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

Postby zenmonkey » Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:55 pm

Cainntear wrote:
luke wrote:
Adrianslont wrote:… when you know Krashenite is not a rare mineral.

When you read this post and begin to wonder, was the original post meant to be a play on "Kryptonite", and all that would imply?

Krashenite is a mineral necessary for the correct function of certain parts of the brain, most notably Broca's area. However, you can't eat it -- it must simply be absorbed...


... with an absorption rate Ka measured in kilo hours.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby BeaP » Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:06 pm

... the commercials you get the the most frequently on internet are the following:

1, Are you a Spanish expat living in Hungary? Join our club and keep in touch with your compatriots.
2, A lot of Spanish speakers are struggling with English, you're not the only one. Subscribe to our course and learn English at last.
3, Are you living in an expat bubble? We'll help you learn Hungarian and connect with the natives.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Le Baron » Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:28 pm

BeaP wrote:... the commercials you get the the most frequently on internet are the following:

1, Are you a Spanish expat living in Hungary? Join our club and keep in touch with your compatriots.
2, A lot of Spanish speakers are struggling with English, you're not the only one. Subscribe to our course and learn English at last.
3, Are you living in an expat bubble? We'll help you learn Hungarian and connect with the natives.

The last one especially. :lol:
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby MaggieMae » Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:33 pm

...when it takes you weeks to read all 134 pages of this thread because you have to take breaks to do your homework... but you get anxious because you can't read anything else on the forum for fear of losing your place.

...when you just got called out 1334 times in a row. :lol:

...when your "to be learned" list changed with every page.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Deinonysus » Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:19 am

When you want to explain to your wife that your daughter was scared of the flies in a rest stop bathroom on a road trip, but your daughter is in the car with you so you want to be sneaky and say it in French. But you forget the French word for fly so you say it in Hebrew. But your wife doesn't know the Hebrew word for fly. So you resort to a combination of German and pantomime (which is difficult because you're driving).

It was mouche.

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

Postby Tuckey » Wed Aug 31, 2022 9:22 am

You change the language of your phone to your target language, but you're just a beginner and you can't work out how to change it back :?
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Cavesa » Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:45 pm

When you ask your boss for a free day for a language exam. (Don't be too surprised, I am not asking for an extra day. I am asking to get my "weekend" on the exam day that week)

When your main complaint in a very expensive "flexible" language school is not allowing you more than two lessons of progress per week, offering only less structured extra classes instead. But then you don't mind, you'll get more time for the other foreign language.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby mick33 » Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:09 am

When I visited my brother last weekend, he asked me if I'm learning Cambodian. When I told him I wasn't learning Cambodian he then said, "With all the other languages you're learning, why aren't you learning Cambodian?"
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Dragon27 » Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:37 am

Should have told him "Because I'm learning Khmer".
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby raoulhjo » Mon Nov 21, 2022 5:34 pm

You change the language of your phone to your target language, but you're just a beginner and you can't work out how to change it back :?

I was checking the alphabets of my tab and clicked on Korean by mistake. As I don't know that language I was unable to get back to French!
Korean people are very rare where I live. Fortunately I met a woman in my building a few days later who looked oriental Asian. I asked her if she was Korean by any chance. She said 'yes!'. She managed to get my tab back to French.
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