Poll time!

[conuly]

[Poll #352310]

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[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I want to be a language geek! I'm determined to learn italian just so I can yell at a website I found that took my images without credit!

[conuly]

Why not just ask somebody to translate for you?

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone who knows Italian ^-^ Plus it gives me an excuse to learn it.

[rachelkachel]

At one point my dad was going to try to teach us Latin over the summer, but it didn't work out. My sister can still conjugate one verb, and I remember that Latin has no word for "yes".

[conuly]

Which verb?

[rachelkachel]

I don't remember. "To give", maybe - I have no idea what that is in latin. Starts with d.

[conuly]

Do, dare, debi, datus?

As in "Dona nobis pacem"?

[queengodzilla.livejournal.com]

*stabs at the phrase* ... "Give us peace"?

[conuly]

*blinks*

You never sang that? It's an old round.

[queengodzilla.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not Catholic or anything. I don't remember singing it, even in my Lutheran school. XD

[conuly]

It's not a religious song. It's just something people sing, like "propel, propel, propel thy craft, gently down the waterway. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is merely delusion"..

[rachelkachel]

That sounds right.

[pyrokinesis.livejournal.com]

I know French, am learning Japanese, can understand some Spanish, and some German, and want to learn more!!!

[conuly]

*dies of envy*

*turns bright, putrid green*

[celticess.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I qualify as any sort of language geek. I pick them up well in bits and peices. I learned swedish at 4 being around my uncle and a family friend. Though after the family friend died I had no reason to speak it so gradually lost it. Similar with cantonese. I started to learn it because of my kids(and well some of my exhusbands family refused to speak english). After the split and due to my sons language issues I got to speaking it less so lost some of it. Similar for french too. Oh and ASL...(but sometimes I default to that if I've lost my language)

But yet I can read some of those and some germanic languages or pick them up hearing people speak them. But I can't write in them and I can't speak them. Just odd little bits and pieces. *shrug*

Spinner once said there was some word for that ability. I don't remember what it is. Spinner is a linguistics major and also goes to #asperger irc channel though not seen her for ages.

[conuly]

Wow. I do envy you. Lots of talent, there.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

I find it's just weird. It can take me up to 2 hrs to clue into spoken language. But one time when I was younger I was hanging out with a dutch friend. Their grandma only spoke dutch. I listened for maybe 1/2 hr. Then my friends grandma said to her "does she know what I'm saying?" My friend told her I don't speak dutch but then asked me if I grasped any of it. I said "I'm not sure is she talking about some Vicar who heart broken jumped off a bridge and commited suicide?" And she looked startled and said yes. Then she told her grandma that yes I understood. I said though to tell her I can't talk to her in her language though.

Something similar happened with a german friend. Growing up I was around her family for many years. They spoke german around the house but also would speak english for my benifit or if dealing with english speakers. So when I was around I'd hear mix of german and english. Eventually they got I knew what they were saying. I think they were amused even though I couldn't answer them.

With my one swedish uncle his relatives came over from sweden. By then I'd not spoken swedish in at least 9 yrs. I hadn't really read any in that time either. But they noticed I was paying attention to the conversation. Only one relative could speak english(he also spoke german as did the others). He asked me if I understood. I told him what I thought they were saying. He said I was right and asked if I could speak with them. I explained I couldn't. But I did say in german I spoke a little german. Unfortunately they spoke german way too fast and it was high german in formal. I couldn't respond right so gave up. Instead I just translated for others.

It's handy when languages click tho sometimes they just wont(even my own native one). I think it must be my high reading ability and pattern recognition that lets me translate. Too bad it's onesided and I can't respond in things.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

I took one year of Latin in high school (13 years ago, so I don't remember much).

I am not a language geek, and my favorite color is green.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I am a language geek, so long as the language in question is one that I understand. I am not a language geek.

[queengodzilla.livejournal.com]

I took Latin in Junior and Senior year of highschool. Been about, uh, two years?

I lost *ALL* of it. Unless it's a word I can recognize by being related to English (for example: "Malus" means "bad" in Latin and so any english word that starts with it, generally means that something is bad XD. Maladaptive, malodorous, malediction, maleficent, whatever.) I can't remember how to conjugate anything except the present tense. Y'know -- amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant.

I know a smattering in any language. Tidbits from anything I can pick up. I can read Japanese hirigana, katakana and, like, .00001% kanji. I can't write it off hand because it's fallen into disuse, but I can recognize it.

I have a good ear for languages, though.

I'm such a language whore.

Oh, if I had the guts and it wasn't so frustrating, I'd tackled GAELIC. =D It's hard as hell pleasant! =D

[deceptica]

I would say I'm a language geek. I'm fluent in both German and English, I'm studying Dutch, and soon I'll probably be studying either Hungarian or Slovakian too. In high school I also had four years of French and six years of Latin, but unfortunately I forgot a lot of it.

Whenever you post about a Latin assignment of yours I feel that I should be able to help, but the truth is I just forgot too much. I guess I could do some translating if my life depended on it, but as it is I'm just too lazy to whip out my Stowasser (Latin-German dictionary) and Ars Grammatica just like that.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Speekign for myself I can speek one language. When I start to learn another I loose the ability to speek english.

