Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 1 of 10 08 March 2010 at 2:52pm | IP Logged |
S 8 marta! (International Women's Day in several countries, including Russia...a bit like Valentine's and Mother's Day all wrapped into one.)
Wishing the very best to all our female language learners out there today :)
Edited by Teango on 08 March 2010 at 2:52pm
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Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5737 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin
| Message 3 of 10 08 March 2010 at 3:08pm | IP Logged |
祝你门妇女节快乐
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5857 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 4 of 10 08 March 2010 at 6:46pm | IP Logged |
should be "们" instead of "门"
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Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5679 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish
| Message 5 of 10 08 March 2010 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
Buttons wrote:
I have often wondered how many of the people on these forums are
women...
It seems to me that there are more women than men on here but I don't think I could
hasard a guess by how much.
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I wonder if a census is possible. Maybe a series of polls?
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cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5840 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 6 of 10 08 March 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
I have participated for a while and I think women are in slight majority.
I think women are generally in majority when it comes to language studies, although (surprise, surprise) the top polyglots are men. Supposedly female brains are slightly better wired for language learning according to some researches of the brain. Here in England this is often mentioned as an "excuse" for why female students outperforms male students at some national exams (can't recall the exact details, but I've come across this several times).
My gender is clear from my user name and I preferred it that way at the time I signed up. But at times it can be nice to contribute without any "labels" or boxing in of who you are etc.
A fair number of people also don't reveal where they come from in their profile, possibly for the same reason.
HAPPY INT'L WOMENS DAY EVERYONE!!!
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dantalian Diglot Senior Member Bouvet Island Joined 5684 days ago 125 posts - 156 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German
| Message 7 of 10 08 March 2010 at 9:51pm | IP Logged |
Поздравляю всю женскую половину сайта с 8 Марта!!!
Edited by dantalian on 08 March 2010 at 10:00pm
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Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5737 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin
| Message 8 of 10 09 March 2010 at 12:09am | IP Logged |
QiuJP wrote:
should be "们" instead of "门" |
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It should. Stupid characters, all look the same (at last at night and when you're in a hurry!) ;)
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