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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:09 pm

...your foreign language teacher is jealous of you. stare

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:57 pm

...you judge various races by the language(s) they speak. domokun

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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:22 pm

You try to translate homework from other classes (ie, math, science) into a different language to make it more interesting. biggrin

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:09 am

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You try to translate homework from other classes (ie, math, science) into a different language to make it more interesting. biggrin

I do that, but I wouldn't say that I "try", most of the time it's actually easier that way. It's because my school teaches in English (obviously, my current school in Sydney would teach in English, but my previous school in Hong Kong did too) and usually by the time my school teaches something in science, I would already have read it in Chinese (my first language) years before anyway. Seriously, even when I started year 11, my biology class included something that I've read in Chinese when I was in primary school.

Aren't I lucky, I go to school and everything is in a foreign language. xp

Another one: you petition for your school, or even your board of education to include more languages in the syllabus.

Similar to the previous one: you petition for languages to be scaled higher. (For those who are in a system that doesn't use scaling: basically, some subjects are considered better than others - for example, getting a high grade in physics is considered better than getting the same high grade in biology for the HSC)

Sorry if there's too much off topic information.

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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:35 am

You love and recognise the smell of your language dictionaries. (It's true -- I have a really good nose, and can tell them apart in the dark like that. Strange...but true. I guess I spend alot of time with my face buried in them...)

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:04 pm

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You love and recognise the smell of your language dictionaries. (It's true -- I have a really good nose, and can tell them apart in the dark like that. Strange...but true. I guess I spend alot of time with my face buried in them...)

xd You must have a really good sense of smell.

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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:58 pm

...you go to www.yahoo.fr to play French word games domokun

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:05 pm

...your computer wallpaper is the flag of Quebec even though you don't live in Quebec. domokun

...your crush/love/gf/bf/fiance/husband/wife/etc speaks a language other than English, and you speak to them in their own language. domokun

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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:29 pm

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You love and recognise the smell of your language dictionaries. (It's true -- I have a really good nose, and can tell them apart in the dark like that. Strange...but true. I guess I spend alot of time with my face buried in them...)

xd You must have a really good sense of smell.

Or I just spend too much time with my nose buried in them.
But yes, I do...

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:23 pm

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You know you're too obssessed with languages when...

...you learn languages because you like learning them as opposed to intending to use them for something. domokun

...you dream in a foreign language. domokun

...you dream of a career relating to one or more languages. domokun

...the Foreign Languages Guild is the only guild that you are a part of.

...you can speak 5 or more languages fluently and are dying to learn more.

...you do poorly in school because you spend too much time learning languages as opposed to doing your homework. domokun

...you have conquered the impossible - you can speak Russian perfectly. domokun

...staying up 'till 2 or 3 in the morning learning kanji is your idea of fun.

...you turn down an invitation to a party because you're supposed to have a French class at that same time, and you'd rather be introduced to the French subjunctive mood than be introduced to new people. domokun

...you read more books in foreign languages than you do in your mother language. domokun

...you pretend to be sick so that you can stay home and do some Italian instead of going to school.

...you mutter at people in German when you're angry. domokun

...you decide that you want to learn certain languages (e.g. Russian, Hungarian, Chinese) just because you expect them to be hard and you want a challenge. domokun

I'd love to hear what you guys'll come up with xd

Oh and by the way, the ones that have a domo-kun beside them are the ones that apply to me wink

wow that sounds exactly like me!!! I want to be a foregien language interprter for the united nations!!!! please if anyone would like to tach me your language!!

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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:08 pm

...you have an imaginary friend who speaks a foreign language. domokun

...every time that you write/say something in a certain language, you are always mistaken for a native speaker of that language, even when you're writing/speaking to somebody who speaks that language as their mother language. domokun

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:50 pm

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...you have an imaginary friend who speaks a foreign language. domokun

...every time that you write/say something in a certain language, you are always mistaken for a native speaker of that language, even when you're writing/speaking to somebody who speaks that language as their mother language. domokun

actaully when i was little i had an imaginary friend that she nd i spoke in our own language to each other.....

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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:38 am

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...you have an imaginary friend who speaks a foreign language. domokun

...every time that you write/say something in a certain language, you are always mistaken for a native speaker of that language, even when you're writing/speaking to somebody who speaks that language as their mother language. domokun

Those are both true of me...
I do accents really well.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:20 am

...you talk to a certain language as if it was a living person... domokun

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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:56 am

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...when you begin to *think* in the language you are learning whee

Heh, I do that xD.
Hmm...

_When your professor asks you about vocabulary domokun
_When you don't know how to say something in your mother language, but can find the words in a foreign one domokun
_When your classmates sit around when a test is taken domokun
_When people ask you to write songs lyrics in a foreign language domokun
_When you look in dictionaries just to find words you don't know... and maybe you'll never use domokun
_When you spend a day transating things only 'cuz you like it whee domokun
_When you download anime translated in another language. lol domokun
_When people want to pay you for doing their language tests wink [I don't take the money :3]
_When you reply in a thread like this ^^ domokun
_When you give examples.... rofl

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_When Mr. Green is your friend biggrin mrgreen

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