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peaceofpie

Help with my Linguistics project!

Aug 08, 2011 14:13

In my eternal quest to become smarter without actually attending school, I've started doing independent studies of non-credit bearing university classes. I'm doing Intro to Linguistics currently and it's awesome! I can learn the material on my own time, nobody gives me a grade or sets arbitrary deadlines for me except for me...I know some people ( Read more... )

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secretmourning August 8 2011, 20:21:35 UTC

For myself ( ... )

linguistics survey anonymous August 8 2011, 20:27:07 UTC

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ext_737833 August 8 2011, 20:37:57 UTC

What is your native language (or languages if you grew up multilingual ( ... )

ext_737833 August 8 2011, 20:40:51 UTC

Forgot to add: I don't know if this is really relevant, but I also took a course in lost languages and civilizations where we learned to (in a very basic manner) translate hieroglyphs and cuneiform (sumerian and akkadian). So although I never spoke those languages, I do have an understanding of how they are constructed.

Survey anonymous August 8 2011, 20:50:21 UTC

What is your native language (or languages if you grew up multilingual)? Russian
In what country/ies did you grow up speaking this language? Russia
In what other language(s) are you fluent? English
What other language(s) have you studied (but not to the point of fluency) and what is your level of competency in the other language(s)? French, Intermediate
At what age did you begin learning the other language(s)? 10
In what country, and in what setting, did you learn/study the other language(s)? Canada
If you could magically learn to speak any language RIGHT NOW, what language would you choose? Arabic
What is your age? 30

Linquistics anonymous August 8 2011, 20:59:22 UTC

What is your native language (or languages if you grew up multilingual ( ... )