cyberjosh
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Simple title, simple topic. What languages do you know (partially or in entirety) or what languages are you interested in? Maybe also you could mention why you are interested in those languages if you like.
German
As for me I know some German (perhaps 20% at this point and growing). I am at about the A2/B1 level in German if that means anything to you (it is a public school language level classification). My reasons for being interested are varied, not the least because of the sound, its similarity to English (no really), and because of the sheer volume of writings that will become accessible to me once I can read it and speak it fluently. If you have any interest you can watch this terribly recorded video (I blame my laptop & the awful video codec) in which the audio slowly gets out of sync with the video as it goes along : www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyh564zsJFE. I made that about a year ago so I'm further along now.
Norwegian/Danish
I know a little bit of Norwegian and Danish (maybe 10%, if that, I'll come back around to it after I finish German - which has lots of cognates with Scandinavian languages). This is because my family heritage is Norwegian-American which I mention a little here (website) and here (blog). I've, oddly enough, learned more Danish than Norwegian because I am obsessed with translating this family heirloom pulpit/postil book printed in 1758 (in Danish/Dano-Norwegian) that my grandparents have.
Spanish
Um... as for Spanish... I took one class in high school and two classes in college and all I know how to say is "No entiendo Español." Sad, I know, but I utterly lacked the interest and motiviation and they didn't teach German in either university I attended (What?!). I may, perhaps, one day return to Spanish but the outlook for me learning it is not looking great...
Biblical Hebrew & Greek
I probably know 5% of either of these languages, and have studied more New Testament Greek than Old Testament Hebrew. I can read both scripts with relative ease. I maybe know 100 words from each language, and sadly I had to quit my NT Greek class because of course load at another university years ago and so I only got through the nouns part. So I read "broken Greek", no verbs! It is my aim to learn at least one of these in entirety. Greek may be the easier of the two.
How about you?
German
As for me I know some German (perhaps 20% at this point and growing). I am at about the A2/B1 level in German if that means anything to you (it is a public school language level classification). My reasons for being interested are varied, not the least because of the sound, its similarity to English (no really), and because of the sheer volume of writings that will become accessible to me once I can read it and speak it fluently. If you have any interest you can watch this terribly recorded video (I blame my laptop & the awful video codec) in which the audio slowly gets out of sync with the video as it goes along : www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyh564zsJFE. I made that about a year ago so I'm further along now.
Norwegian/Danish
I know a little bit of Norwegian and Danish (maybe 10%, if that, I'll come back around to it after I finish German - which has lots of cognates with Scandinavian languages). This is because my family heritage is Norwegian-American which I mention a little here (website) and here (blog). I've, oddly enough, learned more Danish than Norwegian because I am obsessed with translating this family heirloom pulpit/postil book printed in 1758 (in Danish/Dano-Norwegian) that my grandparents have.
Spanish
Um... as for Spanish... I took one class in high school and two classes in college and all I know how to say is "No entiendo Español." Sad, I know, but I utterly lacked the interest and motiviation and they didn't teach German in either university I attended (What?!). I may, perhaps, one day return to Spanish but the outlook for me learning it is not looking great...
Biblical Hebrew & Greek
I probably know 5% of either of these languages, and have studied more New Testament Greek than Old Testament Hebrew. I can read both scripts with relative ease. I maybe know 100 words from each language, and sadly I had to quit my NT Greek class because of course load at another university years ago and so I only got through the nouns part. So I read "broken Greek", no verbs! It is my aim to learn at least one of these in entirety. Greek may be the easier of the two.
How about you?
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