You know you're a language nerd when…

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

Postby kelvin921019 » Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:09 am

IronMike wrote:...you couldn't stay away from this forum for too long.

If I type "f" in the search bar "forum.language-learners.org" instead of facebook will pop up
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Pegasusangel » Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:12 am

That is easy. When you have a whole folder on your phone dedicated to language learning apps that you use daily.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Raconteur » Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:22 pm

...your friends ask themselves:
am I spending too much time on Instagram?
while you ask yourself:
am I spending too much time on LLORG?

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Time to get back to Assimil Italian! :oops:
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby coralsea » Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:19 pm

You're absolutely enraged at the lack of streaming services offering:
+ Search by country of origin
+ Search by native language
+ Audio in native language
+ CC in native language matching native audio

You about hit the floor when the library incorporates foreign films into the common DVD section alphabetically.

You experience massive disappointment seeing a world poetry/literature book does not include the text in language of origin.

You feel obligated to write off any language learning book without accompanying audio as utterly useless.

You have trust issues with your language learning sources as too many phrases, grammar rules, and pronunciation became obsolete since yesterday. They'll add them to the revision, in 10 years.

*native language of the show or film, of course.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Raconteur » Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:55 pm

...when this is how you look upon realizing you will not manage to find time for language learning today.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby sporedandroid » Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:37 pm

When you’re frustrated you’re having trouble understanding your target language AND your native language.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby lysi » Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:39 pm

When you've read all of the replies in this thread, all 1276 of them.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Bilingual_monoglot » Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:04 am

When your security clearance paperwork asks you what languages you speak, and you just laugh at how at the poor bureaucrat who has to read your reply.
When you've switched language keyboards on your phone so often, that you're not sure which keyboard you're actually on right now.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Iversen » Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 pm

Somebody asks how many languages you have dabbled in, and then you spend at least an hour formulating the answer an as koncise a way you can (apart from just quoting a number). And once you have posted it you are irritated with yourself for forgetting to mention the book about Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Cebuan language guide and the hour or so you tried to learn the Arabic writing system and ... well.. let's stop here

PS. and what about computer 'languages'?
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby golyplot » Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:25 pm

Iversen wrote:PS. and what about computer 'languages'?


Natural languages and computer languages are as akin as turtles and turtle doves.
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