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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1081 of 3737 16 September 2010 at 4:18am | IP Logged |
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when you spend a lot of time learning languages?
Sorry, I'm not very good at this. Reading many posts in this thread has had me realize that I'm not really a language nerd. Wait, I've got one! When you study Mandarin for years and decide to go to China for a year, but ending up with a plan to go to the south; telling your friends they speak Cantonese there, they all go "That's a bummer, dude" and you go "Huh? No, that's a good thing! I get to learn an extra language!". 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1082 of 3737 16 September 2010 at 4:21am | IP Logged |
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Oh, and also, maybe: when you complain about how the language you're studying is too similar to one you already know, making it boring to study.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1083 of 3737 16 September 2010 at 7:07am | IP Logged |
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When you can't help but virtually trip over numerous folders of language learning materials, stached all over your computer like caches of select cashews and treasure troves of seeds stored up for winter, and realise you are a compulsive language squirrel. @.@
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1084 of 3737 16 September 2010 at 8:15am | IP Logged |
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And when you say it loud and proud for the first time in public (for me, this was at an Irish cousin's wedding party recently): "I guess I'm just a language nerd"...and feel a happy wave of relief to have finally come out of the language closet. Edited by Teango on 16 September 2010 at 8:16am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 1085 of 3737 16 September 2010 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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When you had to watch a foreign language music video twice in a row because when it got to the end after playing the first time you realized your eyes hadn't left the captions at the bottom so you have no idea what actually happens in the video.
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1086 of 3737 17 September 2010 at 8:12pm | IP Logged |
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When you listen to an investment pitch from a Danish team, in English, and you are the first person to ask him a question, and its in Danish but you don't realise that until the rest of the panel ask "WtF?"
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| 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 1087 of 3737 18 September 2010 at 5:31am | IP Logged |
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...when you think it's worth it to familiarize yourself with the spelling/pronunciation systems of dozens of languages, if only to be able to correctly pronounce foreign names.
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1088 of 3737 18 September 2010 at 12:16pm | IP Logged |
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....when an introductory lesson on Old English in which a couple of basic grammatical features like case and gender are explained feels like a total waste of time to you.
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