Italian, German, Russian ... so many languages to learn, so little time.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:51 AM, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> note taken Andrew, will attempt
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> KS
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> On 24/02/2008, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Beautiful choices, K. If I can give some advice, do _all_ the languages you
> > can in your youth. It is sooooo difficult coming to a new language in your
> > dotage.
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> > Andrew
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> > On 24/02/2008, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > > actually, what I replied with translates: "no I'm not 'finlandssvensk'
> > > [finland's swedish], & speak only a little swedish. my mother speaks
> > > swedish almost as her mother tongue, but not me."
> > > I thought you knew swedish, sorry to confuse you.
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> > > in university, it's required that you take a course/proficiency test
> > > in swedish -- unless you haven't studied it enough. and though I read
> > > it for about 5+ years, I didn't have it in high school so they told me
> > > I didn't need to do the test if I didn't want to. I'm weighing out
> > > doing either swedish or spanish as that portion of the degree; french
> > > I'll be taking no matter what.
> > >
> > > KS
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> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
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