Posted on Feb 10, 2015
When did you attend DLI? Which language? How was it?
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As I'm in Monterey this week, I was, of course, reminded of my time at DLI. From 1979 to 1980, I studied Polish, which was a 47-week course. The course was academically demanding: It required a lot of after-hours work, but in the end it all paid off. I scored 3:3 on the DLPT for Polish at the end of the course, as did most of my classmates. We had a class of eight, and our lead instructor was excellent. So, while it was a lot of work, DLI was a very good experience for me.
How about you? Have you attended DLI? Which language did you study? When did you attend? And was it a good experience? Or something less than good?
How about you? Have you attended DLI? Which language did you study? When did you attend? And was it a good experience? Or something less than good?
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In 1985, I also attend DLI Monterey, what a horrible place and had to spend a gruesome 6 months in Italian. Then I had to serve 3 long years in Italy. Life was tough, especially coming out of Fort Bragg.
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I didn't go to the DLI, but was stationed in Korea 1997-2001. After around 6 months there I started taking the DLPT for Korean. I think I did like a 1+/1 after a year and later a 2/2. The test got harder a few years ago, but last year I was a 2/2.
I lived in Japan from 2001-2004. There I continued to study Korean while I was learning their Kanji. I eventually got to a conversation level with around 4,000 words in my Japanese vocabulary. I still remember some, but have lost much of it without using it.
In 2005-2009 I live in Germany. I took two classes and studies on my own and spoke with Germans regularly. I learned probably 4-5 thousand words, but didn't do well with verb conjugation and grammar. I could understand a good bit and carry on conversations, but no where as well as Korean, which I kept up with. I remember a good bit,but have been losing it without using it.
I lived in the UK 2009-2012. I studied Korean more from time to time, but focused on college. Over the previous years I also studied Mandarin, Spanish, Thai, and Tagalog. Languages facing me and I enjoy how they seem to dree my mind and broaden my thoughts.
The days, work, higher education, and family keep me from my language studies, but I plan on mastering a couple if the languages I started when I get more time.
Do any of you all have a good experience with learning languages across the language families such as sone of the Asian ones? I know in the begenning I would confuse new words with other foriegn words, but eventually as I became more fluent the languages would differentiate where it didn't seem to affect me.
I lived in Japan from 2001-2004. There I continued to study Korean while I was learning their Kanji. I eventually got to a conversation level with around 4,000 words in my Japanese vocabulary. I still remember some, but have lost much of it without using it.
In 2005-2009 I live in Germany. I took two classes and studies on my own and spoke with Germans regularly. I learned probably 4-5 thousand words, but didn't do well with verb conjugation and grammar. I could understand a good bit and carry on conversations, but no where as well as Korean, which I kept up with. I remember a good bit,but have been losing it without using it.
I lived in the UK 2009-2012. I studied Korean more from time to time, but focused on college. Over the previous years I also studied Mandarin, Spanish, Thai, and Tagalog. Languages facing me and I enjoy how they seem to dree my mind and broaden my thoughts.
The days, work, higher education, and family keep me from my language studies, but I plan on mastering a couple if the languages I started when I get more time.
Do any of you all have a good experience with learning languages across the language families such as sone of the Asian ones? I know in the begenning I would confuse new words with other foriegn words, but eventually as I became more fluent the languages would differentiate where it didn't seem to affect me.
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CW3 Amel Smith
I was stationed in Pan Mun Jom in 1980, they gave us 20 semester hours of Korean while I was there. I got to the point I could read anything, but did not have a very large vocabulary so had no idea what I was reading. It was a very useful course, because we also were taught Korean culture, and were able to go on home visits with our KATUSA counterparts.
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That would have been an experience, and is a good deal for the college credit. I took 4 classes, but because most of the students are only their a year we had to petition to get a class through from shortly after they arrived. I think we only had the bare minimum of 10 students for the final class. I'll be back in Korea in October for a year at Kunsan. I look forward to learning a new dialect. I speak like the people in Seoul. One distinction I make is I read a couple of the vowels distinctively like they were intended, although most Koreans today make the yae that isn't as common sound like ye. I also look forward to seeing how much more developed they have become after the 16 years I have been away.
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PVT (Join to see)
Ich spreche Deutsch auch. Und mein Army Arbeiten ist 35N, so kann Ich gehe nach Germany auch. As a 35N do I have a good chance of going to Germany if I can speak the proper language fluently? I learned it in highschool, but I would love to go. What are my chances of going?
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I went to Basic Russian in '87-'88 and liked it so much I came back for Intermediate Russian in '90-'91. Loved Monterey, especially in the morning walking down the hill to the old school.
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I had a little bit of French, some German and bits and pieces of Spanish, not at DLI but in life - didn't get the one year vacation you did. Happy for you though!! :)
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