…unless one teach one’s self.
Yeah, that’s true, but in my opinion Chinese is a language that is really hard to learn without a teacher. Take the word “ma” it can mean donkey or mother. The meaning depends on the pitch (I’m sure you know that, since you learn it already…
) and I guess it’s rather difficult to learn that without a teacher or a native speaker…
It’s quite a strange story, how the Chinese gods called me to learn their language. And all the signs during everyday life were not coincidences.
Also some gods gave me a language in my sleep. That’s why I was late for school on monday.
By the way, thank you for being very able to speak English all of you! I could not communicate in German, Italian, Dutch etc!!
That’s a great excuse - I must remember that one!
Episcopus, is English your first language, or was some other language lucky enough to have that honour?
By the way, thank you for being very able to speak English all of you! I could not communicate in German, Italian, Dutch etc!!
I hope you can at least guess what I mean when I write English… 
Thanks but I’m afraid my English isn’t very good
Unfortunately, ashamedly say I that English my first language is 
And again ashamedly I admit that I’m not fluent in french, mostly because I am reluctant to speak it (it sounds queer). Latin I am progressing. German is a disaster. Armenian nobody speaks it around me so I don’t really speak it at all to the point of thinking myself to be unable, yet despite my awful vocabulary I understand it as if it were my first language, although I have neither been taught nor spoken to much in this language. But when I study Italian, chinese and this mystery language no one will stop me. For they sound amazing.
And plus there is another language that, seriously, some strange beings gave to me in my sleep. No joke people.
Toutefois je pourrais parler en Français aussi!
However I could speak French too!
Intersesting, Gods teaching languages? Why doesn’t it happen to me?? It takes a lot of time studying Latin and Greek, If I could study during the night…
Oui je dois l’ecrire aussi vite que je peux ecrire de peur qu’elle soit oubliée dehors la tete 
ton anglais c’est super, ne me dis pas que tu ne peux pas 
Si je pourrais parler en Latin comme je parle en Anglais…
If I could speak Latin as well as English… (I don’t know if this is correct English but surely it’s comprehensible)
ne pas faire du souci! ces mots-la sont parfaits!
Unfortunately, ashamedly say I that English my first language is
Hmm…is that the word order you usually use when you’re speaking English? If I didn’t know better I would think you’re a German guy who just translates German sentences…confused
manchmal doch! wenn Englisch mir langweilig ist, spreche ich wie Clemens 
Mir is’ grad sau langweilig, weil ich noch die ganze Kunstgeschichte des Barock lernen muss… also google ich nach Caravaggio (wär net schlecht wenn ich wüsst wie man den eigenlich schreibt, aber des gute is, dass die meisten im internet des wahrscheinlich auch net wissen, also sind meine chancen vielleicht gar net so schlecht). Na ja, egal… wollt nur was für Episcopus schreiben, dass er wieder mal was zum übersetzten hat…
willst du ‘wäre’ und ‘wüsste’ schreiben nicht wahr? oder bin ich ja so schlecht daß ich nicht verstehen kann 
ah…Deutsche Leute…total verrückte
Naja, normalerweise schreibt man auch nicht “net”. 
Emma ärgert dich gerade mit einer hinterhältigen Mischung aus Hochdeutsch und Umgangssprache…
Your English always sounds as though you are translating it from another language - very well, but with slightly different word order and grammar - so maybe it’s your dream language? I wouldn’t worry about it - for years I have been dreaming of a strange world with very different animals and plants. It’s so vivid I could probably draw or paint it . Nothing ever happens there, it’s not a nightmare or anything, just like looking at a view-cam in a park. I have no explanation for any of this, I just enjoy it! You should try to write down your dream language. Some authors, like HP Lovecraft and Steven (or Stephen?) King wrote a lot of their stories from dreams.
Now here’s something I have to tell you, it’s so funny! 
My east German Maths teacher is just pathetic, he always thinks he has to prove himself because he’s from east Germany like. Thinks the other teachers don’t take him seriously because of that or something.
Anyway, I found out today that he’s be teaching us something wrong for like a month. He’d been telling us that the variance is a delta, but today for the first time in months like we used the book a bit, and there it was a sigma. So I asked him why the book uses a sigma and he was all confused, to him sigma and delta look the same, and he’s like studied maths, but never realised that he’s doing it wrong 
. So we then went through all our notes and corrected them (changed all the deltas into sigmas), and laughed at his phi, which looks just like a rho and he was so upset: ‘… I never even knew really what Greek and Latin were until I came here… nothing like that in east Germany…’
We then all gave him a short lesson in 'how to draw sigmas, what the difference between a delta and a sigma is and how to draw a phi that doesn’t look like a rho.
So today in sociology I wrote out the Greek alphabet for him and how to pronounce each letter and so on and left it in the staff room for him.
Lol, half my maths course has ancient Greek as a main subject, we were all just laughing our heads off, while the other were all just as confused as my teacher and much more sypathetic towards him 
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If you write in German please write also the English translation or I won’t understand a word
Also my maths teacher is a bit confused about greek letters. He usually writes the “my” backwards