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I usually say 8+ because people have varying definitions of what it means to speak a language. Here are all languages I have ever studied for more than a few hours, in chronological order. I have marked the ones that I'm intermediate or higher in with an asterisk. * German (language) - 0 years old - my native language. Obviously fluent in it now, I have created 500+ language lessons for it as the host of GermanPod101 and I sometimes teach students over Skype.* English (language) - 10 years old - learned it as my first foreign language at school in grades 5-13. For the first few years I was really bad at it, but then I got English-speaking penpals, I hung out on political discussion forums online and I started voice-chatting, so that it started to feel like another native language around age 17 or so.* Latin (language) - 12 years old - my second foreign language at school, grades 7-11. Started studying Latin because it was a mandatory choice between either Latin or French and I thought Latin would help me with other languages in the future. After three years, my teachers recommended me as a tutor for weaker students and eventually I started teaching Latin online on Myngle and Edufire. Udemy course to appear soon.* French (language) - 14 years old - my third foreign language at school, grades 9-10. I really struggled with this language and quit after grade 10, but I had online friends who wouldn't let me forget it completely. I visited Montréal for a month immediately after graduating from high school and stayed with a French-speaking family, from where I picked up my passion for the Québécois variant. When I needed a linguistic-oriented university major to go with my study of computational linguistics, and I was too late to inscribe for English Studies, it was easy to decide on French Studies instead and my trusty online friends helped me re-activate my French in time for the initial evaluation exam. I speak French fluently now and I enjoy reading some classic French literature.* Esperanto (language) - 14 years old - the first language I studied outside school. I had read a popular science book about linguistics, which dedicated a few pages to Esperanto and mentioned that it was the most successful of all constructed languages, and designed to be super-simple. I thought to myself "If it's so simple, I should be able to pick it up without effort, as another notch in the belt. If it gets too hard or annoying, I'll just drop it, no regrets". So I signed up for the German Esperanto Youth's free e-mail-based course and got a mentor who was a student at Berlin Technical University. Learning Esperanto was exhilarating, the only language before or after that was intrinsically motivating to study. I finished the course in 5 months, then attended a weekend course for intermediate students in Berlin that my tutor invited me to, and by the end I was comfortable in Esperanto. Read also how Esperanto changed my life: http://www.quora.com/esperanto-best-of/How-Esperanto-changed-my-life* Italian (language) - 16 years old - my fourth foreign language at school, grades 11-13. Started studying this because of the vacuum left by quitting French class. By the end of grade 13, when I chose Italian for my oral baccalaureate exam, I was able to talk fluently about technical matters I had studied before, for example the causes of Venice's frequent flooding problem. Then I didn't use Italian at all for the next 5 years or so and I'm afraid it's not as fluent as it used to be, though I have started to use it a bit more regularly. I still regularly read books in Italian.* Modern Greek (language) - not sure exactly when I started studying it, because a Greek friend kept teaching me a few things here and there and eventually I decided to pursue it more seriously. I learned the basics in self-study and from my friend, then to signNow intermediate level I used the Assimil method Greek course and an online tutor. Right now I'm conversational but not fluent and I have read four non-simplified books in Greek without the help of a dictionary.* Mandarin Chinese (language) - 18 years old - I've always been fascinated by Chinese characters, so when I heard about a federal competition for high schoolers starting to learn Chinese, and I was in my last year of high school, that was all the motivation to start it then. I studied it by myself for half a year, then won the competition (prize: scholarship for 6 weeks language school in Beijing), sat in 1 1/2 semesters of Chinese at my university, then those 6 weeks in China (2004), then some more self-study, which tapered off... in 2009 I decided to get serious about it, studied 2500 characters in that one year, then have been steadily improving since. Last week I had a 2 1/2 hour conversation all in Mandarin about all kinds of topics, but I still search for words occasionally. I have also read almost a dozen books in Chinese by now.Thai - 19 years old - learned maybe 100 words and phrases just for fun. Been re-discovering it recently, but still not sure where I want to go with it.Czech (language) - 22 years old - I got the opportunity to attend a seminar in the Czech Republic, so I studied some Czech, maybe 500 words, even though the seminar itself would be in Esperanto. I haven't done anything about Czech since this trip, so I forgot it all.Swedish (language) - 24 years old - exact same as for CzechLithuanian (language) - 24 years old - exact same as for Czech. I'm happy I learned it, because otherwise I would have missed my flight back. After the seminar, the bus stop to get to the airport had changed and none of the passer-bys were able to speak English or another of my languages.