Polymorphously Polyglot

Alfia W. 27 post(s)

Wow – this looks like a great site. I’ve perused quite a few language learning portals and this model looks like it has what it takes to provide easily-vetted, quality instruction in flexible environment.

I’ve studied about 25 languages, grew up in a multilingual family and have degrees in linguistics and Russian. I worked as a translator for a few years but then got married, had kids, and got into the computer and webdev world. Most of my languages are woefully out of practice and I would love to get back into them. This looks like a great opportunity.

The languages I need to work on intensively in the short term to help my husband with work are conversational Spanish and German. I would love to work on my Russian, French and Italian at some point and learn more Hindi so that I can understand the Bollywood movies!

Looking forward,

Alfia

Alfia W. 27 post(s)	Wow – this looks like a great site. I’ve perused quite a few language learning portals and this model looks like it has what it takes to provide easily-vetted, quality instruction in flexible environment. I’ve studied about 25 languages, grew up in a multilingual family and have degrees in linguistics and Russian. I worked as a translator for a few years but then got married, had kids, and got into the computer and webdev world. Most of my languages are woefully out of practice and I would love to get back into them. This looks like a great opportunity. The languages I need to work on intensively in the short term to help my husband with work are conversational Spanish and German. I would love to work on my Russian, French and Italian at some point and learn more Hindi so that I can understand the Bollywood movies! Looking forward, Alfia posted 27 days ago

Marco C 585 post(s)	Hey Alfia! :) Welcome to eduFire! We have a whole range of tutors for you to choose from as well as a great community too! Ciao! posted 27 days ago

iman salih 30 post(s)	welcome Alfia you came to the right place! posted 27 days ago

Sean Duffie 43 post(s)	¡Hola Alfia! Ojalá que te diviertas aquí // I hope you enjoy yourself here :) posted 27 days ago

Jon Bischke Administrator 439 post(s)	25 languages?!!! Dang, that’s awesome. Now I triple-dog dare you to list them all. :) Great to have you here!!! posted 27 days ago

Alfia W. 27 post(s)	Hey, I’m a mature lady – I’ve had time to accumulate them! Not claiming fluency here, but I have spent at least 6 months on each and can survive if you dropped me from a plane (with a parachute, please) in six or seven of them. Many I only have reading or parsing ability. I really want to boost my conversational and reading facility in a few of these. Here’s my chance! À bonne chance! 1. English 2. Russian 3. Italian 4. French 5. Spanish 6. German 7. Serbo-Croatian 8. Polish 9. Old Church Slavonic!!! 10. Latin 11. Classical Greek 12. Portuguese 13. Romanian 14. Mandarin Chinese 15. Arabic (MSA) 16. Hindi 17. Japanese 18. Korean 19. Kurundi (spoken in Burundi) 20. Hebrew 21. Farsi 22. Bulgarian 23. Egyptian Arabic 24. Icelandic 25. Slovenian posted 27 days ago

Alfia W. 27 post(s)	zOMG – the Flashcards are DA BOMB!!!! posted 27 days ago

Stephanie Sims 513 post(s)	Welcome Alfia posted 27 days ago

Catherine Pe... 24 post(s)	Hello Alfia! Welcome to eduFire posted 27 days ago

Patrick Jou... 162 post(s)	ALFIA ! I presume this name is taken from the celebrous ALFIABETE ? Kirundi is on my list of languages I have to learn if God lends me a couple of years to live. An old man posted 27 days ago

Spring Johnson 60 post(s)	Hello Alfia, bienvenidos a edufire! posted 27 days ago

John Williams 127 post(s)	Hallo Alfia, Herzlich Willkommen :) posted 27 days ago

Sandra Pearson 451 post(s)	25? Ok, she wins! LOL! Welcome Alfia, I think your are really going to enjoy yourself here! posted 27 days ago

Iwona Lech 33 post(s)	Hallo Alfia! You are amazing! Einfach unbeschreiblich! Soooo viele Sprachen! Ah! Das wünschte ich mir auch! Welcome on EduFire!!!!!! posted 27 days ago

Tina Solar 493 post(s)	Welcome to eduFire Alfia! You have many talents. See you around the forums. posted 27 days ago

Charles Perry 30 post(s)	Hello, Alfia. Yep, passing knowledge of 25 languages is nothing short of amazing. Welcome aboard! Rick posted 27 days ago

henry agrahadi 3 post(s)	wow, your awesome…. can you teach me a russian? I see you can’t speak bahasa or malay… well if you want we can share each other posted 27 days ago

Kristie L 96 post(s)	Welcome Alfia! posted 27 days ago

Liz Lockett 267 post(s)	Now that is a list of languages! Bienvenida! Lots of great tutors on here for sure. posted 27 days ago

Tina Solar 493 post(s)	I am afraid at some point any more information going in, pushes out the previously acquired info, lol. Or was it just having kids that expelled the info I had stored up there, lol. posted 19 days ago