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The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin.
aburrido - boring
pecuniary - of, relating to, or consisting of money
lo siento - I'm sorry
You: what tools do you use?
Stranger: Depends. Duolingo, memrise, actual textbooks
Stranger: And native speakers when I can
Stranger: What languages are you learning? It differs per language
You: Spanish
Stranger: mi espanol es bastante mal and I learned it in school... but memrise and duolingo are probably your best options in that they're free and pretty comprehensive
You: I just started duolingo
Stranger: te gusta?
Stranger: i started spanish today on duolingo actually
You: want to join me?
Stranger: i tested out of 49 levels but that goes to show that you can understand a language well while still speaking it poorly
Stranger: I'm a bit new to duolingo, so you'll have to explain how one goes about that...
You: I'm pretty much as far along as you
You: how many languages are you learning?
You: ya polyglot
Stranger: it's my passion, what can I say. I'm technically learning Japanese atm, but duolingo really only does European languages. I'm pretty proficient in Swedish already since that's my main second language and I basically wanted to see what it looked like on duolingo
Stranger: so what made you want to study spanish?
You: ha
You: this is a cool coincidence
You: so
You: I "publish" conversations I've had (that don't mention anything about the other) and
You: last week
You: I couldn't decide if I wanted to learn
You: Japanese or Spanish (mainly this summer)
Stranger: That is...quite the discrepancy
Stranger: Per the old taco shell commercial, "Why not both?"
You: eventually
You: but one before the other
Stranger: Very true. That was my rationale for not doing Japanese and Chinese at the same time
Stranger: Chinese seems so much simpler but ultimately I went with the easier pronunciation and more prolific pop culture
You: ah
Stranger: Eventually for me too
Stranger: I'm learning German really because I'm likely going to several countries in Europe next year and several of them are German speaking
You: wow
Stranger: Can't be a polyglot and not at least attempt to learn the language of your holiday countries
You: have a computer science (major) friend who's learning German
You: when I ask him to where he want to eat
You: he replies in German all the time
Stranger: Code switching is a hassle
Stranger: It happens all the time when I'm attempting Spanish and I come up with a Swedish word instead
Stranger: How many languages do you speak, btw?
You: took two years of Spanish in hs--which mostly forgot, sarcasm, c++, 25% of Java Script, and really not anything besides English
Stranger: Same. I haven't forgotten my Spanish because I live in a very very Hispanic area, I would actually say that I speak Swedish, and adequate Java.
Stranger: Funny that you do human and programming languages too
Stranger: Are you a CS major?
You: electrical
Stranger: aha
You: I don't know how old you are, but what's your major?
Stranger: Still in high school... It's going to be linguistics, probably. I've considered double majoring.
You: ya, I thought I wanted to maybe even triple--but it's not like that anymore
You: it's like running a race
You: at first you want to win
You: then, when you're running the marathon, you just care about finishing
Stranger: I'm feeling that now. I thought it would be a brilliant idea to do AP CS, AP Calc, and AP Physics atop other atrocities
You: out of three, I only got credit for AP Macroecon
Stranger: I'm taking that next semester. It actually does sound interesting, if only because I feel massively ignorant on pecuniary matters
Stranger: I think my schedule only allows for micro, though
You: oh
Stranger: Which is much more boring, likely
Stranger: Or aburrido, should we say
You: I liked it because of my teacher, and I have an interest in developmental econ (even though we skipped that chapter)
Stranger: I noticed that whilst perusing your blog
You: haven't taken micro, so I wouldn't know, but that CS friend is taking micro at the university level next semester
Stranger: I wish him/her the best
You: thanks, he'll get a fair prof
Stranger: ratemyprofessor to the rescue? heh
You: well, that's what we always use--but he got a direct optinion from me, since I'm taking that same prof for a finance class (have to have same matching course subject with the AP)
You: anyway, got to write a paper for that class now
You: nice talken with ya
You: do you have skype?
Stranger: I do not, lo siento
Stranger: have fun with that paper. I should probably be writing a program or something atm too
Stranger: the wonders of the internet
You: duolingo is probably good enough
Stranger: Hopefully. Challenge me if we ever find out how... it seems to be specific to the app or something
Stranger: Have a good evening!
Stranger has disconnected.
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