* Kiswahili (Swahili) - 26 years old - I want to study some languages that are truly different from the ones I studied so far, and Swahili sounds really cool. I learned it from the Assimil course. I haven't had a chance to speak it much, but I can read and write it well enough to keep a diary in it for example.* Dutch (language) - 27 years old - As Dutch is so similar to German, low-hanging fruit so to speak, it would be stupid not to pick it. Some language geek friends and I made a challenge to learn Dutch in 6 weeks of self-study. For proper motivation, I signed up to give a 45-minute presentation of the German language, in Dutch, at a language festival in Leeuwen exactly 7 weeks after we started. I managed, though only a Dutch attendee could tell you how many mistakes I made. These days I'm keeping my Dutch active by reading books and listening to the political radio program "Met de oog op morgen".* Spanish (language) - 27 years old - Spanish is similar to Italian. I wanted to study it but found the course too boring, so I jumped straight into reading "A Space Odyssey" in Spanish. Spanish and Italian keep conflicting in my mind though, whenever I want to speak one, I keep thinking of words in the other language, so it requires concentration. Reading Spanish or understanding TV is no problem at all.Arabic (language) - 28 years old - I studied it non-seriously before but always got discouraged quickly. In 2011, I finally managed to bring Arabic up to A2 level, but then I lost interest because the people I was planning to talk Arabic to moved and there's not much to read in Arabic even if my level was better.Finnish (language) - 28 years old - This language never really interested me, but some language geeks made it a challenge to spend 35 hours on Finnish in one month and see how far we'd get. I used Assimil, Teach Yourself and a word frequency list supplemented by sound files from Forvo. At the end, my level was evaluated as A2, but I didn't continue to study Finnish. The challenge thread: http://how-to-learn-any-language...Japanese (language) - 29 years old - I spent 50 hours on it for the August/September 6 Week Challenges in 2012 (those challenges occur 4x a year now). My main goal is to understand the anime series "Hikaru no Go" and Japanese Go (board game) lectures and I don't care about much else for now, so I tried a new method that involved flashcards made from Hikaru no Go episodes (try Subs2Srs, it's awesome). After just 50 hours in this challenge, I was able to understand two thirds of a new Hikaru no Go episode without subtitles, and my Japanese was useless for anything else. I have started to take conversational classes. EDIT: I just posted a description of how I signNowed this level so quickly as a step-by-step guide on my blog: http://temp.learnlangs.com/step-...* Indonesian - 29 years old - My most recent addition. I started to learn Indonesian because the Indonesian embassy in Berlin offered a free beginner's course in April 2013. Then they announced a speaking competition for June 2013 and I challenged myself to participate in it, so that I suddenly had to learn Indonesian quite quickly during the May 6 Week Challenge. You learn more about my method and results here. I'm happy to say that I'm currently almost B2 in Indonesian.I recently collected the most useful Language-Learning Advice I gave on Quora. Also check out my blog about language-learning, which includes personal updates as well as advice on methods etc., at http://www.learnlangs.com , and my Quora board about languages: http://www.quora.com/selected_language_postsIf you're looking for language geeks like the crazy ones who started the challenges with me, http://how-to-learn-any-language... is your best bet. And if you want to experience intense language self-study, why not sign up for a 6 Week Challenge? http://6wc.learnlangs.com/howto

