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| | | | Mary Worby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:33
German to English
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During my translation degree I took lessons in Norwegian. Unfortunately, not much of it has stuck and all I can now say in Norwegian is 'I see eight goats' and 'I have no bicycle'. Useful stuff, I think you'll agree.
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Only for one year because it was during my studies and I moved city after that. As it was in Catalonia, the lessons were in Catalan and Arabic so I was able to improve my Catalan, too!
I thought Arabic was really interesting, by the way, it helps you understand a lot about where many Spanish words come from.
Mary Worby wrote:
During my translation degree I took lessons in Norwegian. Unfortunately, not much of it has stuck and all I can now say in Norwegian is 'I see eight goats' and 'I have no bicycle'. Useful stuff, I think you'll agree.
You never know when they might come in handy!!
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Mary Worby wrote:
During my translation degree I took lessons in Norwegian. Unfortunately, not much of it has stuck and all I can now say in Norwegian is 'I see eight goats' and 'I have no bicycle'. Useful stuff, I think you'll agree.
There were Polish Lessons for free. The teachers were native speakers and it was a really good opportunity. I was about to renounce at my theater lessons for Polish and then got scared of too many consonants gathered together and too many ways to pronounce them. It was my second year of Greek lessons, so I decided to concentrate exclusively on Greek.
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Yes. French, Russian, Finnish and Japanese, but I never got past the beginner's stage in either of them.
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Mary Worby wrote:
During my translation degree I took lessons in Norwegian. Unfortunately, not much of it has stuck and all I can now say in Norwegian is 'I see eight goats' and 'I have no bicycle'. Useful stuff, I think you'll agree.
Funnily enough the only sentence I can remember in Finnish is 'There's a large cat', and in Russian 'The pencil is on the table'. As you say: might come in useful one day!
| | | | | A bit of Japanese and Italian... | Jul 3, 2010 |
When I was in my last year at school I took Japanese classes at lunchtime for a term... can't say I can remember much, which is a shame. I also took Italian evening classes for a while when I was doing my A-levels, but it all got a bit too much with my other studies, so I had to give up I really enjoyed it though!
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Before I made it all the way to pro level in Italian I had dalliances with Estonian, Hindi, Arabic, Basque, German and Swahili, but never really had the time to get as far as I wanted with them. Oh, I forgot Japanese and Dutch.
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Not too long though
| | | | | This is a long list :) | Jul 3, 2010 |
Oliver Lawrence wrote:
Before I made it all the way to pro level in Italian I had dalliances with Estonian, Hindi, Arabic, Basque, German and Swahili, but never really had the time to get as far as I wanted with them. Oh, I forgot Japanese and Dutch.
[Edited at 2010-07-03 11:25 GMT]
| | | | | french and spanish | Jul 3, 2010 |
.... we belong to the same "family" and it was really a pleasure!
| | | | andres-larsen
Venezuela
Local time: 15:33
Spanish to English
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| self-taught Danish | Jul 3, 2010 |
My Danish is self-taught and at present I am practising it in Kudoz and GBK as a native / target language (although this is not the case) pairing it with English, German, French, and Spanish as source / working languages.
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Steven Smith
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:33
Member (2007)
Japanese to English
Oliver Lawrence wrote:
Before I made it all the way to pro level in Italian I had dalliances with Estonian, Hindi, Arabic, Basque, German and Swahili, but never really had the time to get as far as I wanted with them. Oh, I forgot Japanese and Dutch.
[Edited at 2010-07-03 11:25 GMT]
Before settling on Japanese I was a bit of a language addict, mainly the exotic ones - Mandarin, Tibetan, Burmese, Cambodian. While in Japan I also studied a bit of Mongolian with a native speaker, and managed to get by in it when I had a holiday there. Nowadays I don't seem to have the time, but I have a hankering to learn one of the West African languages - maybe Yoruba or Wolof.
| | | | | It's a matter of pride | Jul 3, 2010 |
I'm three years into a Russian course ....... it's a matter of pride ..... I can't give up!
| | | | Karin Berling
United States
Local time: 15:33
Member (2010)
Norwegian (Bokmal) to English
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| I have and I will | Jul 3, 2010 |
I have dallied in Russian and French, but I have not gotten much further than the introductory courses. After watching a lot of the World Cup this year, however, I am signing up for beginning Spanish this fall! How can I cheer for my favorite team, Argentina, without speaking the language? The shame
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