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| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5608 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes  Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 745 of 3737 20 June 2010 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you point out to your friends: Listen, they are speaking Russian! And they are
speaking Japanese! Listen to them, they are speaking Polish! And your friends just blink at you. Edited by Tally on 20 June 2010 at 2:37pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5348 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 746 of 3737 20 June 2010 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you take great delight in finding out that there are actually several episodes of The Moomins (aka Mumijevi) in Bosnian floating around on Youtube, thereby combining a fond childhood memory with your target language.
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| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5608 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 747 of 3737 20 June 2010 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
Aww that's my childhood show! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 748 of 3737 22 June 2010 at 1:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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I spent Saturday afternoon reading the first few paragraphs of the Kalevala, rather than riding my bike on the first sunny day in a week and a half.
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6865 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 749 of 3737 29 June 2010 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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when your friend casually mentions a language programme, and you spend 20 minutes giving them a detailed description of its pros and cons
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| renegade5005 Triglot Newbie United States xanga.com/philoaleth Joined 5333 days ago 18 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew, Arabic (Levantine), French, Tzeltal, Arabic (classical), Sanskrit, Ancient Greek | Message 750 of 3737 29 June 2010 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
Language Nerd in Persian is "Khoreye Zaban" or "Divaneye Zaban". Zaban itself means language or literally "tongue". it shares the same root with "Lingua" and from that we get the German word "Zung" and the English word "Tongue". The word "language" is from of the same root but is not a Germanic word. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 751 of 3737 29 June 2010 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you are a Language Nerd when your mind starts to play Super-Nerdy Linguistic Tricks on you!
The other day when my alarm clock rang in the morning, much, much too early in the morning, I sort of half-understood that it was time to get up and go to work, but I wasn't fully awake yet and thought: "hey . . . this is really strange . . . the alarm clock is ringing in Dutch today, but I don't study Dutch; therefore, because I can't really understand what it's saying, I do not have to get up today." I was quite disappointed when I realized that alarm clocks don't ring in particular languages, but I was a little impressed by my semi-conscious mind's ability to deny reality. Yes, it really happened - I don't know what I'd have done if the clock went off in my target languages, though. 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| renegade5005 Triglot Newbie United States xanga.com/philoaleth Joined 5333 days ago 18 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew, Arabic (Levantine), French, Tzeltal, Arabic (classical), Sanskrit, Ancient Greek | Message 752 of 3737 29 June 2010 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When after knowing about 9 languages fairly well and halfway through studying another 5, you feel behind when you look at the languages the memebers on this website know...
When you speak to your French professor (who also knows Spanish, Italian and Arabic) in all the languages he knows while he's tutoring you latin and all the other language professors at the office stare at you. Edited by renegade5005 on 29 June 2010 at 11:25pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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