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<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
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==='Merican===<br />
[[Sam Doyon '05 ]] Dey terk ur jerbs!<br />
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===American Sign Language===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09emf Emily Flynn '09] has a few really good books on sign language, knows the entire alphabet by heart, can sign and read very very slowly, can swear profusely, and is especially good at signing "cow college." Her deaf friend often makes fun of her.<br />
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===Bahasa Indonesia===<br />
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] lived in Jakarta for seven years, still has an okay grasp of the language.<br />
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===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjh Thunny Khaft] learnt from his Bangla friends back in the former Soviet Union<br />
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===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned a bit while abroad in Barcelona and completed a phonetic study of it as his final project for LING 111.<br />
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===Chinese===<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung '07] (Wishes she had Cantonese soap operas to watch.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08js Jennifer Sit]has transformed her Cantonese into Chinglish.<br />
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Timothy Cheng, If there's one essential phrase in Cantonese, it's: "ng ho gai gan ngor!" (My Norweigian roomate can testify) Everything else you can survive without.<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao 08's] second language. <br />
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[[Jason Ren '08]], but only after disgusting losses in Beirut.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
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Kim Fassler '06<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06kjb Kristyn Bretz '06], but only when drunk<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
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[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ryz Richard Zhang] I'm counting on it to get me a job<br />
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Ted Haley '07<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] back in the days ...<br />
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Jessie Yu '07<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese]====<br />
Zhichun Ying '08<br />
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Lingwei Gu '07<br />
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Richard Zhang '07 You wish you could speak this exclusive dialect<br />
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Jessie Yu '07<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Amy Chin '08, but not really.<br />
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Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Hokkien Penang Hokkien]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09tk Teng Jian Khoo] '09 can speak it tolerably, but will not be understood by pretty much everyone on campus.<br />
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===Danish===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
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===Dutch===<br />
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[[Jason Leith|Jason Leith '03]] lived in the Netherlands for a few months, and can tell you what "neuken in de keuken" and "let op zakkenrollers!" means. He had little opportunity to actually speak the language, though, which was probably actually a good thing, as he values the integrity of his velum.<br />
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===English===<br />
'''British Accent'''<br />
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'''Canadian Accent'''<br />
:<br />
'''Chinese Accent'''<br />
:[[Jing Cao]] speak Proper Chinese Flavor English<br />
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'''Hong Kong Accent'''<br />
:<br />
:Timothy Cheng, You can't get much more Hong Kong than this. <br />
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'''Indian Accent'''<br />
:[[Nirmal Deshpande '07]] occasionally speaks with a British-tinged Indian accent, specifically responding "You can make me drink, but you cannot make me get you a beer!" to demands that he wait hand and foot upon someone. <br />
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:[[Sean Milano]] '09 tries to immitate his neighbour upstairs, but fails miserably. He just isn't cool enough.<br />
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:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08rmr RHAAAD!] '08 Genuine, proper Indian accent!<br />
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'''Japanese Accent'''<br />
:[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
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'''Pittsfield Accent (including, but not limited to, Berkshire County)'''<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09emf Emily Flynn '09] and [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09kdm Kristen Milano '09] grew up in the P-unit as people (I swear to God) seriously call it. They had a mad deece time at THS and PHS, respectively, and were wicked excited to come to Williams. They could often be heard saying "Do it, you won't!", especially on the miniature golf course, at the b. mall, or at ken's bowl. Yee.<br />
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'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish Singlish]'''<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10hln Mike Nguyen '10] come tok to him lor.<br />
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'''Southern Accent'''<br />
:Evelyn Robinson '05 has an occassional native Southern accent so sudden and endearing you'd swear she is joking, but she aint.<br />
