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the effort to stay ahead of the game at school is kicking my ass. i spend all my time studying.

the shitty economy is also kicking my ass. which is ok since due to studying i don't really have time for a job. but i have roommates.

next semester will not be any easier, however it should be just as fun. maybe even moreso, since i will be taking three classes in russian, instead of just two.

i will officially be a double major after this semester: german and russian.


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A double foreign language major would kick anyone's ass. You're a brave woman, Sunrat!

Gotta ask this - are you able to think in both languages, yet? How intense is the immersion of your courses?

i will only be done with the first year of russian in december, it IS an intensive course. the next semester will be the second year of russian along with another class in conversation simultaneously. the people who have passed through the russian courses all speak fluently.

the upper level german professor and all her classes = a total bust.
i'll have to work completely on my own(in addition to the coursework in all her classes) to get to the fluency the russian students get from their series of courses.

that said i can think in german part of the time.

i will be graduating in spring of 2012. hopefully with two translation certificates too.

A-wow !

Ah, sie lebt noch...nett mal wieder von Dir zu hören!

Halt den Kopf hoch! Deutsch lernen ist für jeden schwer, ich merke das jeden Tag wenn ich mit zig Deutschen spreche die es selber nicht richtig hingekriegt haben.

Sorry about the ass-kicking, but I admire you very much for committing to making a change that You want.

Are you and Der G gonna talk in German now so the rest of us sit back and scratch our heads?

It's really good to hear from you!

DerGolgo wrote:Ah, sie lebt noch...nett mal wieder von Dir zu hören!

Halt den Kopf hoch! Deutsch lernen ist für jeden schwer, ich merke das jeden Tag wenn ich mit zig Deutschen spreche die es selber nicht richtig hingekriegt haben.

Ja, Ich lebe. Vielen dank.

Ja. Es ist schwer aber man muss gut sein, wenn man gute Arbeit will.
Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.

Pintgudge wrote:Sorry about the ass-kicking, but I admire you very much for committing to making a change that You want.

Are you and Der G gonna talk in German now so the rest of us sit back and scratch our heads?

It's really good to hear from you!

asskicking is what friends do for each other, nicht wahr?

and now i have two presentations due thursday, russian workbook work due wednesday, and a creative writing project due sunday night.

пока.

sun rat wrote:Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.

Darf ich "Ihnen" das DU anbieten?

DerGolgo wrote:

sun rat wrote:Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.

Darf ich "Ihnen" das DU anbieten?

Nein!

Es ist nur Gewohnheit. Der einzige Deutsche ich spreche, ist dem Professorin.

ぜんぜんわかりません。。。

Good to see you are alive. Where's MATPOC? He might still know some Russian.

Jonny wrote:ぜんぜんわかりません。。。

LOL! Thank god for Google Translate, cause I was actually able to follow this thread...even what you said above Jonny

Kudos to you Sun Rat! That's some heavy duty coursework you're undertaking. It's fantastic that you're learning other languages so thoroughly and fluently - something that is so lacking in America is knowledge of how to speak other languages fluently.

What do you want to do with your language mastery when you finish school?

Jonny wrote:ぜんぜんわかりません。。。

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Vespalina wrote:
What do you want to do with your language mastery when you finish school?

this is the strange thing. the deeper i get in, the more numerous my options are. at this point the choices are all only mildly overwhelming.

with a double BA, at one end of the spectrum lies teaching high school language. at the other end lies the foreign service office. in between those two points are ESL work abroad, contract translation, corporate translation, teaching community college, the peace corps... any of which is fine work to me.

i may be forced to go to grad school just to have stuff narrowed down for me.

Pintgudge wrote:Are you and Der G gonna talk in German now so the rest of us sit back and scratch our heads?

Schreibt was ihr wolt, ich setze hier trotzdem und kratzt mein Kopf (entweder Deutsch oder Englisch)--nichts zu sagen wie ich mein Arsch immer kratzt.

But seriously Sunny--Kraut AND Russki? Goddam. I did that once--seriously. I did German and Russian for three semesters or so--kicked my ass. Russian;'s a trippy language with alll those declensions--you HAVE to drink vodka heavily to make sense of it.

German's not too tough for me, being my first language, and all, but Russian--hoowee!!! Good luck.

