Jen's amazing, incredible, stupendous language abilities *g* (was Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Was ist das?)

[Jen Faulkner]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, John Walton wrote:

> Gee, Jen, as the little droid in Star Wars said, "How many languages
> do you speak?"

I an fluent in over six million forms of communication...  *g*

I kid, of course.  

The only language I actually speak well ('sides 'Merican) is German.  I
read Latin and Greek well (and could probably, if the time vortex sucked
me in, get along okay in Rome speaking).  I read French passably, but
any attempt to have a conversation that doesn't involve my name, how old
I am, or where I'm from (baby French *g*) would be, well, sad.  I speak
Spanish well enough to get by; I can read it just fine.  I can
understand some Italian, but I can't really speak it; I can read it with
some difficulty.  I can read modern Greek well enough, but I can't
understand it really at all (the great vowel collapse into [i] and so
on).

But, on the plus side, I know how to swear in all of the above, except
modern Greek.  I have an active command of about eight words in Italian,
and half of them are obscene.  *shakes head sadly* For shame, I know.
*g*

(Latin, Greek, German, and French are all requirements for a PhD in
Classics... no choice about learning those... don't be so impressed!)

--jen, the polyglot :)

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