You know you're a language nerd when…
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you can understand a video perfectly but it takes you a moment to figure out what language it is.
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- Yellow Belt
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
You stalk the language forum when you should be sleeping.
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- Iversen
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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 you take a break from your musical projects and decide to do celebrate this by producing a Bulgarian wordlist, and then you end up totally exhausted two days later after having produced a bonanza of 27 wordlists in different languages prepresenting a total of something like 2500 to 2700 words (which you now have to do a repetition round on which will take until well into next week).
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- Green Belt
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- Languages: Uses daily : Français (heritage) English
Reads : Castellano, Català, Italiano, Lingua Latina
Studying: Українська мова, Ελληνικά - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4860
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
... You go to the H section of a library looking for a book by an author whose name starts with N.
... You get into the same argument twice in one day, once with the head of your university's classics department, once with your Latin professor over how Greek ought to be taught.
... When you consciously think about what books you will read when in your day in an attempt to both balance between avoiding problems from having to rapidly switch from the language you were reading to the language in which your next class will be held and being able to show off by putting down a book in Middle English as your French Literature class starts.
... You can never remember how many t's go in "literature".
... You tell someone that you view Assimils as "Stupidly expensive Pokémons".
... You're planing on asking a girl out ... to a talk on Medieval Spanish literature.
... You ask your history professor if you can write your final paper in Latin, since it will be easier than translating your sources.
... You do your own translation from a source only available in Latin, for a paper written in English, comparing Doctor Zhivago and Francesco Petrarch.
... You get into the same argument twice in one day, once with the head of your university's classics department, once with your Latin professor over how Greek ought to be taught.
... When you consciously think about what books you will read when in your day in an attempt to both balance between avoiding problems from having to rapidly switch from the language you were reading to the language in which your next class will be held and being able to show off by putting down a book in Middle English as your French Literature class starts.
... You can never remember how many t's go in "literature".
... You tell someone that you view Assimils as "Stupidly expensive Pokémons".
... You're planing on asking a girl out ... to a talk on Medieval Spanish literature.
... You ask your history professor if you can write your final paper in Latin, since it will be easier than translating your sources.
... You do your own translation from a source only available in Latin, for a paper written in English, comparing Doctor Zhivago and Francesco Petrarch.
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Please correct my errors in any tongue.
"Зброя - слово." - Леся Українка
"Зброя - слово." - Леся Українка
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- Blue Belt
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you go to a book fair to look for fiction in your native language and end up mostly buying foreign language learning (or foreign language practice) related books.
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Beyond The Story 10 Year Record of BTS Korean version:
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- Black Belt - 1st Dan
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you want to know what language someone is speaking so you can add it to the list of languages to learn.
When you consider trying to learn the basics of a bunch of different languages so you can tell which languages people are speaking even when you don't understand them.
When you consider trying to learn the basics of a bunch of different languages so you can tell which languages people are speaking even when you don't understand them.
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- Querneus
- Blue Belt
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
PfifltriggPi wrote:... You can never remember how many t's go in "literature".
Or the d's in "address", or whether spelling dependent with -ant is correct, or whether "five" in French is spelled cinq (correct) or cinque (incorrect)...
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- MamaPata
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- Languages: English (N), French (C1*), Russian (B1), Spanish (B1).
Long lost: Arabic and Latin. - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3004
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
PfifltriggPi wrote:... You go to the H section of a library looking for a book by an author whose name starts with N.
Honestly, I find tests at the optician's very difficult for this reason! I think she thinks my eyesight is worse than it is because I keep saying all the wrong letters!
I also cannot get it into my head that the French word menu (in the sense of slim) starts with an m not a t.
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Corrections appreciated.
- IronMike
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Maintaining: nada
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BCS, 1+L/1+R (DLPT5, 2022)
Russian, 3/3 (DLPT5, 2022) 2+ (OPI, 2022)
German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999) - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5189
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
PfifltriggPi wrote:... You go to the H section of a library looking for a book by an author whose name starts with N.
I used to write checks while at DLI and would write out "gollaps" instead of "dollars"!
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You're not a C1 (or B1 or whatever) if you haven't tested.
CEFR --> ILR/DLPT equivalencies
My swimming life.
My reading life.
CEFR --> ILR/DLPT equivalencies
My swimming life.
My reading life.
- Rosewyne
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…
When you can't find language meet-ups for the language you're interested in in your city, so you register for a beginner's course to meet other language learners (and get some speaking practice).
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