08-26-2004, 04:26 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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| Either russian or french. I train in montreal where they speak a lot of french so that would help, and a ton of good coaches/referees speak russian so there you are.
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08-26-2004, 04:45 PM
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#22 | | Registered User
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| More seriously, I think I'm going to pick up french soon. Might as well; I've got to learn another language for my degree anyway. It would be nice to direct a bout with the right accent. | |
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08-26-2004, 08:01 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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| While I have no desire or ability to learn another language (hey, its the sad truth, I've proven innept) I think if I were to learn a second language, French would be the best choice for fencing. Then again, it depends on what fencing on wants to do, and where.  | |
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08-26-2004, 08:35 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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| second language
I think Italian would be fun. In my work in South America with Italian archaeologists, I learned to pronounce my Spanish with an Italian accent. Might as well learn Italian with a Spanish accent, no? | |
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08-27-2004, 03:31 AM
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| ahahaha brian, I speak spanish w/ my coach and it's the same. A mixture of italian/argentine accent... and I end up copying his accent. I get weird looks.
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08-27-2004, 03:56 AM
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| i already speak chinese and hate it. so...my chose is French, as im learning french now anyway ;p
ps:2nd russian yet i find russian very hard to learn 
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08-27-2004, 02:41 PM
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| Russian's not that hard to learn.. I'm getting through with it pretty easily. Now the pronunciation is strange, hehe, hello is 'zdravstvoitye'. I'm having great fun with it because you roll almost every single r. Hehe, but then again, I tend to enjoy challenges. Go figure..
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08-27-2004, 03:11 PM
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| Italian or French. Either one of the Original schools of fencing.
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08-27-2004, 03:50 PM
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| My son got interested in learning Russian from his coach and went on to become fluent. He majored in Linguistics and in the process learned Uzbek, Kyrga, and Lok (from Dagostan, I had to look that one up  ) in addition to the French and German he learned while in high school. Unfortunately he stopped fencing!
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08-27-2004, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Sarah Russian's not that hard to learn.. I'm getting through with it pretty easily. Now the pronunciation is strange, hehe, hello is 'zdravstvoitye'. I'm having great fun with it because you roll almost every single r. Hehe, but then again, I tend to enjoy challenges. Go figure.. | .. which means that you have yet to get to the verbs of motion.
and if you found the verbs of motion easy then  | |
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08-27-2004, 06:22 PM
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#31 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| Plus there's a whole different alphabet to learn. Echhh. | |
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08-27-2004, 11:45 PM
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#32 | | Senior Member
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| oh come on! Alphabets are fun! And it's only thirty-three letters, not that many more than our alphabet...
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08-28-2004, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Plus there's a whole different alphabet to learn. Echhh. | The russian alphabet's the easiest part of the language by far: after 20 minutes of class time and a couple hours of home study - no problem.
verbs of motion suck monkey balls, but once you get them down they actually make a lot of sense. it's the formation of participles with the shifting stress, etc, and the many strange sentence constructions which I always trip up on in speech. | |
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08-28-2004, 12:12 AM
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| I'm not having much trouble with Russian, but there is one thing that I can't do.. hold an intellegent conversation with another person. I'm stuck on that. I need to find a tutor because all I have is Rosetta Stone (which is awesome!!!) and I answer all the questions correctly, but I don't speak with a real person. Bummer.
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08-28-2004, 12:20 AM
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| I am learning to speak german right now, so thats probably what I would pick. Dunno how it would really help me in fencing, but it must in some way. | |
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08-28-2004, 12:22 AM
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#36 | | Senior Member
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| French - so you can extend your arguments about the rules to a whole new level. "Well actually, that's a mistranslation. If one examines the French rules, one finds that..." | |
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08-28-2004, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by caher My son got interested in learning Russian from his coach and went on to become fluent. He majored in Linguistics and in the process learned Uzbek, Kyrga, and Lok (from Dagostan, I had to look that one up ) in addition to the French and German he learned while in high school. Unfortunately he stopped fencing!
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Chris | And probably works for the Agency now....
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08-28-2004, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by sabreur And probably works for the Agency now....
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Nah, graduate work in Library Science of all things. My Grossmama would have refered to him as "Hans, kopf in der luft". Not exactly agency materiel.
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