No need - this is the bi-directional dude.Le Baron wrote:Cainntear wrote:Le Baron wrote:I don't learn languages to pick up girls; I pick up girls to learn languages.
Luca Lampariello. He really said this in a video I saw. Language nerd with a twist.
Yeah, but a twist of misogyny really doesn't help the flavour of the drink...
I'll advise him he'd better pick up men instead to avoid your admonishment.
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leosmith wrote:No need - this is the bi-directional dude.Le Baron wrote:Cainntear wrote:Le Baron wrote:I don't learn languages to pick up girls; I pick up girls to learn languages.
Luca Lampariello. He really said this in a video I saw. Language nerd with a twist.
Yeah, but a twist of misogyny really doesn't help the flavour of the drink...
I'll advise him he'd better pick up men instead to avoid your admonishment.
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Regarding the OP....
when it is a Friday evening and you're on the computer answering a forum question about being a language nerd.
when it is a Friday evening and you're on the computer answering a forum question about being a language nerd.
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When your parents come home from a vacation in Vietnam bringing you a gift of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Vietnamese, even tough they know very well that you're not studying Vietnamese and the last languages they observed you studying were Russian, Arabic and French.
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Mista wrote:When your parents come home from a vacation in Vietnam bringing you a gift of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Vietnamese, even tough they know very well that you're not studying Vietnamese and the last languages they observed you studying were Russian, Arabic and French.
Heh, I guess time to put that French to use for the handful of French loan words in Vietnamese...
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Vietnamese Practicing conversation
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...when you realise that you have almost as many books as Alexander Arguelles for a certain language.
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Ar an seastán oíche:
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Finnish with extra pain :
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The only reason to learn French is to learn other languages using Assimil
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kelvin921019 wrote:The only reason to learn French is to learn other languages using Assimil
I have heard Argüelles suggest that very thing.
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When you use your horticultural activities as an excuse for writing in Latin
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...when your son starts dating a Greek girl and you think it is the time to learn Modern Greek just in case the relation gets serious and you're going to meet her parents one day.
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