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galen  ·  3110 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, what language do you speak?

English, about half of German (classes), and about a fifth of Spanish (Duolingo). Oh, and drum gear jargon? Like, I can describe the sound of any cymbal or drum any day. I used to spend way too much time just window shopping drum stores.





Ay-Nawn  ·  3110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you think those classes got you to a conversational level of German with a native speaker?

    I can describe the sound of any cymbal or drum any day.

Dare I ask, in the form of a beat box???

galen  ·  3110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm still only halfway through my university's sequence of German classes, but I think I could hold up a conversation. Not at a high level, but enough to get by.

    Dare I ask, in the form of a beat box???

Haha no, there's just a very specific set of vocabulary common to people who talk about gear.

hyperflare  ·  3110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you guys do student exchanges? My school used to do it, but the US students' German was all but non-existent.

galen  ·  3110 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sort of? We have a relationship with the University of Freiburg where we exchange one professor and one upper-level student to intern with each school's language department, and every other year we have a group that goes and studies at Freiburg for a semester.