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espejismo
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 Message 2241 of 3737
19 April 2012 at 5:38am | IP Logged 
...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
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 Message 2242 of 3737
19 April 2012 at 5:49am | IP Logged 
When you have a law exam in 10min but you're trying to
read your first book in French instead of studying.
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Einarr
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 Message 2243 of 3737
19 April 2012 at 10:23pm | IP Logged 
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
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 Message 2244 of 3737
20 April 2012 at 4:21am | IP Logged 
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
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 Message 2245 of 3737
20 April 2012 at 7:06am | IP Logged 
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

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dandt
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 Message 2246 of 3737
20 April 2012 at 7:08am | IP Logged 
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.
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Rowilsonwik
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 Message 2247 of 3737
20 April 2012 at 7:41am | IP Logged 
when you create a whole business around language learning, mind you, living out your passion, I wouldn't have it
any other way
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Midas
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 Message 2248 of 3737
20 April 2012 at 11:58pm | IP Logged 
... 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.

(My first post in this forum - woo!)


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