(smashing goal, btw, smartstuff)
languages to learn:
spanish – i am after all in the usa!
arabic – more & more importante
italian – beautiful language
hindi
turkish – since i am always mistaken for turkish, why the hell not
languages to polish or relearn:
chinese – 3rd year in high school. most people would call me something near fluent (i’m taking the AP in a few weeks and i got 790 on my SAT2s), but that is completely a product of my first year of chinese where i was super super intense and lived ate breathed chinese for two months so that i could pass by in chinese 3, which i had mistakenly signed up for instead of chinese 1. that was fun, and i’m not actually being sarcastic here. anyway, since then i’ve slacked off major and i’m actually falling behind in my class right now. (OH YEAH, just to vent, but dear native speakers of chinese who decided to sign up for my class despite the fact that you have perfect chinese and should be at least one level up: FUCK YOU.)
french: lived in france and went to public school for a year, gained rudimentary french skills (ie could survive), i would like to at least be able to converse in french again.
japanese: took three years in middle school and bummed off. now i’m out of whack, i’d like to pick it back up again.
ancient greek: 2nd year in high school. i can translate with a dictionary but my vocabulary is seriously lacking.
latin: learned equivalent of one year high school latin, then turned around and forgot it…
will write full, more coherent entry later
