|
 |
You know you’re a language nerd when... | ||
Tags: Language Geek | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : General discussion |  | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2409 of 3737 18 June 2012 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
And when a non-language-nerd casually picks up the book and says "goodness, this language has hardly any vowels", you are able to point out to them that "y" and "w" are considered to be vowels in Welsh. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2410 of 3737 18 June 2012 at 5:22am | IP Logged | ||
|
You may be slightly nerdish in other respects too if you read the post above and immediately thinks of a venerable old string instrument called a "crwth"
2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sandman Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5406 days ago 168 posts - 389 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 2411 of 3737 18 June 2012 at 7:52am | IP Logged | ||
|
... when you dream in L1, but in your dream you are trying to construct L2 sentences because you are trying to pick up a hot L2 foreign chick.
(this happens to me regularly) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| rivere123 Senior Member United States Joined 4828 days ago 129 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2412 of 3737 19 June 2012 at 4:11am | IP Logged | ||
|
When you're learning two closely related languages like Spanish and French, and the only language that gets any interference is your native one.
5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 2413 of 3737 19 June 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
|
When after your first Pimsleur Greek lesson you start singing "catalaveno, catalavenete. I understand, you understand".
When you get your 12 year old daughter to sing this too. When you then try and get her to sing it around school coz you think it would make an awesome thing to go "viral". When you buy an ereader because you want to put language stuff on it. When you buy an mp3 player and it MUST have expandable memory so you can have a memory card devoted to each language... When that sentence makes you excited at the thought lol. And when you don't care about feeling silly by saying that because there will be many other language nerds reading this and saying "yes, that is an awesome idea!". When you take up the opportunity to learn Greek because you *might* be going there on holiday. When you go on holiday and think it's perfectly reasonable that at least one of you HAS to know the language. When you want to keep writing examples on this topic but realise you should let others write theirs too :-p ... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2414 of 3737 20 June 2012 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
|
…when you feel sad that lang-8 doesn't allow you to paste in hieroglyphs, because it
would be totally awesome to spend 30 days trying Assimil : L'Égyptien hiéroglyphique and keeping a journal in your L2. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 2415 of 3737 20 June 2012 at 3:40am | IP Logged | ||
|
When you look for LOTR in Portuguese online and end up ordering a few books in Danish (also one in Finnish and one in German) and then you remember about a CD you meant to order and you end up listening to a Saami version of the famous song by Tatu. Edited by Serpent on 20 June 2012 at 3:41am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2416 of 3737 20 June 2012 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | ||
|
When you start dreaming about the Russian prepositive case. Edited by Josquin on 20 June 2012 at 3:53pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
