Does anyone here learn foreign languages for fun?

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Pancho
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25 Sep 2006, 9:37 am

I started to learn Italian for a little while and would still really like to learn how to speak it fluently.

At the moment though I'm learning, or trying to learn. ASL (American Sign Language.) But being in England it's harder than it seems. I have some of the basics mastered, the 'hi I'm...and how are you?...nice to meet you..' and so on. Maybe I should just try to learnBbritish Sign Language. :)



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25 Sep 2006, 11:11 am

Pancho wrote:
I started to learn Italian for a little while and would still really like to learn how to speak it fluently.

At the moment though I'm learning, or trying to learn. ASL (American Sign Language.) But being in England it's harder than it seems. I have some of the basics mastered, the 'hi I'm...and how are you?...nice to meet you..' and so on. Maybe I should just try to learnBbritish Sign Language. :)


Yeah, BSL may be easier in England.



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25 Sep 2006, 4:48 pm

I don't know any other languages but I know some words in other languages. Here are the words I know in Latin

Estuans interius ira vehementi sors immanis et inanis veni ne me mori facias noli manere in memoria saevam iram dolorem ferum terrible fatum hic da mihi mortem iterum qui invitavis poena funesta natus nomen vocare



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25 Sep 2006, 5:01 pm

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I still get my friend's tounges in knots when I get then to try and say Chocolate Hail in Dutch, though!


How do you say it?

One-Winged-Angel, I'm a Latin student but couldn't make heads nor tails of what you said. This is what an online translator said:
"Heat to slay anger violently lot monstrous and empty to come that not me to die the making be unwilling morning upon memory to rage the ire pain fennel dreadful fate this da me mortem again quae invitavis pain causing calamity to be born name vocare"

Of all that the only words I know are ira, vehementi, veni, ne, me, in memoria saevam iram dolorem ferum terrible hic mihi mortem nomen vocare invitavis



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26 Sep 2006, 8:16 pm

Here's my translation, word by word, Latin dictionary in hand:

[unknown, possibly present active participle?]
inwardly
wrath
vehement/strong/powerful/potent
lot [as in lot in life, etc.]
empty and huge
I came
not [subjunctive form]
me
[unknown, possibly misspelling of more, foolishly]
you make/you do
I do not wish to wait
in the memory
raging [feminine accusative singular]
wrath [same as before but in acc singular this time]
sadness/pain
wild [neuter]
fate
this
Give! [imperative]
to me/for me
death [accusative form]
again
that
you invited
punishment
mourning/lamentable
born
name
to call

I would also like to say that the endings are absolutely atrocious.


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26 Sep 2006, 10:47 pm

Learning languages is quite fun. I'm teaching myself Russian. but for me it's only fun when I am learning myself



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28 Sep 2006, 2:56 am

Starbuline wrote:
Learning languages is quite fun. I'm teaching myself Russian. but for me it's only fun when I am learning myself


I agree wholeheartedly.