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) Send Message	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 4 months ago

Marco C 1,045 post(s) Send Message	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 4 months ago

iman salih 30 post(s) Send Message	welcome Alfia you came to the right place! posted 4 months ago

Sean Duffie 72 post(s) Send Message	¡Hola Alfia! Ojalá que te diviertas aquí // I hope you enjoy yourself here :) posted 4 months ago

Jon Bischke Administrator 783 post(s) Send Message	25 languages?!!! Dang, that’s awesome. Now I triple-dog dare you to list them all. :) Great to have you here!!! posted 4 months ago

Alfia W. 27 post(s) Send Message	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 4 months ago

Alfia W. 27 post(s) Send Message	zOMG – the Flashcards are DA BOMB!!!! posted 4 months ago

Stephanie Sims 866 post(s) Send Message	Welcome Alfia posted 4 months ago

Catherine Pe... 28 post(s) Send Message	Hello Alfia! Welcome to eduFire posted 4 months ago

Patrick Jou... 411 post(s) Send Message	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 4 months ago

Spring Johnson 60 post(s) Send Message	Hello Alfia, bienvenidos a edufire! posted 4 months ago

John Williams 216 post(s) Send Message	Hallo Alfia, Herzlich Willkommen :) posted 4 months ago

Sandra Pearson 838 post(s) Send Message	25? Ok, she wins! LOL! Welcome Alfia, I think your are really going to enjoy yourself here! posted 4 months ago

Iwona Lech 33 post(s) Send Message	Hallo Alfia! You are amazing! Einfach unbeschreiblich! Soooo viele Sprachen! Ah! Das wünschte ich mir auch! Welcome on EduFire!!!!!! posted 4 months ago

Tina Solar 1,008 post(s) Send Message	Welcome to eduFire Alfia! You have many talents. See you around the forums. posted 4 months ago

Charles Perry 31 post(s) Send Message	Hello, Alfia. Yep, passing knowledge of 25 languages is nothing short of amazing. Welcome aboard! Rick posted 4 months ago

henry agrahadi 3 post(s) Send Message	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 4 months ago

Kristie * 226 post(s) Send Message	Welcome Alfia! posted 4 months ago

Liz Lockett 370 post(s) Send Message	Now that is a list of languages! Bienvenida! Lots of great tutors on here for sure. posted 4 months ago

Tina Solar 1,008 post(s) Send Message	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 3 months ago