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If you're interested in learning, reinforcing or teaching a natural language, please sign up here, indicating your fluency level.
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==Greek==
[[User:Thatha|Thatha]] is a native speaker of Modern Greek with some fluency in Classical Greek (also a linguist by training). If enough people care, I'd love teaching a class, but not 'till 2010H2.


==German==
==German==
Meeting at 6:00 for beginners on Thursdays, more advanced students are encouraged to come late.
I went ahead and move the discussion here: [[German]]
 
Beginners
*[[user:Christie|Christie]] 2 year study in high school, many years ago.
*[[user:maltman23|Mitch]] I can sorta order food.
*[[user:Yerdua|Audrey]] I can have really basic conversations, very slowly.
*[[user:ieatlint|Jeffrey]] I've two years of German and can eek through very simplistic conversations.
*[[user:david415]] I know nothing about this language.
* Stella Is rapidly losing what little knowledge she had of the language. Tends to speak in convoluted, pseudo-grammatical forms, when she speaks at all.
*[[user:dougygyro|Doug]] Invents bizzare, extraneous compound words to express ideas he does not know the correct word for. Which is all of them.
 
Advanced
*[[user:Ioerror|Jacob]] I am able to converse about certain subjects. However, I cannot properly express my philosophic outlook speaking or in writing. My ability to read in German is quite limited.
*[[user:Elgreengeeto|Skory]] Similar to Jacob, or at least used to be.
 
Basically, it'd be nifty, if advanced speakers did come later. My last class is May 7th, so we could start mid-May. Drop me an email, and let me know. To warm everybody up a bit, try this on for fun. It is called an Ohrwurm--a song that sticks in your head, um an ear-worm. Bad songs have this great ability to cement phrases, content and grammar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTWTKpP7g0. Charlotte


==Spanish==
==Spanish==
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* [[user:jbm|Josh]]
* [[user:jbm|Josh]]
* [[user:dougygyro|Dougie]]
* [[user:dougygyro|Dougie]]
==French==
French is a thing that happens [[French|here]].


==Hindi==
==Hindi==
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[[Mandarin Corner]] started around November 2008, but its current scheduling of 5pm Fridays doesn't seem to bring high levels of attendance. Rescheduling might help, or perhaps we have collectively lost interest...?
[[Mandarin Corner]] started around November 2008, but its current scheduling of 5pm Fridays doesn't seem to bring high levels of attendance. Rescheduling might help, or perhaps we have collectively lost interest...?
==Diacritic Marks / Foreign Characters==
Seeing as we are a diverse group not only in choice of natural language(s) to study but also in computer OS needed to study them, it seems reasonable to note the best ways to create the symbols needed by those languages.
Mac OS X -
*http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8164.html
*http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html
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Linux -
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Latest revision as of 11:03, 30 July 2012

If you're interested in learning, reinforcing or teaching a natural language, please sign up here, indicating your fluency level.

Greek[edit]

Thatha is a native speaker of Modern Greek with some fluency in Classical Greek (also a linguist by training). If enough people care, I'd love teaching a class, but not 'till 2010H2.

German[edit]

I went ahead and move the discussion here: German

Spanish[edit]

here's a link to the Spanish workshop:
Spanish_learning_at_8:30 <---- this is the signup page

French[edit]

French is a thing that happens here.

Hindi[edit]

  • Christie 1 year study at uni.
  • Praveen Native Hindi speaker, can help with learning

Japanese[edit]

Mandarin[edit]

Mandarin Corner started around November 2008, but its current scheduling of 5pm Fridays doesn't seem to bring high levels of attendance. Rescheduling might help, or perhaps we have collectively lost interest...?


Diacritic Marks / Foreign Characters[edit]

Seeing as we are a diverse group not only in choice of natural language(s) to study but also in computer OS needed to study them, it seems reasonable to note the best ways to create the symbols needed by those languages.

Mac OS X -

Windows -

Linux -