All Things History

I had a patient who used to do that for a living. He travelled around the country. He liked the job, but it ruined his knees.

I do like those programs in which old films have been coloured in but I also must admit that, some old films in particular, actually make things seem more real to me when left in their original greyscale or sepia.

I bet programmers love people like you.

I could trust google I suppose, but is anybody knowledgeable about linguistics?

How old is the English language compared to others?

Jen, your comments pretty much confirm my understanding. I struggled through a couple years of HS Latin, what I was thinking God knows.

And I have now spent about 3-years learning German (online mainly).

Simplicity is best, I guess that is why English is near universal these days.

I am with the Liberals on this. We should refuse to learn other languages to ensure that we all end up speaking english.

In Spain english is taught from age 5.

My so says just the same while learning spanish online.

It wouldn't be much fun for the people who love languages, though, would it? And there are so many cultural things to learn with other languages.

I get having a standard language for business, but life is more than that. I say keep as many languages as possible!

Apart from some French that I learn't in school I have not been formally taught any other languages apart from English. For some reason somewhat obscured by time though I have a fascination for cyrillic text so have learnt, to a large extent, the transliteration of the characters between English. It does help to understand Russian (and Ukraine these days) to some extent. That's how I know Russian is not as alien as it appears and is fairly understandable. It is a western language (as compared with Asian languages). I like to try to read the Ukraine and Russian text on the placenames, graffiti and banners on the news. There are differences between the two though which I don't know well.

Further to that I did learn quite a lot of Egyptian hyroglyphics when I was planning a painting some years back so that I could write the symbols correctly in meaning. It's not something I use though so I have forgotton most of it.

Russian is an incredible language. My brother's girlfriend is fluent in it. I also think learning Hebrew is rather cool, Rebecca! Good luck with it. I hadn't known before anyone to learn that language. Again, it is my loss to speak only English.

I wish i learned other languages, but again I have enough trouble with english...

I may not speak a foreign language BUT I have advanced English skills: both written and spoken. Writing correct English is very important to me: and I am getting more and more advanced.

English is my saving grace.