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| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2313 of 3737 13 May 2012 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you're a language nerd when you are watching 'classic' British comedy (the stuff
that comes on every Saturday night here in the US on the public television channel. It's from the 1980s and the 1990s) and your favorite episode was the one of 'Are You Being Served?' showing off German Week, and even the signs are in German. When you sing in the shower in your target language. When the conversation above is interesting and completely comprehensible, regardless of the fact that most people your age would just freak out, saying, "They're using words I don't know in English! How am I supposed to understand, or even care?" 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5068 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 2314 of 3737 13 May 2012 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... when you've never sung in the shower. Instead you think it's perfectly normal to
converse with yourself in different languages. ... when you're writing about locative inversion in Chichewa and mostly understand the examples given in an article without the translation, even though you've never studied the language. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2315 of 3737 13 May 2012 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you know more about certain languages that you're not studying than some of your
friends in real life who are know. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4844 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2316 of 3737 13 May 2012 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, 'tip of the tongue' was a mistakable expression. I had problems describing the act of platalizing correctly although I can perform it. Thanks for your correction. ... when you know there's a great difference between palatalized and retroflex consonants. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5622 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 2317 of 3737 14 May 2012 at 5:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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When your first reaction to heartbreak is to begin a new language.
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| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2318 of 3737 14 May 2012 at 6:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you are much more interested in the nuances of foreign cultures and their languages
than the petty drama that is supposed to so absorb teenagers my age. When you can't wait to be proficient enough to be able to teach friends how to learn foreign languages. When you are so utterly jealous of some of the people on this forum for dating other language nerds. Edited by Ismeme Granger on 14 May 2012 at 6:15am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2319 of 3737 14 May 2012 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you're happy that you've received birthday greetings on Facebook in four different
languages so far, and it's still only the morning. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Venustus Pentaglot Newbie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4802 days ago 14 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian Studies: Polish | Message 2320 of 3737 17 May 2012 at 1:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you have grammars of more than 15 different languages and still wanna buy more.
When you have learnt all IPA 107 letters and 52 diacritics Edited by Venustus on 17 May 2012 at 1:33am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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