Sunday, April 22, 2007

Languages and all that

So. Right. Languages.

English - Mostly Fluent.
Spanish - fading, but still kicking.
German - Awful.
Japanese - Awful + 2 \epsilon.
Chinese - Bad.

I love them all, but I really don't know if I can give even one the time it deserves. So maybe I should be writing this in Spanish rather than English, simply to practice... but that seems like it somewhat defeats the purpose as most people I know don't speak Spanish, and mine is far from perfect. Hmmm... how can I get paid to learn languages... any ideas, anyone?

7 comments:

Unknown said...

(1) Become a spokesman for a language tutoring company. (2) Tutor ESL students in English in exchange for money and tutoring in their native language. (3) Act in films in which you play a tourist. (4)Open up your gigolo business to foreigners. I could go on, but I have a set due tomorrow morning. Sorry!

Vera said...

I know a chinese sentence. Wo bushy huan ni. One of those words is spelled wrong but it's the phonetics that count. A month of joanna mumbling at me in chinese and this is what I pick up on. Says something about our relationship doesn't it...

Vera said...

btw you should link my blog too grr verathecockroach.blogspot.com. plus mine is psychotically prolific so bored people trying to procrastinate by reading yours always will have a fail-proof plan B.

Vera said...

btw saying "plus 2 epsilon" is almost as annoying as saying an algorithm is O(5/9 n)

Unknown said...

Vera, do you ever shut up???

Vera said...

nope. I thought I already addressed this with the psychotically prolific blog reference.

me said...

Join the NSA or whatever it's called!! One of my friends did that and they paid her to learn Arabic or something? Or at least paid her during her summer internships?

Think Vera means "Wo bu shi huan ni" but you prob already figured that one out, haha :D