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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sun rat
- Dominatrix of Skulduggery
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sun rat
- Dominatrix of Skulduggery
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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.
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.
fuck it all.
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xtian
- Le coureur de lames chasse Tinti...
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
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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.
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.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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Pintgudge
- The Big Oooola
- Location: Tacoma
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!
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!
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sun rat
- Dominatrix of Skulduggery
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Ja, Ich lebe. Vielen dank.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. Es ist schwer aber man muss gut sein, wenn man gute Arbeit will.
Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.
fuck it all.
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sun rat
- Dominatrix of Skulduggery
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asskicking is what friends do for each other, nicht wahr?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!
and now i have two presentations due thursday, russian workbook work due wednesday, and a creative writing project due sunday night.
пока.
fuck it all.
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- Dominatrix of Skulduggery
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karl package
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Vespalina
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LOL! Thank god for Google Translate, cause I was actually able to follow this thread...even what you said above JonnyJonny wrote:ぜんぜんわかりません。。。
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?
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Jonny wrote:ぜんぜんわかりません。。。
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sun rat
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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.Vespalina wrote:
What do you want to do with your language mastery when you finish school?
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.
fuck it all.
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Zer0
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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.Pintgudge wrote:Are you and Der G gonna talk in German now so the rest of us sit back and scratch our heads?
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!
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
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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.
Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?Zer0 wrote:German's not too tough for me, being my first language...
Tschuldige, ich konnte nicht widerstehen, wenn wir schon mal über Linguistik schwadronieren.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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Non sono italiano, ma ci ho vissuto per un po' di tempo...Je parlez francais aussi, e esto imparando el espanol.
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
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Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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Zer0
- Professor of Poop
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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: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!
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
'74 R90/6--Thor
'05 Sportster 1200--FrankenRat
'05 Sportster 1200--FrankenRat
My boy D when he was 4 wrote:Bones aren't important--we like motorcycles.
High Kommand wrote:That's the problem with giving a bike a girl's name. Too much temptation to lay it down to examine the undercarriage...
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Zer0
- Professor of Poop
- Location: Smoggy Valley--east of Smog City
Warum denn, Jetzt ist es kein Geheimnis wie Scheißschlampig mein Deutsch ist. Mein Deutsch ist rightig Komödie, und bin ich stolz darauf.DerGolgo wrote:Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?
'74 R90/6--Thor
'05 Sportster 1200--FrankenRat
'05 Sportster 1200--FrankenRat
My boy D when he was 4 wrote:Bones aren't important--we like motorcycles.
High Kommand wrote:That's the problem with giving a bike a girl's name. Too much temptation to lay it down to examine the undercarriage...
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
Gut für Dich!Zer0 wrote:Warum denn, Jetzt ist es kein Geheimnis wie Scheißschlampig mein Deutsch ist. Mein Deutsch ist rightig Komödie, und bin ich stolz darauf.DerGolgo wrote:Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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sun rat
- Dominatrix of Skulduggery
- Location: bfe
- Contact:
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Vespalina
- Magnum Jihad
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Contact:
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.
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.
Hell on Wheels
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sun rat
- Dominatrix of Skulduggery
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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.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.
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.
fuck it all.
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MATPOC
- The Unreasonable Ukranian
- Location: Providence, RI
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.
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SSCAM
- Barista of Doom
- Location: The Fifth Circle
It's good to hear that you are well Sunny.
Can somebody please tell me what the fuck is going on?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:Ja, Ich lebe. Vielen dank.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. 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:Darf ich "Ihnen" das DU anbieten?sun rat wrote:Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.sun rat wrote:Nein!DerGolgo wrote:Darf ich "Ihnen" das DU anbieten?sun rat wrote:Sie haben mehr Glauben als ich.
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.Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?Zer0 wrote:German's not too tough for me, being my first language...
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:Siete italiano?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...
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: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: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!
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:Warum denn, Jetzt ist es kein Geheimnis wie Scheißschlampig mein Deutsch ist. Mein Deutsch ist rightig Komödie, und bin ich stolz darauf.DerGolgo wrote:Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?DerGolgo wrote:Gut für Dich!Zer0 wrote:Warum denn, Jetzt ist es kein Geheimnis wie Scheißschlampig mein Deutsch ist. Mein Deutsch ist rightig Komödie, und bin ich stolz darauf.DerGolgo wrote:Interessant, interessant...aber warum hast Du dann da oben, zumindest dem Anschein nach, Google Translate benutzt?MATPOC wrote:The proper thing to say is Иди на ХУЙ!Zer0 wrote: Ёб тебя
sun rat wrote:хеи! я понимаю!MATPOC wrote:The proper thing to say is Иди на ХУЙ!Zer0 wrote: Ёб тебя
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\di-ˈmä-krə-sē\ n. 1.Mob Rule, whereby fifty-one percent of the people may vote away the rights of the other forty-nine. 2.Tyranny by majority.