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| 15 Nov 2012 03:55 PM |
you should learn german
i hear kafka is hilarious untranslated and nietzsche wrote in german (theres something nice about reading books in the original language you know) |
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Tecliz
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| 15 Nov 2012 03:57 PM |
| russian literature über alles |
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| 15 Nov 2012 03:58 PM |
also i hear that modern italian was based off of the novel the betrothal
thats where the standard grammatical rules came from |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:03 PM |
are you planning on being more polyglottal than thomas jefferson?
iirc he knew english, french, spanish, italian, german, greek and latin |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:05 PM |
actually he might not have ever picked up german entirely
and i forgot old english as in beowulf old
so yeah go for beating thomas jefferson all his languages plus occitan |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:07 PM |
wait by fluently do you mean its unaccented spanish now
or do you mean you speak it fluently with the accent usa/whichever nation you reside in (im assuming usa though) |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:11 PM |
i couldnt do spanish i have no clue how to roll rs
also i think im starting to get unaccented french at least i do when i sing french songs i have listened to 20+ times |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:14 PM |
i think we might have different definitions of unaccented here it seems to me you are talking about reading with the accents removed from the letters and i am talking about not speaking with your native accent |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:18 PM |
i now can sing at least portions of four songs from the french revolution and in at least some places when im singing i suddenly realize i drop my american accent while singing (im probably not quite at a french accent but i dont think i use an american accent for it) |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:22 PM |
@heart
no don't try to learn french
it's stupid. so so so stupid. stupid and hard. that's why I don't have french class anymore.
-smf |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:23 PM |
neither do i
except french songs and tom lehrer
and it may be that i just sound like an american doing a bad imitation of a french accent and real french people would slap me but afaik i drop my american accent |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:24 PM |
no
what level are you on for french?
because from there it'll get so so stupid.
-smf |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:25 PM |
"once you learn basic grammar and tenses you have it conquered"
isnt this true of pretty much every language though |
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| 15 Nov 2012 04:28 PM |
"what level are you on for french?
because from there it'll get so so stupid"
when french got repetitive for me i went out and bought french books now im understanding about 75% of all words and about 90% of the ones i dont understand i am at least able to make a good guess about |
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