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| decamillisjacob Newbie Canada Joined 4722 days ago 38 posts - 63 votes  | Message 1 of 8 29 June 2012 at 1:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Howdie from Vancouver Canada. Name's Jacob or Jake. I'm a Canadian eccentric turned technical writer as well as amateur translator, linguistic anthropologist, and gastronomist.
Language wise, I'm fluent in English, French, and Arabic, relatively literate/passively competent in Hebrew, Italian, and Middle English, and bare basic in Turkish and Crimean Tatar. Education wise, I majored in linguistics, English literature, and technical writing in university. C'est it. Edited by decamillisjacob on 08 July 2012 at 2:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6693 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 8 29 June 2012 at 9:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to the forum - and if you start a log thread you are welcome to use references to books and articles in your target languages about astrophysics (which is interesting precisely because it is weird) - it doesn't always have to be fiction to be fun.
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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 3 of 8 29 June 2012 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me astrophysics isn't weird but fascinating and you are not the only language learner here who is interested in natural science. See Iversen and me, to give an example. But there are more people...
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| decamillisjacob Newbie Canada Joined 4722 days ago 38 posts - 63 votes | Message 4 of 8 29 June 2012 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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The natural sciences and mathematics are two true wonders in life. I think astrophysics is particularly cool (to me) because it is one of those sciences in which a true unification with the human imagination is required in order to realize its most abstract of concepts...
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5683 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 5 of 8 29 June 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to the forum, Jake! It's cool to have some people here who have actually studied linguistics – it's a great resource for those of us, like me, who do it all as amateurs (in every sense of the word).
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| Jappy58 Bilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 4628 days ago 200 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Guarani*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi), Arabic (Written), French, English, Persian, Quechua, Portuguese Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 6 of 8 30 June 2012 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome! It's great to have another Arabic speaker on these forums, and great to see someone else interested in the sciences (I work in a science field). :)
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| Umin Triglot Newbie Germany despairedreading.worRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4537 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Japanese Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 7 of 8 30 June 2012 at 6:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome!
Technical writing sounds like an interesting profession. It's also really great to see some actual linguists here :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| decamillisjacob Newbie Canada Joined 4722 days ago 38 posts - 63 votes | Message 8 of 8 12 July 2012 at 7:49am | IP Logged | ||
Of my languages.. I in fact translate modern Arabic literary works into English and I'm actively pursuing Turkish on behalf of my lover/partner. Edited by decamillisjacob on 12 July 2012 at 8:10am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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