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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby arthaey » Mon May 22, 2017 4:00 pm

arthaey wrote:When you are very excited that the travel magazine on the airplane is bilingual — in Spanish and Portuguese, your L2 and a language you've never studied (yet).

When you see your own old posts talking about A L2 and think, d'awww how cute, just one L2. ;)
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby AndyMeg » Mon May 29, 2017 10:36 pm

When you've spent so much time interacting with other languages, that when you go back to your native one the words look a little foreign to you for a while :lol:
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Ogrim » Tue May 30, 2017 8:21 am

When you are back at your favourite cash machine and you are thrilled because they have added a few more languages, including Russian. So you promptly decide that from now on, you will only make your cash withdrawals in the language of Pushkin whenever you are in Valencia.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby YtownPolyglot » Tue May 30, 2017 8:17 pm

...you watch Guardians of the Galaxy and wonder if the brains behind it spoke Dutch because of the character Groot.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Serpent » Tue May 30, 2017 9:07 pm

Ogrim wrote:When you are back at your favourite cash machine and you are thrilled because they have added a few more languages, including Russian. So you promptly decide that from now on, you will only make your cash withdrawals in the language of Pushkin whenever you are in Valencia.

My favourite one is in Madrid at the shopping centre "La Esquina del Bernabéu" (near Real Madrid's stadium) :D I started describing it but then thought, wait, but surely I must've taken a picture? :D
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Cavesa » Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:10 pm

When you study for tomorrow's exam and have to fight the sudden urge to learn Hebrew instead. Does my exam have anything to do with languages? Well, does dysarthria and aphasia count?
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Serpent » Wed Aug 16, 2017 6:13 pm

When you feel bad about switching from Italian to Finnish with a bilingual person.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Otro » Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:50 pm

When you get disappointed that the Spanish option on television usually doesn't work.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby WalkingAlone13 » Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:25 pm

When you and a friend have been messaging each other for several months, only to recently discover that neither of you speak the native language of the other. So had we both not have learnt German, we would simply not have met or had the option of being friends. Yay for learning languages!
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Iversen » Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:57 pm

When you are disappointed that the article about the North Sea in the Icelandic Wikipedia is so short - even the one in Ænglisc (=spruced-up Anglosaxon) is longer.
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