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:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09wem Will McClain '09] speaks with a Southern accent on and off during regular conversation (something out of his control), but can speak Mississippian at will.<br />
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:[[Wes Johnson '09]] somehow doesn't have one.<br />
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:[[Walker Matthews '08]] has a consistent, strong Georgia drawl, even though he himself can't hear it or most other American accents.<br />
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'''Wisconsin Accent'''<br />
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:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson '08] can't speak it that well, but she can make fun of it like no one else.<br />
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:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09cjv Cat Vielma '09] hates it, and reminds people that Chicago is universes apart from the rest of the grand ol' Midwest<br />
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"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manglish Manglish]"<br />
:Teng Jian Khoo '09 speaks this at home, but again would be unintelligible, owing to Manglish's status as virtually another language.<br />
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===Esperanto===<br />
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[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] thinks that, despite its structural flaws, Esperanto is basically the coolest concept ever. Interlingua, however, is prettier.<br />
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===French===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
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[[Joe Hutchinson '06]] was once accused of speaking French from the 18th century<br />
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[[Kathryn Lindsey '07]] speaks decent French. <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
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[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but she might still have some skills.<br />
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[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
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[[Tosin Adeyanju '08]] third language I can kinda speak.<br />
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[[Vlado Nedkov '06]] spent last year in Paris. He can say a lot more than 'voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir', althought that phrase comes in handy quite often.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06itj Ikem.T.Joseph] after 5 yrs of study can pretty much read and write with good understanding. In terms of speaking, that's a work in progress.<br />
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[[Carl Vos '09]] mom is french, and I know a lot, but havn't spoken it in a while. I can get by alright.<br />
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[[Jack Nelson '07]] took it for 9 years before getting bored. Now speaks French like a Russian or Norwegian immigrant who speaks no French at all.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] owes much of his sanity to the fact that dead French men write better books than most people.<br />
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[[Ben Grant '09]] took French for a while and has a pretty decent accent. Shows a flair for making fun of random French Canadians in bars because they sound so funny.<br />
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===German===<br />
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ich wuerde kimis film sehr gern anschauen. machen wir das, ge? <br />
und was lustiges fuer euch- wenn ihr jemanden um eine cigarette bitten wollt, sagt mal einfach-"chill mir eine cigarette." ohne scheiss. funktioniert hervorragend. die deutschen...<br />
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[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
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[[Joe Hutchinson '06]] thinks in and sometimes thinks he's German<br />
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[[Kimi Gilbert '06]] spent more than a year in Berlin. Hence, she is legitimately badass. Her German skills are unbelievable. And she starred in a Deutsch Schei�e Video. Go figure.<br />
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[[Kat Jong '07]] Is currently spending the Year in Munich and can thus speak enough to get by, read books she'd already read in English, and play an entire game of [[Magic The Gathering]]. <br />
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[[Vlado Nedkov '06]] used to kick ass in German. Unfortunately, he's a sell out and has moved on to romance languages.<br />
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[[Daniel P. Rooney '06]] Speaks mean Deutsch. Very creative. Need help writing a german essay about a funny picture? Daniel is your man!<br />
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*Swiss German<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
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[[Joe Gangestad '06]] speaks a mad Munchen Deutsch, and will one day teach astrophysics to unassuming little German children.<br />
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Teng Jian Khoo '09 reads children's books in German.<br />
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[[Toby Hall]] is a German major, and is living in Deutschland during the summer of 2006<br />
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[[Carl Vos '09]] is taking German and will be spending the summer of 2006 in Munich and Berlin.<br />
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===Greek===<br />
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====Ancient====<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04<br />
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[[Aditi Chaturvedi]] '10 knows more Greek than just the alphabet. Knows more grammar and vocabulary than she wants to, as does anyone in CLGR 101.<br />