This is an interesting delima that stops countless entrepreneurs. So let me tell you how I overcame this obstacle.First, let me paint the picture. I was a new single father of 4 young children. (Full custody)  And after a year of commuting from PA to my job in DC, I just couldn't do it anymore and I lost my job. So I decided to start my own business. I borrowed from family and I dipped into the modest savings I had. This first business had a nice run (24 months), but after signing a bad deal with a national distributor, the business failed. I was broke and already $100's of thousands in debt to friends, family and vendors.However, I didn't want to quit. So I swallowed my pride, applied for food stamps and low income health insurance for my kids. I then signed a really shitty deal to access the tiny bit of equity I had in my house. I moved my whole family in with my parents and I rented out the house. Between my parents help, $500/month positive cash flow from the rental, a credit card with $6k limit andthe government assistance, I was able to live and my children didn't suffer too much.I used the equity in my house to hire a tech firm to build out a prototype of a product idea  I had thought of during my first business. (I'm a non-technical founder) I went to our local sheriff's office and asked them if they would be willing to try using the prototype, they said yes. When I ran out of money the prototype was about 40% complete, but the sheriff's office had already made an arrest that they generated from tips delivered through the technology. So, they invited me to present it at their annual conference (I told them I was broke, so they didn't charge me).At the annual conference someone watching my presentation asked me to build a version of the tech for their crime stoppers program. $7,200. I then starting building the tech using the prototype as the base point. At this same time I crossed paths with a friend from college. He was out of work and I asked him to help me. He agreed and he cashed in on a small saving he had and we used that $25k to float us. At the same time all of this was happening I learned of a local program (Ben Franklin Tech Partnership) that just started to help create tech companies in my area. (Rural Pennsylvania). I contacted the program director she interviewed me and invited me in. I was accepted to their program. The first challenge they gave me was build a team, so I found two brilliant developers that were looking to build names for themselves. We worked out a deal and I had a team. With a team in place, I received an investment of $25k through the program. They then gave me challenge number 2, get a real customer. So I went out and showed several of the regional police departments and district attorney's what I was building. One of them saw the vision, and purchased out tech for the entire county (at a heavy discount), but still a low 6 figure deal. (I'm adding this note because it is important. I have a Sass model, the first county deal was 16 customers and I had them prepay for 3 years of subscription at a heavy discount to generate cash up front. When self funding, this is a crucial trick for success. Prepaid subscriptions)From there we received another investment of $75k. (These investments are designed to create jobs, they go toward payroll) We spent a year building version 1.0 and launched that with 16 police agencies in July, 2013. After that, building on one success after another we received another $225k investment and we now have 55 paying customers.There was a lot of struggle here so I don't want you to think it was easy. And I am by no means yet successful, but my technology works and I built it with hard work and sacrifice!! You can do it too as long as you believe in yourself.

From my personal experience, English people are very kind.I will share with you something that happened to me while I was living in England that made me realise how kind-hearted they are.I was doing an internship in Loughborough some years ago, and I was going to travel by train to Scotland with a friend of mine.We were supposed to leave on a Saturday night but there was some misunderstanding when buying the train tickets. We accidentally bought tickets for Friday night and we only realised on Saturday after we got to Derby, where we were supposed to catch another train to Sheffield. Of course there was no train, as the date was wrong and the next train we could take would be on Sunday morning.We were a bit lost in Derby’s train station as there was an announcement that they would be closing the station in a few minutes. We were not sure what to do.Then a group of middle aged ladies approached us and asked if we were lost. We explained what happened and one of the ladies offered to let us stay the night at her flat and to give us a drive back to the train station in the early morning.We were very surprised with such a generous offer and also a bit afraid at the same time, this could easily turn into a dangerous serial killer situation. But thankfully it didn’t. The ladies looked genuinely concerned and they really seemed like nice people. So we decided to accept her kind offer.When we arrived at her flat she made hot chocolate for us. And she had a few cats which were very friendly and lovely.And in the early morning she drove us to the train station, as promised.So yeah, I think English people can be incredibly kind. I’m from Portugal and I consider our people to be kind and warm, but I highly doubt something like this would happen there. Or anywhere really.

