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| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5100 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 2465 of 3737 08 July 2012 at 12:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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When genuinely excited about seeing languages other than those in Latin script and
wondering "I wonder what letter that is" - then pondering "when shall I learn it?" 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2466 of 3737 08 July 2012 at 1:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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...you can accurately pronounce no less than 4 different kinds of R and describe which languages use each different one.
...you wouldn't be surprised to learn there are even more ways to pronounce R than the 4 different ones you already know. 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2467 of 3737 08 July 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know that you're a language nerd when you give your dad a slice of bacon simply
because he said something in Latin. This is one slice out of two total slices of bacon, mind you. 4 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 2468 of 3737 08 July 2012 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
You know you're a language nerd when you post a total of 22 out of 24 posts dedicated to the aforesaid topic. Edited by Josquin on 08 July 2012 at 10:48pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LaughingChimp Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4699 days ago 346 posts - 594 votes Speaks: Czech* | Message 2469 of 3737 08 July 2012 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
...you know that these are actually unrelated sounds that happen to be spelled with the same letter in different languages. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| dinguino Nonaglot Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4754 days ago 55 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English, German*, FrenchC1, Catalan, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Turkish, Russian, Irish | Message 2470 of 3737 09 July 2012 at 12:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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... when you're lying in bed, actually trying to sleep while thinking in a foreign language and every time you encounter a word you can't express in that language you absolutely have to get up and search for it because exactly this word is really important for you and you couldn't fall asleep without knowing it.
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| 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 2471 of 3737 09 July 2012 at 12:16am | IP Logged | |||||
... you know that these sounds can be allophonic variants within a language and so ARE related to each other (German has at least four different Rs: [r, ɹ, ʀ, ʁ]) 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4991 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 2472 of 3737 09 July 2012 at 12:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you actually don't know in which language you dream... You just remember the
semantic content of what you spoke "in there"... 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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