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Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
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So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
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====Modern====<br />
[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
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[[Jim Prevas]] knows all the bad words.<br />
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===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
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Zachary Ulman '06<br />
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[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
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Davida Kutscher '03<br />
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Elissa Brown '09<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
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===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
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[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
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[[Aditi Chaturvedi '10]]<br />
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===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet.<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
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[[Jason Leith]] rejects the notion that a velar trill is impossible. It is, however, so ugly a sound that not even languages like Dutch and Danish have adopted it. He uses IPA when indicating pronunciation in his music.<br />
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===Italian===<br />
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[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
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[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
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[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103! It comes like a breeze after all those DIV III classes...<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson '08] is in 101 and discovered she can speak Italian by throwing in vowels here and there while speaking French.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] knows all of the great insults and generally vulgar phrases.<br />
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===Japanese===<br />
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[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
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[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
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[[Ebonie Little '07]] can karaoke most hit Japanese pop songs...albeit in an unflatteringly squeaky voice. She's also in Japan for a year leveling up on language skills.<br />
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[[Sam Doyon '05]] took Japanese for 3 1/2 years at Williams, lived in Tokyo for two months before he was fired, evicted, and kicked out of the country.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] took this in high school but now retains little more than the ability to pretend he is speaking Japanese by inserting whatever he wants to say in English between "watashi wa" and "desu."<br />
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===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ayl Angela Lee] '06 can speak, read and write Korean surprisingly well, even though she emigrated at the age of 6. She also has a (dare I say) encyclopedic knowledge of Korean pop culture.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] can count to 8 in Korean, say "attention," "master," and "bow."<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jkk James Kim '08] obviously sucks at Korean, but do get by. Do not be fooled by his genuine Korean features.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ehc Hannah Cho '09] seconds the posting above. dear james, don't be discouraged jae doesn't let miss cho speak korean either<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] is a disgrace to Koreans everywhere. This is also reflected in his speaking ability. Oh, and he can't spell to save his life.<br />
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===Latin===<br />
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[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So do [[Joe McDonough '06]] and [[Richard Rodriguez]].<br />
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A rather cool internet program created by Lee Butterman of Brown University is a text to speech program that will read any latin poetry or verse aloud and give you a decent pronunciation of it. Find it [http://www.poetaexmachina.net/ Here]<br />
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===Lojban===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] is at once terrified of this language and somehow strangely attracted to it.<br />
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===Love, the Language of===<br />
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[[Marilyn]] is quite fluent. She lives in [[Dodd]] 201 if you need lessons in this language.<br />
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===Malay===<br />
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Another one on the list of Teng Jian Khoo's lonely languages, although Ronit may be able to get most of it.<br />
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===Middle Earth (assorted languages)===<br />
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[[Laurie Brink]] was the "official unofficial" translator and pronunciation expert for the NYC area premiere of the Lord of the Rings Symphony, and, as such, can say a variety of things in Quenya, Sindarin, Ad&ucirc;naic, Rohirric, Khuzdul, and the Black Speech. It also helps that she has, in a certain sense, been speaking Quenya since the day she learned her own name.<br />
