Languages

[kukasö]

 

Just have found this picture

[Razen]

 

Just have found this picture

 

As a student of Russian, I agree wholeheartedly with this picture. Trying to decipher what my teacher has written on my papers when this happens can be an adventure by itself.

[cosmicpanda]

All cursive makes me cry. I recently had to decipher some nineteenth-century English cursive. They used language differently. The dude writing the journal mentioned that he met some women, who 'improved upon acquaintance.'

[Wren of the Brown]

I have a journal of lesson notes by a law professor from the late 19th. The script isn't that hard to work out, or at least I thought so until I found the last thirty pages written in short-hand. I can post a picture later tonight if anyone is interested.

[Rekinu Alasayaar]

Id like to see it, but dont expect me to understand it at all... lol!

[Wren of the Brown]

 

Manageable!

 

Frustrating!

 

DOUBLE EWE TEE EFF, MATE

[Gabriel Kross]

I know a little Japanese, French, Spanash, I also have Rosetta Stone for Japanese and Tagolog(sp)

[Nynaeve]

I know Hebrew, Spanish and English. I've been keen on picking up Korean, so that's what I've been working on lately. Aka, watching a lot of korean shows and giving my English-Korean dictionary a look here and there. Watching shows works well for me to absorb a language.

 

 

 

Nyn

[cosmicpanda]

I've been finding that with movies in German. At the moment I miss most of what they say, but I'm slowing getting more and more of it.

[Razen]

I adopted a similar approach for Russian and I've had similar results. I'm starting to pick up on it more and more, although I still have a long way to go.

[Panchi]

With Hindi and English, I also know Sanskrit. I could speak and understand a bit of Urdu. The place I live, we use Hindi mixed with Urdu for normal speaking.

[Ledinna Sedai]

I know Hebrew, Spanish and English. I've been keen on picking up Korean, so that's what I've been working on lately. Aka, watching a lot of korean shows and giving my English-Korean dictionary a look here and there. Watching shows works well for me to absorb a language.

 

 

 

Nyn

 

I'd love to learn Hebrew, and tried to go for a Hebrew course, but there weren't enough people for the course to continue :( Not even five persons...

[Ledinna Sedai]

Just came across this, and had to show you :D They are the results for search:

 

http://www.sanakirja.org/search.php?id=3355815&l2=17

 

Funny how you can say it on such a long way, where on other language you can say it so shortly :P

It's the culture difference too.

[cosmicpanda]

Pankhuri, Sanskrit is another language I'm intrigued by. I probably won't be able to get to actually learning it, though.

 

Ledinna, in NZ that would be called 'university entrance'. A New Zealander talking about Finland would probably say "Finnish University Entrance." Given that it's an actual exam, which isn't quite how it works here, it might be "Finnish University Entrance exam." Other countries might prefer to bring in the word 'matriculation'. You don't need that convoluted phrase to say the same thing, though you would if you were going to explain the concept in detail.

[Nynaeve]

I'd love to learn Hebrew, and tried to go for a Hebrew course, but there weren't enough people for the course to continue :( Not even five persons...

 

To be fair, Hebrew is hard to learn... at least compared to Spanish and English. At least, that's the way it feels to me, even though I didn't have to deal with it since it's my native language.

 

Anyways, if you're interested, I'm more than willing to help you out if you want to try to self teach yourself. I've been known to scribble down the alphabet for people and even doing voice clips for them to understand how to pronounce stuff. So hit me up PM wise or on messenger if you ever want to =) God knows I mooched off Dah'mir and Cairos since they know Korean.

 

Oh and they made us take Arabic for two years in school but I sort of repressed that >.>

 

 

 

Nyn

[jozan]

I am a native speaker of Sweden and also speak English fluently. :)

I'm learning Korean and Japanese..know some words in a lot of languages..haha I seem to pick up words quite easily.

 

French, spanish, Italian, german, chinese, japanese, russian, But I can't say much at all in those though.

[Razen]

It's official. I'm going to be continuing my Russian classes and starting Swedish classes next semester. I'm so excited!

[cosmicpanda]

That sounds like fun. How focused on conversation are your classes?

[Razen]

Russian is more focused on grammar, but we do have conversation worked in (although it's not a lot). A group of third-year students has started a group that we can speak Russian to each other in, so hopefully that will improve. There aren't any oral exams in Russian (which is not very good for us students, imo).

 

Swedish does two oral quizzes a week on spoken material and there's a written quiz I think once a week from what I've heard from current students, so that one is a lot more focused on speaking than Russian is.

[Elgee]

Y'all should voice chat to each other on MSN or Skype - great practical, that.

[Charis alAslan]

Jumping in!

 

American English is my native,

Spanish is my secondary, but it's nowhere near as good as my

Mandarin Chinese. I am a Chinese teacher.

I'm currently getting a crash course in Cantonese Chinese since my husband is from Hong Kong and we currently live with his parents.

 

I've also studied French, Ancient Greek, Japanese in high school and college.

And dabbled in Korean, Malay, and Turkish on my own.