My english is already awful.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I want to be a language geek! I'm determined to learn italian just so I can yell at a website I found that took my images without credit!

[conuly]

Why not just ask somebody to translate for you?

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone who knows Italian ^-^ Plus it gives me an excuse to learn it.

[rachelkachel]

At one point my dad was going to try to teach us Latin over the summer, but it didn't work out. My sister can still conjugate one verb, and I remember that Latin has no word for "yes".

[conuly]

Which verb?

[rachelkachel]

I don't remember. "To give", maybe - I have no idea what that is in latin. Starts with d.

[conuly]

Do, dare, debi, datus?

As in "Dona nobis pacem"?

[queengodzilla.livejournal.com]

*stabs at the phrase* ... "Give us peace"?

[conuly]

*blinks*

You never sang that? It's an old round.

[queengodzilla.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not Catholic or anything. I don't remember singing it, even in my Lutheran school. XD

[conuly]

It's not a religious song. It's just something people sing, like "propel, propel, propel thy craft, gently down the waterway. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is merely delusion"..

[rachelkachel]

That sounds right.

[pyrokinesis.livejournal.com]

I know French, am learning Japanese, can understand some Spanish, and some German, and want to learn more!!!

[conuly]

*dies of envy*

*turns bright, putrid green*

[celticess.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I qualify as any sort of language geek. I pick them up well in bits and peices. I learned swedish at 4 being around my uncle and a family friend. Though after the family friend died I had no reason to speak it so gradually lost it. Similar with cantonese. I started to learn it because of my kids(and well some of my exhusbands family refused to speak english). After the split and due to my sons language issues I got to speaking it less so lost some of it. Similar for french too. Oh and ASL...(but sometimes I default to that if I've lost my language)

But yet I can read some of those and some germanic languages or pick them up hearing people speak them. But I can't write in them and I can't speak them. Just odd little bits and pieces. *shrug*

Spinner once said there was some word for that ability. I don't remember what it is. Spinner is a linguistics major and also goes to #asperger irc channel though not seen her for ages.

[conuly]

Wow. I do envy you. Lots of talent, there.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

I find it's just weird. It can take me up to 2 hrs to clue into spoken language. But one time when I was younger I was hanging out with a dutch friend. Their grandma only spoke dutch. I listened for maybe 1/2 hr. Then my friends grandma said to her "does she know what I'm saying?" My friend told her I don't speak dutch but then asked me if I grasped any of it. I said "I'm not sure is she talking about some Vicar who heart broken jumped off a bridge and commited suicide?" And she looked startled and said yes. Then she told her grandma that yes I understood. I said though to tell her I can't talk to her in her language though.

Something similar happened with a german friend. Growing up I was around her family for many years. They spoke german around the house but also would speak english for my benifit or if dealing with english speakers. So when I was around I'd hear mix of german and english. Eventually they got I knew what they were saying. I think they were amused even though I couldn't answer them.

With my one swedish uncle his relatives came over from sweden. By then I'd not spoken swedish in at least 9 yrs. I hadn't really read any in that time either. But they noticed I was paying attention to the conversation. Only one relative could speak english(he also spoke german as did the others). He asked me if I understood. I told him what I thought they were saying. He said I was right and asked if I could speak with them. I explained I couldn't. But I did say in german I spoke a little german. Unfortunately they spoke german way too fast and it was high german in formal. I couldn't respond right so gave up. Instead I just translated for others.

It's handy when languages click tho sometimes they just wont(even my own native one). I think it must be my high reading ability and pattern recognition that lets me translate. Too bad it's onesided and I can't respond in things.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

I took one year of Latin in high school (13 years ago, so I don't remember much).

I am not a language geek, and my favorite color is green.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I am a language geek, so long as the language in question is one that I understand. I am not a language geek.

[queengodzilla.livejournal.com]

I took Latin in Junior and Senior year of highschool. Been about, uh, two years?

I lost *ALL* of it. Unless it's a word I can recognize by being related to English (for example: "Malus" means "bad" in Latin and so any english word that starts with it, generally means that something is bad XD. Maladaptive, malodorous, malediction, maleficent, whatever.) I can't remember how to conjugate anything except the present tense. Y'know -- amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant.

I know a smattering in any language. Tidbits from anything I can pick up. I can read Japanese hirigana, katakana and, like, .00001% kanji. I can't write it off hand because it's fallen into disuse, but I can recognize it.

I have a good ear for languages, though.

I'm such a language whore.

Oh, if I had the guts and it wasn't so frustrating, I'd tackled GAELIC. =D It's hard as hell pleasant! =D

[deceptica]

I would say I'm a language geek. I'm fluent in both German and English, I'm studying Dutch, and soon I'll probably be studying either Hungarian or Slovakian too. In high school I also had four years of French and six years of Latin, but unfortunately I forgot a lot of it.

Whenever you post about a Latin assignment of yours I feel that I should be able to help, but the truth is I just forgot too much. I guess I could do some translating if my life depended on it, but as it is I'm just too lazy to whip out my Stowasser (Latin-German dictionary) and Ars Grammatica just like that.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Speekign for myself I can speek one language. When I start to learn another I loose the ability to speek english.

My english is already awful.