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Apr 06, 2007 12:48 am | 1 comment

I’m going to learn German, Part II

I’m learning to speak German from a podcast. This is almost as effective as my learning breakdancing from youtube videos. A real conversation I had in dinner today:
Me: Guten Abend! Mein nAme Ist Jue! (a characteristic feature of German is the random capitalization.)
Girl: <something unintelligible in German. She must be speaking the country dialect.>
Me: Haben [...]

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Apr 01, 2007 8:48 pm | no comments

I’m going to learn german.

Just kidding! Well, it might happen at some point in the unforeseeable future. To be honest, I never got past being mono-lingual. Telling people I’m fluent in Mandarin and French gives a nice warm fuzzy feeling and all, but speaking the two languages occasionally really is not like knowing them. If anything, there is a [...]

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