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Episteme
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Yeah, I think so too. I think languages like Chinese as such are pictogram based (or used to be anyway). We're just not used to it because of the completely different alphabet. I still think it'll be hard as hell.
I've got a friend who picks up languages easily, he speaks Japanese and Chinese fluently and in the proper accent and he can speak other Asian languages and some European, as well as Afrikaans and Swahili (he's South African). No idea how the fuck he does it.
cookiecutter
Proceed to Ultraslamming
That sounds like Zeph. Probably has something to do with how young children have that period of time where it's easy for them to learn languages. Maybe it fades less in some people.
Saparmurat_Niyazov
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That sounds like Vigo Mortensen. I could verify by looking him up on Wikipedia (but I don't feel like it), but I'm pretty sure he's fluent in about 7 languages. That was a big reason Peter Jackson cast him in the LOTR trilogy, because it made it easy for him to learn his Elvish dialogue.
Zephyrus
Tyrants and Slaves
I'm no good at speaking other languages, actually. My French is OK, and I can get by passibly in Italy and Germany. My strength is acquiring language by association with other languages. I'm very good at spotting linguistic patterns across languages and use those associations to build vocabulary and meaning. Knowing Latin & Greek basically makes learning any other European language much easier.
Episteme
Member
I tend to pick up accents and language easier after prolonged exposure to a certain one and having a conversation. I could make small talk with the German girl I was seeing, mind you she helped me quite abit. Now my German's ganna go to shit because she's gone and I got no one to practise with.
Zephyrus
Tyrants and Slaves
Read some German literature. Also Sprach Zarathustra would be best if you have a dictionary handy.
Chanakya
Orphaned Brother
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King Richard
Hello there
I wish I were there.
True story: I take a bag to work with me to hold all of my shit (keys, wallet, chap stik, phone charger, etc.) instead of lugging it around in my pockets because that's annoying. Well this morning I sat it down on the couch to put my shirt on and ended up walking out of the house and driving half way to work before I realized it. Luckily I brought my lunch today or else I would have been really annoyed.
The shitty part was I had planned on making a trip to the Starbucks to buy some whole bean coffee and a venti cup to drink. That and I needed gas because my shit was close to E. But luckily I knew that even though my car was close to E I had at least three gallons of gas left because the gas light hadn't switched on (fun fact for those who didn't know). And then once I get to work I found out our system is down because of some faulty update that fubared the software overnight. So we were all basically back in the stoneage hand writing shit on pads of paper and trying to figure out how to do stuff normally I don't even think of doing.
So ya, this morning was fucked. No gas, no wallet, no pcs at work, and worst of all, NO COFFEE. AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
True story: I take a bag to work with me to hold all of my shit (keys, wallet, chap stik, phone charger, etc.) instead of lugging it around in my pockets because that's annoying. Well this morning I sat it down on the couch to put my shirt on and ended up walking out of the house and driving half way to work before I realized it. Luckily I brought my lunch today or else I would have been really annoyed.
The shitty part was I had planned on making a trip to the Starbucks to buy some whole bean coffee and a venti cup to drink. That and I needed gas because my shit was close to E. But luckily I knew that even though my car was close to E I had at least three gallons of gas left because the gas light hadn't switched on (fun fact for those who didn't know). And then once I get to work I found out our system is down because of some faulty update that fubared the software overnight. So we were all basically back in the stoneage hand writing shit on pads of paper and trying to figure out how to do stuff normally I don't even think of doing.
So ya, this morning was fucked. No gas, no wallet, no pcs at work, and worst of all, NO COFFEE. AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Vilden
From the holy kingdom of Harmonia
Dak
mentat
King Richard
Hello there
heh, I forgot to mention it's usually a kroger plastic bag 
P.S. write on your blog more nygar so I can yell at you
P.S. write on your blog more nygar so I can yell at you
King Richard
Hello there
Pfft, you don't have coffee over there anyway, only water with a little bit of coffee taste.
Lies! I buy various whole bean coffees from around the world (literally).
Chanakya
Orphaned Brother
Pretty sure he meant the venti cup at Starbucks.
American style of brewing coffee is insipid and as Vilden says [and I add], pisswater with coffee flavouring.
