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| You asked a question about this on my talk page, and I wasn't sure whether you wanted me to answer it there or here. I suspect that my love for languages is partly genetic. I love my native language (American English) as well as other varieties of English and other languages. That said, I can't say I've loved every language I've ever encountered. For example, I disliked Czech and gave it up after a couple of years. I found Tamil unappealing. It wasn't the difficulty, because I enjoy Mandarin Chinese. I suppose I just feel varying degrees of affinity to various languages. I appreciate them aesthetically and rationally, somewhat as I enjoy music. Another thing that gives me pleasure is success in "cracking the code", in getting to a point where something incomprehensible becomes comprehensible. Regarding methods, for me the best method is using the language with native speakers, such as hiring a native speaker as a tutor or (best of all, but often impractical) going to live for a while in a place where the language is spoken, or at least traveling there on vacation (holiday). Other than that, watching videos is helpful, as is reading texts in that language. These methods are nothing special. I will say that, to get started with a language, I've found Pimsleur recordings especially helpful. ] (]) 19:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC) | You asked a question about this on my talk page, and I wasn't sure whether you wanted me to answer it there or here. I suspect that my love for languages is partly genetic. I love my native language (American English) as well as other varieties of English and other languages. That said, I can't say I've loved every language I've ever encountered. For example, I disliked Czech and gave it up after a couple of years. I found Tamil unappealing. It wasn't the difficulty, because I enjoy Mandarin Chinese. I suppose I just feel varying degrees of affinity to various languages. I appreciate them aesthetically and rationally, somewhat as I enjoy music. Another thing that gives me pleasure is success in "cracking the code", in getting to a point where something incomprehensible becomes comprehensible. Regarding methods, for me the best method is using the language with native speakers, such as hiring a native speaker as a tutor or (best of all, but often impractical) going to live for a while in a place where the language is spoken, or at least traveling there on vacation (holiday). Other than that, watching videos is helpful, as is reading texts in that language. These methods are nothing special. I will say that, to get started with a language, I've found Pimsleur recordings especially helpful. ] (]) 19:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC) | ||
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Intermarriage in Israel
Greetings, Bowlhover! I noted your puzzled response to what User:Medeis wrote on the Intermarriage in Israel query earlier. I haven't time to contribute to that discussion till later today from home, but I want you to know that I consider that remark highly inappropriate and have asked for intervention by WP editors more experienced than I, to get the discussion on that query back on track. Please bear with us. And I'm pleased to inaugurate your User talk page! - Deborahjay (talk) 12:37, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
- If you found my comments problematic you could either contact me, or, if you like, at this point, collapse them by inserting hat and hab codes around the discussion like this:
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- offending comment
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- Hope that helps. μηδείς (talk) 17:40, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hayashi tracks & isochrones
Hi Bowlhover, just a quick question regarding your request in the Graphics Lab: Do you have access to a PDF version of the article "1961–2011: Fifty years of Hayashi tracks" you have taken the PNG image from? Does it actually contain vector data of the graph or only an embedded raster graphics? Regards, --Patrick87 (talk) 03:47, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- I've uploaded the file to here: http://www.fileswap.com/dl/rdZCPcG9m0/
- I don't think it contains any vector data, but I also didn't know it was possible to embed vector files into PDF's, so you should probably check. --Bowlhover (talk) 04:32, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- Actually it does contain vector data. You can check this easily by zooming into the image very far with your PDF viewer. If all lines stay sharp and smooth it's probably vector data. If it's getting blurry on high zoom levels or you're even able to see pixels you now its an embedded raster graphics.
- Thanks for the upload. I'll see what I can do and try to upload an improved graph. --Patrick87 (talk) 04:42, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- I just created a vector version of the image (see you request in the graphic lab). --Patrick87 (talk) 16:35, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Learning languages
You asked a question about this on my talk page, and I wasn't sure whether you wanted me to answer it there or here. I suspect that my love for languages is partly genetic. I love my native language (American English) as well as other varieties of English and other languages. That said, I can't say I've loved every language I've ever encountered. For example, I disliked Czech and gave it up after a couple of years. I found Tamil unappealing. It wasn't the difficulty, because I enjoy Mandarin Chinese. I suppose I just feel varying degrees of affinity to various languages. I appreciate them aesthetically and rationally, somewhat as I enjoy music. Another thing that gives me pleasure is success in "cracking the code", in getting to a point where something incomprehensible becomes comprehensible. Regarding methods, for me the best method is using the language with native speakers, such as hiring a native speaker as a tutor or (best of all, but often impractical) going to live for a while in a place where the language is spoken, or at least traveling there on vacation (holiday). Other than that, watching videos is helpful, as is reading texts in that language. These methods are nothing special. I will say that, to get started with a language, I've found Pimsleur recordings especially helpful. Marco polo (talk) 19:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Ref desk
I second what Medeis said. Stop trying to nanny that page. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:03, 26 October 2013 (UTC)