Friday Five 3/22/24
Mar. 22nd, 2024 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookofdanielvol21. What is your native language?
'Murican English
2. Do you speak any other languages? Which ones?
I still have enough schoolboy Spanish left that while I can't do direct translations, and I dare not try to actually speak it, I can usually at least get the gist of it in written form.
3. How difficult is it for you to learn or understand new languages?
In high school it was actually pretty easy; I actually skipped a year of Spanish (I went from Conversational to Spanish 2, doing Spanish 1 as worksheets over the summer). In college, though, I did a semester of French and really struggled with it, so I think I lost most of my language absorption ability by that point. I do at least still remember one French phrase from the old Muzzy commercial: "Je suis le jeune fille!"
4. If you were going to study a new foreign language, which would you want to learn?
French, Italian and/or German to supplement my art history, or Japanese so I can play Japanese games that never got English translations, and . Not necessarily in that order.
5. How are you at reading subtitles in foreign films?
Er, perfectly fine. That doesn't really seem like a particularly difficult skill. I do certainly prefer subtitles to dubbing, if that's what the question is getting at.
'Murican English
2. Do you speak any other languages? Which ones?
I still have enough schoolboy Spanish left that while I can't do direct translations, and I dare not try to actually speak it, I can usually at least get the gist of it in written form.
3. How difficult is it for you to learn or understand new languages?
In high school it was actually pretty easy; I actually skipped a year of Spanish (I went from Conversational to Spanish 2, doing Spanish 1 as worksheets over the summer). In college, though, I did a semester of French and really struggled with it, so I think I lost most of my language absorption ability by that point. I do at least still remember one French phrase from the old Muzzy commercial: "Je suis le jeune fille!"
4. If you were going to study a new foreign language, which would you want to learn?
French, Italian and/or German to supplement my art history, or Japanese so I can play Japanese games that never got English translations, and . Not necessarily in that order.
5. How are you at reading subtitles in foreign films?
Er, perfectly fine. That doesn't really seem like a particularly difficult skill. I do certainly prefer subtitles to dubbing, if that's what the question is getting at.
