Deli lyfe v.10 let's share our life problems edition because apparently we're all miserable
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Herf is Jewish.
[QUOTE=felix the cat;44578835]why hebrew?[/QUOTE]
It's a Hebrew proverb. King Solomon's ring and all that jazz.
I've always thought Hebrew was a very interesting looking language. Right up there with early 20th century German print and Mongoloian
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I like the Georgian alphabet
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Jesus christ, just looking at that gives me some kind of linguistic PTSD. Learning Georgian was probably the worst academic experience I've ever been through, it's like the epitome of complexity retained as a matter of tradition.
German's the only extra language I can read and speak and I'm grateful all I have to contend with is a ß
I've been wanting to learn German for a LONG time. Its really the only language besides English that I want to learn or have interest in learning.
I know quite a bit of Spanish because Texas.
[QUOTE=Wulfram;44582850]I've been wanting to learn German for a LONG time. Its really the only language besides English that I want to learn or have interest in learning.[/QUOTE]
Do it, it really isn't that difficult. It's really similar to English in many respects and I've retained a lot of the stuff I've learned over my 3 years in German at high school.
I spent 2 years learning French in secondary school, got a distinction and 5 years later I can't remember a damned thing past greetings and the odd word here and there. It was that or Latin so I guess I'd rather forget French than that.
German is much better in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Dr.Fragg;44583013]I spent 2 years learning French in secondary school, got a distinction and 5 years later I can't remember a damned thing past greetings and the odd word here and there. It was that or Latin so I guess I'd rather forget French than that.
German is much better in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
Well if it makes you feel better, I've been taking Latin for like, 5 years and I still can't remember jack shit. Turns out my grandfather took Latin as well and he couldn't speak it for shit either.
I learned both German and French and can't remember a lick of French apart from insults
I can't "speak" German anymore at a fluent level either but I can still generally read and understand some stuff
[QUOTE=cardfan212;44582996]Do it, it really isn't that difficult. It's really similar to English in many respects and I've retained a lot of the stuff I've learned over my 3 years in German at high school.[/QUOTE]
its a lot more similar in syntax than latin based languages, right?
I've always wanted to learn Latin, but the fact nobody actually uses it anymore means it'd basically be wasted effort. I used to know a lot of German but none of my friends speak/write it so I've forgotten most of it. Which is sad because my family's German. I should start writing letters to my Oma, she's like the only family member I have contact info for that actually speaks German...
No one EVER really used latin regularly other than the church and high education, and neither of them really do it anymore. It's really just a special occasion/party trick language
I went to a very old fashioned school and latin is still occasionally held in high regard over here as being a valuable language, mostly in the private schools. As silly as the bragging rights were for me to have been going "Yeah I speak a dead language get rekt plebians" I'd much rather have something more useful and applicable.
Living in the major port city gateway to europe, having an extra language is handy as shit on a rare occasion.
Living in Canada makes you pick up a lot of French vocabulary from everything requiring French and English labels, but I can't understand any French beyond that. I took two years of Spanish in high school but had to stop because budget cuts meant we had to get rid of our Spanish teacher. I was going to take German at university, but budget cuts meant my university had to get rid of German. Now we have French, Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew and I think a couple Native American languages.
I'm hoping to learn Arabic starting next semester. If not that, then Mandarin Chinese. Literally the two hardest languages to learn but also probably the two most helpful as a war journalist.
I didn't retain jack shit from my Spanish classes in high school, but mostly because I had zero interest in learning Spanish because I didn't (and still don't) see it as ever being of any particular use to me.
As for Latin, there's a lot of times I wish I knew it. My Honors College texts are often in Latin and translating blows.
[QUOTE=Zao Medong;44584022]Mandarin Chinese[/QUOTE]
I've been learning Chinese for 17 years and I think I can pass as a mentally challenged 6 year old by now. Good luck.
Yeah, that's about what I'm expecting. Honestly I'm only signed up for the Chinese because the Arabic class is full right now. I intend to switch ASAP. If I did end up taking Chinese, it would really only be in order to have an extremely basic understanding of some helpful words and phrases to make life easier should I end up in China.
On the other hand of like nearly ever single post above, I've taken French for 6 years and as a result could live in France, albeit awkwardly at first, pretty well. I really only see it as a thing of motivation. I really like the language so I've stuck with it. The difference with here and some other school districts is we need only 2 years of language to pass high school and get into most universities, so the only people that get up to the upper level language classes (where you're no longer learning grammar and basic vocab but actually using the languages, sometimes in their mother countries) are the people who actually want to learn, and presumably keep, the language.
Use it or lose it still applies.
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For the record, I wasn't even close to functional in the language until the end of the 4th year.
I've been learning Chinese formally for 7 years now. Mandarin is fucking hard; I can get by with day-to-day conversation, but I don't have the vocabulary to talk about anything remotely complex. I read like a 3rd grader, too.
The good thing is that when learning Chinese as a second language, nobody really expects you to get anywhere near the level of competence a native speaker has. Just knowing some basic phrases and vocab and pronouncing it correctly (mostly) really impresses Chinese people, especially if you look really white.
Bought a flask, but I didn't like it being just black so I made it tacticool.
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for a moment i thought it was some kind of obscure IR strobe
Considering velcroing it to my helmet. It looks just like a weird beacon. And I could roll RR style.
Get two and make one of those soda drink hats only tacticool.
who here is gif savvy? I want a new avatar but I'm dubious about posting in Avatar Requests
i can do it for you c:
I'll pm you
[editline]19th April 2014[/editline]
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