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Post by Chloe on Nov 15, 2005 19:20:10 GMT
well the only other languages i can speak is french [very badly] and a bit of spanish - the spanish teacher was an alcoholic & his way of teaching us spanish was to A) get us to play blockbusters on the chalkboard and B) show us the england-spain football match with spanish commentary. hence why i dropped spanish before gcse with no confidence in his ability to teach to that level. therefore i have admiration for anyone who's multi-lingual!
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Post by vicki on Nov 15, 2005 19:22:54 GMT
Well I learnt Norwegian because all my friends on the internet were norwegian and we used to talk in it, I learnt most of the language through music. Listening to Feeder therefore does not expand my mind.
Russian well I did that at uni because everything else was full - got a 2:1 but its well fucking solid.
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Post by Chloe on Nov 15, 2005 19:25:57 GMT
my friend stacey did russian a level but i don't know how much she remembers, it didn't seem to help her when watching nightwatch anyway. i'd love to learn more languages but i doubt i've got the dedication to do enough to become fluent.
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Post by vicki on Nov 15, 2005 19:28:27 GMT
Well it was kinda useful in Norway cause I guess I look Norwegian so people would come up and talk to me, ask me the time and so on.
I'd love to learn Cantonese, it was just too much like hard work.
My friend can "speak" sign language, thats well cool.
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Post by Chloe on Nov 15, 2005 19:36:13 GMT
i definitely want to learn sign language, i think that should be compulsory to learn in school. i used to know my name but not sure i still remember it.
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Post by vicki on Nov 15, 2005 19:36:45 GMT
Only 15,000 speak it.
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Post by Not Karl on Nov 15, 2005 22:36:40 GMT
haha i was talking to pie man (Jonny) on the phone, and he told me to speak english you irish fag, because he didnt understand me. Although i had to remind hi i am british not irish what do we sound like? karl has a broad belfast accent (McCooey ) and he says 'like' in every sentence two or three times. And i sound scottish, or so i was told last night by one of the brick throwing charv's at training. 'haha you scottish prick' Well Johnny has 6 fingers on each hand, so id ignore him ...and id rather have a belfast accent than a ballymena hey boy accent like Broad belfast accent though...hmm,good
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Post by Jock on Nov 16, 2005 9:38:22 GMT
bah who needs to learn a different language, this world is becoming so glabalised english will be everyones second language
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Post by vicki on Nov 16, 2005 9:40:42 GMT
bah who needs to learn a different language, this world is becoming so glabalised english will be everyones second language you serious? do you know how many people in the world cannot even go to school?
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Post by Jock on Nov 16, 2005 9:45:43 GMT
yes i am....my understanding the global economy has taught me a lot the last few weeks
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Post by vicki on Nov 16, 2005 9:50:23 GMT
When I was in China, I got in a cab to go to the airport, he didn't speak english.... thats ok.... he couldn't read english either.... thats ok, he couldn't read chinese either.... thats not good.
Yes I managed to formulate some interesting hand signs to explain airport.
Its just the languages you do at school are pointless, saying that I met loads of Germans who couldn't speak any english last week.
I'd go for Latin American Spanish (not regular spanish) or Russian if you learn anything.
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Post by Jock on Nov 16, 2005 9:51:05 GMT
yes well chinese ill give you that
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Post by vicki on Nov 16, 2005 9:55:24 GMT
Cantonese is bloody solid, I can't get my head around it, I did a course, I think the only way i'll hack it is if I go and live out there.... not sure I want to do that though, keep changing my mind.
So did you only do Latin at school? That puts a lot of people off languages altogether
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Post by Jock on Nov 16, 2005 10:23:31 GMT
i never ever and still dont see the point in that language, i know a lot of words have been derived from it but meh whats the point in it now
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Post by vicki on Nov 16, 2005 12:14:25 GMT
this one girl I worked with spoke ancient greek, she's do it to impress us, but I thought she was a nob
Knowing some old norse here - its good if you want to translate stuff.
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Post by Not Karl on Nov 18, 2005 19:48:29 GMT
ancient greek, thats well impressive....not
and Vicki, how often would you speak norse eh?
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Post by vicki on Nov 19, 2005 0:25:37 GMT
Spoken it once (Lament For My Dead Sons from Egils's Saga) when I went to an open day at Cambridge Uni for Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic studies, but I didn't feel I could carry through the whole course and my parents didn't want me to do it. I regret it bitterly now, i should have at least tried.
How often do I read it, not often, I transcribed most of Edda when I was in Year 13 - yes thats how sad I saw.
Its not sad its pathetic.
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Post by Not Karl on Nov 19, 2005 14:03:42 GMT
gives ya summit to brag about dunnit
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Post by vicki on Nov 19, 2005 14:41:59 GMT
I really don't go around mentioning that though, most of my friends don't know it either.
Its like no one knows that I have met 3 people that i've met on internet chat rooms apart from my parents.
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Post by Not Karl on Nov 19, 2005 14:51:30 GMT
so youre more ashamed that you speak norse than the fact you met some people off t'internet...
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