deen the breen Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 setting the main language of your mobile phone to Chinese and then you need half an hour to switch it back to English xD hope you got some funny stories 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael P. Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 You know/realize you are a language nerd, when......you are searching for a girlfriend that speaks a language that you don't know yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 You know/realize you are a language nerd, when......you suddenly try to speak in Chinese to your mother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 You start to speak the new language in your thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrice Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 Omg yes Daniel. Sometimes I'm having imaginary conversations in English in my thoughts. I'm glad I'm not alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 When you start watching tv shows that are in the language you are learning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogra Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 You start to speak the new language in your thoughtsAbsolutely agree with you. Also when your room are full of stickers with names of the objects in foreign language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ersatz Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 You change the language on a favorite, frequently-visited website, just for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristi Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 You know/realize you are a language nerd, when......... you dream in a foreign language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWL Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 Definitely when you start to dream in the foreign languages that you are learning. That's a major milestone and the point of no return! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cefmac Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 You say something in your native tongue, then translate it in your head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Good to see I'm not the only one who thinks in foreigns languages, but my "foreign" language has become second nature for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medza Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 When you start thinking in a foreign language that's when you are truly fluent with it. Coming from a Polish background, I found myself pretty much exclusively thinking in English these days because it's so much more relevant to what's happening around me . The only time I speak Polish would be to family members and I see them fairly rarely, so it's come to the point where thinking and speaking in Polish is just a lot of effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 Definitely to think in that laguage I also agree with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ames Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 You know/realize you are a language nerd, when......You can't find a vocabulary word in the language you are speaking so your mind inserts one from a different language you speak (other than your native language). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 ...when you forget a word/ phrase in your mother tongue, and have to resort to waving your arms around like a lunatic, saying it in every other language you know until you finally work it out or someone tries to guess what you're saying.... Has happened too many times for my liking.. People must think I'm crazy.I do agree with those that said about thinking and dreaming in the language you're learning; when it comes that naturally to you that you can't help yourself, :beaten:you know you've cracked it, so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraM Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 ...You are reading a novel in your native language and mentally translating it to the language you are studying. You keep finding sentences and paragraphs that you think might sound better and/or capture a deeper nuance if they had been written in that other language. I have enjoyed reading the responses here and I echo what others have said about dreaming in the new language. That has happened to me, too. I would wake up feeling gratified even if it wasn't a particularly good dream. I'd think to myself, well, at least I got some practice using the new language! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cefmac Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 In everyday speech, you start consciously identifying and compartmentalising each part of your sentence in terms of grammatical features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWL Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 I was shopping the other day at a 7-11 in Malaysia and was asking the guy at the counter for some mosquito coils. I was stumped because I totally forgot the Malay word for "mosquito coil"! That's the traditional incense-like repellent that we burn in Southeast Asia in the evenings to wad off mosquitoes. I could only remember "katori senko" the Japanese word! Not that the Malay-speaking checkout counter guy would understand what in the world I meant!. Finally after about five minutes of trying to explain what I meant I finally remembered the word! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elienc Posted August 13, 2013 Report Share Posted August 13, 2013 You can't find a vocabulary word in the language you are speaking so your mind inserts one from a different language you speak (other than your native language).Yes! Very annoying as I don't seem to be able to think any further and find the proper word, expression or a way to describe it in the language I need at the moment. My mind goes 'but I told you what it is! Shutdown bzzzzzz'. Thank for doing that during oral exams German, Brain! I realize it while correcting friends' grammar/word choice. Or being overly entousiastic about an expression or fun fact in/about another language: 'did you know English hasn't got a word for... ' or 'in Finnish, there are x ways of saying this or that word!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomekaB Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 ...When you automatically start code switching from one language to the next naturally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amatenshi Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 ...you try to form a sentence in Spanish, but Japanese particles find their way into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcgamer Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 setting the main language of your mobile phone to Chinese and then you need half an hour to switch it back to English xD hope you got some funny stories 2.You dream of striking a conversation with native-English speakers and beating them to it. I know I can do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalia83 Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 I knew I was a language nerd after surviving the 2 semesters in college when I would need to alternate between 5 different languages every day. Vietnamese was spoken at home and English pretty much anywhere else except in my language classes. I was majoring in Spanish Education and decided to take up Italian and French during my last two semesters of undergrad. Talk about getting things mixed up! But I loved it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mleocasas Posted August 16, 2013 Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 ...when you get excited thinking about the first time you'll be able to read Virgil for the first time in it's original form... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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