The Glade 4.0

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... hogkaggkhl

Pretty sweet extension. I'm doing español.

It's like browsing the web with ... how you say...? Ah, yes. Antonio Banderas.

I dig the forum titles. I'm not sure, but I think Rants and Raves might be coming on to me:




I got a kick out of how it translated the Mod forum title:


No, not that right! Your other right!

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

The issue I have with learning a new language is that English is by far the most dominant, both in common speech and modern literature. So it is not very practical unless you plan on moving to another country. I can see a fun factor though.

Los traductores computadoras son utiles, pero hay que tener cuidado. Eloos no siempre se traduce en Espanol de todos los dias. Cuando una persona Hispanica dice "como?", usted no ha hecho hacerse entender. Jorge Lopez dice "No Nintendo!"

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Learning another language -- particularly one related to your native language -- improves your language skills in your own tongue. Especially vocabulary, in my experience.

Trivial example from learning Spanish: the meaning of the English word "verdant" isn't immediately apparent if you don't already know what it means. But if you know even just enough basic Spanish to know that verde = green, it's obvious even if you've never seen the word before.

Or, say, knowing that "sophia" is Greek for "wisdom" makes you see connections you may have missed before in English: sophisticated, sophistry, philosophy, etc. It's never a bad idea to learn some Greek or Latin, or at least some language based on Greek and/or Latin if you speak English. Probably the same goes for Old English. These used to be staples of a quality English education; I regret that I only had minimal exposure to Latin and basically none at all to Greek during primary education.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.