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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2289 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 1:05am | IP Logged | ||
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When you decide to organize your 4,000+ Polish flashcards and are extremely excited by this massive
organization, because you know it will improve your Polish quite a bit. (Plus it's fun to come across words you haven't seen in a while.) When you read a fantasy book that has a rather grim man in it named Serek, and you keep on chuckling to yourself and thinking about cheese because "serek" means "little cheese" in Polish. You also keep on rereading the biographical information about the author, looking for hints to see if she intentionally named her character after a kind of food. When you have added Spanish, Polish, Arabic, Greek, Korean, Russian, Cherokee, Latvian, and Norwegian keyboards to your iPad in addition to the English one, in spite of the fact that you only know two of the aforementioned languages and can only read one of the other alphabets. (You wanted to add Latin and Welsh keyboards, too, but they weren't available.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2290 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 4:24am | IP Logged | ||
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When you really, really want to buy a Spanish language Mother's Day day card for your Mom, but then you remember that she refuses to use your computer because - true quote! - There's all this stuff in other languages! So, obviously, such a card wouldn't be much of a success.
Annoying one's monolingual parent by forgetting to change your computer's language settings is, beyond all doubt, solid evidence of language nerdery ! I thought it was pretty hilarious when German-language text appeared when she was trying to book domestic travel reservations. She did not agree. She also disapproves of my bookshelves full of language resources. "Do you actually use these ? Oh, only every single day ! I believe, despite compelling and irrefutable evidence, that I may be adopted. Edited by meramarina on 10 May 2012 at 4:26am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5397 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2291 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||
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when you like going to your dead-end factory job, just because you get to listen to at least six different languages every day. And you would miss them if you didn't go to work. The languages, not the people. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4641 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 2292 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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when your favourite news site on the web is BBC World Service, just because they offer news in 27 languages, including kyrgyz and tamil.
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5221 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 2293 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 2:41pm | IP Logged | ||
I thought that was just me..... It's my home page! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5053 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2294 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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when your two-month-long trip to Russia is still three weeks away, but you're already worried about how
you're going to manage to take all the Spanish books you need for the Super Challenge without going over the airline weight limit... (in normal circumstances, you start worrying about packing the day before the flight!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dandt Senior Member Australia regarderetlire.wordp Joined 4626 days ago 134 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 2295 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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when you feel guilty for working on readings and assignments for your studies because you think you should
be working on languages. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5180 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 2296 of 3737 10 May 2012 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you learn heritage language ... of your girlfriend/ friends.
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