Tech Mahindra Campus placement at a friend's coll!! The Lady HR selects 34 students and sends the list to the Dean just before announcing the names.Students those who were rejected in the Technical PI were not summoned for HR round. They were all dissapointed and beginning to leave, just then the Dean walks in to talk to the HR. The Dean asks her to round it off to 35 students instead of 34.HR- No Sir, That's not possible. Some are even unable to answer simple questions of C and Java.Dean- All I am asking is just one more of the lot waiting eagerly outside....HR- Okay Lets see.Before the Dean could even leave the room the HR calls in one student, Deepak.Deepak greets the Dean and then the HR. HR- Deepak! The dean wants you to join our organisation.Deepak-(hungry, already frustrated due to the delay and in a hopeless situation, his face lights up a little). Thats Good news for me Ma'am I guess.HR- Its good news for us too, I have lot of expectations from you. You are my personal call.(WTF!! Deepak is getting selected!!!! Without even a question asked!!!)Deepak- Thank you Ma'am.The HR shakes hand with him and asks him to call the other 34 of them. As he was about to leave, the HR gives a stupid smile and interupts.. HR- Btw what about your girlfriend. Is she listed?Deepak- (taking a glance at the list) No Ma'am, she is still waiting outside.(Spoiler alert! Deepak had no gf. There was a girl he had huge crush on, from first yr)HR- Okay, I give you another chance to be with her. Call her in with the rest. ( HR still smiling, as if she had fallen in love with Deepak!!! )So it was 36 students for TECH MAHINDRA and this moron Deepak flies away with the Girl Of My Life...My Gf ...and obviously, his Crush >:o >:o

Some good answers here, but wanted to add a few things I’ve learned that I didn’t see mentioned. I also recorded a podcast episode for you on this if you want even more detail.Algorithms. I think most Upwork freelancers underestimate just how important algorithms are to the way Upwork functions. Best thing you can do is create a client account on Upwork and look at it from that perspective. It’s basically a big search engine and much like Google and other search engines, it relies heavily on algorithms. For Upwork, the two big “ranking” factors are rank and relevance. Rank is tied to your Job Success Score, job history, ratings, etc. It’s Upwork’s way of figuring out who the good freelancers are. But, there’s also an element of relevance. So, when a client searches for a freelancer, they don’t just get a ranked list. They get a relevant list… who Upwork thinks would be best for that particular client and project. And, again, it’s algorithms that determine all this. So, know how they work and how to use them to your advantage.Relevance Over Rank. Upwork isn't just about connecting clients with the best freelancers... it's about connecting clients with the best freelancers for their project. So many freelancers miss this and think it's all about rank (Job Success Score, ratings, etc). Those matter, but so does relevance and when you're new and don't have any job history or Job Success Score, you can still get work by being more relevant to a particular project.Niches. Like any market, Upwork has niches. For example, I'm a web developer and "web development" is a market. But, within that market there are many "sub-markets" (called niches) -- WordPress, WooCommerce, membership sites, social networks, responsive web design, etc. If you take a little time and do a little searching on Upwork, you'll find there are projects within all these niches. And, some niches have more available projects than others. And, if you build your profile in a way that appeals directly to one of those niches, you can show up higher in client searches because Upwork sees your profile as more relevant to those projects.Specialization. Further, human beings have a "quirk" in how they think about service providers. We tend to believe someone who says they're a specialist more easily. For example, if you have a problem with the pipes in your house, who would you call to repair it? A plumber, of course. But, most handymen fix plumbing issues, too. But, that's probably not who you think of first. A plumber specializes in plumbing issues so you just kind of assume they know what they're doing. Same is true with freelancing. When you find a niche and build your profile to appeal specifically to that niche and that niche only, you come across as a specialist and clients are more likely to believe you know what you're doing. So, you not only rank higher in Upwork searches, but also are more appealing to potential clients.Proof. Your profile overview should have three parts, the first of which is proof. If you look at the Upwork freelancers with the highest earnings, you'll start to notice a trend. Their profiles tend to start with them telling you all the things they've done in the past. The high profile projects they've worked on, the number of projects they've worked, the varying types of projects they've worked on, etc. That is how you establish credibility via proof. You don't tell people you are experienced, you say, "I've completed over 100 projects here on Upwork with a 99% Job Success Score". The former is just words, the latter is actual verifiable facts that prove that you have experience. Lead with whatever proof you have.Specialty. Next in your profile overview, you need to tell potential clients the kinds of projects you work on AND the kinds you don't. This is playing on the specialization concept. You are demonstrating you're a specialist by telling them what you will and won't work on. It makes it crystal clear.Ask For the Sale. The #1 rule of sales is you have to ask for the sale. If you don't, the answer is almost always "no". So, finish up your profile by telling potentials clients what to do in order to hire you. It can be as simple as saying, "So, that's it. If you're ready work with me, click the 'Invite to Job" button and I'll be in touch." But, you need to ask.Portfolio. Your portfolio is usually the #1 thing a client looks at when evaluating you as a freelancer. The trick is to make sure your portfolio is visually appealing... no matter what kind of freelance work you do. It's another one of those quirks of how people think. Have you ever NOT installed an app on your phone because of how the icon looked? In these large marketplaces where there's a ton of options available, something that simple can be the difference. So, make sure your portfolio items are visually appealing.Do those things and you should see an increase in results. Also, if you'd like to learn even more of these secrets, I have a full Upwork course where I walk you step-by-step through building your Upwork profile and teach you everything I've learned in over 12 years as a freelancer. You can learn more about that course here.

