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Ian
Not dead yet.
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: UK
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English, about 3 local variations of
Intermediate in German, French
Basic in Spanish
Scottish - awful language but had to learn to understand it due to my ex being from there
codshit, what i speak here usually
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Nov-16-2004 15:30
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Lira
Ancient BassAddict

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
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| quote: | Originally posted by kokanee
Lira - are you learning these languages just on sheer interest, or actually studying languages in school?? Man, that's quite the list!
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Thanks Portuguese is my native language, I lived 2 years in Italy, I learned English and Spanish at school and I'm taking Japanese in university (I'll graduate in Japanese Language and Literature). As for the rest, well, I like to study languages.
| quote: | Originally posted by astroboy
Ty ochen' xarosho govorish po ruski! I zdes' polno ludey s kem ty mozhesh pogovorit'.
By the way I'd love to take up some languages. I've considered Spanish, Italian and Japanese. I studied Latin till year 12 at school, so the Italian and Spanish are pretty intuitive for me, and I did Japanese till year 10. Have you got any good language self-study tips to impart? |
Spasibo Here are some tips that have always helped me:
- Remember "there's no such thing as a difficult language": If several hundred people speak a certain language, so can you. They can't all be geniuses... they could, but that's a remote possibility.
- Don't try to score a touchdown if you're playing chess: don't expect all languages to be the same, or behave the same way. In Russian you can have multiple negations in the same sentence, in English you can't. It's just a different logic.
- Don't expect to learn it overnight: Some people want to speak a second (or a third, fourth, fifth) language as fluently as their mother language. It can only happen in a bi-lingual environment. Besides, you often don't need to be a walking dictionary to speak a language. Once you master the common words (or the words you'd need the most), use the grammar and keep learning a bit more every day, you'll slowly get it.
- We always have something new to learn: A good example is - I had never seen the word "sheer" till kokanee's post, so we're always learning

Personally, I can learn better if I read the grammar and understand how the language works, otherwise I'd forget it in a couple of days. If I were to give a list:
- Learn the sounds so you can learn the words.
- Learn the grammar so you know what to do with the words.
- Learn the words.
- Away you go

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