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meramarina
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 Message 441 of 3737
20 March 2010 at 1:32am | IP Logged 
OK, I see. It sounded like it was directed at someone else - Sorry if I misunderstood - let's return to the Nerd theme, then!
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kyssäkaali
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 Message 442 of 3737
20 March 2010 at 1:48am | IP Logged 
meramarina wrote:
You are a Language Nerd for sure if, by chance, you hear strangers speaking your target language, and you follow them (discreetly!).


That story was so cute! I'm sure hearing German in the US is a totally different experience than hearing it in Germany. :P

I used to work with a German woman in a coffeeshop and we were good friends, had tea together every now and then, and naturally as a native speaker she recognised a German accent whenever someone spoke with one, so she would switch to German with all the German customers/employees (tons of Germans in that little town) and I always liked listening in, even if I didn't understand anything. All I remember is what sounded like "auf" being used a TON. lol! The last time I saw her was Christmas of 2008 :(

I'm sure if I ever heard someone speaking Finnish in the US, I would be all over them (as inconspicuously as possible, of course). I heard it being spoken everyday in Finland but to hear a Finn in my hometown? Oh man, it'd be great. I've heard Icelandic, Hebrew, and other less common languages, PLUS my old neighbour was Finnish, so I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I bump into one!

Edited by kyssäkaali on 20 March 2010 at 1:54am

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ruskivyetr
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 Message 443 of 3737
20 March 2010 at 2:00am | IP Logged 
I do that too! There was this German tutor tutoring someone at the library and I just
listened in on the lesson (the student needed help with school German) and I started
giggling at his Austrian accent. He heard me laughing and I said in German, "Haha dein
österreichisches Akzent gefällt mir." He gave me a weird look but talked to me after his
lesson and we had a nice conversation.
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Pyx
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 Message 444 of 3737
20 March 2010 at 3:16am | IP Logged 
meramarina wrote:
You are a Language Nerd for sure if, by chance, you hear strangers speaking your target language, and you follow them (discreetly!).

Meh, once, in Hong Kong, I also followed some Germans, just to hear some German again! Had been a couple of months by then. How's that for stalking? ;)
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 Message 445 of 3737
20 March 2010 at 3:29am | IP Logged 
You know you’re a language nerd when...
You quit your job in recession times because they're understaff and want you to work 14 hours a day leaving you no time to study...
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Johntm
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 Message 446 of 3737
20 March 2010 at 5:11am | IP Logged 
On the German theme...
[BACKGROUND STORY]
My Economics teacher is from Germany, however he has been in the US since high school and he sounds like a US native (he's a citizen too; I didn't believe he was German until he told us a few times)
[/BACKGROUND STORY]
One kid who is in German, had a foreign exchange student from Germany (of course) with him today in my econ. class. The teacher and kid starting talking in English (his English was very good, although some accent), and they switched to German, and had small conversations in German. I liked listening in to it, even though I don't plan on studying German for a while.
I'm pretty sure I was grinning like a retard while they were speaking, too.
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Rikyu-san
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 Message 447 of 3737
20 March 2010 at 11:34pm | IP Logged 
I made a tiny sort-of-nerdery thing last week with a German professor. We emailed and he wanted me to supply some info about a guest lecture I am going to do in May at the university. He wanted this info as soon as possible, and if we had communicated in English he might have added "asap" to the text. We communicated in Danish (he speaks Danish fluently), so instead he wrote "shsm" which simply means "asap" (Danish: så hurtigt som muligt"). He knows about my German language learning goals so on the spur of the moment I replied, "I will send you the details sbwm" (German: so bald wie möglich").
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 Message 448 of 3737
21 March 2010 at 3:01am | IP Logged 
You definitely are a language nerd if you answer a question here that remotely has something to do with Basque, you become curious as to whether there are a lot of dictionaries and grammars for this language, you check it on the German version of Amazon and ... well, now I have one of each


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