercise sentences ALOUD. By the way, I have never seen anyone else doing this in public!
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 24 October 2009 at 1:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5810 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 128 of 3737 24 October 2009 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you speak to your relatives in a foreign language even though they can’t understand it.
When you constantly move your tongue inside your mouth to try out different places of articulation. 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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