Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 2153 of 3737 16 February 2012 at 3:51am | IP Logged |
When you enjoy watching a tv series with sound in one target language and subtitles in a
different one. (Works great for me. I enjoy listening in English and get useful
colloquial vocabulary, phrases and idioms in either French or Spanish)
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Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5066 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans
| Message 2154 of 3737 16 February 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
When you attend a Korean class because it's the only language offered at university that
you haven't studied before.
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espfutbol98 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5010 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Albanian, Russian, German
| Message 2155 of 3737 17 February 2012 at 5:32am | IP Logged |
You know you're a true language nerd when you're a native English speaker playing
Battlefield 3 in Russian but you put the subtitles in Spanish, just to ensure you
understand every word... while at the same time listening to Serbian rap.
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Sabes que eres un verdadero empollón para los idiomas cuando eres un hablante nativo de
inglés jugando Battlefield 3 en ruso pero pones los subtítulos en español para segurar
que entiendas cada palabra... mientas a misma vez estás escuchando a rap serbio.
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You also know you're a language nerd when you want to translate every post you make in
all of your favourite languages however you realize there's not enough time in the day
for that. XD
Finally you know you're a language nerd when in your last year of U.S. secondary school
you are in on-level English but in AP (college-level) Spanish Literature as a "gringo",
and still have higher grades than many native speakers regardless of the fact that half
the time in class you're not paying attention and studying Russian.
Edited by espfutbol98 on 17 February 2012 at 5:42am
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WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4886 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish
| Message 2156 of 3737 17 February 2012 at 6:00pm | IP Logged |
Asiafeverr wrote:
When people want to check the music on your iPhone but 90% of the tracks are from Michel Thomas,
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Lol! That is so true! I don't think I even have any music on my phone, just foreign audiobooks and language courses! And I wouldn't change a thing :-p (except memory size!).
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 2157 of 3737 17 February 2012 at 10:39pm | IP Logged |
espfutbol98 wrote:
You know you're a true language nerd when you're a native English speaker playing
Battlefield 3 in Russian but you put the subtitles in Spanish, just to ensure you
understand every word... while at the same time listening to Serbian rap. |
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Yeah very familiar, just change languages and activity types...
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5922 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 2158 of 3737 23 February 2012 at 10:28am | IP Logged |
When I feel really guilty about having taken a break from learning languages for a few days and even more guilty about admitting that I actually do have a social life away from this forum.
Edited by mick33 on 23 February 2012 at 10:30am
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wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5237 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 2159 of 3737 23 February 2012 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
When that nice pair of shoes you splurged on, which you knew was made in Israel, is even more appealing
because of the lovely script on the box! And Hebrew isn't even one of your languages ... yet.
Edited by wv girl on 24 February 2012 at 1:08am
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koba Heptaglot Senior Member AustriaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 118 posts - 201 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, French
| Message 2160 of 3737 24 February 2012 at 12:31am | IP Logged |
When your ultimate goal is to obtain the whole Assimil collection :D
Edited by koba on 24 February 2012 at 12:45am
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