You know you're a language nerd when…

[rdearman]

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.

[Cavesa]

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

[AlOlaf]

When your quest for interesting subject material to write about in German leads you to a video containing the most obnoxious and irritating American English you've ever heard, which you are compelled to immediately share with others because it reinforces your decision to speak something else.

[IronMike]

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.

You wound me, sir.

[kulaputra]

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.

When you develop a new hobby just cuz most of the instructional/informational material for it is in your TL

[Sarafina]

When the only reason you got a summer job is to pay for Italki lessons and buy even more French books.

[Sarafina]

When your friends are using their summer jobs to save up for a car and you're spending most of your money on TL materials

[Sarafina]

When applying for acommodation for university, you deliberately pick a campus that has the most international students so you increase the chance of having a roommate that is a native speaker of your target language

[trui]

When you use your new and amazing dictionary with all the words you'd ever need and more, to make crazy and super obscure sentences for fun that no one would understand. I'm not sure if this counts as being a language nerd or being crazy. Both?

De laken laken de lakenheid in het laken.

The watercourses/channels rebuke the sheetness in the sheet??? What?

[DaraghM]

When you believe Flying Tiger shops are a secret plan to teach us all Danish, and you hope that they succeed.