Learning/Speaking Languages

[warnie_666 1,081]

Haha I know why you want it. I guess it all went fine :giggle:

Sure

Yes it did... Thanks!!

[SeB 1,281]

Its a complicated answer, hate maybe isn't a good choice of word, but dislike would be better. For one I speak decent french but im not 100 percent fluent so at times it feels like a chore more than something natural. I live in a part of canada which is 90 percent french. The even bigger reason is you have to understand Quebec culture. Most of the french speaking people in Quebec absolutely hate the english(or up till recently) with a passion. They tried to separate but failed. There are alot of reasons why they dislike the english, but mostly cause english were 10 percent of population and 90 percent of wealth, (it was one of these class imbalance situations). As a result every time I speak french they can tell I have an english accent and im treated like a second class citizen, and I get totally disrespected by the french speaking people to many times for my liking(I can provide examples if you wish, my god I can give you 100). I absolutely hate living in this part of Canada for that reason. Can not go anywhere without feeling like an alien, this is why I dream of a move to london( I actually tear up when I think I could live in london one day). I have exaggerated a bit but not by much. However its changing a bit now, most of the young generation in quebec are open to being part of canada and speak english decently, but its just the nature of how french was forced upon me and how there have been moments where I feel like im on disastor vacation and want to go home. To sum up its the enviroment in which I have to speak french in that I dont like, not the langauge itself. If you were to tell me you have a job for me in france, I would be very open to a move.

I can explain in alot further detail if you are interested.

It's a matter I don't know a lot about, I'm surprised but in fact if you say this so I trust you.

I understand now, you don't like French for what it means where you are, the surrounding and environnement ; I though it was the language on his own that you did not like

[eldo 868]

I want to learn Serbian...Shonx will you be my teacher?

[BluesChick 1,260]

Yes it did... Thanks!!

okay there is a story there....

SeB, the French Canadians are very snobbish and picky about who they speak to in French. It is very weird since 3/4 of Canada speaks English!

[Amblève. 4,995]

Bosnian, German, English, Latin( ), Spanish

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Only four of those count, Latin is a dead language

[Amblève. 4,995]

Only four of those count, Latin is a dead language

Well, in Vatican they speak Latin Not everybody but some of them do, not all the time, just to pretend they're smart^^

[yum 15]

English, Spanish, French

I can read Portuguese, Italian, Catalan for the most part because of the similarities to Spanish and French. I'd like to learn Swahili which I hear is one of the easiest languages. oooh

[capriccioso 2,545]

I'll give this a bump. I speak English as my first language, Tamil (a Southern Indian language) and German with reasonable fluency, and I can just about garble out a few words of Sinhalese (a Sri Lankan language). Also I'm thinking about taking Italian next semester at uni, for no other reason than to be able to post better on the Napoli forum

[Melanicus 5,208]

I speak Russian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Croatian, English and French (only a little).

[capriccioso 2,545]

I speak Russian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Croatian, English and French (only a little).

That makes you a sexlinguist. Or quintlinguist if you don't want to count French

I thought I was a beast being tri/quadlingual, you showed me up

[Kezza 1,965]

At school here we learn Maori. Probably the most worthless language that only about 4% of New Zealanders speak.

I can say a few words in that and count to 10

Really want to learn Cantonese or Mandarin.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I am fluent in Troll.

[BluesChick 1,260]

At school here we learn Maori. Probably the most worthless language that only about 4% of New Zealanders speak.

I can say a few words in that and count to 10

Really want to learn Cantonese or Mandarin.

It is great that they are keeping the language alive. Mandarin is hard but worth it!! But I need it daily so I may be biased.

Which Island do you hail from?

I really need to learn Korean since I have a class where 9 of the 13 students are Korean.

[Kezza 1,965]

It is great that they are keeping the language alive. Mandarin is hard but worth it!! But I need it daily so I may be biased.

Which Island do you hail from?

I really need to learn Korean since I have a class where 9 of the 13 students are Korean.

It is good, considering its pretty much the only thing that separates us and Australians.

Mandarin would be an excellent asset! Im from, Christchurch in the south island.

Thats a big %. What/Where do you teach?

[BluesChick 1,260]

I teach year 10 and year 9 science at theBritish International School Shanghai (www.bisspuxi.com)

We went to NZ for Christmas but only the North Island. We only had 15 days and decided it was too short to do both islands justice. we plan to go back and do the South Island.

It is good, considering its pretty much the only thing that separates us and Australians.

Mandarin would be an excellent asset! Im from, Christchurch in the south island.

Thats a big %. What/Where do you teach?

[Spike 12,049]

I really want to learn another langauge, but I can't really decide which one.

[Kezza 1,965]

I teach year 10 and year 9 science at theBritish International School Shanghai (www.bisspuxi.com)

We went to NZ for Christmas but only the North Island. We only had 15 days and decided it was too short to do both islands justice. we plan to go back and do the South Island.

Oh that would be interesting. Im going to HK at the end of the year after going to London to watch the Blues play. Hoping to get to the Harbin Ice City in China before I leave.

Do the South Island! I love it! You won't be let down! I highly recommend Central Otago (Wanaka, Queenstown, Cromwell) Milford Sound..Heaps to do =]