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voron wrote:For Syrian Arabic, I tell that I stayed in Istanbul and my Syrian friends taught me some of it. It's true that they taught me some words, but most of it I learnt by myself.
Whatever story I come up with, when people find out that I speak Turkish, Kurdish and Syrian Arabic, they immediately conclude I'm a spy.
Meera wrote:I used to never care and just be honest but I am starting to make it up because people think it is weird/nerdy to study so many languages.
Meera wrote:I used to never care and just be honest but I am starting to make it up because people think it is weird/nerdy to study so many languages.
n8an wrote:My combination of languages often leads people to think I'm a spy so sometimes I let them go with that image haha
księżyceowy wrote:I don't often find my self in situations where people ask me about my language studies, but then again I don't tend to talk a lot about myself. When people find out and ask, I just tell them. I don't usually care how nerdy people think I am.
I am nerdy after all.
Palmisano wrote:Nobody ever asks me.
Saim wrote:I also say I'm studying/studied linguistics, and then people are like "aaah" (as if studying linguistics automatically means you have to study loads of languages for fun ).
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