Learning/Speaking Languages

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Dutch, French, English and a bit of German (highschool Latin not counting)

@madmax : I found German difficult to master with all the cases (Nominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ, ...). I hated that in Latin and it screwed up my German as well.

I'd go for Spanish - a lot more people speak it and it sounds quite a bit sexier :-)

Correct, telling someone they have a nice ass in German just doesn't sound as sexy as saying it in Spanish!

German: Sie haben einen schönen Arsch - it just sounds so fucking angry!

Spanish: usted tiene un buen culo = guaranteed sexy-times!

[DJames 729]

English I was learning French but dropped it because it was too hard (the pronunications). I plan to learn Spanish when I'm finish with my current uni programme

[Amblève. 4,995]

Bump.

I just completed my internship and I have a few months on hand till my exams in November so I really want to get round to learning a new language. I'm interested in German and Spanish. Which one is easier? I'm only really looking to become fluent in the conversational aspect, mind.

Pick Spanish. I've learnt to speak it fluently in just 4 years.

(Can't say anything about German as I've been raised with it as my second language. Though, from what I heard, most of the people who learn German find it quite difficult due to its complicated grammar.)

I'd like to start studying a bit French this summer myself (if I find the time to do so...)

[BluesChick 1,260]

Spanish is easy to learn and speak. German has very specific grammar which can be hard.

I still remember my high school Spanish! My husband is semi fluent. My mandarin is still painful!

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I can speak English, Korean, Indonesian, and decent chinese in a few dialects(mandarin, cantonese, hakka)

Japanese wouldnt be hard to learn for me, but ive never thought about it. French sounds interesting to me, i like the way it is spoken. Might learn that after i get my chinese fluent, those intonations are probably the hardest part about it.

The characters would be easy but the pronunciation may not be from what I understand. Yes, the tones in Chinese are the hardest, characters are a killer too!

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[Heisenberg 1,824]

My native language is Kabyle/Arabic, but I also speak French and English, and I'm learning Spanish, I love it.

[francozola 2,040]

How have you guys learnt new languages? Have you gone for classes somewhere or learnt using CDs etc?

Thinking of learning French!

[BluesChick 1,260]

How have you guys learnt new languages? Have you gone for classes somewhere or learnt using CDs etc?

Thinking of learning French!

I have a tutor come twice a week and use Rosetta Stone.

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[BlueDude 49]

Learning German at the moment. I'd also like to learn Arabic and Turkish.

[Peppen 934]

Danish (of course), English and German. Thinking about Spanish or French next year, but not quite sure yet

[Heisenberg 1,824]

How have you guys learnt new languages? Have you gone for classes somewhere or learnt using CDs etc?

Thinking of learning French!

I was raised and talked this "special" arabic called Kabylian only in my family that belong to a special area of Algeria, beside the normal Arabic that is talked in my country of course, and because my country was a french colonisation until 1962 and even after that, its normal to speak also French in Algeria and it is taught since your third year in the primary school.I learned English alone because in my childhood I was so privileged to have a computer very early, so with the games, Mourinho's press conferences, the videogames and the movies on TV it came a bit naturally.Now i'm learning spanish using Duolingo and i'm only starting it.So globally i'm talking five languages without any education really, I learned French by watching french TV shows since I was born, and English just after that

Globally If you are willing to learn French 50 % of the words are similar to English, for example in this last line in French it is (Globally = Globalement, Similar = Similaire, Example = Example ! French = Francais, Line = Ligne ) so its 80% of it very close to English.The conjugation/Grammar is the difficult part, much difficult than English to learn the pasts forms for example.

[Heisenberg 1,824]

Learning German at the moment. I'd also like to learn Arabic and Turkish.

If you want to learn Arabic I must tells you from now, it is the most difficult language in the world, you must be very determined to do it because it will take you a hell lot of time.

[The Skipper 20,609]

Dutch, English, French (semi), and a bit of my mother's local dialect from Ghana (twi).

Would like to add Spanish or Portuguese to my repertoire.

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

Can only speak English, was learning to speak French up until third year when I dropped it but I am contemplating learning Spanish.

[dumps 284]

I started learning Italian last summer. by started i mean i followed a course on the internet for like 2 weeks. i learnt the basics, but because i only did for 2 weeks it didnt take too long for me to forget it.

now that ive finished uni im thinking of starting again. im going to go back to the course i started as it was actually really good, so im aiming to go through it and finish it then hopefully move on to other courses, can anybody reccomend any free websites that may help? this is the course i was/going to continue doing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian/

any advice or other useful links would be muchly appreciated.




another language id like to learn is German, simply because id love to shout at someone in German. But Italian is my priority, my partners family is italian, and although i dont need to learn it, i like italy and can see myself going there quite a lot in the future so i think it would be the most useful.

[IkE 267]

Oh my word, Shall I open the talkchelsea Spanish Language School?

[Rmpr 8,977]

How have you guys learnt new languages? Have you gone for classes somewhere or learnt using CDs etc?

Thinking of learning French!

Well, it depens really and everything works!

1. Protuguese for obvious reasons.

2. Spanish because my mom is from Spain an all her family.

3. English because I lived in USA for 2 years and Brazilian schools teach it.

4. German because my University has a partnership program with some German Engineering Programs, so they give intensive classes for whoever wants it. Plus, I downloaded some Rosetta Stone CDs to practice my pronounciation.

5. French (not very good at it) lessons in High School, because I had to choose one language and basic English or Spanish classes would be absolutely boring.

6. Italian because French + Spanish + Portuguese = Italian, lol.

As you can see, very different ways, but all of them works. My Portuguese and Spanish accents are perfect, my English is very good and my German and French are beyound terrible!

[nachikethas 1,154]

malayalam is my mother tongue,English of course, hindi is our national language learned from 5th grade,tamil local language spoken in neighboring state.

can read/write all four