{"id":1867,"date":"2014-02-19T07:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T12:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:28:40","slug":"you-know-you-love-language-learning-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2014\/02\/19\/you-know-you-love-language-learning-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know You Love Language Learning When\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few weeks ago, I posted this image to our Facebook pages and asked you to fill in the blank. Here’s a few of my favorite responses:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026when you stop relying on Google translate to do your homework.<\/p>\n

\u2026your social life consists of asking others if they speak Arabic also.<\/p>\n

\u2026you find the phrase \u201cIl faut que\u2026\u201d more useful than any English substitute.<\/p>\n

\u2026your idea of a relaxing evening is working out how to use the subjunctive in Persian.<\/p>\n

\u2026you buy a second copy of every DVD you already own in the language you are learning.<\/p>\n

\u2026you are itching to play Scrabble \u2122 in that language to beat the locals.<\/p>\n

\u2026having a conversation with yourself seems perfectly normal.<\/p>\n

\u2026you wake up from your sleep because the dictionary you had in your dream did not have the word you were looking for.<\/p>\n

\u2026you find yourself strolling around your home speaking in 5 languages, interchangeably, as you clean.<\/p>\n

\u2026you text or talk to your friends in German, even though they don\u2019t speak it.<\/p>\n

\u2026you can no longer speak your native language properly.<\/p>\n

\u2026your favorite thing is to translate signs in other language.<\/p>\n

\u2026your credit card is maxed out because of bookdepository.co.uk.<\/p>\n

\u2026you\u2019re dog tired at 1:00am and you\u2019re still doing exercises in Italian.<\/p>\n

\u2026you automatically start swearing in another language.<\/p>\n

\u2026you buy dictionaries in two foreign languages, helping you learn one language from another rather than from your native language.<\/p>\n

\u2026you write your shopping list in 2 languages.<\/p>\n

\u2026it\u2019s quite late and you have to be up early, but you think: \u201cJust 3 more pages of Chinese characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026you watch TV shows only in your target language, even when they were dubbed over from your native language.<\/p>\n

\u2026you can\u2019t wait to learn a new one!<\/em><\/p>\n

Now it’s your turn to fill in the blank! You know you love language learning when…<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

A few weeks ago, I posted this image to our Facebook pages and asked you to fill in the blank. Here’s a few of my favorite responses: \u2026when you stop relying on Google translate to do your homework. \u2026your social life consists of asking others if they speak Arabic also. \u2026you find the phrase \u201cIl…<\/p>\n

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