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Foreign Languages!
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Anyone here choose to study a foreign language? I just think the idea of communicating with someone from a different culture is awesome.
I took a minor in French when I was in college, and now I'm at the start of level B1. I knew some friends who minored in Japanese, and my cousin loved his Japanese class so much that he decided to pursue the minor as well.
My goal is to one day reach almost native-like fluency. I'm a little strict with myself when it comes to grammar, so I hope to eventually iron out tiny mistakes here and there.
I took a minor in French when I was in college, and now I'm at the start of level B1. I knew some friends who minored in Japanese, and my cousin loved his Japanese class so much that he decided to pursue the minor as well.
My goal is to one day reach almost native-like fluency. I'm a little strict with myself when it comes to grammar, so I hope to eventually iron out tiny mistakes here and there.
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I'm really more interested in learning Japanese and Korean though. Learning online is good, but its limited if I don't have someone to converse with in person. I plan on taking up a short course next summer.
I admire your choice to learn French. The structure of romance languages is very unforgiven to me and I eventually just decided to give up :P How are you trying to learn French?
I started taking classes at the local Alliance Française after I graduated. I really thrive well in a classroom environment with drills and opportunity to practice. I'm hoping to find a pen pal one day once my skills are enough for extended conversation.
I have to tell you, it was hard adjusting to gendered nouns and adjectives at first, but you get used to it after a while. The subjunctive is a bit tricky as well.
@AnnePlays That's great. I always encourage other people to try learning languages. Also, I have another cousin who's a huge Korea fan. She's looking for Korean classes that fit her budget and schedule because she's currently an office drone.
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Edit: It's also a lot of fun to see what words in each language are cognates, and what words are faux amis.
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Besides English I've learned Swedish, German, French and Russian. Unfortunately I can't really communicate in any of those languages. I think I understand Swedish pretty well, but if I had to form a sentence and say or write something, it would be close to impossible. The same with German, but I've studied it a bit less than Swedish, so I think my German vocabulary is quite small.
French and Russian are the weakest for me. I never studied them much, and I think French pronunciation is just way too hard. On the other hand I love Russian pronunciation, but unfortunately I've forgotten pretty much everything except the letters
Sometimes I think I should try to freshen up my skills, at least in Swedish and German. I was able to pass my courses in those languages just fine, so I think I have some foundation for them somewhere in my brain... Anyway, you can get along in English in most countries. Or then just by pointing
I had to learn American sign language, because of my mom. Until she was able to get super hearing aids, it was the only way I could talk to her other than her reading my lips.
In middle school I was in Honors English for two years, we learned basic latin roots. And because of that I as able to teach myself basic French and Spanish and some Italian.
I did take a semester of French my freshman year of college, but it was what I had already taught my self. The only thing that was kinda new and cemented was sentence structure. So right now I'm using Duolingo to help finish learning French.
I wouldn't mind relearning Japanese, it's a beautiful language. I'd also want to learn actual Latin, the "dead" language. Oh and Gaelic since it's my heritage.
Currently trying to learn better swedish 'cause I still have it as my school subject. I used to have german but the last school I was in they didn't have it as an option, so I couldn't continue studying it.
I can somehow read japanese but I can't translate the text, I tried chinese first but that was too much for me. I'm trying to start learning russian, still stuck at the letters.
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I have always wanted to learn every language- but I haven't had the time or resources (money).
I hope to sign up for Spanish and French, which are sometimes available here. There's no one to practice with but maybe someday, right?
When I was a kid, people even thought I was American because the accent rubbed off on me due to watching too much Cartoon Network. Nowadays I sound like everyone else here, though.
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English is my second language (after ghetto)
I know some Spanish but not enough to satisfy anyone, apparently, lol.
My grandfather is from the South of France so I think it'd be cool to learn French. (Who am I kidding, I just wanna be able to communicate with the French boys)
I'd love to learn Italian as well.
The Italian thing may have been influenced by a little bit of Assassin's Creed II. :P
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