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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5023 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 33 of 38 26 February 2014 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm not sure what your point is. I didn't say that kids are learning a little math in school. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5023 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 34 of 38 26 February 2014 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Not really. Perhaps in a few regions, but it's rare I ever find myself in a situation where I need anything but English in the US. I can't think of one. And I live in an area with a sizeable Hispanic population. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5225 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 35 of 38 26 February 2014 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
It is certainly true that in parts of the US, Spanish is important, and there are certainly some Americans who learn Spanish to interact with members of the Hispanic community. Indeed there are large immigrant communities throughout North America where foreign languages can be heard. At the same time, I still believe that the situation very different from Europe and many parts of the world where four or five different official languages, if not more, are less than a day's drive away by car. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5023 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 36 of 38 26 February 2014 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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On a tangent, Cormac McCarthy's work uses untranslated Spanish in the same way Tolstoy used French, inserting large blocks into his Russian text, trusting that the reader was bilingual. And there is a sense in which we Americans do know some basic Spanish, with the amount varying, of course, depending on where in the US we live. But s allard's correct that the situation is quite different from Europe. Edited by ScottScheule on 26 February 2014 at 4:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 37 of 38 22 May 2014 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Um, sorry for necroposting, but I'm writing a diploma/thesis (roughly MD-equivalent) about markup languages (like HTML*), and among other things I compare them with natural languages and I'm testing a CEFR-like scale for them. If you consider yourself a more or less advanced user of the Internet, I'll be really happy if you can answer here (no facebook account needed, feel free to just email me or PM me here). Answers needed until Sunday/early Monday.
If you answer the optional question, preferably answer in your native language if I speak/study it. (the Scandinavian languages are the major exception) *BB-code counts too, it is the code we use here on HTLAL, for bold, images, links etc. Edited by Serpent on 22 May 2014 at 9:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| camus Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5029 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Mandarin* Studies: English, German | Message 38 of 38 01 June 2014 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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i actually clicked on the link before getting down to read the post. I first perceived the title word 'foreign' as 'not familiar, scary' and thought this article was for computer muggles (if there's a word opposite to geek, let me know). I lol'ed when I saw what it really meant. Nonetheless, it serves as a wonderful example of the difference between human languages and computer languages: such ambiguity will never occur in Java or C++.
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