erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7197 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 9 of 12 29 December 2011 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
Does anybody here have a good familiarity with this language? I know that it is actually an Indo-European language, rather than Arabic/Semitic group. I am looking at work in map librarianship/cartography. There is an acute need for those who have a proficiency in this language, particularly with the National Geospatial Agency in the U.S.
Not only that, it seems to be an intriguing language, with a unique script. If there are problems with Iran in the future (with the West), this language will be high on the list of essential/strategic languages.
Does DLI have open-source coursework?
Any help is always greatly appreciated
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erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7197 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 10 of 12 29 December 2011 at 10:15pm | IP Logged |
Does anybody here have a good familiarity with this language? I know that it is actually an Indo-European language, rather than Arabic/Semitic group. I am looking at work in map librarianship/cartography. There is an acute need for those who have a proficiency in this language, particularly with the National Geospatial Agency in the U.S.
Not only that, it seems to be an intriguing language, with a unique script. If there are problems with Iran in the future (with the West), this language will be high on the list of essential/strategic languages.
Does DLI have open-source coursework?
Any help is always greatly appreciated
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fnord Triglot Groupie Switzerland Joined 5034 days ago 71 posts - 124 votes Speaks: German*, Swiss-German, English Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch
| Message 11 of 12 30 December 2011 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
Kerrie wrote:
My Bosnian friend (who claims to speak German as well as she speaks English) wrote me a lovely little Christmas
note and called me mein Freund - which I found odd |
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On a side note, I would even find "meine Freundin" quite odd.
As a salutation, I cannot help but only associate with spam & scam Mailings. It's certainly rather a question of
style than of right or wrong. However, I have never directly addressed someone as "mein Freund" or "lieber
Freund", nor have I ever seen or heard this elsewhere - unless in an ironic way ("So nicht, mein Freund!") or when
talking to a third party ("Er ist mein Freund").
Kerrie wrote:
Does German still have this distinction, or is it not used as much as it used to be? |
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Yes, it does.
In plural though, one would probably use a generic masculine ("meine Freunde") to refer to a mixed group of
both males and females.
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erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7197 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 12 of 12 30 December 2011 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
Does anybody here have a good familiarity with this language? I know that it is actually an Indo-European language, rather than Arabic/Semitic group. I am looking at work in map librarianship/cartography. There is an acute need for those who have a proficiency in this language, particularly with the National Geospatial Agency in the U.S.
Not only that, it seems to be an intriguing language, with a unique script. If there are problems with Iran in the future (with the West), this language will be high on the list of essential/strategic languages.
Does DLI have open-source coursework?
Any help is always greatly appreciated.
1 person has voted this message useful
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