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| LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5603 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 857 of 3737 20 July 2010 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when you start expressing surprise with Xhosa phrases you
picked up from TV when you have no intention of learning Xhosa. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 858 of 3737 21 July 2010 at 4:37am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you wish phrasebooks had fewer phrases for travelers about asking directions and finding things in pharmacies and such, and more phrases for people who just want to learn the language from far away and maybe pick up some cute girls (or guys) who speak it.
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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6528 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 859 of 3737 22 July 2010 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you speak in German to your dog, French to your mother, Portuguese to you sister
and Italian to your brother, even though no one of them speak those languages. ...when you're at the university and take notes in other languages. ...when one of the reason to learn X language is: "Wow! They have a really cool flag! Let's learn that language" (i.e. Swedish) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cojoda Newbie United States Joined 5760 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, German | Message 860 of 3737 23 July 2010 at 3:02am | IP Logged | ||
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...when your dog only understands Portuguese and German commands, but not a word of
English, because that's how he was trained. Edited by cojoda on 23 July 2010 at 3:03am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 861 of 3737 23 July 2010 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
You know you are a language nerd when you know what Xhosa is. Non-language nerds might think that if you"picked up some Xhosa" you had contracted an exotic disease. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5697 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 862 of 3737 23 July 2010 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you encounter a lady pushing a buggy carrying a little dog with great but cloudy eyes staring at you.
Then you speak by yourself " al kalb kafif " الكلب كفيف which means "the dog is blind". The sentence and the words belonging to your first 20 lessons of Arabic. And coming at home afterwards you should have written "al kalba kafifa" if the dog was female : الكلبة كفيفة 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 863 of 3737 24 July 2010 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you leave for France with a single dictionary and return home four days later with two dictionaries, a grammar book, a magazine and eleven books and are way more excited about this than about having been on holiday.
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 864 of 3737 24 July 2010 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you start receiving a lot of spam email in your target languages . . . and you kind of like it!
(English spam is not OK, though, just in case you're listening, internet marketers) 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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