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Post by B. on Jan 26, 2016 14:19:30 GMT -5
Pretty sure this was discussed, but it can never hurt to revive old topics.
Besides English, I speak good Spanish, but it's not perfect. I really want to be fluent one day, but I'd say im at working proficiency right now. Half my family also speak punjabi which weirdly I understand due to hearing it all my life, but cannot speak a word of.
Alternatively do you know any computer languages? I know a bit of python and am trying to learn java.
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Post by Reba on Jan 26, 2016 14:42:32 GMT -5
english and french
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jan 26, 2016 15:13:31 GMT -5
Polish, German, and Spanish, though I do make slight grammatical mistakes in the latter. I plan on doing some reading in Spanish again, so I can fix that.
I cannot even imagine what it's like understanding a language but not being able to speak it at all. Must feel odd.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Jan 26, 2016 15:16:40 GMT -5
I speak some languages, and I'm sure we talked about that not too long ago, because I remember saying about Tupí and doing a translation thing for university there, and that was in July/August. I'm too lazy now to say all of that again.
But about computer languages: I know Java and Python, and as a computational linguist it makes me feel a bit stupid that a high school student knows (or is learning) the same things too, even if it's Bee who is super clever.
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Post by Hermes on Jan 26, 2016 15:58:34 GMT -5
I speak English and French.
I can read Latin and (Ancient) Greek: I can sort of speak Latin, which is occasionally useful as a code, but not properly.
I have tried to learn German and Russian at points in my life, but not really mastered them.
I can sort of read Italian and Spanish, through knowing Latin and French.
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Post by Reba on Jan 26, 2016 16:06:02 GMT -5
i took a few years of latin so i can pretty easily identify roots and stuff, but i don't remember how to conjugate anything
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Post by B. on Jan 26, 2016 16:27:00 GMT -5
I cannot even imagine what it's like understanding a language but not being able to speak it at all. Must feel odd. It is very strange. I don't have any conscious words or vocabulary logged in my brain but through hearing the language just intuitively understand it. My parents tried to speak in 2 languages when I was younger so I'd be bilingual but they found at too much effort apparently.
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Post by B. on Jan 26, 2016 16:28:25 GMT -5
I speak some languages, and I'm sure we talked about that not too long ago, because I remember saying about Tupí and doing a translation thing for university there, and that was in July/August. I'm too lazy now to say all of that again. But about computer languages: I know Java and Python, and as a computational linguist it makes me feel a bit stupid that a high school student knows (or is learning) the same things too, even if it's Bee who is super clever. Anka I had no idea you were a computational linguist, because that is seriously cool. What does it involve exactly? And don't feel bad, I assure you you definitely know much more in either than I probably ever will.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 18:11:12 GMT -5
I am doing Italian in school, but last year our teacher wasn't there much so it kinda just turned into history.
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Post by tk on Jan 27, 2016 2:55:29 GMT -5
Malay (first language) and English. I can read Arabic (i.e. the Quran) but sadly, I don't understand Arabic per se. Maybe some words here and there, but other than that...nah. I REALLY want to learn sign language (the Malay version) and also maybe Mandarin, because I see Chinese patients as well as patients who use sign language from time to time at the audiology clinic, and not knowing how to interact with them can be really frustrating sometimes. I mean if it's n adult Chinese patient, then it's okay because most of the time they understand Malay and/or English. The problem lies with the paediatric Chinese patients. Sometimes if we can't communicate with them directly, it can be difficult to conduct the test . D: Buuut I never seem to have the time to learn any new languages, so boooooooo
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Jan 27, 2016 6:40:24 GMT -5
I speak, write and read Danish as my first language, and English as my second. The Scandinavian languages are closely related, so I can usually get the gist of things in Swedish and Norwegian. For a Scandinavian, though, I'm actually quite bad at that, as it usually takes me a few tries, and I can't always tell which of the two languages someone is speaking - to me, both sound like slightly warped Danish. I've had three years of mandatory classes in German, followed by three years of classes in French. I don't speak much of either now; I can often decipher text in those languages, but it'll take me a while, and sometimes a dictionary, to get the details right. Then there's the Latin and Ancient Greek you pick up in bits and pieces from all over. I read relatively much, and I'm always interested in learning about etymology. I had half a year of mandatory Latin classes, but I was one of the few students who liked the subject.
When I grow up (read: Starting in about six months), I'm going to be a linguist like Anka! Though not completely like her, as I don't really know my way around computers well enough to specialise in them.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Jan 27, 2016 6:57:46 GMT -5
Haha, I speak Swedish and for me Norwegian sounds like someone trying to speak Swedish but failing, but Danish just sounds like German backwards with hiccoughs.
I actually study general linguistics as major subject and computational linguistics as minor, but many of the courses overlap, so I have to do more courses in computational linguistics than other minor students to still get the same amount of points together. It's really cool, I just learn both linguistics stuff and computer stuff, and then we put it together to make programs for language processing/analysis/other things. Right now for example I should be doing some programming assignment for analysing the structure of sentences, but oops, I'm making a post here instead.
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Post by Charlie on Jan 27, 2016 6:58:02 GMT -5
English first language, and I'm pretty ok with Japanese, like I could read a couple sentences and communicate if I had to. I just don't have the depth of vocab to properly understand anything haha.
Wanna learn Korean for obvious reasons, but the grammar is really tricky to me, so I don't know how I'm gonna go with that.
All you guys are pretty cool with your languages, keep on rocking on
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Post by Invisible on Jan 27, 2016 10:05:24 GMT -5
I was fluent in Penguinese before I could speak English. Seriously, though, I only know a few words in Spanish. My school was just salsa in general, not just in the Languages department. Now I must go and get drunk to rid myself of those painful memories...
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Post by soufflé on Jan 27, 2016 10:55:13 GMT -5
English, almost proficient in French because my mom is fluent so she speaks it sometimes/I took it at school forever I really want to learn Spanish; I can understand a good bit of it but I can't speak it really well
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