...when a coworker at the library asks:
-"Why the h*ll do we have this book in Esperanto?"
-"I don't know when/why purchased it, but I happen to speak it". (Then I read from the back cover, aloud.)
Another coworker joins:
-"I once studied it! If I had maintained it, we could have used it as our secret language!"
You know you're a language nerd when…
- jeff_lindqvist
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de, es
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fi, yue, ro, tp, cy, kw, pt, sk - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2773
- x 5524
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
8 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki
- Deinonysus
- Blue Belt
- Posts: 867
- Joined: Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:06 pm
- Location: Salem, MA, USA
- Languages:
• Native: English
• Advanced: French
• Intermediate: German,
Spanish
• Beginner: Icelandic,
Italian, Indonesian,
Hebrew - x 2775
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
Your book: "You don't need to memorize this."
You: "I'm going to memorize this."
You: "I'm going to memorize this."
9 x
Corrections welcomed!
: Leonard Faltz—The Navajo Verb
: Duolingo Navajo
: Leonard Faltz—The Navajo Verb
: Duolingo Navajo
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- Orange Belt
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- Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2018 2:47 pm
- Languages: Danish (N) English (B2-C1) German (B1-B2) Italian(B1), Japanese (beginner)
- x 167
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
The struggle of explaining to someone that this is a pleasure that takes work and isn't encoded in your DNA
4 x
Hiragana practiced in hand :
Katakana practiced in hand :
Kanji :
Assimil Japanese with Ease :
Katakana practiced in hand :
Kanji :
Assimil Japanese with Ease :
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- Orange Belt
- Posts: 225
- Joined: Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:11 pm
- Location: Hong Kong
- Languages: Cantonese (N)
Chinese Mandarin (Semi-Native)
English (C1-2)
Spanish (B2)
Japanese (N4-3) - Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=16306
- x 552
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
Me to a friend: Have you heard about (certain news), I read it on el país
Friend: It's on local news yesterday, why you have to read it on el país?
Me: because I want to?
Friend: It's on local news yesterday, why you have to read it on el país?
Me: because I want to?
4 x
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- Black Belt - 4th Dan
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- Joined: Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:46 am
- Languages: Czech (N), English (C1), French (C2), Spanish (intermediate), German (somewhere on the path), Italian (passive advanced, active basic)
- x 12335
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you get excited to see a Playstation ad that's basically a screen of moving kanji, and then disappointed. It's just an ad for a new rpg set in Japan, not a new and revolutionary learning tool on that platform.
3 x
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- White Belt
- Posts: 38
- Joined: Sun Aug 02, 2020 1:59 pm
- Location: Basque Country
- Languages: Spanish (N) | English (prod. Intermediate) | Russian (Beginner).
- x 97
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you realize, speaking with other people, that it is not normal at all to become interested in weird and relatively unknown languages from [put here some remote place of the world, such as Siberia] 

3 x
Corrections are welcome.
Russian - Full Challenge, 2020-21
: Read 100 books:
: Watch 100 films:
Russian - Full Challenge, 2020-21
: Read 100 books:
: Watch 100 films:
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- White Belt
- Posts: 19
- Joined: Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:53 am
- Languages: English (N), Spanish (conversational), Mandarin (beginner), Koine Greek (proficient reader), Biblical Hebrew (intermediate), Latin (dabbler)
- x 33
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
Me: "Hey, I'm gonna make my own language!"
My wife: "Just another day..."
My wife: "Just another day..."
4 x
1000 sentences in Chinese: - 13
1000 sentences in Hebrew: - 6
1000 sentences in Latin: - 23
1000 sentences in Greek - Koine or Classical: - 0
1000 sentences in Hebrew: - 6
1000 sentences in Latin: - 23
1000 sentences in Greek - Koine or Classical: - 0
- jeff_lindqvist
- Black Belt - 2nd Dan
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
...it's time for the first closing announcement at work and you decide to do it in Spanish (after Swedish and English).
-Cerramos dentro de treinta minutos. (Yep, that was it.)
Half an hour later, one of the co-workers shows up with two tourists, and points in my direction.
Girl: -Are you the guy who made that announcement? I thought you were Spanish! (Glancing at the Polyglot Gathering t-shirt) Now I see that...you are a polyglot! He's a polyglot too! (pointing to her companion)
Guy nods and confirms: -Poligloto.

-Cerramos dentro de treinta minutos. (Yep, that was it.)
Half an hour later, one of the co-workers shows up with two tourists, and points in my direction.
Girl: -Are you the guy who made that announcement? I thought you were Spanish! (Glancing at the Polyglot Gathering t-shirt) Now I see that...you are a polyglot! He's a polyglot too! (pointing to her companion)
Guy nods and confirms: -Poligloto.

14 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki
- mick33
- Yellow Belt
- Posts: 89
- Joined: Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:39 am
- Location: Lakewood, Washington, USA
- Languages: First language: English
Languages I'm focusing on learning now: Finnish, Polish, Italian.
Languages I'm learning but not focusing on: Afrikaans, Hungarian, Swedish, Spanish, Thai.
Dabbling languages: Hindi, Japanese, Georgian, Russian etc. - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=762
- x 176
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
I was at a park with my mom and a niece and nephew. A woman jogs past us speaking into her phone in another language.
Mom: "What language was she speaking?"
Me: "No idea, I didn't hear enough of it.
Now I'm hoping to cross paths with this woman again and try to figure out what language it was, but I doubt this will happen.
Mom: "What language was she speaking?"
Me: "No idea, I didn't hear enough of it.
Now I'm hoping to cross paths with this woman again and try to figure out what language it was, but I doubt this will happen.
7 x
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- Black Belt - 4th Dan
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- x 12335
Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When a movie without subtitles suddenly shows a supervillain meeting, where people speak several languages, and you don't miss the subtitles at all (I even got the basics of what the German villain was talking about)!
7 x
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