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Will.
Joined: 02 May 2003
Posts: 783
Location: London Uk
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I seem to have missed commenting on this thread.
So,
Another language,
One I have not any previous impression of or,
come to that,
knowledge of.
A language I would not need for work so it would be simply for comunication and not influenced by my employment needs.
A vocabulary heavy language with plenty of scope for language manipulation and a grammatical system that while not being simplistic to the extreme still allowed for the influence of my L1 to be felt and not hinder my expression.
A language that sounded, to my ear, melifluous, and unhindered by complicated consonant clusters or pronunciation.
A language that had no marketable value, one that would allow me to study it for sake of language alone.
I wonder if there is one. Any ideas folks? |
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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Posts: 8397
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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English?
Oops Sorry. I thought I was Thrifty for a minute  |
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sonya
Joined: 25 Feb 2006
Posts: 51
Location: california
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| Will. wrote: |
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A language that had no marketable value, one that would allow me to study it for sake of language alone.
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esperanto? |
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Gorm
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Posts: 87
Location: SoCal
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Native: English
Advanced: Norwegian
Intermediate: Icelandic, Japanese
Beginner: Korean
Can understand somehow: Danish, Faroese, Swedish
Want to learn: Dutch, French, German, Mandarin, Russian, Thai
Yeah, I'm a language freak.  |
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lollercauster
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
Posts: 418
Location: Inside-Out NYC
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| How do you gauge advanced, intermediate, and beginner? What aspects of the language and how much of it? |
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saint57
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 1221
Location: Beyond the Dune Sea
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This may be useful. Can anyone tutor me? |
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Jetgirly
Joined: 17 Jul 2004
Posts: 741
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| Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| I would really like to learn Arabic and I'm hoping to audit an introductory course next year at university (pending a scheduling miracle). I figure that after Bush "liberates" Iraq they'll need lots of teachers to go make sure that no Iraqi children are left behind, and I'm hoping they'll accept Canadian applicants! |
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Gorm
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Posts: 87
Location: SoCal
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| lollercauster wrote: |
| How do you gauge advanced, intermediate, and beginner? What aspects of the language and how much of it? |
For me.....
advanced = native fluency
intermediate = can understand roughly 50-60% of all conversations and take part in such discussions
beginner = can't understand even half of conversations and can only express oneself within a limited context (greetings, weather, directions/questions, commands, age, education, etc)
As far as writing and reading go, that's a whole other matter. I only know a bit of kanji thus far. Korean is very easy to read. |
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