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===Middle English===<br />
Rumor has it that [[Shane Bobrycki '07]] is fluent in Middle English. Also, he's a total nerd :)<br />
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===Norwegian===<br />
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[[Jack Nelson '07]] speaks relatively fluently, especially when inebriated on some good ol' Mack Øl, due to an exchange year there before Williams. Continues to delight in the fact that Norwegian includes the words fart, snart, fred and slut which means things entirely different. <br />
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===Oppish===<br />
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[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] propetty swopeet, Opalden.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09emf Emily Flynn '09] is very jealous.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pcs Peter Schmidt '08] Sopome gopirl topold mopee thopat yopou hopad topo poput opan "op" opaftoper opevopery coponsoponopant. Thopat opis wopack.<br />
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===Pig Latin===<br />
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[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] isay uentflay.<br />
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===Polish===<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
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===Portuguese===<br />
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'''Brazilian'''<br />
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O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
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===Rumanian===<br />
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[[Laurie Brink]] knows just enough to sing the entirety of "Dragostea din Tei" (a.k.a. the Numa Numa song).<br />
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[[Toby Hall]] Also knows just enough to sing "Dragostea din Tei"<br />
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[[Andana Streng]] Born in Romania but speaking a funky kind of Romanian called "ardeleneste" which I mix with English when I'm really tired. And no, I don't like "Dragostea din tei".<br />
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===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
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[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
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[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
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[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] (a.k.a. Zlaya Antonovna)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08evb Eugene Berson '08] puts the hammer together with sickel.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] can do a Ukrainian accent, but no one would know the difference.<br />
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[[Joe Hutchinson '06]] pretends to have a Russian grandma back in the old country<br />
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[[Jack Nelson '07]] lived in Siberia for a semester. He thinks. He has largely blocked it from his memory. Has somehow retained the ability to sneer in Russian, but not much else, which, as a major, may prove problematic.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] used to beg his Russian teacher for borscht in the middle of the night. It was delicious, by the way.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nyi Nina Ivanova '09] рулез!<br />
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===Spanish===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09mm_2 Monsie Muñoz '09] speaks Mexican Spanish- is slowly adopting a chilanga accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09adr Alejandro RodrÃguez-Prieto '09] also speaks Mexican Spanish- but can speak an even more special subversion- the Chihuahuan accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08lmg Luz M. Gómez '08] speaks paisa Mexican Spanish, can speak "proper spanish" when needed and can do a messed up chilanga accent----oh, and a beatiful Xicana accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ps Pablita Santos '07] speaks Mexican Spanish and has a beatiful Chicana accent when slightly intoxicated<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David RodrÃguez] speaks Dominican Spanish to his fellow Dominicans and a more comprehensible Latin American Spanish to others, but often swears like a Spaniard for no good reason. <br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]] - like your high school Spanish teacher.<br />
<br />
When traveling in non-Hispanophone countries, [[Alexander Lavy|Alex Lavy's]] brother pretends he is from Spain, where he "fights the bools" and "stoodies the art".<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette RodrÃguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09cjv Cat Vielma] can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07sm Sara Morrissey] can speak Mexican spanish and slang. She improves her accent and dirty word vocabulary after she's downed some tequila.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jkb Julia Brown] speaks Ecuadorian Spanish with an American accent.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] with a lisp that offends most Puerto Ricans, despite dropping his "s"s.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06itj Ikem T. Joseph] can get by with the few years of study he has but don't ask him to carry a convo, it's for your own good!<br />
<br />
[http://www.gerlanc.com Daniel Gerlanc] speaks Spanish with a peninsular accent. His accent cannot be traced to any particular country; however, most Spanish-speaking Europeans guess that he's from northern Europe.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] lo habla<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook.view?unix=08tmh Toby Hall] spoke spanish in high school, but he's forgeting it as he learns german.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09jjm Julian Mesri] speaks "castellano" a form of argentine spanish that uses sh for ll and y, and to many sounds more like italian than spanish... and we use vos- yeah that's right, vos.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09emf Emily Flynn] took 6 years, an A.P., & taught it in her hometown to overenthusiastic middleschoolers. Su palabra favorita esta sacapuntas.<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===Thai===<br />
