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| Segata Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5170 days ago 64 posts - 125 votes  Speaks: German*, Japanese, English Studies: Korean, Esperanto | Message 1329 of 3737 16 December 2010 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | ||
甘いな! ...when you have one iPod - for foreign muic only. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5555 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1330 of 3737 16 December 2010 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Perhaps not language nerdery as such...but you know you've been living in Germany for a while when you return to England and your neighbour scolds you for trying to pick up some shelves left on the pavement outside her house, and you shudder to think of throwing glass, plastic and paper into the one bin. Edited by Teango on 16 December 2010 at 4:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leafhound Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5088 days ago 6 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Thai, Spanish | Message 1331 of 3737 19 December 2010 at 3:42am | IP Logged | ||
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When you have 1500+ Skype/IM buddies.
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| balessi Newbie Brazil Joined 5088 days ago 8 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, German | Message 1332 of 3737 19 December 2010 at 4:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Everyone who posts here is a language nerd!
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| Marc94 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5245 days ago 32 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian | Message 1333 of 3737 19 December 2010 at 4:50am | IP Logged | ||
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When you feel like you are in heaven when you are visiting your brother's college and you find the Arts & Humanities section in the library, which contains several hundred volumes in many different languages, including Danish (that seems to be hard to find here in America).
Also- I happened to find a German volume from 1848- the pages were quite delicate and there were some differences in the spelling of some of the words. Man this was an awesome day! 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 1334 of 3737 20 December 2010 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when you're planning your New Year's Eve party with your friends (who are all multilingual to begin with) and you realise that a lot of the games you're planning to play, you consider to be language-learning games. For example, the word association game (which will probably be played in French, German, Russian or a mixture of all three) the Multilingual Game, The Alphabet Game and another game I don't know the name of, or if it even has a proper name. You take a really long word and the object of the game is to make as many smaller words from the beginning word as possible. Does that have a name? My girlfriend calls it "margana" but I'd never heard that name before...
Also you know you're a language nerd when you realise a lot of the games mentioned above are inspired by our Multilingual Lounge! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5218 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1335 of 3737 20 December 2010 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | ||
Margana is an anagram solver: handy if you play a lot of Scrabble! Scrabble nerd I am. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pau20 Triglot Newbie MexicoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5219 days ago 9 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Italian Studies: French, German | Message 1336 of 3737 21 December 2010 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
Wooow, thanks. I'm hosting a Christmas party in a few hours and you just gave me game ideas. I'm not sure if my friends are gonna like'em... even they're multilingual they're not language nerds! I'll try though, thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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