I need a language proficiency for Grad studies and I am interested in the following:
Hebrew
Greek
Latin
Arabic
Turkish
French
French will likely be my modern language. In the mean time, I have been attending tutoring sessions for Hebrew. I will need to pass proficiency exams in both during Grad school.
Jan 21, 2009, 08:41AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments
Ideally, I would love to learn several languages: Spanish; Italian; German; French; Russian; Japanese; Farsi; Turkish; Arabic; Latin; Greek; Hebrew; Aramaic. Ambitious much?
I have already taken several (three) years of Spanish and feel very confident that while I can’t speak it fluently, I would be able to get around in a foreign Spanish speaking country. I have also taken both German and French before but not significant enough amounts of either.
Apr 03, 2006, 11:27AM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments
pol·y·glot (pl-glt)
adj.
Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages.
n.
A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.
A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the same text in different languages.
A mixture or confusion of languages.
[French polyglotte, from Greek poluglttos : polu-, poly- + gltta, tongue, language.]
poly·glotism or poly·glottism n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Apr 03, 2006, 10:38AM PDT | 3 cheers | 4 comments