Twenty-First Floor: Now Nicely of Legal Age
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UPDATED: Thursday, June 8, 2006 17:52
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Mattie,
Il est toujours bien a vous voir (I know that's incorrectly sentenced...). J'espere aussi que nous avons les temps pour parler aujourd'hui!
Wow, rusty, rusty, rusty! I promise that I speak it much better than I type it! 
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Quote:I took a course in Irish language/lit/culture in University. I've forgotten most of it (bar one phrase: "Is mise Canadeach" = "I am Canadian"), but I still have the course materials so I can look it up. Teacher said there were also a couple of Irish-Celtic radio stations.
Originally posted by Tristan:
I had heard that the Irish language was dying, but actually being there set me at ease. There is at least one tv station that broadcasts all their programs in that language, and you can hear it on the streets every now and then.
I've even managed to find a couple of Celtic pop songs (I was burning a CD for the kids I work with; a bunch of songs in various languages, just to see which they could identify).
I also took a semester of Latin (voluntarily), a semester of Old English (not so voluntarily [whose dumbass idea was it to make a third-year linguistics course a prerequisite to students who haven't had the previous two years of linguistics?!?]), and a semester of Middle English (involuntarily, but I enjoyed it). Plus what was effectively a full year of Shakespearean English (pretty much a language unto itself).
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*jealous*
Serenity,
First Officer of Destiny
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Bride8
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Shiny!
Being a student of the medieval period myself, I have had a chance to study several older versions of modern languages...not to say I can speak or read them with anything approaching fluency, it's mostly been pattern recognition and noticing how words evolve. That, and how Latin neatly ties several of the languages together. I have self-studied Latin, but it was more of a pursuit than anything...mostly so I had a better understanding of the occasional Latin I came across in my studies. Apparently some of it took, because I can usually work out the gist of a phrase in Latin without too much difficulty.
I also self-studied Irish Gaelic ("Teach Yourself" series), but never got around to serious study. Nowadays, I pick up interesting tidbits in other languages to add to my repetoire. 
It's a real hit at parties!
Cybersnark, these Celtic pop songs you speak of...where did you find them, if I may ask?
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tristan:
Wow, rusty, rusty, rusty! I promise that I speak it much better than I type it!
I promise I'm not judging your French, Tristan. My grammar is TERRIBLE!!
Wacky fun!
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Mattie, thank you for not judging!
That was my one major stumbling block...trying to build sentence structure in French rather than English...grr! Oh, and tenses...always messed those up!
Merci, mademoiselle! 
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I have a difficult time with conjugations in the passe compose and futur. Aargh! I can never keep them straight. And then you have to know which ones have take etre. Yeah, I also struggle with all of the du's and du la's. Most of the time I just say what makes sense to me, and then bear the correction from either my dad, or the person I'm speaking to. Haha! Ohh, I'm almost hopeless.
Wacky fun!
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This is a place for us all to hang and be ourselves.
That's the great thing about this place. We can multi-task like there's no tomorrow.
I for one really enjoy the different topics of conversation that come up each day.
Mai, Secretary of Unmentionables.
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Mattie, when in doubt, switch to another language...it'll confuse them long enough that any speech foibles will be overlooked!
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haha! Thanks! I've actually done that before! If nothing else it makes for a great story!
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