Scotland, brilliant! Before I decided on Bristol for my semester abroad experience, I was seriously considering U of Edinburgh :D I've been in Glasgow for a mere few hours, and I'd love to go back. I think I'd adore your country :)
Tu español es muy bueno, felicitaciones! A mi también me interesaría una carrera como intérprete, pero todavía no estoy segura. Ya veremos que haré en el futuro. What other languages do you speak?
Ah, and not Bryn Mawr, Wales. I go to school in New England in the States, and that part was mostly colonised by the Welsh, so Welsh names are everywhere. I have my university jumper with me and I wear it when I go outside and it's cold, and I've been approached twice by friendly Welshmen. It's so embarrassing having to tell them I don't speak Welsh. Have you heard of the university, though?
aaaaaand this is embarrassing as wellideotecaApril 9 2008, 14:47:26 UTC
Oops, that's what I get for making assumptions. I gather you're from Silver Springs? My roommate from freshman year grew up there. I see you've moved around a lot-- that's cool :D
Yeah, interpreting is a bit on and off again. She worked as a fulltime interpreter for a while but now she only does it on occasion if her job has the need for it. :(
I truly only speak English fluently. However, I have enough to make me seem like I'm holding a conversation in Spanish, French, and German. I can catch enough to get a gist in Arabic. I have reading fluency in Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Latin. I can't speak much of any of those, since I never have to. I studied Russian for a while, but the only word I can easily remember is nyet. All of this has been in pursuit of various degrees, I'd love to do a language just for the love of it.
I knew you meant the college/uni. I actually didn't know that there was a town called Bryn Mawr. I've only been to Wales once (Bangor and Holyhead), so I'm not as up on Welsh geography as I perhaps should be.
Re: aaaaaand this is embarrassing as wellideotecaApril 9 2008, 18:38:51 UTC
I have enough to make me seem like I'm holding a conversation in Spanish, French, and German. LOL
There's no reason for you to have known about Bryn Mawr. Brynmawr in Wales is this tiny little town :) I doubt most people in the UK could point to it in a map. A lot of the towns in the part of PA that I'm in have Welsh names. It's really ace hearing people pronounce, say, Betws-y-Coed or Wynnewood here. It really amuses me to no end.
I know you did theology, but what did you pick up the other languages for? Like Russian? That's so impressive.
Re: aaaaaand this is embarrassing as wellrethoughtApril 9 2008, 21:52:57 UTC
When I took Hebrew, there was a guy from Russia in my class. He challenged me to take Russian. It seemed fair, since he was having to learn a new language...in a new language. :)
I'm Jyll, in Scotland.
I post only in English, que lastima. Most of my languages are dead.
Pero, hablo un poco español porque mi hermana es un intérprete. :)
And, hey you're at Bryn Mawr. Cool.
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Scotland, brilliant! Before I decided on Bristol for my semester abroad experience, I was seriously considering U of Edinburgh :D I've been in Glasgow for a mere few hours, and I'd love to go back. I think I'd adore your country :)
Tu español es muy bueno, felicitaciones! A mi también me interesaría una carrera como intérprete, pero todavía no estoy segura. Ya veremos que haré en el futuro. What other languages do you speak?
Ah, and not Bryn Mawr, Wales. I go to school in New England in the States, and that part was mostly colonised by the Welsh, so Welsh names are everywhere. I have my university jumper with me and I wear it when I go outside and it's cold, and I've been approached twice by friendly Welshmen. It's so embarrassing having to tell them I don't speak Welsh. Have you heard of the university, though?
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I've lived in Atlanta, Chicago, Asheville, Littleton (NC not CO, the rural place), and now Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Yeah, interpreting is a bit on and off again. She worked as a fulltime interpreter for a while but now she only does it on occasion if her job has the need for it. :(
I truly only speak English fluently. However, I have enough to make me seem like I'm holding a conversation in Spanish, French, and German. I can catch enough to get a gist in Arabic. I have reading fluency in Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Latin. I can't speak much of any of those, since I never have to. I studied Russian for a while, but the only word I can easily remember is nyet. All of this has been in pursuit of various degrees, I'd love to do a language just for the love of it.
I knew you meant the college/uni. I actually didn't know that there was a town called Bryn Mawr. I've only been to Wales once (Bangor and Holyhead), so I'm not as up on Welsh geography as I perhaps should be.
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LOL
There's no reason for you to have known about Bryn Mawr. Brynmawr in Wales is this tiny little town :) I doubt most people in the UK could point to it in a map.
A lot of the towns in the part of PA that I'm in have Welsh names. It's really ace hearing people pronounce, say, Betws-y-Coed or Wynnewood here. It really amuses me to no end.
I know you did theology, but what did you pick up the other languages for? Like Russian? That's so impressive.
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