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| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5444 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 529 of 3737 11 April 2010 at 11:33am | IP Logged | ||
Has this been posted? (This thread is so long it quite possibly has been.) Oh well; it's still both genius and hilarious.
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| Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5528 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French | Message 530 of 3737 12 April 2010 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
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We all need to focus, and we can't learn all the languages we want at the same time. So we have to focus.
So, you know you are a language nerd when your idea of what it means to focus on a small number of target languages at any given time is to narrow it all the way down to about twenty... 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 531 of 3737 12 April 2010 at 4:14am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when monolingual people complement you and say "wow you speak so many
languages!" You know you're a TRUE language nerd when you think about this forum and smile and think to yourself "if they only knew about HTLAL." 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 532 of 3737 12 April 2010 at 5:04am | IP Logged | ||
Or when someone asks you how many languages you speak and you know that there is no true answer and that if you were to give them something anywhere close to accuracy or the truth they would get bored and stop listening before you were done. What I generally do in this situation is I just sigh in an annoyed way and say "I don't know." Or "A couple." Or "It depends." Edited by ellasevia on 12 April 2010 at 5:04am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5608 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 533 of 3737 12 April 2010 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you wander this site aimlessly for 3 hours and never get bored
When google translate is your homepage! Edited by Tally on 12 April 2010 at 12:12pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rina Newbie United States Joined 5544 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Korean | Message 534 of 3737 13 April 2010 at 4:53am | IP Logged | ||
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-When the main thing you look forward to about friday night is finally having time to put all the random German words you've acquired over the week into a list to study during the upcoming week.
-When no one at your school is sure what your first language is. -When you nearly dive across a desk at someone who had the nerve to say that "Gesundheit" was actually just English and just a fancy way of saying bless you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| m.alberto1 Diglot Senior Member Australia youtube.com/user/lan Joined 5759 days ago 218 posts - 221 votes Speaks: Tagalog, English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 535 of 3737 13 April 2010 at 5:01am | IP Logged | ||
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-when you're addicted to language learning forums and are keen to interact with other polyglots only lol!
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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 536 of 3737 13 April 2010 at 5:51am | IP Logged | ||
I'm pretty sure this has been said (yes I read the whole thread) but when you're afraid to let your friends see your iPod because of all the foreign language stuff on it. And when putting your ipod on shuffle results in the following: Song-Pimsleur-Song-Song-Assimil-Berlitz-Pimsleur-Song 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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