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Post by TheGlove on Mar 7, 2018 14:00:11 GMT -8
Big G- 1st Team
Stevie Jr- 1st Team
Tres- 2nd Team
Drewbanks- Honorable Mention
Way to go boys.
Walton said (haven't fact-checked it) during the UW game, that Big G is taking 19 credits this quarter and speaks 5 languages.
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Post by mbabeav on Mar 7, 2018 17:37:48 GMT -8
Not sure about the credit hours, but not strange to have someone from Europe speaking 5 languages. I had a distant cousin from Switzerland visit many years back, and she spoke German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and great Kings English. But she didn't speak American at all, tho she taught us some great curse words we could use around the adults that only spoke American. Americans need to start emphasising multi-lingual education -
Congrats to all 4 for being as bookish as basketballish!
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Mar 9, 2018 13:56:24 GMT -8
Not sure about the credit hours, but not strange to have someone from Europe speaking 5 languages. I had a distant cousin from Switzerland visit many years back, and she spoke German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and great Kings English. But she didn't speak American at all, tho she taught us some great curse words we could use around the adults that only spoke American. Americans need to start emphasising multi-lingual education - Congrats to all 4 for being as bookish as basketballish! Gligorije is from what is now Montenegro and speaks Bosnian, Croatian, Russian, and Serbian. Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian are mutually intelligible languages, i.e. most linguists tend to think of the three languages as one language, commonly referred to as Serbo-Croatian. (It would be akin to saying that you knew how to speak American and Australian. You might not know what billabongs and jumbucks are, but you could probably get by in Australia. Before the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars, the four Serbo-Croatian languages were usually treated as one language.) Russian was Gligorije's second language. He actually only knew three words of English, when he moved to California as a junior in high school. What is interesting to me is that Gligorije cannot speak Montenegrin, the national language of Montenegro. Montenegro has five official languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. Albanian is the only language that is not mutually intelligible. Switzerland is another special case, because there are actually four state languages: French, German, Italian, and Romansh (a Germanic-Latin language). A lot of Swiss know French, German, and Italian as basically first languages (with Romansh being spoken by less than 100,000 Swiss). Portuguese and Spanish share almost 90% of words and language structure and the two share almost 90% of words and language structure with Italian. If you can speak Italian, it does not take much work to become proficient in Portuguese and Spanish. Europeans often speak several languages, because several languages are spoken within their countries. Americans, on the other hand, generally do not really need to speak more than one language. English is the lingua franca of business, internal relations, and travel. In order to work as a commercial pilot or air traffic controller at any international airport in the world, for example, it is required that you be able to speak English. I personally think that foreign languages help you speak English better, which is where their real value lies. |
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Post by Judge Smails on Mar 9, 2018 14:15:17 GMT -8
Not sure about the credit hours, but not strange to have someone from Europe speaking 5 languages. I had a distant cousin from Switzerland visit many years back, and she spoke German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and great Kings English. But she didn't speak American at all, tho she taught us some great curse words we could use around the adults that only spoke American. Americans need to start emphasising multi-lingual education - Congrats to all 4 for being as bookish as basketballish! Gligorije is from what is now Montenegro and speaks Bosnian, Croatian, Russian, and Serbian. Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian are mutually intelligible languages, i.e. most linguists tend to think of the three languages as one language, commonly referred to as Serbo-Croatian. (It would be akin to saying that you knew how to speak American and Australian. You might not know what billabongs and jumbucks are, but you could probably get by in Australia. Before the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars, the four Serbo-Croatian languages were usually treated as one language.) Russian was Gligorije's second language. He actually only knew three words of English, when he moved to California as a junior in high school. What is interesting to me is that Gligorije cannot speak Montenegrin, the national language of Montenegro. Montenegro has five official languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. Albanian is the only language that is not mutually intelligible. Switzerland is another special case, because there are actually four state languages: French, German, Italian, and Romansh (a Germanic-Latin language). A lot of Swiss know French, German, and Italian as basically first languages (with Romansh being spoken by less than 100,000 Swiss). Portuguese and Spanish share almost 90% of words and language structure and the two share almost 90% of words and language structure with Italian. If you can speak Italian, it does not take much work to become proficient in Portuguese and Spanish. Europeans often speak several languages, because several languages are spoken within their countries. Americans, on the other hand, generally do not really need to speak more than one language. English is the lingua franca of business, internal relations, and travel. In order to work as a commercial pilot or air traffic controller at any international airport in the world, for example, it is required that a pilot be able to speak English. I personally think that foreign languages help you speak English better, which is where their real value lies. Are you sponsored by NBC? I just felt like I read a "the more you know" segment. |
