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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes  Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1313 of 3737 13 December 2010 at 1:48am | IP Logged | ||
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when you purposely do not bring music CD's into your car, lest you be tempted to play them instead of listen to your target language(s) CD's. And then you feel guilty that you would even be tempted to listen to music instead of practicing your language(s).
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5692 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 1314 of 3737 13 December 2010 at 5:21am | IP Logged | ||
...when you feel guilty for NOT listening to music anymore (due to the huge backlog of language material that must be listened to!), even though your friends have been telling you "You've gotta check out this band" for so long that you now have a similarly large backlog of music you "ought" to listen to. Sorry, music. Also, this just happened today: ...when you're driving with your family through a city and your mother points to a billboard in Spanish and asks you "What does it say?" and you quickly roll down your window for a better view and translate on the fly (despite never having studied any Spanish) before the billboard has faded from sight: "In the middle of nothing, you are in the middle of everything." Edited by Jinx on 13 December 2010 at 5:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6293 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 1316 of 3737 13 December 2010 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah! Something along those lines. You feel like a loser because you are ONLY studying x number of languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dotdotdot Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5218 days ago 24 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Korean, English* Studies: Italian, Russian | Message 1317 of 3737 13 December 2010 at 11:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you're thinking of using the things on this thread as a checklist to rate your own language nerdiness
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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5177 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 1318 of 3737 14 December 2010 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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When you check on every occasion bookstore's language learning section, to check if they have something new.
Or when you go back with a book on language you were not learning. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5552 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 1319 of 3737 14 December 2010 at 5:32am | IP Logged | ||
When you haven't had any English language songs on your iPod in years. Years. The mere thought of listening to a song in English terrifies me, because I fear that I--God forbid--might even LIKE it and choose to download and listen to it on a regular basis instead of something in my L2. I actually have not ever heard a single one of Lady Gaga's songs for this very reason (although an acquaintance did play the beats for a few on the piano once and they sounded quite catchy.. hehe). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 1320 of 3737 14 December 2010 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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While I haven't stopped listening to English music entirely, I can truthfully claim that I am now more familiar with some Swedish and Finnish musicians than English ones. For example, I have heard a few Lady Gaga songs but I'm actually more interested in the newest Säkert! album. Edited by mick33 on 14 December 2010 at 8:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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