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Glen, how well can you read/understand German?

Keyser Söze wrote:Glen, how well can you read/understand German?

I can read it quiet well, barring technical/scientific vocabulary.

How long have you been studying it?

7 years now, although the first 5 I only studied it for half the year, a stupid system that slowed everyone's progress.  Are you thinking of studying it?

How many hours a week?

Nah, French. I've been studying it since year 6 but I've attempted reading some more complex French books and struggled.

Would you be OK reading something like The Castle?

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3 of the back 4 are a joke. Silva? He's been one the worst players for large parts of 2014. How often does Ramos even play RB anymore?

Penaldo wins Ballon d'Or even though he doesn't deserve it

ThiaGOAT deserves to be in this team you faggot

vel wrote:Penaldo wins Ballon d'Or even though he doesn't deserve it

Agreed, it's a disgrace.

Keyser Söze wrote:How many hours a week?

Nah, French. I've been studying it since year 6 but I've attempted reading some more complex French books and struggled.

Would you be OK reading something like The Castle?

I think I want to learn French next year, there are just too many benefits to ignore-beautiful language, country, and people. 

I would be able to read something at that level, but I would really have to take my time.  I've only read a few German novels (Barbara Honigmann was the author from memory) but I have read smaller pieces by Thomas Mann and others that I suspect are similar in difficulty.

In on France wank session

Glen Miller wrote:

Keyser Söze wrote:How many hours a week?

Nah, French. I've been studying it since year 6 but I've attempted reading some more complex French books and struggled.

Would you be OK reading something like The Castle?

I think I want to learn French next year, there are just too many benefits to ignore-beautiful language, country, and people. 

I would be able to read something at that level, but I would really have to take my time.  I've only read a few German novels (Barbara Honigmann was the author from memory) but I have read smaller pieces by Thomas Mann and others that I suspect are similar in difficulty.

I was going to say that since you're so proficient in German that French so be a breeze but I've read online that apparently French is harder to learn for English speakers. Might be my ignorance speaking (since I've never even attempted to learn German or rarely encountered it outside football) but German seems like such a heavy language to learn, it has a lot of strange long words whereas French is pretty light and soft.

I'd like to learn Italian or German next or something totally different like Hebrew, Russian or Mandarin.

Do you understand Arabic?

Yeah.

Exceptional, I could never move to another alphabet.

Shit, I can barely speak English.

French is a really fun language to learn imo

  

      

Glen Miller wrote:Exceptional, I could never move to another alphabet.

I probably couldn't either I don't really count Arabic or English as something I learned (in the learn a language sense) since I grew up with them. If I'd known only one or the other and then tried to learn one of them now I'd find it extremely difficult.

Free_Mustache_Rides wrote:Shit, I can barely speak English.

You can speak Spanish, right?

Glen Miller wrote:Exceptional, I could never move to another alphabet.

I studied Russian for a year, thought the alphabet was easy. The grammar wasn't too difficult either.

Keyser Söze wrote:

Glen Miller wrote:Exceptional, I could never move to another alphabet.

I probably couldn't either  I don't really count Arabic or English as something I learned (in the learn a language sense) since I grew up with them. If I'd known only one or the other and then tried to learn one of them now I'd find it extremely difficult.

Free_Mustache_Rides wrote:Shit, I can barely speak English.

You can speak Spanish, right?

Yeah. It's my first language.

I actually know a little Brazilian Portuguese, and understand a little Tagalog, but nowhere near fluent with either. I've always wanted to learn something like  Japanese, Korean or Chinese though, but those languages seem so complex and different to what I know that I wouldn't know where to start.

You speak Mexican not Spanish

need to hustle so hard this semester, my GPA is 3.67 (just barely, my average percent grade is 81%) and I learned that to get the serious summer internships (PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, Accenture, RBC, etc) you need at least a 4.0 GPA (at least 85%). 

so unless I can find a late-entry role in May, my summer is basically ruined already ffs

What is the maximum you can get in Canada?  A 3.67 in the US isn't terrible.

Here that's bloody brilliant.

The last couple of days I've been having trouble sleeping. I found out Jozy Altidore signed a 30 million dollar contract to play in the MLS.

Worst Premier League striker of all time imo

SBSP wrote:Here that's bloody brilliant.

Hold your horses there, mf.

Mf, Berkeley does not merely hand out As like free candy like some other schools.

SRST acting like William Big Shoes because his university is one place ahead in the national rankings.