Aonz Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 Hi all, I learnt a little French at school but never really payed much attention back then so i forgotten most it . Anyway I asked because a lot of the people I know speak two or more languages except me of course I only speak English. Many of my friends speak English and Gujarati, an American guy at work speaks Arabic, English and Spanish and a Russian girl I knew spoke three languages English, Osetion and Russian. I wanna learn another language but I don’t know which one, I know its going to hard learning any language but some must be easier than others. Link to post Share on other sites
RobertoPNW Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 English, Spanish and Love. Link to post Share on other sites
ThatAngelGirl Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 Do Pig Latin and Body language count?? Link to post Share on other sites
yes Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 i speak two languages fluently, one somewhat decently, and two very basicly. i love learning languages, but i won't learn a new one unless i end up at a school where the primary language is foreign to me, or marry a man whose first language is foreign to me. anyway, since you'd like to take up a new language... pick something you're going to use, something spoken (by native speakers) a lot where you live. because if you don't get real-world practice, you'll never learn to speak the language well. good luck, -yes Link to post Share on other sites
dyermaker Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I speak Spanish with my friends, and might be able to survive in a Spanish Speaking country. Link to post Share on other sites
Kriz Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Dutch is my native language. I also speak French, German and English. Next on the list is either Italian or Spanish, because I'm going to one of those countries for a year on an exchange program. Link to post Share on other sites
jenny Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 i can write enough latin to communicate with ancient infants, and enough school parisian french to get laughed at ceaselessly by french canadians. Link to post Share on other sites
ThatAngelGirl Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Wow. I'm totally impressed with some of you. I'm not quite sure I've completely mastered English just yet. I've always wanted to learn French but it brings on horrible flashbacks of my 7th grade tuna breathed French teacher in my face telling me to "Rrrroll the word off my tongue". Ack. Link to post Share on other sites
Author Aonz Posted January 16, 2004 Author Share Posted January 16, 2004 I always liked the sound of Russian I don't know why (I liked it before I meet that Russian girl ). But the Russian alphabet is so different from English for example Aonz in Cyrillic characters is Аонз. I remember the Russian girl showing me handwritten letters she had received from home they were so weird and unlike anything I’d seen before. What your name would look like in Cyrillic: RobertoPNW - РобертоПНЩ ThatAngelGirl - ТхатАнгелГирл yes - йес dyermaker - дйермакер Kriz^ - Криз^ (which means Crisis in Russian ) jenny - женнй И сащ тхис он а цартон: "То авоид бреакаге, кееп боттом он топ. Топ маркед боттом то авоид цонфусион" Link to post Share on other sites
dyermaker Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Awesome, I'm дйермакер Link to post Share on other sites
Author Aonz Posted January 16, 2004 Author Share Posted January 16, 2004 Originally posted by dyermaker Awesome, I'm дйермакер How you would pronounce it i have no idea Link to post Share on other sites
dyermaker Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 According to the boxed set, Dyer Maker (D'Yer Ma'ker) is pronounced, "Jamaica", but Russian isn't my thing. On the radio, they say "Die-Er-May-Ker", which is how it reads to me, but if you listen to the song, it has sort of a Jamaican feel maybe? Link to post Share on other sites
moimeme Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I managed to acquire enough French to be paid if I use it for work and I studied Russian and Russian translation for years, though have scarcely used it since - one foiled career plan LOL. It is a GREAT language, though. I still, once in a while, go to write a c for s or a d for g LOL. муамем Link to post Share on other sites
Arabess Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Damn Moimeme.....you even know 1/3 more English words than I do!!! I joined a 'Learn A Word A Day' site and can't even begin to keep up. I bet I know more cuss words though......LOL! I also know some German Link to post Share on other sites
Thinkalot Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Arabess, I can only speak English as well, and have also joined the learn a word a day site! They send through some beauties My Dad used to be able to speak fluent Italian, I wish he had taught me. Link to post Share on other sites
cdn Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I used to speak French fluently, but it's been years so I suspect I am a little rusty. I could survive as a tourist in a Spanish speaking country. And I just started learning Latin with my kids. If you add English to all that, I think I speak 2 1/2 languages! Link to post Share on other sites
Errol Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Its been many years, but I used to know enough Mandarin to communicate effectively. Writing it is a whole 'nuther thing! I also studied late egyptian hieratic and could do some transliteration then I got bored with it. Maybe that is why I had problems -- I could speak in one and write in another and sometimes I got confused! English is difficult enough! Link to post Share on other sites
Vanetia Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 I speak English (obviously) and enough Spanish to figure out where the bathroom is and such, lol. I took 3 years of it in high school so I speak like a 3 year old spanish kid would I also know a teeny bit of Japanese but not nearly enough to use in a conversation. Once I move back to California I'm hoping to find a place nearby I can go and learn it fluently. I'm much more interested in Japanese than I am in Spanish. Japanese sounds more melodic to me Link to post Share on other sites
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