Comments | fred_cassidy: 12th Observation [audio // English]

fred_cassidy

12th Observation [audio // English]

Jan 13, 2010 19:26

Herz--or anyone else, really--were you serious about classes? I can teach, well, anything at the high school level and quite a few things at the college one.

Let me know.

[Fred takes a second and throws together a courtesy "please don't read this" lock. He's capable of much higher security, and consequently of hacking much higher security, but ( Read more... )

jack of all trades, batou, no information is useless, the boat is harshing my mellow, rfena, i majored in that briefly, srsly polyglot

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lfetimewarranty January 14 2010, 04:55:53 UTC

[Ping, classes!]

I'm not Herz, but I do have an idea about the teaching thing.

Do you know any foreign languages?

fred_cassidy January 14 2010, 05:01:01 UTC

Yes.

[Fred has a working knowledge of a good dozen living languages, and a bunch of dead ones, too.]

lfetimewarranty January 14 2010, 05:34:36 UTC

Like what? Can you tell me any?

[Specifically she's thinking Spanish, German, Italian, French....]

fred_cassidy January 14 2010, 05:42:23 UTC

[It's a second, and then Fred rattles off his list.]

French, Spanish, Italian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Swahili, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Irish Gaelic, and I can fake Cantonese and the Scandinavian family.

...That's the living ones.

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electronichound January 14 2010, 05:52:51 UTC

I'm not much of a teacher, but I don't mind making some worksheets of various languages for you to disperse.

fred_cassidy January 14 2010, 05:55:56 UTC

What, you don't trust my Japanese? You could have said something earlier.

electronichound January 14 2010, 05:56:50 UTC

I don't trust you with kanji or hanzi. I don't trust most Japanese or Chinese with them, either.

[Awkward, stupid writing systems that they are.]

fred_cassidy January 14 2010, 06:00:20 UTC

Hey, I can refer to stroke charts as well as anyone.

[He can read kanji about as well as a high schooler, but he mostly writes in hiragana or romanji and coasts on being a foreigner.]

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[Locked // 30% Unhackable] brynkitten January 14 2010, 06:16:37 UTC

Do you want the long answer or the short one?

[locked // 30% unhackable] fred_cassidy January 14 2010, 06:17:46 UTC

Whichever one you feel like giving.

[Locked // 30% Unhackable] brynkitten January 14 2010, 06:21:22 UTC

Is this the part where I say, "I nearly killed a man in Reno just to watch him die"?

...

Sorry that's probably not that funny.

[locked // 30% unhackable] fred_cassidy January 14 2010, 06:31:51 UTC

Eh, he's from Nevada. No one'll miss him.

[Fred's going to let her talk, or not, as she sees fit.]

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SORRY I'M SO LATE ;A; meinxxherz January 15 2010, 07:15:48 UTC

I-I'm--I'm really serious. I'm sorry I didn't finish talking to you. I mean, I stopped to consider, you know, wh-what I'd--how--you know--how I'd answer, and then someone asked for lunch and--

Sorry.

I-I'd like it. And--a-and I know, uhm, y-you're talking to Rfena, but, uh, I-I said I-I'd be--I'd be--I'd like to help, uhm, tutor people learning English? I think I could--could do that, anyways.

[Helped Sal a couple of times, after all.]

<3 fred_cassidy January 16 2010, 03:40:53 UTC

Glad to hear it. How much calculus do you know?

I'm not sure how much interest there'll be in ESL classes, but we can certainly put the word out. Immersion's the best way to learn, and if they haven't picked it up after a few months, it's safe to say they don't want to.