"Pad Thai" is not pronounced with a hard 'a' like in 'paddy', but more closely resembles the 'a' in 'father' (but shorter).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07spt Sarun Peter Tosirisuk] has what some might call "non-volitional fluency" (he also just made that term up). Like a Thai person with Broca's aphasia, Peter can understand speech but cannot produce it, for the language is locked away in some deep part of his brain. Also, he doesn't know any words that wouldn't have been said in his house when he was growing up.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Turkish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06eb Ersen Bilgin '06]<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
<br />
All these students are fluent in written and spoken Urdu, the national language of Pakistan. Urdu is a unique language adapted from Persian and written in Arabic text, though it sounds identical to Hindi, the national language of India, which is written in Sanskrit script. (It's Devanagari script not Sanskrit)<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
<br />
[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/player/56149.html S. Waqqas Iftikhar]<br />
<br />
Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
<br />
Ali Moiz<br />
<br />
Samreen Kazmi<br />
<br />
Murtaza Hussain<br />
<br />
S. Kashif Akhtar<br />
<br />
===Vietnamese===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10hln Mike Nguyen '10] native, but with a messy accent somewhat.<br />
<br />
===Yiddish===<br />
<br />
[[Toby Hall]] speeks yidish-English. "Look at those Goyem kvetching. Now that [[Morty]] over there, he's a ''real'' Mensch."<br />
<br />
===Yoruba===<br />
<br />
Tosin Adeyanju<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Students]]</div>07alfhttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=13298Students with language skills2006-10-31T02:32:26Z<p>07alf: </p>
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<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
==='Merican===<br />
[[Sam Doyon '05 ]] Dey terk ur jerbs!<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09emf Emily Flynn '09] has a few really good books on sign language, knows the entire alphabet by heart, can sign and read very very slowly, can swear profusely, and is especially good at signing "cow college." Her deaf friend often makes fun of her.<br />
<br />
===Bahasa Indonesia===<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] lived in Jakarta for seven years, still has an okay grasp of the language.<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjh Thunny Khaft] learnt from his Bangla friends back in the former Soviet Union<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned a bit while abroad in Barcelona and completed a phonetic study of it as his final project for LING 111.<br />
<br />
===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung '07] (Wishes she had Cantonese soap operas to watch.)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08js Jennifer Sit]has transformed her Cantonese into Chinglish.<br />
<br />
Timothy Cheng, If there's one essential phrase in Cantonese, it's: "ng ho gai gan ngor!" (My Norweigian roomate can testify) Everything else you can survive without.<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao 08's] second language. <br />
<br />
[[Jason Ren '08]], but only after disgusting losses in Beirut.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
<br />
Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06kjb Kristyn Bretz '06], but only when drunk<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ryz Richard Zhang] I'm counting on it to get me a job<br />
<br />
Ted Haley '07<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] back in the days ...<br />
<br />
Jessie Yu '07<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese]====<br />
Zhichun Ying '08<br />
<br />
Lingwei Gu '07<br />
<br />
Richard Zhang '07 You wish you could speak this exclusive dialect<br />
<br />
Jessie Yu '07<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Amy Chin '08, but not really.<br />
<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Hokkien Penang Hokkien]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09tk Teng Jian Khoo] '09 can speak it tolerably, but will not be understood by pretty much everyone on campus.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===Dutch===<br />
<br />
[[Jason Leith|Jason Leith '03]] lived in the Netherlands for a few months, and can tell you what "neuken in de keuken" and "let op zakkenrollers!" means. He had little opportunity to actually speak the language, though, which was probably actually a good thing, as he values the integrity of his velum.<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
'''British Accent'''<br />
<br />
'''Canadian Accent'''<br />
:<br />
'''Chinese Accent'''<br />
:[[Jing Cao]] speak Proper Chinese Flavor English<br />
<br />
'''Hong Kong Accent'''<br />
:<br />
:Timothy Cheng, You can't get much more Hong Kong than this. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Indian Accent'''<br />
:[[Nirmal Deshpande '07]] occasionally speaks with a British-tinged Indian accent, specifically responding "You can make me drink, but you cannot make me get you a beer!" to demands that he wait hand and foot upon someone. <br />
<br />
:[[Sean Milano]] '09 tries to immitate his neighbour upstairs, but fails miserably. He just isn't cool enough.<br />
<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08rmr RHAAAD!] '08 Genuine, proper Indian accent!<br />
<br />
'''Japanese Accent'''<br />
:[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
