JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4445 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian)
| Message 97 of 246 13 February 2013 at 4:14am | IP Logged |
Sorry to hear about your job. Here's a site with creative swearing in Croatian:
http://nawcom.com/swearing/croatian.htm
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6590 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 98 of 246 13 February 2013 at 4:49pm | IP Logged |
well, i haven't ever got any days off just because other ppl had the flu, but my friend from Belarus had that practically every year.
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5388 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 99 of 246 22 February 2013 at 1:49pm | IP Logged |
I just found out that Coursera, which is an online learning platform that offers university-level classes online (free) is now offering some of their classes in Spanish, French, Italian, and Chinese.
I've noticed in the (English speaking) classes that I've taken that there are people from all over the world - a few of them even had subforums set up for Spanish and Portuguese speakers. There seem to be a lot of Brazilians using the site, especially. A lot of the instructors also subtitle their lectures in a number of languages.
Edited by Kerrie on 22 February 2013 at 1:50pm
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5159 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 100 of 246 22 February 2013 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
Kerrie wrote:
There seem to be a lot of Brazilians using the site, especially. A lot of
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No surprise. We're a plague :P :/ Everywhere you go online the odds are pretty high
you'll meet tons of Brazilians. And the more "social" the platform is, the worse it gets.
Btw, I couldn't find the language courses at Coursera, where should I look for them?
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5388 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 101 of 246 22 February 2013 at 3:05pm | IP Logged |
Not a plague. It's just that the country (and educational system) are growing so much. :)
They are not language courses. They are university level courses offered IN other languages. (There should be a frame along the left where you can choose the language the course is in, and the subject category.)
They are partnering with more universities, and some of those universities are in other countries, so naturally they will be in other languages. :)
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5525 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 102 of 246 22 February 2013 at 3:07pm | IP Logged |
Kerrie wrote:
They are not language courses. They are university level courses offered IN other languages. (There should be a frame along the left where you can choose the language the course is in, and the subject category.) |
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I just checked this out and now I really want to take a probability course in French. It doesn't start until fall 2013, though! Thank you for the link.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5159 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 103 of 246 22 February 2013 at 3:17pm | IP Logged |
Ah ok then all the better even. I'd be glad to take a course in either French, Spanish or
Italian!
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JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4445 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian)
| Message 104 of 246 23 February 2013 at 7:12pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for sharing, Kerrie! What a big temptation this website is, so many good courses
in English. But where did the frame were you could choose by language disappear to? It
was there yesterday and now I can't find it neither using Chrome nor Mozilla :(
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