You know you're a language nerd when…

[Teango]

When you notice "NO parabens" on your shampoo and conditioner, and think to yourself: both rude and misspelled!

[Iversen]

When you are irritated and feel almost humiliated because you couldn't learn to at least read Czech fluently in a month (too many other projects going on, including visits to some thirty museums in order to draw them plus some gardening, changes to a few hundred files in my photo registration system and other things - but most of all: lack of focus and a spine like boiled macaroni) . I didn't even expect to learn to speak that damned language, but just being able to read the stuff without a translation or a dictionary should definitely have been possible. Now I'll have go til Praha and creep along the walls after dark in utter shame like a contemptible analphabet just because I wasted that month doing other things..

[mick33]

I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that switching my VPN to Italy and my Google Chrome account to Italian means that YouTube gives me lots of adverts offering to teach me English and all of them are in Italian. I got far less of this when my Chrome account was set to Polish or Finnish.

One definite bright spot is that the latest update for Chrome allows me the option to translate YouTube video titles, descriptions and comments into Italian instead of automatically doing it.

[Cainntear]

I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that switching my VPN to Italy and my Google Chrome account to Italian means that YouYube gives me lots of adverts offering to teach me English and all them are in Italian. I got less of this when my Chrome account was set to Polish or Finnish.

One definite bright spot is that the latest update for Chrome allows me the option to translate YouTube video titles, descriptions and comments into Italian instead of automatically doing it.

Ah, but I know I'm a language geek when a website or operating system makes me chose a single language and then translates everything else into it, even from languages I already know... and language that I've listed in my account details at that!

[JLS]

Your passwords are pure hack-proof.

You're not frustrated by the complications of multilingualism; in fact, you kind of relish having problems no one else around you has.

And you feel even better when you realize how hard you worked to get those problems.

[Le Baron]

...you listen to the audio for 1950s Linguaphone English just to be entertained by the 1950s RP accents.

"....do you speak English?"
"Yes I do, but only a little." Said whilst sounding like a perfect example of a BBC radio announcer.

"My wife is sitting in an armchair reading a book....I am standing by the window smoking a pipe...'

All the language you need to apply for the job of 'father' in a 1950s bourgeoise family.

[dubendorf]

...you listen to the audio for 1950s Linguaphone English just to be entertained by the 1950s RP accents.

"....do you speak English?"
"Yes I do, but only a little." Said whilst sounding like a perfect example of a BBC radio announcer.

"My wife is sitting in an armchair reading a book....I am standing by the window smoking a pipe...'

All the language you need to apply for the job of 'father' in a 1950s bourgeoise family.

I love this in my 1960s Linguaphone Norsk book.

The women talk about their children while the men discuss politics, business, and the latest news.

[Doitsujin]

You're reading the final book in a Danish crime series in Dutch, even though your Dutch is very rusty, because the English and German translations aren't available at your library and you really want to know how it all ends.

[Teango]

When you buy a Ninjago Lego set for a kid's birthday party and are more intrigued and excited by what it says in French on the side of the box than its cool contents. Oh là là...qu'est-ce qui m'arrive ?!

[Cavesa]

Rant alert:
I hate it, when I buy language coursebooks, but later see new editions of them. It starts a sort of fear of missing out and I always wonder, whether they are better. But the most annoying is seeing that they got features I would have liked in the previous edition (such as digital access together with paper). Nope, the most annoying is seeing the new edition come out very shortly after having bought the old one!!!

Yep, I know I am a language learning nerd