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| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4389 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 1 of 5 11 November 2012 at 5:23am | IP Logged |
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Hello! My name's Ed. I'm a very recent forum joiner and a great language enthusiast. My great love is the Germanic languages.
I'm an Englishman, so English is my native tongue, but I live in the US. During my BA, I did 3 years of Old English and 2 years of Old Norse. I started learning to read Danish and Norwegian when I was 21 (I'm 37 now). I have an MA in Scandinavian Studies, where I studied the translation of Norwegian and modern Icelandic, among other things, and I have a diploma in translating Swedish. For 6 months I lived in Denmark (Århus), and for one year I lived in Sweden (Malmö). During this period I soaked up an enormous amount of Danish and Swedish passively. But I never learnt to *speak* the languages. Later, I lived for 4 years in Germany (Berlin). Again, I soaked up an enormous amount passively, but my spoken skills remained basic at best. I spend a lot of time reading and writing about language contact and lexicology in the Germanic languages, with emphasis on Scandinavian. You can see my homepage here: http://germanic.zxq.net/ I read German and the Nordic languages fluently, but I am desperate to improve my spoken and written skills. That's the main aim of my current intensive study of German and Norwegian. I think this site is really useful and I look forward to contributing more. Ha det bra! :) Edited by limey75 on 11 November 2012 at 8:10am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kaikai Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5745 days ago 27 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 2 of 5 11 November 2012 at 7:58am | IP Logged |
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What part of Missouri Ed? I am in St. Louis.
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| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4389 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 3 of 5 11 November 2012 at 8:09am | IP Logged |
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Hi Scotty - I'm also in Saint Louis...
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5837 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 5 11 November 2012 at 9:16am | IP Logged |
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Herzlich willkommen hier im Forum, limey!
Wecome to the forum here, limey! I can help you as a German native and I am language learner of Danish, so your Scandinavian studies are very interesting for me. Have a look at my post on your topic in the German subforum! And, if you like, also have a look at my "Dansk övelse log" in the Log Subforum. I think we will meet each other more often in the German Subforum, I appreciate your first contributions there. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 11 November 2012 at 9:19am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5914 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 5 of 5 13 November 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged |
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Välkommen til forumet, Ed.
Welcome to the forum, Ed. I'm always happy someone else is interested in Scandinavian languages. I looked at your website yesterday and really liked the pages on loanwords. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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