Haha, yes, I am a white person. But I will stop being one when I actually learn the language I promised to learn?
Here's a joke: If someone who speaks two languages is bilingual, and someone who speaks three is trilingual, what's someone who only speaks one? An American.
I'm hoping to have good enough Italian for Dante. I confess I've never actually read the Divine Comedy, but this will shortly be remedied. Perhaps I will use Dante to help me learn Italian? Originally my plan was to find the first Harry Potter book in Italian and read it side-by-side with my English version, but that fell through.
Thanks for the freerice tip -- the audio thing I'm using is good for giving me conversationally useful phrases, but I'm short on actual everyday words (although I do know how to say "cat" because my childhood bedsheets had little blue cats cavorting on a field of "cat" written in multiple different languages).
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Date: 2009-08-28 06:28 pm (UTC)Here's a joke: If someone who speaks two languages is bilingual, and someone who speaks three is trilingual, what's someone who only speaks one? An American.
I'm hoping to have good enough Italian for Dante. I confess I've never actually read the Divine Comedy, but this will shortly be remedied. Perhaps I will use Dante to help me learn Italian? Originally my plan was to find the first Harry Potter book in Italian and read it side-by-side with my English version, but that fell through.
Thanks for the freerice tip -- the audio thing I'm using is good for giving me conversationally useful phrases, but I'm short on actual everyday words (although I do know how to say "cat" because my childhood bedsheets had little blue cats cavorting on a field of "cat" written in multiple different languages).