 rmowery says: Still have more to write in Review and better screen shots. But it is a start. Dude, you speak & read Russian and Chinese? Wow, that's kinda haute. I try to... I have a long way to go..... I am sure there are many grammer mistakes in my writing. Heck I make enough in English. Word. I also speak Yoruba (Brazil, Cuba, W. Africa), Hausa (N & W Africa), Pidgin (dialect of English with different variations across W. Africa) and just finished a year & half of Français... Is iot any wonder my Anglais is deteriorating?  Damn looks like my man Rob is a man of many talents! We know Rob is superb and I feel proud to have a friend like him. (Man, he reads and speaks Chinese which die for learning!) But Geekette also knocked me down. Yoruba, Hausa, Pidgin along with English and French? Uhm... Thanks guys, you make me feel very incapable and worthless. It should be "which I die for learning". Sorry. Invictus: there's nothing to it although living across different countries/cultures helps. But its never too late to take language classes if you're interested! i figure my natural response should be shared...upon reading this i yelled across the hall: "holy shit adam. mowery wrote this chinese review of us???" adam's response: "yeah, crazy." I know but I'm such a weird person: - I've been studying Middle Egyptian since 1999 - Also working on cuneiform scripts and late bronze age Akkadian since 2002 All "dead" languages that no one speaks.  You see, I'm a bit "old fashioned" (or rather "fossilized") man Eric LOL, your comment and Adam's reply should definitely be in "All Time Greatest Quotes of Clipmarks History". Hey, Invictus, you're not that weird. Aside from Spanish, I learned Ancient Greek in college along with the linguistic evolution of the Indo-European family of languages. Reading all of Euclid's "The Elements" in original Greek was a highlight for me. I know how to speak Australian. Whew! Reading Euclydes in original Greek? You get one more extra A+ from me Jason, this is fantastic! I intend to study Ancient Greek too but too much ambitions, too little time  Chinese is my dream but I'm not sure I can make it. My sister says "You should practise your German at least by reading some online newspapers once in a while, or you'll totally forget it soon" and she's right. But I spend most of my free time to ancient languages. Like somebody would give me a time-machine for my next birthday and I'll visit Pharaoh Khufu's Memphis or Sargon's Akkad. LOL Adam, so you can show us some examples of "real Aussian" in some comments. @ Adam! Although I'm sure the effect makes Australian a bonafide foreign language when spoken in NYC... Damn Invictus, that's deep! And not just because the perps of your subject matter lie more than 6ft under.  Kore7, Euclid in original Greek? Wow. I was a math major and a linguistics minor in college with a fascination for geometry and number theory...so, after a few semesters of Ancient Greek, reading Εὐκλείδης was a natural. Of course, copious annotations help one out with a project like that. Homer is a lot easier and less technical obviously. The Old Testament probably has some of the simplest vocab and grammar of all. I never learned Latin or Sanskrit as well as I would have if I had gone the Classics major route. I don't even practice Greek much anymore, though I'd like to. Invictus, I'm sure you would pick Greek up easily! (You already speak how many IE family languages already?) I learned some Japanese when i visited there a... |
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