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Post by jefframp on Mar 9, 2018 16:06:31 GMT -8
Gligorije is from what is now Montenegro and speaks Bosnian, Croatian, Russian, and Serbian. Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian are mutually intelligible languages, i.e. most linguists tend to think of the three languages as one language, commonly referred to as Serbo-Croatian. (It would be akin to saying that you knew how to speak American and Australian. You might not know what billabongs and jumbucks are, but you could probably get by in Australia. Before the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars, the four Serbo-Croatian languages were usually treated as one language.) Russian was Gligorije's second language. He actually only knew three words of English, when he moved to California as a junior in high school. What is interesting to me is that Gligorije cannot speak Montenegrin, the national language of Montenegro. Montenegro has five official languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. Albanian is the only language that is not mutually intelligible. Switzerland is another special case, because there are actually four state languages: French, German, Italian, and Romansh (a Germanic-Latin language). A lot of Swiss know French, German, and Italian as basically first languages (with Romansh being spoken by less than 100,000 Swiss). Portuguese and Spanish share almost 90% of words and language structure and the two share almost 90% of words and language structure with Italian. If you can speak Italian, it does not take much work to become proficient in Portuguese and Spanish. Europeans often speak several languages, because several languages are spoken within their countries. Americans, on the other hand, generally do not really need to speak more than one language. English is the lingua franca of business, internal relations, and travel. In order to work as a commercial pilot or air traffic controller at any international airport in the world, for example, it is required that a pilot be able to speak English. I personally think that foreign languages help you speak English better, which is where their real value lies. Are you sponsored by NBC? I just felt like I read a "the more you know" segment. I'm thinking he is a student of Bill Walton's. |
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Post by justdamwin on Mar 9, 2018 16:15:30 GMT -8
Not sure about the credit hours, but not strange to have someone from Europe speaking 5 languages. I had a distant cousin from Switzerland visit many years back, and she spoke German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and great Kings English. But she didn't speak American at all, tho she taught us some great curse words we could use around the adults that only spoke American. Americans need to start emphasising multi-lingual education - Congrats to all 4 for being as bookish as basketballish! Gligorije is from what is now Montenegro and speaks Bosnian, Croatian, Russian, and Serbian. Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian are mutually intelligible languages, i.e. most linguists tend to think of the three languages as one language, commonly referred to as Serbo-Croatian. (It would be akin to saying that you knew how to speak American and Australian. You might not know what billabongs and jumbucks are, but you could probably get by in Australia. Before the breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars, the four Serbo-Croatian languages were usually treated as one language.) Russian was Gligorije's second language. He actually only knew three words of English, when he moved to California as a junior in high school. What is interesting to me is that Gligorije cannot speak Montenegrin, the national language of Montenegro. Montenegro has five official languages: Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. Albanian is the only language that is not mutually intelligible. Switzerland is another special case, because there are actually four state languages: French, German, Italian, and Romansh (a Germanic-Latin language). A lot of Swiss know French, German, and Italian as basically first languages (with Romansh being spoken by less than 100,000 Swiss). Portuguese and Spanish share almost 90% of words and language structure and the two share almost 90% of words and language structure with Italian. If you can speak Italian, it does not take much work to become proficient in Portuguese and Spanish. Europeans often speak several languages, because several languages are spoken within their countries. Americans, on the other hand, generally do not really need to speak more than one language. English is the lingua franca of business, internal relations, and travel. In order to work as a commercial pilot or air traffic controller at any international airport in the world, for example, it is required that a pilot be able to speak English. I personally think that foreign languages help you speak English better, which is where their real value lies. Once in China, putting together a deal, went to dinner with; Chinese, Danes, Brazilians. Columbians and myself . We spoke English. Best is watching Japanese negotiate with Chinese, in English. As Americans we are lazy linguistically but we can be. |
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