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yourvietnamese
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 Message 1561 of 3737
12 April 2011 at 5:07am | IP Logged 
When you read news and can't help but dashing for the computer to look up a new word.

When you talk to people and can't help but noticing their cool new word or idiom. And feeling so good to have got to encounter an interesting phrase.

When it bothers you so much, anywhere, anytime.

Edited by yourvietnamese on 12 April 2011 at 5:08am

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Teango
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 Message 1562 of 3737
15 April 2011 at 6:27pm | IP Logged 
When you go for an eye checkup, and forgetting yourself for a moment, read out 'H' and 'C' as Cyrillic. It was only once I saw the backward 'И' that I realised my blunder...

Edited by Teango on 15 April 2011 at 6:28pm

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canada38
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 Message 1563 of 3737
15 April 2011 at 8:56pm | IP Logged 
When somehow you came to own a 1978 Finsko-Polski dictionary.
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ReneeMona
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 Message 1564 of 3737
17 April 2011 at 11:17am | IP Logged 
You know you’re a language nerd when you’re having breakfast with your family and you speak nothing but French for the entire half hour, even though only one of the three other people present can understand you.
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 Message 1565 of 3737
17 April 2011 at 12:01pm | IP Logged 
... when you walk around in the park with your MP3 - player listening to the audios of your textbook "Dänisch Neu" and understand not only the first already studied lessons but as well most of the dialogues in the higher lessons because of similarities with already studied lessons in the other textbooks. This gives a feeling of success!

Fasulye
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psy88
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 Message 1567 of 3737
18 April 2011 at 2:21am | IP Logged 
when (and this will only make sense to those users of MT French) you can't hear someone say "I'm gong" without thinking of MT saying "I'm going". If you "get" this you are truly one of us language nerds.
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LanguageSponge
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 Message 1568 of 3737
18 April 2011 at 2:11pm | IP Logged 
Kuikentje wrote:
When a friend of your Mum will go to Scotland on vacation, and you want to know to which region because you want to know if the people speak Gaelic there or Scots, or Enlgish. Then when she said that she didn't know about Gaelic, you explain her that it's completely separated of English and that you can't udnerstand it at all also if you can speak perfectly English, and not connected with Scots because this is a Germanic language / dialect. Until this moment she had thougth only of the mountains, castles and bagpipes.


I loved this, this made me smile :] Also, I cannot for the life of me begin to understand why so many people I know don't like the bagpipes. I love them - I'd have a go if I had a good pair of lungs :]

You know you're a language nerd when, very soon after waking up from an operation in the recovery room at hospital, you take out your books and start reading French, or German or whatever it was, I don't quite remember. Then the nurse comes over, apparently horrified, and takes your book away from you - "you should be resting, not engaging brain". Apparently it's wrong to study right after surgery?

Edited by LanguageSponge on 18 April 2011 at 2:13pm



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