<p>or dictate to someone who can type really fast</p>
<p>@ironchariot you’ll definitely have an advantage over us merely average typers when it comes to papers and such</p>
<p>but 25 wpm is kinda slow, no? or did you mean dictating?</p>
<p>I’m sure it’s been discussed somewhere far back in this thread, but do we have any international applicants among us? If so, where are y’all from?</p>
<p>@ironchariot whoops i meant to tag omar in that as well!</p>
<p>@ita i’d like to have a race if we all get in, me and omar v. any single person who thinks they’ve got more typing skill :)</p>
<p>@fireballs I am from mainland China but have gone to school in the states for the past three years :)</p>
<p>@fffightingdaisy</p>
<p>Nice! I assume then that you speak either Mandarin or Cantonese? I have a friend from China who tried teaching me some Mandarin, but not a lot of it has stuck.</p>
<p>On that topic, what languages do we all speak? Languages are cool.</p>
<p>@ironchariot deal! you are both on!</p>
<p>@ita really hoping we all get in to be able to say let’s gooo!</p>
<p>@fireballs my parents speak fluent greek and I took a Greek course at my church for a few years so I understand most of the language from being around it so much but I don’t speak it well enough to call myself fluent!</p>
<p>i speak a little spanish, better at reading/writing it though</p>
<p>@fireballs yes 
Mandarin it is. I have taken French for three years and can understand a little japanese(didn’t put these down on the app cuz they are very minimal anyway…) but that’s pretty much all I’ve got. haha. </p>
<p>Are you a domestic student? Which part of the country are you from? (or if you are international, which country? If you don’t mind sharing :)</p>
<p>i’ve also always wanted to learn some mandarin. It’s just such a complex language that to be able to understand even a little bit would be really cool. I’ve tried to get my friend to teach me some (he’s fluent) but he never has!</p>
<p>@itapitamou</p>
<p>Very cool. Greek is one of those languages that I’ve always wanted to try to learn, but it looks very intimidating. I’d like to learn Biblical or Ancient Greek though, not necessarily modern.</p>
<p>I speak English and Spanish, and have been teaching myself French (I’m really lazy with it though). Recently I’ve been interested in Norwegian as well.</p>
<p>@fireballs Greek isn’t so bad if you know spanish! I’ve taken spanish all four years of high school and Greek has definitely helped. A lot of the words are extremely similar</p>
<p>@fffightingdaisy</p>
<p>Wo shi meiguore (sorry, I can’t remember where all the tildes and such go). But yeah, I’m from Chicago actually. Peux-tu comprendre cette phrase? Je ne peux pas parler francais trop bien non plus - mais je parle l’espagnol presque courrament :)</p>
<p>@itapitamou haha. The trouble with native speakers is that, like you guys, we don’t study a lot of grammar in school; most of the grammar, word usage and sentence structure are developed early when we were learning as toddlers. Even if I want to, I wouldn’t know how to explain to you the difference between english and mandarine and why I speak mandarine the way I do, let alone dialects that are drastically different from one another or mandarine itself.</p>
<p>(it’s <em>like</em>, you just internalize it, like how I started using “like” only after going to school in the states. you kinda internalize from your surrounding language environment :)</p>
<p>@fireballs oui Je peux la comprendre! haha. J’aime la francaise en fait parce que c’est similaire a l’anglais, et j’ai visit Chicago une fois quand je avais 15 ans. Et j’ai visit a la Chinatown ici, il etait tres isole… hehehehe :)</p>
<p>Guys, 95-ish hours to go.</p>
<p>Je parle francais, aussi.</p>