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How Many Languages Do You Speak? (pg. 2)
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| DuBam |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ghost Raver
I'm currently studying Japanese, but I'm at the very very beginning so don't know yet. |
I can say aieru, but not to you!
At least not in the way that it's intended. :happy2: |
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| Paradox Lost |
English and Arabic are the only one's that qualify as fluent for me, and I would certainly like to add Spanish and Mandarin to that range.
By the way, anyone given Rosetta Stone a try? |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DuBam
This reminded me of the fact that I forgot German for a couple of years, now I have a job where I use it regularly.
Thank God for that, since I would probably have forgotten it completely. |
So it's easy to re-learn a language? I hope so, because my biggest nightmare is something like: "I see you've had French for 5 years in school. Good, we'll send you over there for 6 months." :nervous: |
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| DuBam |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
So it's easy to re-learn a language? I hope so, because my biggest nightmare is something like: "I see you've had French for 5 years in school. Good, we'll send you over there for 6 months." :nervous: |
lol
When I started to re-use it, it was amazing how fast I started to remember things I hadn't even thought about in ten years. I guess it's like riding a bike, it stays in your spine, whether you acknowledge it or not. This is the case with me, don't now about the rest, though. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| Haha, I'd forgotten most of my German, but one or two conversation courses brought almost all of it back. |
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| Ghost Raver |
| quote: | Originally posted by DuBam
I can say aieru, but not to you!
At least not in the way that it's intended. :happy2: |
:toothless I know some words and a lot of the hiragana. A lot more to learn, but I'm also planning a trip to Japan in the not so near future so that's going to help some too. |
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| david.michael |
I'm also in the (very early) process of learning Japanese.
Pimsleur method really helps for speaking and understanding. Reading/writing is gonna be tough. |
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| Meat187 |
| I'm always wondering, is there any incentive for you guys learning more languages or are you doing it for fun? Because I can see no fun in learning Japanese (for example) and I'm not interested in it at all. |
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| UmmiE |
| Urdu,punjabi,(arabic 25%) and a little bit of english. |
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| Dervish |
English and... English. :p Did French since I was 6-7 till maybe 16.. (wow just realised 10 years lol) but can only remember weird random words...like..pen...computer.
Tried Italian...half a cd.
Tried Spanish...one cd.
Tried Polish...hmm maybe a couple of cds worth, but still basically nothing. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
I'm always wondering, is there any incentive for you guys learning more languages or are you doing it for fun? Because I can see no fun in learning Japanese (for example) and I'm not interested in it at all. |
I took German starting pretty young, and I picked up a little Danish while living there for a few months. French I need for a career though, so I will probably start taking courses as soon as I finish my current degree program. |
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| trunks1022 |
english
basic cantonese and mandarin
spanish i can more than get by i think. the only problem is native speakers speak a mile a minute so it's hard for me to keep up. especially during sin senos. |
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