rdearman wrote:IronMike wrote:AndyMeg wrote:When you feel tempted to learn french just for the sake of exploring and using a wider range of Assimil books.
When you immediately download a "French for Reading" book when you discover a magazine freely available online for one of your 'non-language' hobbies.
When you figure if a guy has non-language hobbies then he isn't a language nerd.
I'm lucky I'm not a guy then
. I also have non-language hobbies. But I feel properly ashamed, don't worry
(nope, but it is great to find awesome resources for my hobbies in my target languages. Like an awesome teacher giving flute tips in Spanish. I think a part of his charm is the language, as the double tongue exercises simply make much more sense in it than in Czech.)
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When you desire to learn the languages people around you know.
A friend of mine is moving to Greece and speaks the language (beautifully!) And another one is going for a second Erasmus to Portugal and she speaks the language too. And I've met an Iranian girl in my favourite studyroom recently.
Is this just envy? Jealousy? Those people get to learn languages I don't know and have no time for. Life is unfair