User:Roger~enwikiversity

Sorry, now I have tried two times to write an article about myself. But I didn´t manage to get one launched. I will try another time. Oh, now I did it. It is the "Save" key at bottom of this page. Now I will try again.

I am German and English is a foreign language to me. But I had English at school (for nine years), then at University Munich for five years. I changed my professional plans and did work without any relation to English. But at the age of 40 my interest in and love of English got the better of me and I started a small language-teaching institute, teaching English (mostly for adults), French, Latin (mostly for pupils) and even German as a foreign language (which was the most difficult subject for me, I must confess). After teaching languages for 15 year I changed my professional activites again so that English was my private hobby for a long time. During my teaching years I got a lot of experience in explaining grammar problems and I extended my life-long hobby of etymolgy. I collected my experiences in these areas in about forty big office files. But the longer you study English the more questions and problems arise and one wishes to know people with whom to talk about these questions. Now I am sixty-five and this summer I´ bought a laptop with access to internet. And I found wikipedia and its wealth of files about languages and the English language. I found questions (on typical school grammar) and found at the same time I could give better answers and better help sometimes and that's why I created an account. I don't know if I will really write contributions, as I'm not sure I will find the relevant pages I read in wikipedia again. But what I would like best is to find people with whom to discuss language problems that interest me such as the non-grammatical saying: You had better go home. Sayings and idioms is by the way another hobby and area of interest of mine. I would welcome people who have the same interests, visit my talk-page or e-mail to ruediger zirkel@web.de. Well, I think that's enough for this evening, especially as I've written this page now for the third time. Bye, --Roger 04:42, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

According to my inexperience I have different names in different areas. Roger in wikiversity, Roger18 in wikipedia (English and German wikipedia). But also Roger1 and Rodger. I've already talked about this problem with my mentor, and hope this confusion can be righted. But for the time being I'm going to use Roger and Roger18, and will try to avoid Roger1 and Rodger. I wonder what name I will manage in the French wikipedia.

Due to the different names my first contributions are not easily found. Right-Left-Etymology I hid in Roger, my talk. Afrikaans A Comparison of Grammar structures of German, Dutch, English, Africans. The development from highly complicated grammar structures to the simplest forms of structures in Afrikaans, almost the level of Esperanto. Roger, wikiversity, Afrikaans Afrikaans for those who would be interested in this language: one of the best first readers: Herge's Tintin stories.--Roger 22:36, 20 September 2008 (UTC)