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| yourvietnamese Newbie Singapore yourvietnamese.com Joined 4980 days ago 9 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English | Message 1561 of 3737 12 April 2011 at 5:07am | IP Logged | ||
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When you read news and can't help but dashing for the computer to look up a new word.
When you talk to people and can't help but noticing their cool new word or idiom. And feeling so good to have got to encounter an interesting phrase. When it bothers you so much, anywhere, anytime. Edited by yourvietnamese on 12 April 2011 at 5:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1562 of 3737 15 April 2011 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you go for an eye checkup, and forgetting yourself for a moment, read out 'H' and 'C' as Cyrillic. It was only once I saw the backward 'И' that I realised my blunder... Edited by Teango on 15 April 2011 at 6:28pm 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5495 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 1563 of 3737 15 April 2011 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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When somehow you came to own a 1978 Finsko-Polski dictionary.
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1564 of 3737 17 April 2011 at 11:17am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you’re a language nerd when you’re having breakfast with your family and you speak nothing but French for the entire half hour, even though only one of the three other people present can understand you.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1565 of 3737 17 April 2011 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when you walk around in the park with your MP3 - player listening to the audios of your textbook "Dänisch Neu" and understand not only the first already studied lessons but as well most of the dialogues in the higher lessons because of similarities with already studied lessons in the other textbooks. This gives a feeling of success!
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1567 of 3737 18 April 2011 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
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when (and this will only make sense to those users of MT French) you can't hear someone say "I'm gong" without thinking of MT saying "I'm going". If you "get" this you are truly one of us language nerds.
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5766 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1568 of 3737 18 April 2011 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | ||
I loved this, this made me smile :] Also, I cannot for the life of me begin to understand why so many people I know don't like the bagpipes. I love them - I'd have a go if I had a good pair of lungs :] You know you're a language nerd when, very soon after waking up from an operation in the recovery room at hospital, you take out your books and start reading French, or German or whatever it was, I don't quite remember. Then the nurse comes over, apparently horrified, and takes your book away from you - "you should be resting, not engaging brain". Apparently it's wrong to study right after surgery? Edited by LanguageSponge on 18 April 2011 at 2:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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