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Old 08-21-2007, 02:53 AM
BTirish BTirish is offline
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Default Re: What languages do you speak? read? write?

English: native speaker.

Spanish: I read well; write so-so; not fluent, but I wasn't far about 6 years ago. I took it in high school for 4 years.

Latin: I read well, but need a dictionary for most classical texts. I've never done much composition, and never spoken it, but I wish there were more opportunity to do so. Just should have been born 70 years ago, I guess. I'm also learning to do Latin paleography pretty well, where one reads the Latin in the original manuscript. Those can look like this: Latin manuscript. I study Latin because I'm a philosophy grad student, studying medieval philosophy.

Greek, French, German: I've done elementary work in these languages, and will need to have passed reading exams in them some time in the next four years before I finish my dissertation.
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