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johntm93
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Studies: German, Spanish

 
 Message 913 of 3737
27 July 2010 at 8:12pm | IP Logged 
karaipyhare wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Levi wrote:

ruskivyetr wrote:
Well I know words in all those
languages, I meant countries that have like Hausa,
Swahili, Zulu, etc. as one of the
official languages (and yes the game dictates that you must say something in each
official language).

Eek. Countries like India and South Africa would take some real preparation!

Makes it more fun :D. I always leave India for last :). South Africa I think I got
everything right once (I used the
official name of the Republic of South Africa in all the languages, thanks Wikipedia
:).
Edit: Cheating's not allowed, I just said wikipedia because I have read the wikipedia
page for south africa about a
million times, and yes, being the language nerd I am, I took the liberty of memorizing
them. Never knew that
would
come in handy :).
Hmmm...when starting out I may have to cheat, limiting myself
to the three biggest
languages in a country (if it has more than three official languages, of course).
Do you do anglophone countries? If so, what do you do for the US, since we have no
official language?
I'd imagine you just skip those though, since you know a few English words.


Hmmn, I do know a few English words, so it's good to practice using them once in a
while. I just do de facto
national languages if there is no official language.


Some states and territories of USA do have official laguages:
Hawaiian and English official in Hawaii
French and English official in Louisiana
Spanish official in New Mexico and California (they require some documents to be
trasnlated into Spanish)
Samoan and Chamorro are recognized by American Samoa and Guam, respectively; Carolinian
and Chamorro are recognized by the Northern Mariana Islands
I'm aware of those. Some states have have English as the only official language, some don't have an official language. But the country as a whole doesn't have one, it was never touched upon in the Constitution.
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renegade5005
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Speaks: Persian, English*, Spanish
Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew, Arabic (Levantine), French, Tzeltal, Arabic (classical), Sanskrit, Ancient Greek

 
 Message 914 of 3737
27 July 2010 at 8:31pm | IP Logged 
josht wrote:
Hey, now there's an idea: taping verb / declension charts to the ceiling. If you get lost, just look up.


Great idea!! I should definitely do that with the Latin cases.
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Guido
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 Message 915 of 3737
27 July 2010 at 10:19pm | IP Logged 
... when you can localize any country in the globe and recognize all the 197 flags plus some other.

... when you can name at least one of the languages spoken in every single country.

... when you dream how would it be if you revive, say, Napoleon and you have to teach him (in French, of course) how the world has changed.
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johntm93
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 Message 916 of 3737
28 July 2010 at 8:20am | IP Logged 
When you have watched almost 45 minutes of Prof. Arguelles videos on languages and language courses in the past hour and want to watch more, but you think you should actually STUDY a language instead.

Anyone else here think he should write his own language course? I think he would make a great language course, given enough free time of course.
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budonoseito
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 Message 917 of 3737
28 July 2010 at 2:07pm | IP Logged 
johntm93 wrote:
When you have watched almost 45 minutes of Prof. Arguelles videos on
languages and language courses in the past hour and want to watch more, but you think you
should actually STUDY a language instead.

Anyone else here think he should write his own language course? I think he would make a
great language course, given enough free time of course.


Guilty. Then I read a tip about stop studying on how to study and just study. But, being
an engineer type, I am all about the planning. Fail to plan, plan to fail.
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astein
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 Message 918 of 3737
28 July 2010 at 3:55pm | IP Logged 
When you try to pronounce unfamiliar German words in your carefully-nursed accent, only to find that they are pronounced exactly the same as in English, and are, in fact, English words...and this makes you really angry.

When you have to alt-tab at work when your boss comes into your office. Not because you are chatting on Facebook, but because you are always logged into Anki online. (That is my reward for when I finish a task at work...I get to work through a hundred cards or so of one of my seven different decks).

When you have to read a lot of insurance papers for your job, and it makes your day to see that they are not only published in German (I live in Germany), but also in French, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Italian. This is no longer a chore for me.
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theallstar
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 Message 919 of 3737
28 July 2010 at 4:11pm | IP Logged 
astein wrote:
When you have to alt-tab at work when your boss comes into your office. Not because you are chatting on Facebook, but because you are always logged into Anki online. (That is my reward for when I finish a task at work...I get to work through a hundred cards or so of one of my seven different decks).


Guilty. However, since I finally coughed up the £15 for the iPhone version of Anki I've found that I can review much more discreetly ;)
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Teango
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 Message 920 of 3737
28 July 2010 at 5:40pm | IP Logged 
When you get a little present like this:



And you think...great, chocolate, I like chocolate :)...but then you turn the bar around and see this on the back:



And now you think...wow, ingredients in 6 languages, including Armenian and Georgian, absolutely-flippin-fantastic!...and hug the giver copiously for such an amazing gift! :D

Edited by Teango on 12 August 2010 at 9:17pm



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