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rheanna27 just sent me a kick-ass SGA comic script so I'll be over here, happily pencilling. I'm so excited! :O)

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springwoof has a very pretty, very image-heavy post: Things I Liked Best About SGA, Part 3: The Spaceships!. So beautiful. So cool! Not to be missed.

I signed up for a French refresher course (gulp). I'm really more interested in working on my Japanese, but I plan to go to the annual comic festival in Angoulême next January, and I found a blog post by an artist who was there, which confirmed a) it's totally awesome and b) you totally need at least rudimentary French.

I've started to read through all my French bandes dessinées (well, I'm halfway through the first) so I won't make a fool of myself in class next month - I signed up for the one that said "had at least two years of French" which I have, only that was over 20 years ago. I can only hope everybody else's will be just as rusty. Right now I could order a baguette, that's pretty much it. All I can do is read French comics, I assume because the pictures carry half the story.

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BOTH of you put my German to shame. (I can say "How do I get to the station?" and that's it.)

I enjoyed French a lot at school -- took it right up to A Level -- but unfortunately my university choice meant I either did an entire degree in languages or none at all, and I didn't have a second language to go with French. I would love to brush up on French a bit, though: oddly enough, a lot of the grammar I was taught has stayed with me, or at least I think it'd come back fairly quickly if I started studying. Oh, for more time...

BOTH of you put my German to shame. (I can say "How do I get to the station?" and that's it.)

I think it's generally easier for the German-speaker to learn English than vice versa... simply because English gets you pretty far almost everywhere (except France, apparently). I was a Trekkie in my teens, and starved for all things Star Trek, which was when I discovered the licensed fanfic by Pocket Books and found that there were dozens of tie-ins that hadn't been translated into German yet and wow, did English suddenly become fun, and so useful!

I would love to brush up on French a bit, though: oddly enough, a lot of the grammar I was taught has stayed with me, or at least I think it'd come back fairly quickly if I started studying.

I bet it's just dormant and waiting to be reactivated with the right motivation. If you could speak at such an advanced level, it probably won't even take studying, just reading or watching tv in French.

I found that the prospect of being able to read with more ease so many great comics really motivates me. I can't understand why that hadn't occurred to me sooner. French, for me, always was 'that subject that wasn't so much fun at school', instead of the portal into the wide world or Franco-Belgian comics. All the stuff that gets translated into German and the select few that get translated into English... they're just the tip of the iceberg!