What languages do you know?

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Kaesekopf

#15
December 29, 2012, 12:41:11 AM
Quote from: Penelope on December 27, 2012, 02:02:12 AM
English. Aaannnddd, English. And that's it.

But you know English really well!

That counts for something, right?...
Wie dein Sonntag, so dein Sterbetag.

I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side.  ~Treebeard, LOTR

Jesus son of David, have mercy on me.

poche

#16
December 29, 2012, 03:37:13 AM
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on December 27, 2012, 04:53:54 PM
I study Romance languages, so in addition to English, I know French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin, more or less in that order. I also speak some German and am learning Modern Greek.
Don't forget Choktaw

Ancilla Domini

#17
December 29, 2012, 10:25:33 AM
Quote from: poche on December 29, 2012, 03:37:13 AM
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on December 27, 2012, 04:53:54 PM
I study Romance languages, so in addition to English, I know French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin, more or less in that order. I also speak some German and am learning Modern Greek.
Don't forget Choktaw

Haha! I don't really speak Choctaw. Just a few phrases.  :)

EcceQuamBonum

#18
December 29, 2012, 12:00:34 PM
I know English and teach it.  Even though I'm supposed to be teaching English lit, half the time it feels as though I have to teach the rudiments of the language, too.   ;)

I can read French and write it fairly well.  I can speak it on a basic level.

I know Latin and took it all through high school and college, but it's been awhile since I've done anything with it, alas, alack.  I can still puzzle things out in Latin, but the multitudinous host of verb conjugations now escapes me.  I hope over the summer to re-learn my Latin, as I'll be starting an MA in Religious Studies (though at my university, this is essentially a degree in theology), and I'd like to be able to read primary sources in their original Latin.  I'd also like to begin to teach myself classical and NT Greek, though that might be a bit ambitious for one summer...
"Sero Te amavi, Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova.  Sero Te amavi!"-Confessions, X.27

"You've thought about eternity for twenty-five minutes and think you've come to some interesting conclusions."--

Penelope

#19
December 29, 2012, 04:18:17 PM
Quote from: Kaesekopf on December 29, 2012, 12:41:11 AM
Quote from: Penelope on December 27, 2012, 02:02:12 AM
English. Aaannnddd, English. And that's it.

But you know English really well!

That counts for something, right?...

I guess. Well enough to teach it to 9th graders, anyway.

MilesChristi

#20
December 30, 2012, 01:56:17 AM
I'm a native bilingual for English and Spanish, can conversate decently in Italian, basic French, work things out in Latin,
and have tried at different times to learn Greek, German and Russian.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Gottmitunsalex

#21
December 30, 2012, 01:59:38 AM
Quote from: EcceQuamBonum on December 29, 2012, 12:00:34 PM
I know English and teach it.  Even though I'm supposed to be teaching English lit, half the time it feels as though I have to teach the rudiments of the language, too.   ;)

I can read French and write it fairly well.  I can speak it on a basic level.

I know Latin and took it all through high school and college, but it's been awhile since I've done anything with it, alas, alack.  I can still puzzle things out in Latin, but the multitudinous host of verb conjugations now escapes me.  I hope over the summer to re-learn my Latin, as I'll be starting an MA in Religious Studies (though at my university, this is essentially a degree in theology), and I'd like to be able to read primary sources in their original Latin.  I'd also like to begin to teach myself classical and NT Greek, though that might be a bit ambitious for one summer...
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY[/yt]
"Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it under foot. Now that the Law has ceased to bind, they obstinately strive to observe it. What could be more pitiable that those who provoke God not only by transgressing the Law but also by keeping it? But at any rate the Jews say that they, too, adore God. God forbid that I say that. No Jew adores God! Who say so? The Son of God say so. For he said: "If you were to know my Father, you would also know me. But you neither know me nor do you know my Father". Could I produce a witness more trustworthy than the Son of God?"  St. John Chrysostom  Sunday Homily

"The two goals of the Jews: The universal domination of the world and the destruction of Catholicism, out of hatred for Christ" --Mgr. Jouin

Ancilla Domini

#22
December 30, 2012, 12:07:10 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on December 30, 2012, 01:56:17 AM
I'm a native bilingual for English and Spanish, can conversate decently in Italian, basic French, work things out in Latin,
and have tried at different times to learn Greek, German and Russian.

That's almost the same as me! We should "conversate" some time! :D

Maybe KK will give us a foreign language subforum?

Ancilla Domini

#23
December 30, 2012, 12:14:09 PM Last Edit: December 30, 2012, 12:15:49 PM by Ancilla Domini
Ben, I see that you speak French, Italian, and Spanish too, but I don't want to torture you.

Heinrich

#24
December 30, 2012, 12:18:03 PM
English is native tongue. I am somewhat advanced in High German and Bavarian dialect(which is the accent I have, too). I can understand Spanish and with enough prep I could teach first and/or second year high school.
Schaff Recht mir Gott und führe meine Sache gegen ein unheiliges Volk . . .   .                          
Lex Orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.
"Die Welt sucht nach Ehre, Ansehen, Reichtum, Vergnügen; die Heiligen aber suchen Demütigung, Verachtung, Armut, Abtötung und Buße." --Ausschnitt von der Geschichte des Lebens St. Bennos.

Cesar_Augustus

#25
December 30, 2012, 12:19:21 PM
Spanish, English, and a bit of Latin. I need to resume the Latin studies.

Quote from: Ancilla Domini on December 30, 2012, 12:07:10 PM
Maybe KK will give us a foreign language subforum?

A foreign languages subforum, that would be good. I have various blogs and writings I want to share.

Heinrich

#26
December 30, 2012, 12:24:27 PM
Quote from: Cesar_Augustus on December 30, 2012, 12:19:21 PM
Spanish, English, and a bit of Latin. I need to resume the Latin studies.

Quote from: Ancilla Domini on December 30, 2012, 12:07:10 PM
Maybe KK will give us a foreign language subforum?

A foreign languages subforum, that would be good. I have various blogs and writings I want to share.

That would be cool. That other forum has one.
Schaff Recht mir Gott und führe meine Sache gegen ein unheiliges Volk . . .   .                          
Lex Orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.
"Die Welt sucht nach Ehre, Ansehen, Reichtum, Vergnügen; die Heiligen aber suchen Demütigung, Verachtung, Armut, Abtötung und Buße." --Ausschnitt von der Geschichte des Lebens St. Bennos.

Kaesekopf

#27
December 30, 2012, 12:54:44 PM
I can make one. 

I just didn't think there would be enough of a draw. 

I'll add one this week.
Wie dein Sonntag, so dein Sterbetag.

I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side.  ~Treebeard, LOTR

Jesus son of David, have mercy on me.

Heinrich

#28
December 30, 2012, 01:12:40 PM
Dangschee!
Schaff Recht mir Gott und führe meine Sache gegen ein unheiliges Volk . . .   .                          
Lex Orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.
"Die Welt sucht nach Ehre, Ansehen, Reichtum, Vergnügen; die Heiligen aber suchen Demütigung, Verachtung, Armut, Abtötung und Buße." --Ausschnitt von der Geschichte des Lebens St. Bennos.

EcceQuamBonum

#29
December 30, 2012, 01:40:06 PM
Quote from: Heinrich on December 30, 2012, 12:24:27 PM
That would be cool. That other forum has one.

That forum which shall not be named?  (TFWSNBN)   :P
"Sero Te amavi, Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova.  Sero Te amavi!"-Confessions, X.27

"You've thought about eternity for twenty-five minutes and think you've come to some interesting conclusions."--
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