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 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:00 pm
...you flip to the international news section of the newspaper first; what's going on in your country can wait.
(Not so much for languages, I know, but for foreign countries, so it kinda fits...)
I was volunteering yesterday and saw a plate that had something about bowling in German on it and stopped what I was doing to read it... XD
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:33 pm
...when you automatically categorize every word you speak by case, number, and function.
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:04 am
spanishnerd99 We should make a story, maybe in the literature subforum. 4laugh Yeah we should!
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:09 pm
Sola Catella ...when you automatically categorize every word you speak by case, number, and function. ...you are so used to a language that you start making the same mistakes as native speaks. domokun If you're not sure what I'm talking about - imagine an English-obsessed foreign person starting to confuse its and it's, good and well (ie they'll say I'm not doing good in geography as oppsed I'm not doing well), etc because they talk to English/American people so much that they're starting to speak this language as if they've spoken since an early age and think like English-speaking people do.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:14 am
I didn't read all of these, but I have done some of them.
....when in your first year of highschool you decide to take a third language class, though you're already learning two more at home.
Guilt, I am, I am. I'm learning German and Japanese at home, have been learning French since I was in grade four (and I have to take it atleast once more in grade nine), and decided to take Spanish too, in grade nine next year heart
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:35 am
Proudly_Jewish Sola Catella ...when you automatically categorize every word you speak by case, number, and function. ...you are so used to a language that you start making the same mistakes as native speaks. domokun If you're not sure what I'm talking about - imagine an English-obsessed foreign person starting to confuse its and it's, good and well (ie they'll say I'm not doing good in geography as oppsed I'm not doing well), etc because they talk to English/American people so much that they're starting to speak this language as if they've spoken since an early age and think like English-speaking people do. Sorry, that reminded me of my grade 12 english teacher. We spent an entire class 'learning' the difference between its and it's, there, their, and they're, etc. After that, if we used the wrong word in an essay, she docked marks. I'm one of the few people I know who tend to speak english correctly.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:37 am
This applies to my sister, not me:
When you sign up for three different language courses in one year.
(She wants to take French, Spanish, and German in high school)
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:39 am
Pistil I'm one of the few people I know who tend to speak english correctly.
...when you start singing the lyrics to a song thats in your second language, in your third without noticing sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:55 am
...when you start to learn lenguages that doesen't eaven exist (elfic, hardic, kargish...)...
...When you write your name in 56 diferent ways...
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:16 pm
Pistil Proudly_Jewish Sola Catella ...when you automatically categorize every word you speak by case, number, and function. ...you are so used to a language that you start making the same mistakes as native speaks. domokun If you're not sure what I'm talking about - imagine an English-obsessed foreign person starting to confuse its and it's, good and well (ie they'll say I'm not doing good in geography as oppsed I'm not doing well), etc because they talk to English/American people so much that they're starting to speak this language as if they've spoken since an early age and think like English-speaking people do. Sorry, that reminded me of my grade 12 english teacher. We spent an entire class 'learning' the difference between its and it's, there, their, and they're, etc. After that, if we used the wrong word in an essay, she docked marks. I'm one of the few people I know who tend to speak english correctly. That's really good of her, considering that in the ten years of English classes I've had in the American school system, no one had ever explained to me the difference between 'it's' and 'its.' I had to look it up myself. There is something wrong when you aren't taught something that fundemental in school.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:36 pm
Pistil This applies to my sister, not me: When you sign up for three different language courses in one year. (She wants to take French, Spanish, and German in high school) I would take 3 language classes in a year but we're only allowed a maximum of 2 crying So I took French and Spanish domokun
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:43 am
Proudly_Jewish Pistil This applies to my sister, not me: When you sign up for three different language courses in one year. (She wants to take French, Spanish, and German in high school) I would take 3 language classes in a year but we're only allowed a maximum of 2 crying So I took French and Spanish domokun My school won't let you take any language related things BUT French and Spanish until Grade ten, so I'm taking 'em both as well domokun
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:22 pm
caitlin_neko Proudly_Jewish Pistil This applies to my sister, not me: When you sign up for three different language courses in one year. (She wants to take French, Spanish, and German in high school) I would take 3 language classes in a year but we're only allowed a maximum of 2 crying So I took French and Spanish domokun My school won't let you take any language related things BUT French and Spanish until Grade ten, so I'm taking 'em both as well domokun Our school has English (duh), French, Spanish, and Hebrew. I wanted to take Hebrew but it was for people who already know the language gonk crying
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:42 am
caitlin_neko Proudly_Jewish Pistil This applies to my sister, not me: When you sign up for three different language courses in one year. (She wants to take French, Spanish, and German in high school) I would take 3 language classes in a year but we're only allowed a maximum of 2 crying So I took French and Spanish domokun My school won't let you take any language related things BUT French and Spanish until Grade ten, so I'm taking 'em both as well domokun I hate Spanish and I wasn't able to take French as well as Latin (the only languages my school offers) so I took Spanish and Latin this year. I'm going to drop Spanish next two years so I can take more science electives, though. Latin I'm keeping. Why is it that all the cool teachers teach Latin and all the jerks go into Spanish?
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:10 am
caitlin_neko I didn't read all of these, but I have done some of them. ....when in your first year of highschool you decide to take a third language class, though you're already learning two more at home. Guilt, I am, I am. I'm learning German and Japanese at home, have been learning French since I was in grade four (and I have to take it atleast once more in grade nine), and decided to take Spanish too, in grade nine next year heart You're not the only guilty one of that. xd @Kiaori Moon Warrior: ...when you run out of pre-existing conlangs and invent your own (GUILTY!)
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