Foreign language

[dragonforger17]

From what I can tell alot of people in this forum are in college. I was wondering what everyone is taking as their for language. Im in highschool and taking lating now. Figured this could be an interesting topic and is Forsaken Lands only in english or do the muds translate things into english. I was just wondering if other people played that couldnt read or write english?

[delfytheelfy]

I use to be BAD at writing english, still am, but muddng is what has helped me learn to spell and do english alot better.

[dragonforger17]

English

Yeh its help me to in english. Writing a good character description is hard for me cause ive never been good at vocabulary but I bio and look at other players and look at some of the descriptions and its helped out a lot increasing my vocabulary. Belegriels and Eshaines descriptions got me started. All in all fl helps out a lot.

[Fīv]

You don't have to take a foreign language in college.

EDIT: Aside from that, I've done the normal 3 years of spanish in high school and I also learned Thai when I was little.

[songofsixpence]

the mud is entirely in english, no translation. so those people that play from non-english speaking countries need to have learned english to play.

as for languages...in highschool I took german and latin, though primarily latin.

currently i'm in my fourth year of Mandarin (Chinese).

[dragonforger17]

chinese would be fun to learn

[songofsixpence]

it's relatively difficult in terms of how languages go...effectively you learn 3 alphabets at once (characters, pin-yin, english meaning).

that and it's pure memorization for the most part, rarely can you combine the radicals of a character to determine the meaning. i'm not trying to discourage you, as the language is a blast, just stating that it's got it's downsides too.

[Chromatic]

French and German. They took away the latin program because there weren't enough people interested for them to hire a new teacher. Trying to learn a bit of japanese but it's just not catchin on.

[The Forsaken]

From a practical point of view, the only languages that will really help you out will be english, spanish, and whatever those asians speak.

[Celerity]

I took german in highschool (my brother lives in germany..I've been there waaay too many times) and I speak japanese to some intermediate extent. I'm just starting chinese(mandarin) for fun. Some state universities require foreign language (like mine), so it depends where you go.

[Deykari]

From a practical point of view' date=' the only languages that will really help you out will be english, spanish, and whatever those asians speak.[/quote']

That's nonsense, because from a practical point of view, if I moved location to Sweden, I'm not going to get far with a sound knowledge of Spanish.

I can speak a little French. It's something I'd like to pursue (I started to learn it a while bacK) but I actually forgot about it until I saw this thread, so thanks.

Dey

[Chayesh]

Latin can be quite useful depending on your choice of profession...especially medicine or law.

[Shaun]

I took a year of Spanish in highschool.. I slept everyday, and the only reason I passed, is because I was teaching my Spanish teacher martial arts.

[Benji13]

I tried to learn Italian once..... never really got the hang of it.

Now i study Sign Language.....

[wolfman]

If I were to learn a foreign language, it would be Mandarin. I would tell you why, but then I'd get flamed and the thread would get locked, just like last time.

[MysticR]

Latin can be quite useful depending on your choice of profession...especially medicine or law.

It is, I'm in Latin and by learning Latin fluently, you can actually understand a lot of other languages even if you don't know it specifically because Latin is basically the base of most languages.

[dragonforger17]

well latin is useful cause over 75 percent of the words in your dictionary have latin derivatives so just by learning latin prefix's you can figure out the meaning of most words.

[WarriorCleric]

You don't have to take a foreign language in college.

I guess that's why my advisor is getting on my case for me to finish my foreign language requirements...

Taking spanish only as far as I have to. And only took spanish because I took it in highschool.

WC

[Iusedtobesomebody]

i tuk english az mi langwage, and i'm very gud at it.

[Fīv]

What major are you in WC that requires you take Foreign Language?

[Fiere]

Took three years of spanish in High School, so now I speak pidgeon spanish. Some sort of english/spanish hybrid I use without thinking now.

[WarriorCleric]

What major are you in WC that requires you take Foreign Language?

It's a general education requirement.

WC

[Anume]

I took english, french and spain (Yes and some latin too, though I sucked at it.)

[TheNewGuy]

Well, I'm swedish, so I started studying english when I was like, 8 or 9 years old. All swedes does, because swedish is a small langauge so we need to. So, Dey, you would be fine with spanish in sweden, because you know english, too.

Then I studied german for a few years also, but never really got into it.

And someone said mandarin would be hard. But for what I know swedish is harder. I'd say, it is actually almost impossible to learn perfect swedish if you don't grow up with it.

[Merriwren]

They say the same thing about Chinese though.

I'm trying to minor in French but it's not going to well due to scheduling conflicts. I've taken a bit of Japanese (including attending a Japanese Language governor's school during a high school summer). I really like Japanese because it's pretty straight-foreward (atleast in pronounciation, which is the exact opposite of French). I never got past beginner/intermediate so I didn't learn much Kanji but the other alphabets aren't as hard to learn as Chinese (so I've heard) because they're based on syllables instead of being entire words.

And my University also requires a foreign language in most majors as well. I think it depends on the school.