You know you're a language nerd when…
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- Black Belt - 4th Dan
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you find the Speakly website so slow, that you fill the loading times with the Clozemaster app on the phone
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- Green Belt
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B1: NL, JP, PT (BR), ZH
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A1: ES - Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... hp?t=10867
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
coralsea wrote: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
https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/
They have a youtube plugin too.
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- Yellow Belt
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- Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=16715
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you're having a conversation in English (which is your co-native language) but somehow you're actually translating from Esperanto in your head.
When you spend your lunch time thinking about the ratio of romance to germanic vocabulary in Esperanto, and just how weird a greeting 'bonan tagon' is, because it incorporates both romance and germanic roots.
(ok, maybe I'm just an Esperanto nerd who pretends to be interested in other languages)
When you spend your lunch time thinking about the ratio of romance to germanic vocabulary in Esperanto, and just how weird a greeting 'bonan tagon' is, because it incorporates both romance and germanic roots.
(ok, maybe I'm just an Esperanto nerd who pretends to be interested in other languages)
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
alaart wrote:coralsea wrote: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
https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/
They have a youtube plugin too.
Cool! Thanks!
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- Green Belt
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Chinese Mandarin (Semi-Native)
English (C1-2)
Spanish (B2)
Japanese (N1)
Russian (B1) - Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=16306
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
you track your learning progress more closely than your work and personal finances
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- Iversen
- Black Belt - 4th Dan
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- Languages: Monolingual travels in Danish, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Romanian and (part time) Esperanto
Ahem, not yet: Norwegian, Afrikaans, Platt, Scots, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Greek, Latin, Irish, Indonesian and a few more... - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1027
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When your study schedules are so multiconfused and unpredictable that you can't see the point in tracking your activities, let alone your progress. My system seems to work without counting hours or pages so why change anything?
OK, I do count words, but there are several years between each count for a given languages so it hardly qualifies as 'tracking'
OK, I do count words, but there are several years between each count for a given languages so it hardly qualifies as 'tracking'
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- mick33
- Orange Belt
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- Languages: First language: English
Languages I'm focusing on learning now: Italian.
Languages I'm learning but not focusing on: Afrikaans, Polish, Finnish Turkish, Spanish, Swedish, Catalan, Hungarian, Russian.
Just for fun I sometimes learn a little of: Hindi, Japanese, Indonesian, Georgian, Thai etc. - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=762
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I'm not at all surprised that YouTube is suddenly recommending Greek pop music for me to watch, even though I've never searched for Greek videos on YouTube!
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- Yellow Belt
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- Languages: English (n) Tamil (n-heritage) French Esperanto (can talk about language policy/lepak, and nothing else) Hindi (bumbling tourist) Malay (basic conversations) Chinese (introductions and ordering food)
- Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=16715
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you don't consider "you speak Chinese like you're from China" a compliment because you're trying to have a Singaporean/Malaysian accent, and that means you've failed.
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• Native: English
• Advanced: French
• Intermediate: German,
Spanish, Hebrew
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you can never watch Pitch Perfect 2 again because there was a German a cappella group called "Das Sound Machine", but the actual German word Maschine is feminine, not neuter, so it should have been die Soundmaschine! Or maybe die Klangmaschine if you aren't in a Denglisch mood.
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- Green Belt
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Russian (B1) - Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=16306
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
A for Assimil
B for bidirectional translation
C for comprehensible input
B for bidirectional translation
C for comprehensible input
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