Language

[gerbie]

I'm getting annoyed with myself, as quite often when rereading old posts I notice language mistakes. For somebody pretending that his second language comes as natural as his first that's not a good sign. Perhaps I should be less pompous from now on.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I'm not too sure about Spanish. I'm fairly fluent speaking it, but I couldn't explain any grammar. Three translations for 'To be' , different endings for the past tense depending on how past they are, English isn't too bad.

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[javamental.livejournal.com]

Heh. I never got fluent in either language. I only had each for a semester, so maybe I just hadn't run into the difficult stuff, yet.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

The easy thing about Spanish is that you pronounce the exact way as you write.

Compare: to, too, two
or: Worchester, Leicester.

I was never any good at my Spanish classes. Working in the Dominican Republic made it necessary to learn fast though. Having to write my thesis in that language was the last step.

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[javamental.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was that about Spanish. Russian was pretty much the same way.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I should start learning Russian. Someday. I hope.