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I am a huge geek for languages. Like, you would not believe how much I love them. The grammar, the lexicon, the reasons behind each and every idiom... I love it all! /maniacal laughter

[Error: unknown template qotd] Currently, I speak Spanish and English. I was in Chinese Club for about two years (don't remember that much at all.) I'm taking Japanese, I took French from 4th-6th grade (and can still read French relatively well, wouldn't mind becoming fluent some day) and now I really want to learn Portuguese because I can understand it almost perfectly, as long as it's written down. It's so much like Spanish! Learning Portuguese would be awesome~

Now... why on earth would I want to know 5 languages? Because languages are cool, that's why.

In other news, I'm procrastinating an essay and therefore, really hyper. I'll get back to work now and just leave this here...

Comments

[outbreaked.livejournal.com]

ahhhh that's so cool!! and so similar to the languages i speak jhdsfkj c:

PORTUGUESE LEARN IT ♥ é muito legal pa' aprender! C:

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Eu seeee~! Eu queiro aprender....o? /sobsob I am butchering your language

Languages are awesoooooome &hearts What languages are you learning?

[outbreaked.livejournal.com]

BAWWW NO YOU'RE NOT C8!!!

ahh, right now i'm learning italian! i did three years of french, so i know a bit of that, and i recognize spanish since it's so similar! you know what i'd really like to learn though? german. it's so unique c":

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Mmmmmmf, maybe I can take classes over the summer back home. Learning it from Spanish would be so much better. I think that's why I still remember French, cuz it's a lot like Spanish too &hearts Hurray Romance Languages~

Germannnn, oh yes, that would be awesome. I think German and Russian must be the hardest languages to learn. That and Arabic.

[evershnooks.livejournal.com]

I love languages too! I love learning it and knowing silly things about all of them.

I need to learn Portuguese >> I'm trying to get my roommate's mom to let me stay at her place and work at their clinic so I can visit Brazil

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The silly stuff is the best. Like Mameshiba~ "Nee, shitteru? The French word for dandelions is 'piss plant'."

Portuguese is so much like Spanish, it's ridiculous! Have you taken any latin-based languages?

[evershnooks.livejournal.com]

I took latin for 2-3 years, but I wouldn't say I know a lot of it...

I dont know ANY spanish. ANY. It's embarrassing as hell.

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But with latin, it's easier to understand, no? Romance Languages~ They're all connected to the same latin roots :3

[miraofazuresky.livejournal.com]

Languages are indeed love~ <3 I wish I had appreciated them more when I was younger though...then I would be a fluent Polish speaker as well as English. (I was a very stubborn child, and I decided Polish was a dumb language and refused to learn it <<)

Now it feels like it's harder to learn them though...the best I can do is to buy CD's for the various ones, and those are kinda expensive. College HAS language courses, but they're all only 1 semester, which I don't think is really enough to learn more than a basis dusting. =\ (IMO you need 2-3 semesters...)

My W.B. only allowed for one language, but really I wanna be fluent in, besides English: Italian/Japanese/Hungarian/Polish/Korean/Mandarin/French/Finnish/Greek/Norwegian. A lot, LOL. Learning other languages like Russian and Arabic wouldn't be bad either, though I don't want to be fluent in those as much as just have a basic knowledge.

[miraofazuresky.livejournal.com]

BASIC, I MEANT BASIC, NOT BASIS. "ORZ

Also wanna know Lithuanian, hmm~ <3 And Swedish I think might be easy because it seems similar to Latin as far as grammar goes. 0___o (There was a post in Hetalia comm. once with Swedish/Finnish lessons and I picked up on the Swedish pretty easily because I was like, "Oh, this is kinda like Latin!" Finnish was much harder, that was just memorization.)

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Waaaah,so many languages!I could never deal with that many! Still, that thing with kids not learning a lot of languages when they're little is a common problem. When I was little, my parents basically forced me to learn both languages (In that my dad would pretend to not understand English, so I had to speak to him in Spanish)

My college doesn't offer Portuguese D: It makes me sad... I might cross-register or something...

[yellowdi.livejournal.com]

I want to learn Italian like crazy. I actually wanted to take Italian more than I wanted to take Japanese. But, I knew Japanese was more difficult to learn...... I still want to take Italian though.....

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Do they give Italian at Wellesley? Or does you schedule not have room for it?

[yellowdi.livejournal.com]

My schedule doesn't have time for it T_T I was thinking of buying something like Rosetta Stone for it :O

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>>;;;;; aren't those kinda expensive?

[mortar.livejournal.com]

/flying kick

I like languages too, geek ♥♥

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that's cuz we language geeks flock to one anotherrr~ &hearts&hearts&hearts

[mortar.livejournal.com]

/judo flip <333

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/roundhouse kick

[yamanaika.livejournal.com]

I easily learn languages but strangely I mostly forget them until I have to give real use to them. My brain works in a very unusual way LOL

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lol, I think that's pretty awesome! I wish my brain worked liked that, it'd make studying sooo much easier D:

[yamanaika.livejournal.com]

My brain is strange. It stores information constantly meanwhile I'm like "durrrrr" all the time. But suddenly someone needs help and all that information comes back suddenly... Including the language thing. The other day someone wanted help with an Italian translation and I managed to do translate it suddenly because I remembered all the things from Italian from 2002.

I wonder...

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That's pretty awesome. You must have super awesome!retention skills~

You could be a detective like Shawn Spencer from Psych. How are your skills at observation~?

[shirato]

Wahhh that's so cool and impressive! *A*

I love languages, too, a whole bunch, but I used to know... a lot more than I do now ahaha. Well, I kind of forgot Spanish mostly entirely ever since I started concentrating on learning Japanese.

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Mmm, I see~ Since it's technically my first language, Spanish is a good one to have as a base, it makes learning the similar languages a lot easier. Since it's phonetic too, it means my Japanese pronunciation comes a lot easier~

Though it is confusing sometimes, cuz I learned certain grammar rules in Spanish and not English, so my notes for Japanese are a combination of both. Well, three languages, technically xD