08-27-2024, 03:08 PM
(08-25-2024, 01:07 AM)AlexandrosTheGreat Wrote: Some of you may remember me from ATS if that's where many are coming from. I had many tens of thousands of posts back there, even if it was usually just my failing to take anything seriously that drove me to leave most comments and contribute just a little with a lot of sarcasm and stupidity; that's just who I am.
Welcome!
I remember you.
Quote:I am an expert pianist and harpist and have played since I was 3 1/2 and have played in bars and cruise ships all over the world.
I only play door bells.
Quote:By both hobby and profession, I am an avid linguist, philologist, translator, etymologist, and polyglot. I adore language, I love grammar, and I speak Greek, English and French fluently as well as Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, and Ancient Greek. I can understand almost everything in Catalan, Aragonese, Galicia, Aranese, Asturian, Occitan, Provençal, Savoyard, Griko, Calabria Greek, Lombard, Piedmontese, Limousine, Venetan, Tuscan, Romanian, Friulian, Corsican, Pontic, Tsakonian, Cretan, Thrakian, and a few others. I can't speak them or write them, but I know enough to understand these languages when I read them.
I also love languages, but I'm too lazy to learn them, so I'm limited to Portuguese, French and English, but I only speak well Portuguese, my mother tongue.
Your list is a great example of how many languages and variations Europe has, even when limited to the southern countries.