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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 201 of 3737 23 December 2009 at 10:02am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you can tell somebody what their Chinese character tattoo means.
...when you can't tell what the tattoo means, so you try to quickly memorize it so you can look it up later. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| B-Tina Tetraglot Senior Member Germany dragonsallaroun Joined 5530 days ago 123 posts - 218 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Polish | Message 202 of 3737 23 December 2009 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when you deliberately do not log in into this forum just because you want to see the Amazon language book ads...
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| Ninja Bunny Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5795 days ago 42 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Danish, Mandarin, Afrikaans, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French | Message 203 of 3737 23 December 2009 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when your native language is English, you're thinking in German, listening to a podcast in Russian and reading the news in Chinese, all at the same time. (The languages may rotate or differ but this is how I often spend my lunch break.)
...when you hear a story on the radio about a man who had to take language lessons from a local rabbi when discovered his new guard dog could understand commands only in Hebrew and your first thought is, "Where can I get a Hebrew guard dog?"
Guilty. I was at the doctor's office and I picked up a pamphlet about bronchitis in Spanish and one in English to use as a translation guide in case I got stumped. I didn't even have bronchitis. Edited by Ninja Bunny on 24 December 2009 at 4:17pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5824 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic | Message 204 of 3737 24 December 2009 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
I was fascinated by their language when I watched that movie :-P 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| leniko Diglot Newbie Greece Joined 5456 days ago 12 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Greek*, EnglishB2 Studies: German, Japanese | Message 205 of 3737 24 December 2009 at 9:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow! I have many of the symptoms you have listed here!
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 206 of 3737 25 December 2009 at 2:10am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you are a language nerd when all the gifts from friends and family are books to help you learn your target language(s). You are even a bigger(greater?) language nerd if you have to return all of them because you already own them all. And you are the biggest (or greatest) language nerd if you not only own them, but most have yet be opened.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 207 of 3737 25 December 2009 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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..when you want to thank B-Tina for giving you an "Ah Ha" moment of ,so that's how I can get those great ads back.
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5970 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 208 of 3737 25 December 2009 at 3:15am | IP Logged | ||
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On this festive Christmas Eve, while others are out making merry, exchanging gifts and celebrating the joy of the season, you are . . . uh, well . . . you're here, or on some other language site . . . and there is NOTHING wrong with that, it's a lifestyle choice, OK?
Actually I did the fun stuff too, just taking a break, it's been a little exhausting. Do Santa's elves produce language-learning materials at the North Pole? Hmmmm . . . Don't tell me YOU have never wondered about that. Happy Holidays to all the language nerds and geeks! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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