'''Pittsfield Accent (including, but not limited to, Berkshire County)'''<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09emf Emily Flynn '09] and [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09kdm Kristen Milano '09] grew up in the P-unit as people (I swear to God) seriously call it. They had a mad deece time at THS and PHS, respectively, and were wicked excited to come to Williams. They could often be heard saying "Do it, you won't!", especially on the miniature golf course, at the b. mall, or at ken's bowl. Yee.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish Singlish]'''<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10hln Mike Nguyen '10] come tok to him lor.<br />
<br />
'''Southern Accent'''<br />
:Evelyn Robinson '05 has an occassional native Southern accent so sudden and endearing you'd swear she is joking, but she aint.<br />
<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09wem Will McClain '09] speaks with a Southern accent on and off during regular conversation (something out of his control), but can speak Mississippian at will.<br />
<br />
:[[Wes Johnson '09]] somehow doesn't have one.<br />
<br />
:[[Walker Matthews '08]] has a consistent, strong Georgia drawl, even though he himself can't hear it or most other American accents.<br />
<br />
'''Wisconsin Accent'''<br />
<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson '08] can't speak it that well, but she can make fun of it like no one else.<br />
<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09cjv Cat Vielma '09] hates it, and reminds people that Chicago is universes apart from the rest of the grand ol' Midwest<br />
<br />
<br />
"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manglish Manglish]"<br />
:Teng Jian Khoo '09 speaks this at home, but again would be unintelligible, owing to Manglish's status as virtually another language.<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] thinks that, despite its structural flaws, Esperanto is basically the coolest concept ever. Interlingua, however, is prettier.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[[Joe Hutchinson '06]] was once accused of speaking French from the 18th century<br />
<br />
[[Kathryn Lindsey '07]] speaks decent French. <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but she might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
<br />
[[Tosin Adeyanju '08]] third language I can kinda speak.<br />
<br />
[[Vlado Nedkov '06]] spent last year in Paris. He can say a lot more than 'voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir', althought that phrase comes in handy quite often.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06itj Ikem.T.Joseph] after 5 yrs of study can pretty much read and write with good understanding. In terms of speaking, that's a work in progress.<br />
<br />
[[Carl Vos '09]] mom is french, and I know a lot, but havn't spoken it in a while. I can get by alright.<br />
<br />
[[Jack Nelson '07]] took it for 9 years before getting bored. Now speaks French like a Russian or Norwegian immigrant who speaks no French at all.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] owes much of his sanity to the fact that dead French men write better books than most people.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Ben Grant '09]] took French for a while and has a pretty decent accent. Shows a flair for making fun of random French Canadians in bars because they sound so funny.<br />
<br />
===German===<br />
<br />
ich wuerde kimis film sehr gern anschauen. machen wir das, ge? <br />
und was lustiges fuer euch- wenn ihr jemanden um eine cigarette bitten wollt, sagt mal einfach-"chill mir eine cigarette." ohne scheiss. funktioniert hervorragend. die deutschen...<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
[[Joe Hutchinson '06]] thinks in and sometimes thinks he's German<br />
<br />
[[Kimi Gilbert '06]] spent more than a year in Berlin. Hence, she is legitimately badass. Her German skills are unbelievable. And she starred in a Deutsch Schei�e Video. Go figure.<br />
<br />
[[Kat Jong '07]] Is currently spending the Year in Munich and can thus speak enough to get by, read books she'd already read in English, and play an entire game of [[Magic The Gathering]]. <br />
<br />
[[Vlado Nedkov '06]] used to kick ass in German. Unfortunately, he's a sell out and has moved on to romance languages.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Daniel P. Rooney '06]] Speaks mean Deutsch. Very creative. Need help writing a german essay about a funny picture? Daniel is your man!<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Joe Gangestad '06]] speaks a mad Munchen Deutsch, and will one day teach astrophysics to unassuming little German children.<br />
<br />
Teng Jian Khoo '09 reads children's books in German.<br />
<br />
[[Toby Hall]] is a German major, and is living in Deutschland during the summer of 2006<br />
<br />
[[Carl Vos '09]] is taking German and will be spending the summer of 2006 in Munich and Berlin.<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
====Ancient====<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04<br />
<br />
[[Aditi Chaturvedi]] '10 knows more Greek than just the alphabet. Knows more grammar and vocabulary than she wants to, as does anyone in CLGR 101.<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
====Modern====<br />
[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
[[Jim Prevas]] knows all the bad words.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
[[Aditi Chaturvedi '10]]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
<br />
[[Jason Leith]] rejects the notion that a velar trill is impossible. It is, however, so ugly a sound that not even languages like Dutch and Danish have adopted it. He uses IPA when indicating pronunciation in his music.<br />
<br />
===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103! It comes like a breeze after all those DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson '08] is in 101 and discovered she can speak Italian by throwing in vowels here and there while speaking French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] knows all of the great insults and generally vulgar phrases.<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
