Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6903 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French
| Message 2753 of 3737 04 December 2012 at 11:52pm | IP Logged |
... when you hate YouTube for advertising: not because there are ads between videos (you
can live with that) but because they are never ever in your target language because of
your stupid IP.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 2754 of 3737 05 December 2012 at 12:45am | IP Logged |
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When the 80+ year old neighbour who's partly Swedish gives you his dictionary (he's tried to study it some 10 years ago), and you think it's a nice coincidence... till you realize any language but French or Mandarin would be a nice coincidence for you.
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 2755 of 3737 05 December 2012 at 4:08am | IP Logged |
vermillon wrote:
garyb wrote:
When the Spanish girl that you're dating keeps trying to teach you bits of her language, but you resist because, according to your long-term language learning plan that you've already thought long and hard about, it's not time to start Spanish just yet. |
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Sorry, that's precisely "not" being a language nerd. A language nerd would never miss such an opportunity. |
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You know you are when the OP stirs both anger and envy in you because you would love to date someone for the opportunity to learn from a native speaker. Angry that your partner is not bilingual and envious that the OP's has such a great opportunity and you do not.
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Jellitto Diglot Newbie Finland Joined 4900 days ago 17 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: German, Swedish, Japanese
| Message 2756 of 3737 05 December 2012 at 2:36pm | IP Logged |
...when you think you have a cool mother as she ponders with you which language she should start learning next and that becomes a bit difficult because she already has studied the most commonly learned European languages earlier.
...when you discover your mothers old language textbooks and want to start studying these languages right away.
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DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 2757 of 3737 05 December 2012 at 4:25pm | IP Logged |
When you cannot translate the phrase, spare time, because your brain no longer understands the concept.
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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 2758 of 3737 05 December 2012 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
... when at the dentist's your only thought is how the Icelandic word for check-up ('skoðun') is declined and whether it's masculine or feminine.
... when you leave the dentist's office and, seeing the sign for the exit, you immediately think: выход!
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DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 2759 of 3737 06 December 2012 at 9:54am | IP Logged |
Josquin wrote:
... when at the dentist's your only thought is |
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Ist es sicher? (Is it safe?)
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stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4873 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 2760 of 3737 06 December 2012 at 10:16am | IP Logged |
DaraghM wrote:
When you cannot translate the phrase, spare time, because your brain
no longer understands the concept.
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Translating that is easy: In Norwegian, it is "språklæring",
and in Japanese it's "外国語を勉強する時"
Edited by stifa on 06 December 2012 at 10:17am
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