MONEY ! It is the only reason why this temple survived so many years.Sultan Abdullah Qutub Shah of Golkonda sent his army to invade tirupati. They managed to destroy few idols and temples in tirupati (not tirumala). This episode was described by a telugu poet in his poem Venkatachala Vihara Satakamu. Poet name is not known till date.In Verse 77, he describes how nellore town was invaded by qutub shah’s army, women raped, houses looted etc.In Verse 98, he called the lord a coward as he may not be able to protect his own temple.This episode must have happened between 1665–1668 CE.Their commander Ali did not cross Varaha murthy idol at foothill as he assumed it to be pig or boar and it being anethema to them, they returned to chandragiri fort and planned to attack from other side later.The name of foothill being Alipiri, came from Ali-Phiri (Ali- returned).Priests managed to covince Ali that a temple earning 2 lakh revenue per annum, if destroyed, is a loss to Sultan’s kingdom. They agreed to pay jizya tax to sultan from temple income and save the tirumala temple.

There are a few ways to meet with me.Become a ClientPeople wire us money every day from $10,000 - $500,000 wanting us to help them with their business. Those people get priority, they paid for it.Become a PartnerPeople who have submitted their ideas to ideas@g3.com and have signNowed out and we have deals moving forward with, have the opportunity to meet me. For example, Peter J. Wright and I had dinner in NYC, twice. I have another Quoran coming to meet me on Wednesday to sign our new LLC agreement.Invite Me to Your EventI have received dozens of offers to present at one event or another all over the world. Pay my appearance fee of $10,000, and pay my travel expenses and I am happy to spend plenty of time with you.Attend an Event Where I AmI try to get out to events as often as I can, and I am happy to talk with people.Buy Me DinnerA guy has got to eat. I have accepted a number of meetings that were well worth the time. You still have to have a good reason.Be a Student of MineI have taught at the Masters and PhD level before and will likely resume that soon at a major university. University of Edinburgh once offered, but I have done Virginia Tech and considered Virginia Commonwealth University and am now considering the possibility of University of Richmond or University of Virginia. My focus for the next 20 years is helping the next generation of entrepreneurs.This video provides the reasons why I can’t meet with everyone, it just isn’t the best return on the investment of time.

Here are the reasons why Forrst remains invite-only:Keep growth controlled: I am a single founder and presently the only full-time tech person (dev and sysops). I also am not keen on having the community flooded with new users, as I feel it would hinder the ability of existing members to connect and become familiar with one another. Slow, controlled growth is ideal for Forrst, and requiring an invite helps ensure that.Ensure non-developers and non-designers cannot sign up: not a perfect process, and some manage to do so anyway, but Forrst is a site for developers and designers. Recruiters, general business folks, "social media gurus", etc. aren't the right kind of member.Potentially increase the likelihood that clusters of users know each other: it's quite common to see groups of colleagues/partners sign up together (one invites the others). Not to say that wouldn't be the case if signup were open, but users inviting friends provides an instant on-site connection between them and helps to grow their social graph in a meaningful way.