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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:09 pm
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Aino Ailill Calixti Sophist I think for a Masters (or Doctorate's?) in Spanish I'm required to know at least one or two other (romance?) languages, and I was considering French because I wasn't too enthusiastic with the semester of Italian I took, and Portuguese to me sounds too slippery and melded together. If that makes sense? sweatdrop I'm suddenly very glad I'm only minoring in Spanish, and only for my Bachelor's. Don't think I could handle another language, especially a related one. gonk Hah, the more languages the merrier is my policy! .... so long as I don't have to speak/hear French. xP I'm majoring in Latin and Greek and it is required that we take another language that is a modern language. I haven't decided what mine will be yet. Nooooooo! crying
I tried to take Spanish and Latin in high school. Note: tried. I nearly failed Spanish. I did fail Latin.
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:12 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:32 pm
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Sophist Calixti Sophist I think for a Masters (or Doctorate's?) in Spanish I'm required to know at least one or two other (romance?) languages, and I was considering French because I wasn't too enthusiastic with the semester of Italian I took, and Portuguese to me sounds too slippery and melded together. If that makes sense? sweatdrop I'm suddenly very glad I'm only minoring in Spanish, and only for my Bachelor's. Don't think I could handle another language, especially a related one. gonk I remember having the same complaint that I have about Portuguese now for Spanish when I was first learning it. "How the ******** am I ever gonna tell these words apaaaaaart?! gonk " I think what helped a lot was listening to a lot of music in Spanish. Anybody know any famous Portuguese language singers?
Look into Fado, it's a kind of folk music, I can't remember any singers off the top of my head though. I don't know any specific Brasilian singers either. Sorry.
And, if you have to take a Romance language and want something a little different... take Romanian? I actually like Portuguese a lot more than Spanish, but then, we grew up with a lot of Brasilian culture in our house because my mom grew up there. We celebrated Brasilian Independence Day every year until my mom moved to Korea, especially after moving here. Traditional Brasilian bbqs rock!
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:39 pm
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Aino Ailill Sophist Aino Ailill The word '********' is very pleasing to me. Not the meaning, but the sound and the feel of it. I hate French when spoken. It is a beautiful language over-all, and a gorgeous written language, but it incorporates the phlegmy sounds such as can be found in German which utterly ruins what is otherwise a wonderful language. It is rather like listening to Classical music and throwing in some very brief and randomly placed instances of Scream-o. That being said, I very much love to hear German spoken. /randomness I make the same complaint about French, but no one ever understands what I'm talking about. I think for a Masters (or Doctorate's?) in Spanish I'm required to know at least one or two other (romance?) languages, and I was considering French because I wasn't too enthusiastic with the semester of Italian I took, and Portuguese to me sounds too slippery and melded together. If that makes sense? sweatdrop I hadn't heard Portugese so I went to youtube and am now watching Ratatouille in that language. I don't get that impression.
I think it's the sibilance and frequent use of double vowel sounds like "mui" and "eu" that make it sound all bendy to me.
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:53 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:02 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:08 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:21 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:24 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:56 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:10 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:47 pm
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Sophist Ainwyn I remember the hell I went through with my one semester of Italian after taking Spanish for 5 years. It was horrible, even though I sang in the language on a daily basis! I totally failed the oral part of our final because I got in there, and all I remembered was Spanish. So I totally understand what you mean. Really? I think I had the opposite experience. I was taking Spanish 4 and Italian 1 at the same time, and found the Italian pretty easy to remember. I did confuse some of the words together sometimes, but that actually worked to my benefit. One of the test questions was the word "slow" and I guessed "lentamente" from Spanish because I couldn't remember. Turns out it's the exact same thing in Italian. xd But I said I wasn't feeling it because...I dunno, I just didn't get that "I love learning this!" feeling learning Italian like I did with Spanish. Same thing with Japanese. Maybe I should give them more than just a semester to make a decision, though.
The issue that sticks out most in my head is when I was having a conversation with the guest professor who came in for the oral exam, and I was supposed to reply with a "you're welcome", and all I could think was "de nada". As soon as I left the room, I was like, "********! Prego!!!" *headdesk*
There were parts of Italian that were really easy for me though, because I'm a music major. My pronunciation was nearly perfect, because I'd been singing in it for several years. One thing Italian really helped me with though was my memorization. I really suck at memorizing words, but with just a little knowledge in the language, I got to the point I could just throw in other Italian words on the fly, which works wonderfully if no one around you speaks Italian. >_>
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:53 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:22 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:36 am
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