Originally posted by dadudemon
I knew what you meant. I won't criticize someone's English when they can speak and write in 5 more languages than I can. 😄And, hell yes, I liked science. Math and Science were my strong subjects. They also, for me, go hand in hand.
Not me. There are some aspects of science I do enjoy. But most I hated. Luckily I never went into a career where I needed it.
What languages do you speak?
Originally posted by 0mega Spawn
why does the world focus so much of teaching smart kids ,and leaving "slower kids" to gain knowledge from other "slower" people???we all have brains thus we all have the capacity to take in information right?
but we only give information to "bright" kids
schools for the gifted and whatnot WTF
why cant they just teach everyoneimagine a world where everybody is a qualified teacher
just imagine
I went to a school for the gifted. I don't understand your problem with them if it means that the "slower" students still have a chance at the same education, if not at an accelerated and rigorous pace but a pace that works best for the vast majority of people.
Also, before I got accepted to my "gifted" school, I was incredibly bored at my old high school. I just wish I had started out there.
Originally posted by Ballerinai know some chemistry took it in high school and university for my old construction job and again in the military for hazard waste handling
What about other forms of science? Like Anatomy, botany, chemistry, etc. I was horrid in chemistry class.
took human anatomy in high school it was a college course credit at the university.
only thing i know about botany is weed, shrooms, peyote along with basic survival from my family heritage and military like: dont eat or touch this
Originally posted by Ballerina
Not me. There are some aspects of science I do enjoy. But most I hated. Luckily I never went into a career where I needed it.What languages do you speak?
How did you learn the nine languages you speak?
Und könntest du einfach in Deutsch mit mir eine Unterhaltung führen? Nimm es mir nicht böse, aber man ist halt scho skeptisch da man ja net so viele leute die neun Sprachen sprechen trifft.
Originally posted by Ballerina
Not me. There are some aspects of science I do enjoy. But most I hated. Luckily I never went into a career where I needed it.What languages do you speak?
Half-assed Spanish and English. I recounted and you have 8 more than English, lol. So I change mine to "7 more", lol. I guess you could count Latin as I can "decode" some written Latin into mostly correct English...but I can't speak it or pick it up when spoken to me worth a shit.
Originally posted by dadudemon
Half-assed Spanish and English. I recounted and you have 8 more than English, lol. So I change mine to "7 more", lol. I guess you could count Latin as I can "decode" some written Latin into mostly correct English...but I can't speak it or pick it up when spoken to me worth a shit.
Well, the way Latin tends to be pronounced in America is atrocious in my experience.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Well, the way Latin tends to be pronounced in America is atrocious in my experience.
AHA!
That doesn't explain that I can't speak it very well. I can pick it out in written from because I have tons of time to look for "root" words and 'reverse engineer' the sentences into something usable.
Originally posted by Bardock42
How did you learn the nine languages you speak?Und könntest du einfach in Deutsch mit mir eine Unterhaltung führen? Nimm es mir nicht böse, aber man ist halt scho skeptisch da man ja net so viele leute die neun Sprachen sprechen trifft.
I can understand how it would skeptical. I went to university and graduated in linguistics. Also my mum is German. 😄
Originally posted by dadudemon
AHA!
That doesn't explain that I can't speak it very well. I can pick it out in written from because I have tons of time to look for "root" words and 'reverse engineer' the sentences into something usable.
lol, no, I get you. I studied Latin for 5 years and I couldn't pick it out when spoken.
Originally posted by dadudemon
Half-assed Spanish and English. I recounted and you have 8 more than English, lol. So I change mine to "7 more", lol. I guess you could count Latin as I can "decode" some written Latin into mostly correct English...but I can't speak it or pick it up when spoken to me worth a shit.
Latin huh? That's cool. What is half- assed Spanish? Didn't keep up on it? That is how I am with Swahili.
Originally posted by Ballerina
I can understand how it would skeptical. I went to university and graduated in linguistics. Also my mum is German. 😄
I'd be less skeptical if you replied in German, for online translators are good enough to pick out what someone means, but not to fool a native speaker.
Not that it's impossible, but fluent in 9 languages at 22, you do have to be rather gifted, even among linguistic students (fluent can be subjective of course).
What do you do now?
Originally posted by BallerinaOh yeah? List three major ways that Vietnamese grammar differs from that of English. GO!
Lol right. I actually read something once, whether or not it is true, I do not know. But, I read that a boy saved a man's life because he had learned CPR on a video game.To gtv- I'm fluent in
English
Spanish
French
Italian
Greek
Swahili
Japanese
German
Vietnamese
Originally posted by Ballerina
Latin huh? That's cool. What is half- assed Spanish? Didn't keep up on it? That is how I am with Swahili.
It means I can carry a conversation with a native speaker in spoken or written form but it has to stay "simple." Meaning, we could not discuss the political complexities that existed during the Mexican-American War or something like that. It would have to stick to something like, "I need to put gas in my car."
"Necesito poner gasolina en mi coche."*
I think being able to use proper grammar (about 85% of the time) in spoken and written forms constitutes being "fluent." I cannot do that, in Spanish. I can barely remember 3 verb forms, much less the 7 that I learned more than a decade ago.
* I did that just because Bardock mentioned actually doing it. So I did it. I checked google translate and I was pretty close...I think my rendering is actually better than Google translate. Is there a native speaker out there that can confirm my translation as better?
Originally posted by Bardock42
I'd be less skeptical if you replied in German, for online translators are good enough to pick out what someone means, but not to fool a native speaker.Not that it's impossible, but fluent in 9 languages at 22, you do have to be rather gifted, even among linguistic students (fluent can be subjective of course).
What do you do now?
Ich werde lachen, wie lächerlich das ist. Ich wusste nicht, musste ich mich beweisen. 🙄