BEARATAUR!!!!!

[Raad]

Originally Posted by Arngrim

Your high school offered a class on Latin? No shit? That's a pretty epic school, unless it was a catholic one. I took German during high school and dropped it as soon as I got to college. I got more into linguistics and language studies and opted to take a non-Indo-European language for ethnic points. I'm currently in Arabic.

I'm also studying Arabic at the university!

How are you liking it?

[AltarsofMadness6]

Originally Posted by Arngrim

I didn't need any Spanish class, I learned all mine in bed. Hispanic gf ftw.

[1by1]

Originally Posted by Once Ordained

Yes, that is I

je ne comprend pas.

Originally Posted by Arngrim

I didn't need any Spanish class, I learned all mine in bed. Hispanic gf ftw.

ay papi!

[Lichtbringer]

n00dz, pls.

EDIT: Note that by my request I'm just trying to ruin it for everyone else, since you're not getting them when I request them, lol.

[AltarsofMadness6]

wtt: pictures of sofia for pictures of this bitch

(cue marlon savior complex)

[RICE510]

Originally Posted by StellarMasterElite

hm... bearataur or



i'm not sure who will win

SWIBEARTAUR!!

(clutches chest)

[Arngrim]

Originally Posted by Raad

I'm also studying Arabic at the university!

How are you liking it?

It's not as hard as I would have expected. Homophones aren't a huge issue and the fact that syllabic stress isn't a primary determinant of lexical meanings most of the time makes learning a lot easier for an English speaker like myself.

I dig it, exotic enough for me, yet still pretty close to home.

[Raad]

Originally Posted by Arngrim

It's not as hard as I would have expected. Homophones aren't a huge issue and the fact that syllabic stress isn't a primary determinant of lexical meanings most of the time makes learning a lot easier for an English speaker like myself.

I dig it, exotic enough for me, yet still pretty close to home.

Cool!

The Swedes in my class (I'm Iraqi by descent) seem to have a huge problem with the emphatic letters so a lot of the times words become homophonic just because they can't pronounce them right. So the word for heart ("Qalb") could become the word for dog ("Kalb") which, as you might already know, is a pretty severe insult in arabic.

[Arngrim]

Originally Posted by Raad

Cool!

The Swedes in my class (I'm Iraqi by descent) seem to have a huge problem with the emphatic letters so a lot of the times words become homophonic just because they can't pronounce them right. So the word for heart ("Qalb") could become the word for dog ("Kalb") which, as you might already know, is a pretty severe insult in arabic.

Yeah, I still have trouble with that as well, it might be the Germanic substratum I'm starting out with along with the Swedes, who knows.

So do you speak Arabic at home? Or are you guys fully assimilated Swedes?

[Chalky]

Originally Posted by Curtain

You'd rather take a language that didn't descend from Latin over two that did descend from Latin? But you wanted Latin? Strange.

Yeah haha
Was thinking that too

I was also thinking, no offence to the dude who said that, but why would one want to learn an essentially "dead" language, verses a language (Spanish) that is the second most spoken language after English on the planet.
I am guessing his reasons were more preference than practicality, but still, seems a tad rare.

[Moemers]

Cause Latin is kvlt as fuck.

[gourmetanthropophagy]

Originally Posted by Curtain

You'd rather take a language that didn't descend from Latin over two that did descend from Latin? But you wanted Latin? Strange.

Taking two years of a language I'm obviously not going to be able to communicate or speak the language with any native speaker. I'd rather take something less practical that holds my interest. I find German more interesting.

[crispy]

Originally Posted by AltarsofMadness6

wtt: pictures of sofia for pictures of this bitch

(cue marlon savior complex)

I saw you in the bushes too. I liked her pink top.

[Raad]

Originally Posted by Arngrim

Yeah, I still have trouble with that as well, it might be the Germanic substratum I'm starting out with along with the Swedes, who knows.

So do you speak Arabic at home? Or are you guys fully assimilated Swedes?

I speak Arabic with my family but with an Iraqi dialect. MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) is pretty different and much more correct grammatically.

I'm not sure what you mean by fully assimilated Swedes but me and my brothers speak perfect Swedish since we came here when we were quite young. My parents though... not so much. But they have plenty of swedish friends etc.

[disGUSt(tx)]

Latin is very very practical. English begins to make a lot more sense. All other Latin and classical languages become easier to learn. I can essentially take a text (provided it is somewhat simple with some form of subject context) in Spanish, French and Italian, and understand the main idea, only from my experience with Latin. It is a dead language, but it is extremely beneficial and very very very interesting.

[Arngrim]

Originally Posted by Raad

I speak Arabic with my family but with an Iraqi dialect. MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) is pretty different and much more correct grammatically.

I'm not sure what you mean by fully assimilated Swedes but me and my brothers speak perfect Swedish since we came here when we were quite young. My parents though... not so much. But they have plenty of swedish friends etc.

Ah, I figured that was the case. Fully assimilated Swedes as in you came to the country at a very young age or were born there.

[Stupefaction]

Originally Posted by disGUSt(tx)

Latin is very very practical. English begins to make a lot more sense. All other Latin and classical languages become easier to learn. I can essentially take a text (provided it is somewhat simple with some form of subject context) in Spanish, French and Italian, and understand the main idea, only from my experience with Latin. It is a dead language, but it is extremely beneficial and very very very interesting.

Really? That's pretty damn cool.