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Language classes, Monday

Good morning.

There seems to be some questions regarding the in-class presentations. I expect every student to do one. It should be between three and five minutes long, regarding some aspect of history or culture of any of the languages you are studying. For the first presentation you may do it in English or your native tongue. Visuals are encouraged: let me know if you will need a VCR or projector. If you need ideas, see me during office hours or lab.

I will have a sign-up sheet and more instructions at my office.

And, yarr.

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Good morning, class.

The words for your vocabularly quiz are on the board. Translate all ten into Latin and Greek.

Today we'll begin our discussion of Hebrew. Everyone please take a handout: these are some basic nouns and verbs, and a few sentences using the words. Try out a translation and we'll discuss them in a few minutes. Remember that Hebrew reads from right to left.

*glances up at the words for the vocabulary quiz* All right, I can do this...

Oh, God. *Okay, Latin is like Ancient, and you've heard that spoken before. You can figure this one out, Janet*

*does the Latin translations and gets half of them right*

*does the Greek translations and gets two right*

(OOC: See, she's been studying!)

*grabs a handout, stares at it, tries not to let eyes cross* *scribbles a translation and thinks it might be right*

Rory takes a handout, and tries the Hebrew to the best of her abilities.

*groans* Oh, frak me.

*starts working on the quiz and actually gets seven right, out of pure dumb luck more than anything*

*takes the Hebrew handout and mutters repeatedly "right to left, right to left, right to left"*

*suddenly realizes that all the papers and books in this school have corners, and finds it very weird*

Isaac sits down and begins jotting down his answers...

(OOC: Igonore the fact that it was posted anonymously, as mun for Isaac is an idiot, and forgot to login...)

Charlie gets all the Latin quickly--he's learned this already. The Greek is harder and he scribbles the last few quickly when the time is up.

Hebrew makes him frown. The letters look a lot like each other.

Oh great.

-Get's 8 out of 10 in the Latin
-5 out of 10 in Greek

*Begins to try to understand Hebrew*

Thomasina slips into her seat and, taking out a sheet of foolscap, neatly translates all the vocabulary words written on the board. Once she's handed her work in, she takes a worksheet back to her seat and has her first look at Hebrew.

Connor isn't quite awake. Hard to sleep with werewolves howling all night long.

He misses the same word in both Latin and Greek. He'll be obsessing over that for weeks.

On to Hebrew. What fun! Connor enjoys studying languages. He's just not in the mood affter missing two questions on the quiz.

Murphy is in about the same shape as his twin.

Does alright with the Latin, but misses two of the Greek words.

*does marginally better on this quiz than the last one*

*gets Hebrew handout and doodles for the rest of class*

Rogue concentrates very hard on the vocab quiz. She passes--but barely, getting 6 out of ten right of each language. "Conjugation is so much easier," she mutters as she turns in her quiz. While the Hebrew script is beautiful, she's in such a bad mood after the quiz that she just sits, staring blankly at the paper.

Max, again, does piss poor on the translation quiz. The Latin's better than the Greek.

But, Hebrew!

Max looks around gleefully. He's probably the only Jew in the whole damned school!

Latin: Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! Fac ut vivas.

Greek: Η ελαττωματική λογική Μάιος υπονομεύει την ολόκληρη φιλοσοφία σας! Πάρτε μια ζωή.

Hebrew: Alphabet (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hebrew.htm), n (http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Four/Noun_Properties/noun_properties.html)o (http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Four/Masculine_Nouns/masculine_nouns.html)u (http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Four/Feminine_Nouns/feminine_nouns.html)n (http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Four/Plural_Nouns/plural_nouns.html)s (http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Four/Summary/summary.html), verbs (http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Nine/Introduction/introduction.html).

I do not understand = Ani lo Mevin
How are you? = Ma nishma?
Excuse me = Sleecha
Do you speak english? = Ata medaber anglit?

[OOC: The Jew in me wants to cheat so badly but it wouldn't be fair.]

Sonia again translates the Latin with no problem, but is confused over a few of the Greek terms. After chewing on her pen for several minutes, she makes another attempt at the Greek and manages (for the most part) to get them right.

((OOC: Sorry this is a day late. School, she is le crazy. I'll understand if you mark her absent or tardy or whichever.))

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