Glad you're back--stick with it!

Zer0 wrote:Schreibt was ihr wolt, ich setze hier trotzdem und kratzt mein Kopf (entweder Deutsch oder Englisch)--nichts zu sagen wie ich mein Arsch immer kratzt.

Zer0 wrote:German's not too tough for me, being my first language...

Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?

Tschuldige, ich konnte nicht widerstehen, wenn wir schon mal über Linguistik schwadronieren.

You and your gibberish! если не лень попробуй это перевести! А если я ещё матом добавлю... capish?

ich verstehe, etwas Deutsches aber kann nicht gut schreiben.

Auf Wiedersehen!

Pero', dovresti anche imparare anche l'italiano, semplicemente perche' quando ci vai in vacanza i zingari non ti rubano la borsa. Sono geloso, vorrei imparare il russo pure io...

dozerone wrote:Pero', dovresti anche imparare anche l'italiano, semplicemente perche' quando ci vai in vacanza i zingari non ti rubano la borsa. Sono geloso, vorrei imparare il russo pure io...

Siete italiano?

babene, arrivederci, ciao!

Non sono italiano, ma ci ho vissuto per un po' di tempo...Je parlez francais aussi, e esto imparando el espanol.

MATPOC wrote:You and your gibberish! если не лень попробуй это перевести! А если я ещё матом добавлю... capish?

ich verstehe, etwas Deutsches aber kann nicht gut schreiben.

Auf Wiedersehen!

I forgot too much Russki, and I'm too lazy to type in your fucked bastardized greek-backwards latin alphabet, but here's something from the top of my head:

О вы, замужние, о вдовы,
О девки с целкой наотлёт!
Позвольте мне вам наперёд
Сказать о ебле два-три слова.
Ебитесь с толком, аккуратно,
Чем реже ебля, тем приятней,
И боже вас оборони
От беспорядочной ебни!
От необузданной той страсти
Пойдут и горе и напасти,
И не насытит вас тогда
Обыкновенная елда.

Oh yeah, one more thing:

Ёб тебя

DerGolgo wrote:Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?

Warum denn, Jetzt ist es kein Geheimnis wie Scheißschlampig mein Deutsch ist. Mein Deutsch ist rightig Komödie, und bin ich stolz darauf.

Zer0 wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?

Warum denn, Jetzt ist es kein Geheimnis wie Scheißschlampig mein Deutsch ist. Mein Deutsch ist rightig Komödie, und bin ich stolz darauf.

Gut für Dich!

Zer0 wrote: Ёб тебя

The proper thing to say is Иди на ХУЙ!

MATPOC wrote:

Zer0 wrote: Ёб тебя

The proper thing to say is Иди на ХУЙ!

хеи! я понимаю!

забавный мужик!

Um....je parle un peu francais....?

Seriously though, I'm absolutely astounded by the fluency in language around here. Especially Russian...I don't even know how to pronounce those funny looking symbols.

And I went to a Polish grade school where they didn't teach us any languages...and Polish mass for many years, where I tried desperately to follow the mass book, but couldn't keep up.

Vespalina wrote:Um....je parle un peu francais....?

Seriously though, I'm absolutely astounded by the fluency in language around here. Especially Russian...I don't even know how to pronounce those funny looking symbols.

And I went to a Polish grade school where they didn't teach us any languages...and Polish mass for many years, where I tried desperately to follow the mass book, but couldn't keep up.

the problem with foreign language teaching in the US is that in the aftermath of WWI it was made illegal in about 35 states to teach foreign languages to students before 8th grade. the school systems affected never recovered, even though those laws were eventually overturned by the US supreme court.

your polish grade school was undoubtedly a victim of that, and just never resumed after the laws ended.

i researched it over the summer and found that many country schools as well as northern city schools were actually bilingual, for the purpose of teaching immigrant children english.

Back home they taught us English (I went to "specialized" school) from the first grade, and out "Native" Ukrainian starting in second. In regular schools taught foreign language (German, English or French) starting at 4th grade and they could not put two words together, they started too late and it never rooted in.

It's good to hear that you are well Sunny.

People Smarter Than Me wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:Ah, sie lebt noch...nett mal wieder von Dir zu hören!

