Can You Speak More Than 1 Language?

[OnlySunshine]

I wish I spoke French. I took a year of Spanish during my junior year of high school, but the teacher I had on the Homebound program for ill students was not very good at lesson planning, so when it came time to take Spanish 2 in my senior year, I could not understand very much. I could get the pronunciations correct, but I could not understand what I was saying so I ended up replacing Spanish with Drama I. I tried taking it twice in college as well and had to withdraw both times because it was too difficult for me. I don't like Spanish at all.

I'm not sure if I will have to fulfill the foreign language requirement or not if I complete the Bachelor's in Science program with a major in Biology, but if I do, I plan to try French or Italian (if Italian is offered). French seems like a very interesting language and Italian looks relatively easy to learn.

Edited April 5, 2011 by MaterMisericordiae

[InPersonaChriste]

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And...I can translate some words and phrases into Sindarin or Quenya, Tolkien's two main invented elvish languages.
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amesome sauce!
I used to be able to figure out the script, how they take vowels out and yeah... Did a little research online.

[MithLuin]

[quote name='InPersonaChriste' timestamp='1302016361' post='2226108']
amesome sauce!
I used to be able to figure out the script, how they take vowels out and yeah... Did a little research online.
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Yes, the script (Tengwar) is beautiful and easy enough to learn. For anyone who is curious, I recommend Dan Smith's introduction: http://fan.theonering.net/rolozo/tengwar/tengwar/index.htm
There are also various runic alphabets as well.

I find it useful for sending postcards that no one else can read .

The languages are incomplete, so you could never become 'fluent' in them, but you can learn some really neat things to say!

For instance....

[quote]Átaremma i ëa han ëa,
na aire esselya,
aranielya na tuluva,
na care indómelya
cemende tambe Erumande.
Ámen anta síra ilaurëa massamma,
ar ámen apsene úcaremmar
sív' emme apsenet tien i úcarer emmen.
Álame tulya úsahtienna
mal áme etelehta ulcullo.

Násie.[/quote]

That's the Lord's prayer in Quenya (the Elf-Latin, as Tolkien referred to it ) There were 6 different versions written by Tolkien; this is merely one of them. Some other people tried to translate the prayer (not knowing Tolkien had already) and came up with something completely different (search: Attolma ).

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

+JMJ

Other than English, I took two years of spanish in HS, but I've forgotten most of that except some vocab. I learned a fair share of Ukrainian while studying in Kiev for a month. I can at least count to 5, but on good days, maybe 6. I know how to tell people I'm American in Ukrainian. I loved learning the Cyrillic alphabet and the Ukrainian balloons from McDonald's. I was hoping to learn a little more though... I still have all the handouts from our language instructor and the book I bought before I left. I like how knowing some Ukrainian, I can pick up on some Polish/Slovak. Dobre!

[MithLuin]

Oh! I forgot I can count to 10 and say a handful of phrases in Japanese, too. Mostly gleaned from kendo, but a little from anime, too.

[Nihil Obstat]

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Oh! I forgot I can count to 10 and say a handful of phrases in Japanese, too. Mostly gleaned from kendo, but a little from anime, too.
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Me too.