[[Ebonie Little '07]] can karaoke most hit Japanese pop songs...albeit in an unflatteringly squeaky voice. She's also in Japan for a year leveling up on language skills.<br />
<br />
[[Sam Doyon '05]] took Japanese for 3 1/2 years at Williams, lived in Tokyo for two months before he was fired, evicted, and kicked out of the country.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] took this in high school but now retains little more than the ability to pretend he is speaking Japanese by inserting whatever he wants to say in English between "watashi wa" and "desu."<br />
<br />
===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ayl Angela Lee] '06 can speak, read and write Korean surprisingly well, even though she emigrated at the age of 6. She also has a (dare I say) encyclopedic knowledge of Korean pop culture.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] can count to 8 in Korean, say "attention," "master," and "bow."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jkk James Kim '08] obviously sucks at Korean, but do get by. Do not be fooled by his genuine Korean features.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ehc Hannah Cho '09] seconds the posting above. dear james, don't be discouraged jae doesn't let miss cho speak korean either<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] is a disgrace to Koreans everywhere. This is also reflected in his speaking ability. Oh, and he can't spell to save his life.<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So do [[Joe McDonough '06]] and [[Richard Rodriguez]].<br />
<br />
A rather cool internet program created by Lee Butterman of Brown University is a text to speech program that will read any latin poetry or verse aloud and give you a decent pronunciation of it. Find it [http://www.poetaexmachina.net/ Here]<br />
<br />
===Lojban===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] is at once terrified of this language and somehow strangely attracted to it.<br />
<br />
===Love, the Language of===<br />
<br />
[[Marilyn]] is quite fluent. She lives in [[Dodd]] 201 if you need lessons in this language.<br />
<br />
===Malay===<br />
<br />
Another one on the list of Teng Jian Khoo's lonely languages, although Ronit may be able to get most of it.<br />
<br />
===Middle Earth (assorted languages)===<br />
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[[Laurie Brink]] was the "official unofficial" translator and pronunciation expert for the NYC area premiere of the Lord of the Rings Symphony, and, as such, can say a variety of things in Quenya, Sindarin, Ad&ucirc;naic, Rohirric, Khuzdul, and the Black Speech. It also helps that she has, in a certain sense, been speaking Quenya since the day she learned her own name.<br />
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===Middle English===<br />
Rumor has it that [Shane Bobrycki '07] is fluent in Middle English. Also, he's a total nerd :)<br />
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===Norwegian===<br />
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[[Jack Nelson '07]] speaks relatively fluently, especially when inebriated on some good ol' Mack Øl, due to an exchange year there before Williams. Continues to delight in the fact that Norwegian includes the words fart, snart, fred and slut which means things entirely different. <br />
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===Oppish===<br />
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[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] propetty swopeet, Opalden.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09emf Emily Flynn '09] is very jealous.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pcs Peter Schmidt '08] Sopome gopirl topold mopee thopat yopou hopad topo poput opan "op" opaftoper opevopery coponsoponopant. Thopat opis wopack.<br />
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===Pig Latin===<br />
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[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] isay uentflay.<br />
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===Polish===<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
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===Portuguese===<br />
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'''Brazilian'''<br />
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O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
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===Rumanian===<br />
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[[Laurie Brink]] knows just enough to sing the entirety of "Dragostea din Tei" (a.k.a. the Numa Numa song).<br />
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[[Toby Hall]] Also knows just enough to sing "Dragostea din Tei"<br />
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[[Andana Streng]] Born in Romania but speaking a funky kind of Romanian called "ardeleneste" which I mix with English when I'm really tired. And no, I don't like "Dragostea din tei".<br />
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===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
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[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
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[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
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[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] (a.k.a. Zlaya Antonovna)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08evb Eugene Berson '08] puts the hammer together with sickel.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] can do a Ukrainian accent, but no one would know the difference.<br />
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[[Joe Hutchinson '06]] pretends to have a Russian grandma back in the old country<br />