Halt den Kopf hoch! Deutsch lernen ist für jeden schwer, ich merke das jeden Tag wenn ich mit zig Deutschen spreche die es selber nicht richtig hingekriegt haben.

sun rat wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:Ah, sie lebt noch...nett mal wieder von Dir zu hören!

Halt den Kopf hoch! Deutsch lernen ist für jeden schwer, ich merke das jeden Tag wenn ich mit zig Deutschen spreche die es selber nicht richtig hingekriegt haben.

Ja, Ich lebe. Vielen dank.

Ja. Es ist schwer aber man muss gut sein, wenn man gute Arbeit will.
Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.

sun rat wrote:пока.

DerGolgo wrote:

sun rat wrote:Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.

Darf ich "Ihnen" das DU anbieten?

sun rat wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:

sun rat wrote:Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.

Darf ich "Ihnen" das DU anbieten?

Nein!

Es ist nur Gewohnheit. Der einzige Deutsche ich spreche, ist dem Professorin.

Jonny wrote:ぜんぜんわかりません。。。

Zer0 wrote:Schreibt was ihr wolt, ich setze hier trotzdem und kratzt mein Kopf (entweder Deutsch oder Englisch)--nichts zu sagen wie ich mein Arsch immer kratzt.

DerGolgo wrote:

Zer0 wrote:Schreibt was ihr wolt, ich setze hier trotzdem und kratzt mein Kopf (entweder Deutsch oder Englisch)--nichts zu sagen wie ich mein Arsch immer kratzt.

Zer0 wrote:German's not too tough for me, being my first language...

Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?

Tschuldige, ich konnte nicht widerstehen, wenn wir schon mal über Linguistik schwadronieren.

MATPOC wrote:You and your gibberish! если не лень попробуй это перевести! А если я ещё матом добавлю... capish?

ich verstehe, etwas Deutsches aber kann nicht gut schreiben.

Auf Wiedersehen!

dozerone wrote:Pero', dovresti anche imparare anche l'italiano, semplicemente perche' quando ci vai in vacanza i zingari non ti rubano la borsa. Sono geloso, vorrei imparare il russo pure io...

MATPOC wrote:

dozerone wrote:Pero', dovresti anche imparare anche l'italiano, semplicemente perche' quando ci vai in vacanza i zingari non ti rubano la borsa. Sono geloso, vorrei imparare il russo pure io...

Siete italiano?

babene, arrivederci, ciao!

dozerone wrote:Non sono italiano, ma ci ho vissuto per un po' di tempo...Je parlez francais aussi, e esto imparando el espanol.

Zer0 wrote:

MATPOC wrote:You and your gibberish! если не лень попробуй это перевести! А если я ещё матом добавлю... capish?

ich verstehe, etwas Deutsches aber kann nicht gut schreiben.

Auf Wiedersehen!

I forgot too much Russki, and I'm too lazy to type in your fucked bastardized greek-backwards latin alphabet, but here's something from the top of my head:

О вы, замужние, о вдовы,
О девки с целкой наотлёт!
Позвольте мне вам наперёд
Сказать о ебле два-три слова.
Ебитесь с толком, аккуратно,
Чем реже ебля, тем приятней,
И боже вас оборони
От беспорядочной ебни!
От необузданной той страсти
Пойдут и горе и напасти,
И не насытит вас тогда
Обыкновенная елда.

Oh yeah, one more thing:

Ёб тебя

Zer0 wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?

Warum denn, Jetzt ist es kein Geheimnis wie Scheißschlampig mein Deutsch ist. Mein Deutsch ist rightig Komödie, und bin ich stolz darauf.

DerGolgo wrote:

Zer0 wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?

Warum denn, Jetzt ist es kein Geheimnis wie Scheißschlampig mein Deutsch ist. Mein Deutsch ist rightig Komödie, und bin ich stolz darauf.

Gut für Dich!

MATPOC wrote:

Zer0 wrote: Ёб тебя

The proper thing to say is Иди на ХУЙ!

sun rat wrote:

MATPOC wrote:

Zer0 wrote: Ёб тебя

The proper thing to say is Иди на ХУЙ!

хеи! я понимаю!

забавный мужик!

Can somebody please tell me what the fuck is going on?