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rlf1810
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 Message 625 of 3737
15 May 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged 
When you start measuring your ability in other skills with the CEF Scale. 'Yeah I play the piano, I'm about C1'.
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Thaorius
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 Message 626 of 3737
15 May 2010 at 7:36pm | IP Logged 
rlf1810 wrote:
When you start measuring your ability in other skills with the CEF
Scale. 'Yeah I play the piano, I'm about C1'.


When you were just looking for a competence classification system that isn't 1-10 and
that sounds like a perfect fit.
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Levi
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 Message 627 of 3737
16 May 2010 at 1:07pm | IP Logged 
...when the first thing you think of when seeing the number 3 is no longer the number 3, but the Cyrillic letter з.
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Lucilha
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 Message 628 of 3737
16 May 2010 at 7:53pm | IP Logged 
You know you’re a language nerd when...you have a wonderful collection of dictionaries on your desk, ranked by size and colour.
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PaulLambeth
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 Message 629 of 3737
16 May 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged 
Lucilha wrote:
You know you’re a language nerd when...you have a wonderful collection of dictionaries on your desk, ranked by size and colour.


Haha, that's reminded me ...

You know you're a language nerd when you've gone through a 40+ DVD collection and seperated the five that have subtitles available in your target languages into a different pile, to be prioritised ahead of the rest.

(This includes Spider Man 2 and one of the Harry Potter films. What joys!)
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dolly
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 Message 630 of 3737
16 May 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged 
Teango wrote:
When your big ol' hamper of language learning goodies eventually arrives in the post, and you're tearing at the cardboard and wrapping like it's Christmas morning all over again! :D

Yep, when you're excited about getting a textbook, that's the essence of geekdom right there. And by the way, I got my Italian Sentence Builder in the mail... Evviva!
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Wise owl chick
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 Message 631 of 3737
17 May 2010 at 2:56pm | IP Logged 
When some people call you the "languages girl" and ask you if you can translate from a language, which you don't knwo at all, and they are surprised because they assumed that you can understand ALL the languages.
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mick33
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 Message 632 of 3737
17 May 2010 at 9:24pm | IP Logged 
When I visited YouTube this morning, I saw that the site can now be viewed in five more languages, one of which is Finnish. This news has made my day, even if I'm not quite ready to switch my language preference to Finnish just yet.


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