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shadowkat
1. What is your native language?
Midwestern American English. My parents were both college graduates, so I heard a somewhat different variety at home than some of the kids I went to school with whose parents never started high school let alone finished it.
2. Do you speak any other languages? Which ones?
I only claim to speak Russian, which I taught for several years. I can read Spanish fairly well after just four years of high-school Spanish only, and can understand Mexican YouTube videos fairly well if I reduce the playback speed!
3. How difficult is it for you to learn or understand new languages?
Oddly, I think being mildly dyslexic is one of the things that makes learning languages a little easier for me than for most. Having practiced guessing the sense of whole sentences from actually knowing a few words is a skill I practiced unconsciously in English before I started school. It's an enormous help if you are not stumbling and getting stopped by every single new word you see in a new language.
4. If you were going to study a new foreign language, which would you want to learn?
I studied Spanish in high school. German and Russian in college. Took courses in French, Serbian, Bulgarian and Polish in grad school for one requirement or another. So I don't feel any personal pressure to learn more. I suppose I'd like to learn to speak Norwegian just because I think it would be fun.
5. How are you at reading subtitles in foreign films?
Fine, but unless I don't know the language at all, I'd *much* rather have the subtitles in the original language. That way I can learn something not just read my way through a movie.
shadowkat1. What is your native language?
Midwestern American English. My parents were both college graduates, so I heard a somewhat different variety at home than some of the kids I went to school with whose parents never started high school let alone finished it.
2. Do you speak any other languages? Which ones?
I only claim to speak Russian, which I taught for several years. I can read Spanish fairly well after just four years of high-school Spanish only, and can understand Mexican YouTube videos fairly well if I reduce the playback speed!
3. How difficult is it for you to learn or understand new languages?
Oddly, I think being mildly dyslexic is one of the things that makes learning languages a little easier for me than for most. Having practiced guessing the sense of whole sentences from actually knowing a few words is a skill I practiced unconsciously in English before I started school. It's an enormous help if you are not stumbling and getting stopped by every single new word you see in a new language.
4. If you were going to study a new foreign language, which would you want to learn?
I studied Spanish in high school. German and Russian in college. Took courses in French, Serbian, Bulgarian and Polish in grad school for one requirement or another. So I don't feel any personal pressure to learn more. I suppose I'd like to learn to speak Norwegian just because I think it would be fun.
5. How are you at reading subtitles in foreign films?
Fine, but unless I don't know the language at all, I'd *much* rather have the subtitles in the original language. That way I can learn something not just read my way through a movie.
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