|
 |
You know you’re a language nerd when... | ||
Tags: Language Geek | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : General discussion |  | |
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5423 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 297 of 3737 24 January 2010 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
...when you learn language X so you can use materials in language X to learn language Y, which is what you really wanted to learn in the first place.
It's not a personal experience, but I saw people in another thread saying that they would learn Russian to learn Uzbek or Czech or something... 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| catharsis Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5433 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, Korean* | Message 298 of 3737 24 January 2010 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
|
... when you start writing short stories and poems just to translate it to find out which language is better for which form of writing.
... when knowing several languages becomes your lifeline to getting into a good college. ... also when you download all sorts of MMORPGs just because their from a foreign country (so you can level up your mage while practicing X language :D) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 299 of 3737 25 January 2010 at 2:55am | IP Logged | |||||
...if you can understand every word of a sentence in Romanian, in the Cyrillic alphabet, despite not speaking or ever studying Romanian. Edited by Levi on 25 January 2010 at 2:56am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5576 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 300 of 3737 25 January 2010 at 2:55am | IP Logged | |||||
Guilty...Assimil....Actually I always wanted to learn French having access to Assimil's full library is merely a bonus. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6529 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 301 of 3737 25 January 2010 at 3:17am | IP Logged | |||||
|
...when you can name more than 100 languages without any help (internet, a map, etc.)
...when you talk in French to your mother, Italian to your brother and Portuguese to your sister (and German and/or Italian to your uncles if you feel like it) ...when you go for a walk just to think in Dutch cause you don't want to be distracted by Wikipedia, Omniglot, your languages books or this site :) ...when you read this thread (beacouse you want to know what other languages nerds in the world think) ...when you click on every single language named here Edited by Guido on 25 January 2010 at 3:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6369 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 302 of 3737 25 January 2010 at 3:36am | IP Logged | |||||
So I'm not the only one! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6004 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 303 of 3737 25 January 2010 at 4:26am | IP Logged | |||||
|
... when ability to speak a foreign language is a major consideration in a potential girlfriend.
... when, while playing Never Have I Ever, someone says "Never have I ever spoken a foreign language" and you spend 10 minutes debating what they mean by speak and deliberating over whether you consider yourself as "speaking" a foreign language. ... then later, you piss the same group of friends off again by drunkenly refusing to speak English because most (but not all) of the people there speak enough French to hold a simple conversation. 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 304 of 3737 25 January 2010 at 7:32am | IP Logged | |||||
|
When you studied 7 languages and learnt just 1
4 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. |
