[ SECRET POST #3092 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3092 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Thick of It]


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03.
[Orphan Black]


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04.
[Joe Wilkinson, 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]


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05.
[Inception]


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06.
[The Whispers]


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07.
(Kitchen Nightmares, Amy's Baking Co. episode)


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08.
[In Bruges]


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09.
[Orange is the New Black]













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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i59.tinypic.com/qqz8eo.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

¡Buena suerte! (Good luck!)

[(Anonymous)]

Learning Quenya and Sindarin is my goal. I certainly find it more enjoyable than other languages I've tried to learn. The one downside is that the lexicon is not complete. I wish I knew enough language to guess what Tolkien would've used for different words - at least as well as anyone could guess.

I am always in awe of the detail and thought he put into his language. It really feels like a labor of love.

[philstar22]

This is awesome, OP. I totally wish I had the time to learn a language, and learning Quenya (or Sindarin) would be fun.

[elaminator]

Where?!

Not that it will matter because I'm shit with languages too and know I would get nowhere, but I've always wanted to learn the Tolkien languages. It's been a long standing, incredibly unrealistic dream of mine. lol. That will never happen.

Good on you for trying to learn new languages, though! I hope it comes in handy.

[iambecomebees]

If languages are already difficult for you, trying to learn two at the same time is only going to make it more so.

[raspberryrain]

Yeah, this sounds like a terrible plan.

[sarillia]

Depends on what makes it difficult. I come across a lot of people assuming that everyone has trouble mixing up words from one language with another, but that's just not true. If OP's problem is mainly getting easily discouraged by slow progress then this could work out just fine.

[iambecomebees]

I was thinking it makes it more difficult just in that doing more stuff at one time makes anything more difficult, really. Twice the work = either work harder or slower progress. The "mixing up words" would have been my guess for what happens only if the languages were very similar.

[sarillia]

Again it depends. That assumes that the time you spend on the second language would have otherwise been spent on the first and that's not always true. In my experience it's just as likely that it would have been spent on watching tv.

[ketita]

Actually, from a multiple-languages-at-a-time learner - mixing up both languages is a thing that probably happens any time you learn two languages at once, and has nothing to do with similarities between them. I used to get Russian and Japanese mixed up, and they aren't close at all.
What happens is that when fishing out a word, your brain simply fishes out the most 'convenient' one at the moment, regardless of what language you're actually speaking. So if say 'table' in Korean is more available than 'table' in Japanese, Korean will come out automatically. As you learn the languages further, they become more separated in your mind and that happens less (until, of course, you speak them fluently and start code-switching with other people who speak both fluently, but that's a different story...)

[iambecomebees]

Haha I'm not trying to be a dick or anything at all, I just found your "table" example funny because I speak fluent Korean and Japanese, and the best word for table in both languages, that I would use, is the English loan word "table"

[ketita]

... yes, that is something I should have considered XDD
I guess 'table' was a bad example in this case! I just picked whatever was in front of me.
I stand by my point, though :P

[fishnchips]

I kept mixing up French and Japanese for no reason whatsoever. And my French was never that great - but I still kept thinking of French words when searching for the Japanese ones. It was pretty weird.

[(Anonymous)]

Tolkien elves are seriously some Aryan Race fantasy shit

[(Anonymous)]

You mean except for all the red haired and black haired ones?

[takaraikarin]

Ooh, Anon, can you share where/how you're learning Quenya?

[(Anonymous)]

This reminds me of how much I disliked Legolas' crown in that scene.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Cool story bro.

I on the other hand would like to learn Quenya (and Sindarin)... but I'm too lazy.

[fishnchips]

Ha! Me too. Plus I always keep thinking "maybe I should learn an existing language that I can actually use before learning a fantasy language" and then I get to "but you want to learn Welsh that's not exactly a widely used language, don't be ridiculous!" and in the end I'm not doing learning any new language and feel mildly guilty about it...

[(Anonymous)]

Dw i'n trio dysgu Cymraeg hefyd! Have you tried 'Say Something In Welsh'? I teach ESL and this course goes against everything I've been told to do, but it works surprisingly well.

[fishnchips]

Sorry for the late reply!
Thanks, I haven't tried it yet (so far, it's been mostly a matter of "I really want to learn it but no time and too lazy") - I'll definitely bookmark it!

[(Anonymous)]

Last night, I finished re-reading LotR in Some Translation just to practice a language I don't practice enough. Good timing, F!S.