Mons Garle
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Post by Mons Garle on Apr 12, 2015 17:17:40 GMT
Nothing like a bit of opportunity denial for the less well-off in society... It's a hallmark of small-c conservative policy the world over.
Not only should a language GCSE be compulsory, but they should completely rethink the way we teach languages in the UK. It's so backward and boring, my GCSE French written coursework consisted of regurgitating a page of French that I didn't really understand under controlled conditions. In no way does that help anybody learn or even be interested in the language. It acts as a total disincentive. I found maths more interesting at GCSE -_-
And yeah, I'm pretty sure if household income is £42,600 or below then you begin to qualify, incrementally, for non-repayable grants. I was lucky enough to get one last year and it really does help. Language students need all the help they can have to be honest -- there weren't any scholarships based on my area of study that I could apply for, plenty for med/dentistry students though, or people who qualified for a bursary from some legacy fund with extremely unusual/specific requirements. As well as that, the fact you only get 12 hours a week contact as a pure languages student means you've got to find something else to do!
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Post by Millyland on Apr 12, 2015 22:18:06 GMT
Hey, a bit late but I love this kind of thing :)
I speak French well enough (went on a trip about a month ago and could actually hold conversations with natives)and I'm doing Swedish right now on Duolingo.
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Post by Mons Garle on Apr 14, 2015 18:49:40 GMT
Can I just say I'm totally jealous of anyone who's had the chance to study Swedish... It's one of my absolute favourites!:D
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Post by Ceni on Apr 16, 2015 22:17:58 GMT
I speak enough Spanish to order in a restaurant xD
Other than that, English is my only language
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Post by Mons Garle on Apr 16, 2015 22:30:01 GMT
¡Es suficiente!
Por cierto podría comer un gazpacho andaluzo refrescante ahora mismo XD
¿Entonces hablas el inglés de Estados Unidos o Inglaterra Ceni?
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Post by Ceni on Apr 16, 2015 22:34:06 GMT
Hablo el inglés de los Estados Unidos - soy estadounidense.
Ahora, hablemos en la página del tablero de mensajes sobre el español, no aquí.
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Post by Mons Garle on Apr 16, 2015 22:36:00 GMT
Por supuesto :P
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Post by Lamatama on Apr 16, 2015 22:38:27 GMT
Native English speaker--you might say I have that midwestern twang, but it depends on the setting. Does anyone else find themselves changing accent to align with those we are with? I know it's common, but it fascinates me!
Second year Arabic student at university level. It's a little late to learn a second language easily, but I really enjoy it so far. I went to small schools for most of my secondary education and that means little opportunity to learn language. There might be a Spanish class (because it's just now becoming relevant to Americans) and some French (not my favorite, but no hate).
Spanish and Farsi are on my list. أن شاء الله Hopefully, God willing.
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Post by Lamatama on Apr 16, 2015 22:39:41 GMT
You Europeans have much more diversity in a smaller area...in general, really.
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Post by Chameliya on Jun 20, 2015 16:57:32 GMT
Today, in anticipation of my trip to Iceland, I've begun my Teach Yourself Icelandic course. I've been trying to get pronunciations right all afternoon and now my throat really hurts as though I've been speaking German.
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Post by Kingdom of Grolsch on Jun 20, 2015 20:17:02 GMT
Icelandic is definitely a challenge! The pronunciation seems to be quite tricky at times. While I have visited Iceland twice, I have not tried to learn Icelandic. I can say that I would highly recommend visiting Iceland, it's a great place with very friendly people.
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Post by Chameliya on Jun 20, 2015 20:52:23 GMT
Yeah, quite a few letters have several pronunciations depending on the letters that they're next to.
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Post by Mons Garle on Jun 20, 2015 22:19:03 GMT
Now I just love Icelandic. It's kind of the Germanic version of Latin I guess, were it still 'living', with all the cases and so on. Also I'm going to pretend I'm not at all jealous of you visiting Iceland!!
On a slightly different note I'm now taking Italian next year at university, (might have gone a bit trigger happy on the module choices page... We'll see) decided I preferred that to mediaeval narratives or some such jargon.
May also embark on Swedish but that remains as yet undecided!
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Post by Mons Garle on Jun 20, 2015 22:19:43 GMT
The only thing with Icelandic is that noun/verbs stem changes are often a bit random and not regular or predictable!
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Post by Lamatama on Jul 1, 2015 2:42:50 GMT
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Post by Avaerilon on Jul 1, 2015 6:52:39 GMT
Ah yes, I saw that on the web yesterday- nice idea, but there are few serious problems with it, unfortunately.
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Post by Lamatama on Jul 1, 2015 14:30:54 GMT
From what I understand it was a project that some uni linguistic students worked on. Not the most accurate and reflective, but I would say then again, not a bad representation either.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2016 0:40:51 GMT
Hello, hello, just dropping in here. I speak mainly English, but Spanish at home since my mum is from Mexico. I know a tiny bit of french (the basics, greetings, colors, and random words) and I want to learn some more eventually.
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Post by Odd Republic on Feb 19, 2017 2:02:07 GMT
You European multilingual elitists ;)
I only speak English, but intend to study Spanish in the near future.
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Post by Austerain on Feb 19, 2017 2:17:24 GMT
I speak English (obviously) and took 4 years of Spanish, along with a year of Spanish in middle school. I'm decent but not fluent in some Italian. I'd been interested in learning French, German, andArabic if someone would teach me :)
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Post by Koiho on Feb 19, 2017 19:19:51 GMT
i'm still roughly new here but I speak English and Spanish fluently, and I speak conversational Danish, Norwegian, and German. I can speak some Hungarian, Turkish, Swedish, and Ukrainian and i'm trying to learn Finnish right now
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 21:28:49 GMT
I am from Iceland so I speak Icelandic (obviously). I also speak fluent English and I am almost fluent at speaking Danish. I really want to learn Russian and German
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 15:41:06 GMT
I was born to a biracial family, so I grew up speaking both Russian and Persian. Unfortunately, I could only be considered fluent in Russian.
When I went to school, I learned English fluently and French to some extent.
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Post by Astrolinium on Sept 5, 2017 1:28:33 GMT
Ooh, languages thread.
I speak English natively, Latin conversationally, have a passable reading knowledge of Ancient Greek, and know a smattering of Spanish and German.
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Post by New Lettia on Sept 9, 2017 14:35:14 GMT
I am a native Latvian speaker. I speak fluent English & a good chunk of German. I understand and can say a few words in Russian, but I can't read the Cyrillic alphabet.
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