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[[Jack Nelson '07]] lived in Siberia for a semester. He thinks. He has largely blocked it from his memory. Has somehow retained the ability to sneer in Russian, but not much else, which, as a major, may prove problematic.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bdk Brian Kim '09] used to beg his Russian teacher for borscht in the middle of the night. It was delicious, by the way.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nyi Nina Ivanova '09] рулез!<br />
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===Spanish===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09mm_2 Monsie Muñoz '09] speaks Mexican Spanish- is slowly adopting a chilanga accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09adr Alejandro RodrÃguez-Prieto '09] also speaks Mexican Spanish- but can speak an even more special subversion- the Chihuahuan accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08lmg Luz M. Gómez '08] speaks paisa Mexican Spanish, can speak "proper spanish" when needed and can do a messed up chilanga accent----oh, and a beatiful Xicana accent<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ps Pablita Santos '07] speaks Mexican Spanish and has a beatiful Chicana accent when slightly intoxicated<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David RodrÃguez] speaks Dominican Spanish to his fellow Dominicans and a more comprehensible Latin American Spanish to others, but often swears like a Spaniard for no good reason. <br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
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[[Alan Cordova '06]] - like your high school Spanish teacher.<br />
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When traveling in non-Hispanophone countries, [[Alexander Lavy|Alex Lavy's]] brother pretends he is from Spain, where he "fights the bools" and "stoodies the art".<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette RodrÃguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
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Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09cjv Cat Vielma] can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07sm Sara Morrissey] can speak Mexican spanish and slang. She improves her accent and dirty word vocabulary after she's downed some tequila.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jkb Julia Brown] speaks Ecuadorian Spanish with an American accent.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] with a lisp that offends most Puerto Ricans, despite dropping his "s"s.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06itj Ikem T. Joseph] can get by with the few years of study he has but don't ask him to carry a convo, it's for your own good!<br />
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[http://www.gerlanc.com Daniel Gerlanc] speaks Spanish with a peninsular accent. His accent cannot be traced to any particular country; however, most Spanish-speaking Europeans guess that he's from northern Europe.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] lo habla<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook.view?unix=08tmh Toby Hall] spoke spanish in high school, but he's forgeting it as he learns german.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09jjm Julian Mesri] speaks "castellano" a form of argentine spanish that uses sh for ll and y, and to many sounds more like italian than spanish... and we use vos- yeah that's right, vos.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09emf Emily Flynn] took 6 years, an A.P., & taught it in her hometown to overenthusiastic middleschoolers. Su palabra favorita esta sacapuntas.<br />
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===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
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===Thai===<br />
"Pad Thai" is not pronounced with a hard 'a' like in 'paddy', but more closely resembles the 'a' in 'father' (but shorter).<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07spt Sarun Peter Tosirisuk] has what some might call "non-volitional fluency" (he also just made that term up). Like a Thai person with Broca's aphasia, Peter can understand speech but cannot produce it, for the language is locked away in some deep part of his brain. Also, he doesn't know any words that wouldn't have been said in his house when he was growing up.<br />
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===Turkish===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06eb Ersen Bilgin '06]<br />
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===Urdu===<br />
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All these students are fluent in written and spoken Urdu, the national language of Pakistan. Urdu is a unique language adapted from Persian and written in Arabic text, though it sounds identical to Hindi, the national language of India, which is written in Sanskrit script. (It's Devanagari script not Sanskrit)<br />
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Aatif Abbas<br />
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[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/player/56149.html S. Waqqas Iftikhar]<br />
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Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
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Ali Moiz<br />
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Samreen Kazmi<br />
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Murtaza Hussain<br />
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S. Kashif Akhtar<br />
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===Vietnamese===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=10hln Mike Nguyen '10] native, but with a messy accent somewhat.<br />
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===Yiddish===<br />
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[[Toby Hall]] speeks yidish-English. "Look at those Goyem kvetching. Now that [[Morty]] over there, he's a ''real'' Mensch."<br />
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===Yoruba===<br />
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Tosin Adeyanju<br />
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