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 budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5804 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes  Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 961 of 3737 05 August 2010 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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YKYALN = You know you’re a language nerd
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| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5607 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 962 of 3737 06 August 2010 at 2:11am | IP Logged | ||
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YKYALN when you know what YKYALN means.
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| B-Tina Tetraglot Senior Member Germany dragonsallaroun Joined 5526 days ago 123 posts - 218 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Polish | Message 963 of 3737 06 August 2010 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
YKYALN when you propose using an Assimil book instead ;-) Edited by B-Tina on 06 August 2010 at 11:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5326 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 964 of 3737 08 August 2010 at 8:04am | IP Logged | ||
understanding of the sentence that much? Sorry, I don't understand why people get worked up about it. And plus, who says we can't end a sentence in a preposition? Afaik there's no regulatory body for English . YKYALN when you start thinking about voiced and unvoiced sounds in random words you see. And when you plan on going to bed in 30 minutes and end up staying up for 2 more hours...I haven't been here in a week so I wanted to catch up with all of the things I missed. Edited by johntm93 on 08 August 2010 at 8:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ibraheem Groupie United States Joined 5364 days ago 84 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin | Message 965 of 3737 08 August 2010 at 8:23am | IP Logged | ||
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When you hate when people say things like "I want to learn X language so I can tell when those foreigners are insulting me in their language! That would sure surprise them when I reply in their language". Or you hate people that associate your language studies with a very narrow minded perspective of a country. "Oh you're learning Thai, I really like Thai noodles!". Incidentally I'm not learning Thai.
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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5372 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 966 of 3737 08 August 2010 at 10:06am | IP Logged | ||
But you DO like Thai noodles. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5765 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 967 of 3737 08 August 2010 at 11:39am | IP Logged | ||
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When you have a phone conversation with a friend in Slovenian in front of your half-brother and he says "wow, what's that?". Then you immediately think "well, that's probably his first encounter with a foreign language, I'll remember this for when he's older".
When you listen to music in five different languages and deliberately sing along to songs in those languages (Latin, German, French, Italian and Russian) in front of the aforementioned five year old half-brother (and have been doing so since he had just turned 3) in the hope that he will pick up an interest in languages. These attempts seem to really work, and now whenever he hears another language, he says "my brother probably understands that" or "what are they saying?" I went to visit the aforementioned brother yesterday as he is "on holiday", as he puts it, at a caravan site a few miles away. The people on the pitch next to him were German, and he comes up to me excitedly saying "what are they saying? Go talk to them, I want to hear you speak" (and I did, obviously - I was as fired up for it as he was) When your half-brother begins French at school (at 5 years old) and you're really jealous that you never had the opportunity to start it that early, thinking you might actually have really liked French if, when you started at 5 years old, it had involved counting and simple things like that while playing ball games or whatever. When you get frustrated at yourself because you know you thought of one or two other things to write in this response but can't remember them right now. Grr. EDIT: Remembered one. When you look at your Russian handwriting in a letter to your friend and you think "I should hide this away. Someone wandering around is bound to read this." You know in principle that no-one in your house but you can read the letter, but you think that Cyrillic is so transparent anyway that they could probably work it out pretty easily. And are so convinced by this fact that you hide the letter away anyway. EDIT: When you look at posts on this forum with Japanese in them, thinking "right, that looks like a lot of gobbledegook to me" and then you think "I can't wait to learn to read that" :] Jack Edited by LanguageSponge on 08 August 2010 at 11:54am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6002 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 968 of 3737 08 August 2010 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | ||
I get this with Swedish so much, I always feel like English speakers are going to be able to figure out whatever was in Swedish, written or spoken. It's so close! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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