You know you're a language nerd when…

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

Postby Cavesa » Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:38 pm

When you find the Speakly website so slow, that you fill the loading times with the Clozemaster app on the phone :-D
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby alaart » Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:31 pm

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

Postby Bilingual_monoglot » Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:05 am

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

Postby coralsea » Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:54 pm

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

Postby kelvin921019 » Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:27 am

you track your learning progress more closely than your work and personal finances
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Iversen » Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:08 am

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

Postby mick33 » Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:36 am

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

Postby Bilingual_monoglot » Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:20 pm

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

Postby Deinonysus » Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:59 pm

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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/daɪ.nə.ˈnaɪ.səs/

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

Postby kelvin921019 » Fri Apr 23, 2021 2:47 pm

A for Assimil
B for bidirectional translation
C for comprehensible input
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