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| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5499 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 785 of 3737 08 July 2010 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
16? Ha! I'm 13! I started being SERIOUS about languages last year... You know you're a language nerd when you see 'MIA' in the newspaper and automatically think 'Middle Indo-Aryan.' When you see Arabic copies of Al-Ahram and other Arabic newspapers in the bookstore for the first time, but you don't buy them because you're still in shock over it. (Foreign langage reading materials are scarce around here, Arabic especially for some reason. I mean, the library even has Urdu and Vietnamese books, but ARABIC!? Of course not...) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 786 of 3737 08 July 2010 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you're in Frankfurt and you stop someone to ask for directions in German. Then they politely reply in broken English that they don't speak any German because they're Russian. Only to beam back with a gigantic smile and say "zdorovo!" for being given the chance to use the little bit of Russian you know... :D
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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6783 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 787 of 3737 08 July 2010 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you've never had any specific interest in Mandarin and yet the exposure to a language learning community starts gnawing at you to learn a language you have absolutely no need for.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 788 of 3737 08 July 2010 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you go for a haircut to an Italian hairdresser's in Germany, and somehow convince them to speak in Italian whilst you reply in German, despite knowing little or no Italian. And all simply to test your comprehension of similar word roots in Spanish you learnt recently... Edited by Teango on 08 July 2010 at 1:18pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6446 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 789 of 3737 08 July 2010 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
... when you realize, after reading something like this, that the language learning community long ago compelled you to learn any number of languages you have absolutely no need for. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 790 of 3737 08 July 2010 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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... when you always write your shopping list of delicious vegetables and other necessary ingredients in the same language as your foreign language recipes.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 791 of 3737 08 July 2010 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When, while in Germany, one comment asking you which
Bundesland you come from automatically makes your day. Also, when people are confused and must ask about your nationality because one minute you speak German to your friend, and Russian to the Russian cashier in the next. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 792 of 3737 08 July 2010 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
When you can switch directly between both foreign languages, then you are really good! Fasulye 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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