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| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5062 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 1505 of 3737 18 March 2011 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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- when you're watching "Detective Conan" and you notice that in the first part of the opening the word "detective" passes by in multiple languages. You immediately press pause and try to catch all of the words to try and guess their languages. Sadly the episodes I'm on right now use a different opening. :c
- when you're watching your Spanish novela and one of the characters, who is drunk, utters, "Arigatou goizamasu," to the woman who is helping him on his feet. You flip out and immediately translate for your mom. - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 18 March 2011 at 5:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5498 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 1506 of 3737 19 March 2011 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you spend a good hour fanboying to your girlfriend about a torrent you're downloading which has resources for 30-some languages (squeeeeeee!).
When one of the first of those language resources you open is for Avestan (the language of Zoroastrian scripture) and (even though you're neither Zoroastrian nor will really get any use out of this language) spend an hour learning the script. When you're in Panera Bread with your mom, and you're elated/trying to listen in to a tutor teaching Arabic at the next table. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5602 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1507 of 3737 19 March 2011 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When your first call for new bands is the music forum on this website.
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5334 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1508 of 3737 21 March 2011 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You know you're a language nerd when you nearly get hit by a car because you're so engrossed in your new Berlitz Essential Spanish book that you crossed the street without looking up. (Don't walk and read at the same time, kids!)
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1509 of 3737 22 March 2011 at 3:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I am glad you didn't get run over. Now, if the driver was also a language nerd doing his Berlitz while driving,things might have been very different. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 1510 of 3737 25 March 2011 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Nowhere nearly enough for a true language nerd. I've got nearly 1 TB, in just about every language under the Sun. This is after burning all my foreign films because my 2TB external hard drive was running out of space. Instead, I've now got over 500 DVDs, with two or three films on each. I'm never going to read (or watch) everything I've got, but there's no way I would ever get rid of them. 3 persons have 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 1511 of 3737 25 March 2011 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You know you're a language nerd when you're in hospital and you get given the dinner menu, on which one of the options is "mandarins" - you're confused because to you, Mandarin is only a language, not anything else.
Also you know you're a language nerd when the consultant comes in regarding the (fairly serious) operation you're going to be having the next day, and the only thing you can concentrate on is not what she's telling you, but trying to work out what part of Germany she comes from :P 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 1512 of 3737 26 March 2011 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hey, no fair, I didn't realize we could count our foreign-language films! I was going by academic material alone! *goes running off to re-calculate* Okay... I think you still win, patuco. ;) EDIT: Got any recommendations for a dependable and not absurdly expensive external drive? The only good brand I know is Western Digital, but I'd like to be able to do some comparison shopping. The one I've got is 360 gigs, I think, and cost maybe $70. Is that a good price, or could I get better? I was hoping to find a 1TB without breaking $100, but if that kind of price comes at the expense of quality, I don't want to risk it. My language material is too important. :) Edited by Jinx on 26 March 2011 at 1:26am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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