You know you're a language nerd when…

[jeff_lindqvist]

...you realize that Russian spam means language practice!

[gsbod]

You impress your whole family while watching Christmas University Challenge by getting 3 out of 4 on the picture round requiring you to translate the names of sports in the Winter Olympics from modern Greek to English.

You've never studied Greek.

[momentum]

you discovered this forum less than 3 days ago and you already read a hundred threads

[Cavesa]

When you're excited to meet a bilingual dog! It had taken her some time, but she learnt to understand the language of her new owner. He had to learn Spanish for her first (he found her abroad, as a mistreated abandoned dog), but then they gradually switched to Czech as they were getting used to each other. Now she understands just as any native dog. The classical commands, and also the normal vocab dogs understand (yes, dogs are able to understand a few dozen words, it's not just about the tone of voice and other nonverbal stuff. unsurprisingly, they tend to be words like "meat", "food", "park",...). I am really tempted to give this dog as an example to some humans

[Bilingual_monoglot]

When you have to choose your vocation for your conscription and you wish 'army linguist' was an option.




When your first preference for military vocation (you can also be conscripted into the police and emergency service [fire department/ambulance operators] in Singapore) is intelligence because that's a place where you might be able to use your language skills.

[garyb]

You have a dream about being sent promotional material for Anki.

[Iversen]

You could risk being called a nerd when you write something like a whole small book about music history in so many languages that the vast majority of those that potentially might be interested in the subject can't read it.

[Mooby]

...when one part of your mind is fully engaged in learning your target language while another part of your mind is simultaneously exploring other language possibilities.

[garyb]

You believe you've found the deal of the century: Assimil for £1!



But you already own the same course in another base language so you resist and hope that some deserving learner takes advantage.

[Serpent]

...you realize that Russian spam means language practice!

When you know you can trust another mod to deal with Russian spam

In addition to Croatian, the cat is also learning Turkish and Polish via Glossika.

When your cat is learning three languages.