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| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5053 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2241 of 3737 19 April 2012 at 5:38am | IP Logged |
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...when you look up how to say "earwig" in Portuguese, and feel overwhelmed by the cuteness of pequena lacraia (little scorpion), totally forgetting how nasty the actual thing is.
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| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4626 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 2242 of 3737 19 April 2012 at 5:49am | IP Logged |
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When you have a law exam in 10min but you're trying to
read your first book in French instead of studying. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4615 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 2243 of 3737 19 April 2012 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
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When you're studying Danish from a French manual and write the unknown words in English, even though your mother tongue is Bulgarian.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5593 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2244 of 3737 20 April 2012 at 4:21am | IP Logged |
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if,when looking through a catalog of discount books, you come across "Teach Yourself Complete Xhosa" and you decide to buy it, you are a language nerd; if, you don't buy it because you already have it, you are an even bigger language nerd; and, you are the biggest language nerd if you decide to buy it even though you never heard of Xhosa before and have no idea where it s spoken.
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| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6005 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 2245 of 3737 20 April 2012 at 7:06am | IP Logged |
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If you were a real language nerd you would know that isiXhosa is a Bantu language which is one of the official languages of South Africa, which Nelson Mandela speaks natively, and which, like many languages of the area, has dental, lateral, and post-alveolar clicks. Which is to say your language nerd senses led you to a good place. Edited by kottoler.ello on 20 April 2012 at 7:07am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4626 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 2246 of 3737 20 April 2012 at 7:08am | IP Logged |
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You know you're becoming a language nerd when you googled Xhosa after psy88's post and
immediately began studying the click noises on youtube. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Rowilsonwik Newbie United States kipeesh.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4848 days ago 8 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2247 of 3737 20 April 2012 at 7:41am | IP Logged |
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when you create a whole business around language learning, mind you, living out your passion, I wouldn't have it
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| Midas Triglot Newbie SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4662 days ago 1 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Russian Studies: Romanian | Message 2248 of 3737 20 April 2012 at 11:58pm | IP Logged |
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... when you have finally read and enjoyed this entire thread during the course of several days, on many occasions when you shouldn't have been reading it at all (i.e. in class, missing "important" information), and you are actually sad that it doesn't go on forever.
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