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Carr Saunders Halls, LSE
London School of Economics
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what's lse really like

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Did any of you learn a second language? Is it really mentally straining to think and speak in it?
Carr Saunders Halls, LSE
London School of Economics
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ramroff
Did any of you learn a second language? Is it really mentally straining to think and speak in it?


Well, I could read and write English before I came to the US, but it took about half a year of living in the US before I could speak it reasonably well. There's only so much you can learn from books and teachers.
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What other language can you speak Bis? :cool:
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ramroff
What other language can you speak Bis? :cool:


Only my native one...and Shetlanderarese of course. :wink:
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bismark wher u orig from?
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Bismarck
Only my native one...and Shetlanderarese of course. :wink:


Better than LSEnglish, or library-speak as it is more commonly known. :wink:
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bismark wher u orig from?


USSR.

ramroff
Better than LSEnglish, or library-speak as it is more commonly known. :wink:


Is that the language where you communicate by staring at a book in different ways? :wink:
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yer, the social life around LSE is whatever you make it. I set out to entertain as soon as I checked out the drone-like people, so I always manage to have a laugh. its when you go out to pubs/bars/clubs that you'll socialise with a lot more people, especially easy-to-talk-to people - rather than the majority of the LSE student body which is work orientated, the chinese especially. they will not socialise with you, full stop, so dont waste your time - like some1 said before, they just stay in their own groups.

also the library is a good place to have a chat with people, you'll get some egotistic 3rd year or postgrad that thinks he is god trying to get you to shut up, but if you refuse they'll usually leave in a huff, which is great fun.

ollie :biggrin:


ha! i like the library attack! that is funny. if i go to lse i hope to meet you.
ohahoh
ha! i like the library attack! that is funny. if i go to lse i hope to meet you.


lol please join me in my fight against the bigheaded older ones. i know i sound like a little thug trying to combat their will to work, but when you've been in the library for a good few weeks (retract that, a good few days), you'll know where i'm coming from.

ollie :biggrin:
ramroff
Did any of you learn a second language? Is it really mentally straining to think and speak in it?


I was in Tanzania for 8 weeks last summer living with a family, so I had to speak Swahili every day. Sometimes during dinner conversation I just got tired of trying to speak it. Speaking languages in class is very different from complete immersion. And English is not that easy of a language, especially when a lot of the Asian students learn from the Cambridge curriculum and then have to deal with some very interesting London accents when they arrive, innit?

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