Comments on: a love of languages… http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Daniel Nicolas http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-271 Daniel Nicolas Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:34:11 +0000 http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-271 that will be me. just you wait. :( I will learn spanish, french, english, italian, german, and whatever I can get my hands on. that has been my dream. my heart. to know and speak many languages. that will be me. just you wait. :( I will learn spanish, french, english, italian, german, and whatever I can get my hands on.

that has been my dream. my heart. to know and speak many languages.

]]> By: Erin http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-272 Erin Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:32:22 +0000 http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-272 Awww, Danny! Me too! My goal has always been to speak 10 languages with a level of fluency where I can converse and, more importantly, read poetry and literature in the eloquent original. So here's my list: 1) English 2) Spanish 3) French 4) Portuguese 5) German 6) Italian 7) Greek 8) Japanese 9) Russian 10) Mandarin Chinese I'd also love to learn Esperanto because it's such an incredibly interesting idea to me!!! Awww, Danny! Me too! My goal has always been to speak 10 languages with a level of fluency where I can converse and, more importantly, read poetry and literature in the eloquent original.

So here’s my list:

1) English
2) Spanish
3) French
4) Portuguese
5) German
6) Italian
7) Greek 8) Japanese
9) Russian
10) Mandarin Chinese

I’d also love to learn Esperanto because it’s such an incredibly interesting idea to me!!!

]]> By: Mariette http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-273 Mariette Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:25:10 +0000 http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-273 I studied Spanish for 4 years in high school and could speak/understand it fairly well... then I graduated... and that was 12 years ago (though it pains me so deeply to say that). My gramma is very outdoorsy (mountain climbing, hiking, camping, etc.) Though she is now 80 and is slowing down a bit, she doesn't let that get in her way. She has been organizing kayak trips for our family and friends for a number of years. I never went on them, mostly because they were pretty costly trips- they would fly to exotic places like Palau. Well, this year I am turning 30 and my mom offered to help pay my way. Gramma announced that we would be going to Costa Rica- I was SO THERE! I knew very very little about Costa Rica. I knew that it was in Central America, but couldn't have told you which countries bordered it. So I did a little research- it sounded like paradise! I knew that it was going to be a fantastic vacation- with loads to do. I had absolutely no idea that I would be flying to a foreign country to find my people and my home! Everything about my experience in Costa Rica fit so uniformly with all I have ever wanted and believed in. This country is what girls like me always daydreamed about: A gorgeous tropical nation with a message of peace and preservation, full of super friendly down-to-earth people with generous hearts, educated minds, happy respectful children, and a strong appreciation for their unique ecosystems complete with monkeys and toucans and cute little Halloween crabs and a plethera of funny mammals the rest of the world has never even heard of. Palm trees, warm ocean, hammocks, zip lines, and the best damn vegetarian food I have ever tasted! This is my dream! All of it! I stepped off the plane April 21, 2006 and became a Die-Hard Tica in that instant. I can't seem to turn it off, it's like I've completely fallen in love with Costa Rican culture and I am unable to think of anything else! I have always been a worldly sort of person, if you will- curious about other cultures and lands. I have been on a number of travels, including Italy, UK, Germany and Mexico, and have always dreamed of seeing more countries. If I were more motivated, I would have stuck to my instinct to learn as many languages as my brain would allow. And I still may, but now it does not seem as important. Now I do not have such strong desires to see the world (though I would never pass up the opportuniy to do so.) Now I only want to go back to Costa Rica. There's No Place Like Home. PURA VIDA! I studied Spanish for 4 years in high school and could speak/understand it fairly well… then I graduated… and that was 12 years ago (though it pains me so deeply to say that). My gramma is very outdoorsy (mountain climbing, hiking, camping, etc.) Though she is now 80 and is slowing down a bit, she doesn’t let that get in her way. She has been organizing kayak trips for our family and friends for a number of years. I never went on them, mostly because they were pretty costly trips- they would fly to exotic places like Palau. Well, this year I am turning 30 and my mom offered to help pay my way. Gramma announced that we would be going to Costa Rica- I was SO THERE!

I knew very very little about Costa Rica. I knew that it was in Central America, but couldn’t have told you which countries bordered it. So I did a little research- it sounded like paradise! I knew that it was going to be a fantastic vacation- with loads to do. I had absolutely no idea that I would be flying to a foreign country to find my people and my home! Everything about my experience in Costa Rica fit so uniformly with all I have ever wanted and believed in. This country is what girls like me always daydreamed about: A gorgeous tropical nation with a message of peace and preservation, full of super friendly down-to-earth people with generous hearts, educated minds, happy respectful children, and a strong appreciation for their unique ecosystems complete with monkeys and toucans and cute little Halloween crabs and a plethera of funny mammals the rest of the world has never even heard of. Palm trees, warm ocean, hammocks, zip lines, and the best damn vegetarian food I have ever tasted! This is my dream! All of it! I stepped off the plane April 21, 2006 and became a Die-Hard Tica in that instant. I can’t seem to turn it off, it’s like I’ve completely fallen in love with Costa Rican culture and I am unable to think of anything else!

I have always been a worldly sort of person, if you will- curious about other cultures and lands. I have been on a number of travels, including Italy, UK, Germany and Mexico, and have always dreamed of seeing more countries. If I were more motivated, I would have stuck to my instinct to learn as many languages as my brain would allow. And I still may, but now it does not seem as important. Now I do not have such strong desires to see the world (though I would never pass up the opportuniy to do so.) Now I only want to go back to Costa Rica. There’s No Place Like Home. PURA VIDA!

]]> By: Verny Rivera http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-274 Verny Rivera Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:25:27 +0000 http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-274 You are always welcome to become a tica :) Maybe you are not a Costa Rican but you can become a tica... because as I always tell Erin, a Costa Rican is someone who was born in CR, but if you love CR no matter where you were born, you are a tic@ pura vida :) You are always welcome to become a tica :)
Maybe you are not a Costa Rican but you can become a tica… because as I always tell Erin, a Costa Rican is someone who was born in CR, but if you love CR no matter where you were born, you are a tic@

pura vida :)

]]> By: Xun http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-275 Xun Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:30:16 +0000 http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-275 Incredible. Such passion, such perserverance, such success. Incredible. Such passion, such perserverance, such success.

]]> By: Erin http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-276 Erin Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:34:35 +0000 http://www.gringuitica.com/2006/06/a-love-of-languages/#comment-276 Mariette, that was such an amazing story! You've actually just verbalized exactly how I feel about CR... I like to call it the homeland of my heart. I may not have been born there, but as Verny says, I'm tica all the way!!! I hope to see you very soon in tiquicia! Mariette, that was such an amazing story! You’ve actually just verbalized exactly how I feel about CR… I like to call it the homeland of my heart. I may not have been born there, but as Verny says, I’m tica all the way!!!

I hope to see you very soon in tiquicia!

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