Thread: Learning Languages

Now that summer's here, my favourite thing to do right now is to study the German language, for no real reason other than my own enjoyment. My friends all think I'm crazy for wanting to learn outside of school, but they'll all be sorry when I can read all the warnings on my straight razor.

I tell you, nothing beats sitting out on the deck in the sun with a big glass of Alexander Keith's Amber Ale with a big book on German and just reading to my heart's content. Who says 17 year olds can't be sophisitcated?

I also love learning new languages, I am up to 13 now, although I am certainly a bit rusty on the ones I haven't used in a while.

Only one of 'em is a spoken language though

Ah, a fan of the old languages?

Hmmm...the only languages I can learn while drinking a beer is drunkese.

Originally Posted by TheMajor

Ah, a fan of the old languages?

quite the opposite. I'm a software engineer.

It's always gratifying to confirm that I'm not the only one with this bent. I love learning languages, always have. My trouble is that I tend to get the basics down and move on to something else rather than do the hard work of building a solid vocabulary and getting somewhat fluent. Currently, in bits of spare time, I'm making another try at Latin.

~Ricardus

Originally Posted by TheMajor

Now that summer's here, my favourite thing to do right now is to study the German language, for no real reason other than my own enjoyment. My friends all think I'm crazy for wanting to learn outside of school, but they'll all be sorry when I can read all the warnings on my straight razor.

I tell you, nothing beats sitting out on the deck in the sun with a big glass of Alexander Keith's Amber Ale with a big book on German and just reading to my heart's content. Who says 17 year olds can't be sophisitcated?

18 here, learning German as well, and got 3 years of Latin under my belt. I had a practical reason to learn German; I dated one for 8 months. Now that I'm off to college, hoping to learn it academically. Anyway, would love a practice partner, if you wanna chat sometime.

Originally Posted by Infectious

18 here, learning German as well, and got 3 years of Latin under my belt. I had a practical reason to learn German; I dated one for 8 months. Now that I'm off to college, hoping to learn it academically. Anyway, would love a practice partner, if you wanna chat sometime.

Sorry, I can read German very well but speaking and writing take a great effort. Movimaniac is Austrian, he might want to oblige. Nassrasur.com is the German site for shaving (more like B&B it is not strictly for straight razor shavers).

Originally Posted by rastewart

It's always gratifying to confirm that I'm not the only one with this bent. I love learning languages, always have. My trouble is that I tend to get the basics down and move on to something else rather than do the hard work of building a solid vocabulary and getting somewhat fluent. Currently, in bits of spare time, I'm making another try at Latin.

~Ricardus

You'll find Latin a fairly easy one to learn. Once you learn the conjugations, it's all down hill from there. Typically, if you have those down pat, you can more or less read anything in Latin since European languages evolved from Latin. Just get the pronunciation down and you've officially spoken a "dead" language. I used to be pretty sharp at Latin, then I went to college and proceeded to forget all good information

13 Jockeys? I'm sure at least one of those is an old one like fortran

Right now I'm using the Pimsleur language CD's for Arabic. They're good, but I've unfortunately fallen off in my studies.

Originally Posted by TheMajor

Ah, a fan of the old languages?

The only good language is a dead language.

I love languages, but my brain does not seem to be wired for learning them.