Foreign Languages?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by rykly18, Oct 24, 2016.

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Foreign Language?

Spanish 23 vote(s) 32.9%
Latin 7 vote(s) 10.0%
French 12 vote(s) 17.1%
German 6 vote(s) 8.6%
Other (Post in comments!) 22 vote(s) 31.4%
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  1. I wish I was still able to speak Latin at conversation level, (because that's totally useful right?) but I guess over time I just forgot a lot of the rules of the language
    rykly18, Dec 29, 2016
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  2. When I was in high school and in the first two years of college I took Spanish as a language course because the only other option was French and Spanish is much more useful.

    Then I changed my major and a language became a requirement for my degree and at the same time I changed schools and more languages were offered and so I switched. I decided to take Arabic because Arabic is a very cool language and I thought it'd be more useful in my career than Spanish would be.
    WayneKramer, Dec 29, 2016
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  3. Aah, that's something I'd like to be able to do. But not any of my friends or even my teachers are able to, so I guess I wouldn't have anyone to talk to.
    607, Dec 30, 2016
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  4. Latin is pretty great when nobody understands it and you could say anything to them and just see confused looks on their faces
    rykly18, Dec 30, 2016
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  5. Nana nana, I'd be officialy fluence in Latin at the moment I'm leaving the school I am on now the good way :p
    Edit: have you never tried, I once just tried (in form of a topclass on school) and it actualiteit went pritty Well :)
    Egeau, Dec 31, 2016
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  6. Best part of Latin is some perfectly normal sentences in Latin sound like rude phrases in english
    Lux_Miles, Dec 31, 2016
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  7. I wouldn't agree about that being the best part... but it's cool, I guess. :p

    Wow, really? That's nice.
    No, I haven't ever really tried. Also, my vocabulary is shrinking quickly, as three years ago I still studied words... then I started using a dictionary... and now I just use a guide by some well-known Dutch classic languages guy. :p
    607, Dec 31, 2016
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  8. I have to admit, I would now officialy be pritty good in french, or make people in french understand me at least, but, I am in french at the moment, and it feeds Like I only learned Like there words... So, zi guessI won't be That good At latin... (I' M also not That high-graden! With an 5.6...)
    Egeau, Dec 31, 2016
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  9. One of my favorite parts of Latin is just the word "caudex" meaning "blockhead, or idiot". People will ask me if I'm calling them a cheeseburger and I just smile and nod :)
    rykly18, Dec 31, 2016
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  10. In Canada had to take french in Elementary School. Then once in High school you got to choose wether you wanted to take it or not. Currently learning Spanish, never liked french lol
    MissKells, Dec 31, 2016
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  11. While browsing Wikipedia today I found out about Interlingua.
    It's not really a foreign language, I'd compare it to Esperanto.
    I can't read Esperanto, however, although I took a few lessons in it, and I could read the homepage for the Interlinguan Wikipedia, while I hadn't actually seen the language before. I'd say it was quite well-made, then!
    https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pagina_principal
    607, Dec 31, 2016
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  12. I actually speak fluent Italian. It was the first language I learned! Also, I took Latin in school. Nomen mini est Equinox :D
    Equinox_Boss, Jan 19, 2017
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  13. *Nomen mini Equinox est
    Your way isn't grammatically incorrect, but it's the same as putting "and" as first word on a sentince, I had to correct it... (I have had 2.5 years of Latin so far...)
    Egeau, Jan 20, 2017
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  14. Shouldn't it be 'mihi' anyway, and not 'mini'? :p
    607, Jan 20, 2017
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  15. Not if you do a type ;)
    Equinox_Boss, Jan 20, 2017
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  16. Further clarification (though 607 will probably correct/add something again :p): in Latin you usually (always?) put the (most important if there are more) verb at the end of the sentence. :)
    Source: also 2.5 years of Latin. ;)

    *typo lol
    TomvanWijnen, Jan 20, 2017
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  17. I study out of the Cambridge Latin Course. 4 years of Latin under my belt :)
    Equinox_Boss, Jan 20, 2017
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  18. Did you actually learn that in school?
    Because yeah, that's how I would do it when writing Latin, but that's from lots of experience reading only. We haven't actually ever been taught tricks for writing Latin. It's a lot of fun, though!
    607, Jan 20, 2017
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  19. I took English, Danish and German.
    English is the only one i can read, write and speak well, the other 2 i can just skim through the text and kind of realise what is going on.
    IceQueenDawn, Jan 20, 2017
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  20. Salve! Noli esse stultus! Meum nomen est Joseph quoque takenID! Ego sum Magister! Do you know what that means Wither?
    takenID, Jan 20, 2017
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