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

Postby Ccaesar » Sun Sep 26, 2021 8:19 pm

When this forum is one of the first things you go to upon opening your browser....
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Deinonysus » Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:05 pm

When you're about to order an Assimil course, but at the last minute you check to make sure you don't already have it. You do.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby AllSubNoDub » Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:48 pm

When you start developing a crush on the girl who pronounces words on SpanishDict.

I don't need to look that word up... weeeell, it couldn't hurt I guess.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Cavesa » Fri Oct 15, 2021 12:36 pm

Deinonysus wrote:When you're about to order an Assimil course, but at the last minute you check to make sure you don't already have it. You do.


When one of your favourite language coursebook publishers has huge sales (40%), but you've already got their books for more languages than you're actually learning or even really planning to learn. :-D
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby JLS » Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:59 am

...when your silly six-year-old randomly sings "一 (yi) dos three"* to the tune of "Hot Cross Buns."

*CN, ES, EN
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby smallwhite » Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:16 pm

read or not, you look for the manual first. Especially with an Ikea item.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Iversen » Mon Nov 01, 2021 12:10 am

When Basque is mentioned in a thread, and you vaguely remember that you may have bought a grammar once - and then you discover that you also have bought a two-way Basque-German dictionary (methinks it happened in Berlin). So now it itches in your fingers to make some bilingual texts and start learning Basque, and the only reason that you don't do it that you already are learning Russian, Polish, Slovak, Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek, Albanian and a few others- and by the way, you first have to study the Indonesian article about Albania which you have printed out with a translation into .. what was it? well, nothing special this time, just Danish - its inverse, the article in Albanian about Indonesia was coupled with a translation into French ... and you may be a language nerd, but are sufficiently realistic to see that there isn't room for Basque too (Irish is already lying on the shelf, looking angry at you!) ... Shut up, Irish ... and then there are also a couple of Romance and Germanic languages that should be maintained in between the new languages.

So Basque has to wait!
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Le Baron » Mon Nov 01, 2021 12:46 am

When you get rid of some books to 'clear out and make space'. Then you open a box of stored books and find exact duplicates of most of the books you just 'cleared out'.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Deinonysus » Sun Dec 19, 2021 3:34 am

When your father mentions that he's been dusting off his Latin, and you run upstairs to grab your copy of Lingua Latina per se Illustrata to lend him before he has a chance to say that he didn't want to deal with the declensions so he switched back to Italian.

When you ask your wife to talk you down from ordering a cheap copy of Assimil's Malagasy course, because you don't have any current plans to study it! But it's out of print and you'll probably want to study it someday...

You know you're a language nerd enabler when you order your husband a Malagasy course for his birthday.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby mick33 » Thu Dec 30, 2021 7:48 pm

When I log on to Pinterest and find a small poster written in Polish that teaches some basic mathematical vocabulary in Norwegian! Even better than this discovery is that there are other similar posters in Polish that teach Norwegian vocabulary words in other topics! What a wonderful late Christmas present :D
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