Language Learning / Bilingual / Polyglot Thread

he cenado con mi hermano en Chipotle anoche porque mis padres estan en vacances. Voy a conocirle mañana en la noche para cenar antes de mi clase.
 
Victor Hatherley said:
Exsucez-moi, parlez-vous anglais?
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NON.

Je ai une dixième année de la connaissance de l'école secondaire du français. Cela me fait couramment évidemment.

J'étais la plus intelligente dans ma classe. :left:

Español probablemente tendría más aplicación al mundo real donde vivo (por supuesto no mucho más; yo no vivo en cualquier lugar cerca de la frontera), pero no puedo lanzar mi erres. He oído que usted puede aprender a hacerlo, pero yo no estaba dispuesto a poner en el esfuerzo.
 
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Philosophy Zombie said:
Español probablemente tendría más aplicación al mundo real donde vivo (por supuesto no mucho más; yo no vivo en cualquier lugar cerca de la frontera), pero no puedo lanzar mi erres. He oído que usted puede aprender a hacerlo, pero yo no estaba dispuesto a poner en el esfuerzo.
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No vivo en cualquier lugar cerca de la frontera entre México y los E.E.U.U, pero todavía hay una gran cantidad de hablantes de español en el que vivo. :)
 
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Según Google, hoy es el Día del Idioma Español. En honor de la fiesta voy a mirar un artículo Wikihow y tratar de aprender cómo hacerlo durante cinco segundos antes de abandonar. La ONU dice que es el 12 de octubre sin embargo.

But apparently tomorrow is UN English Language Day! (This is getting really confusing.) Well, fortunately that's at least easy to celebrate because all I need to do is be an asshole whenever someone mispronounces a word, which I do already.
 
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Boku wa shirafunai desu. Soshite, boku no nihongo no sofutouea wa kon konpyuuta jo ni arimasen.
 
How do you feel about learning languages?
Is it too difficult, too easy? Not taught well enough? Etc.
 
Japanese is pretty easy. I've watched a lot of anime (subbed of course) and I'm pretty much fluent in Japanese by now. There's no reason you can't learn a new language unless you're a baka or something.
 
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DuskEngine said:
Immersing yourself in a language works better than taking classes in my experience. Most of the rules of grammar are implicit and most vocab words can only be really well understood in context.
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I know at least 2 people who have done that and it worked for them.

I studied French and Spanish at school (French for 3 years, Spanish for 2). I enjoyed learning them whilst at school, however I don't know enough of the languages to consider myself fluent and I am not sure if I want to go back and improve on my language skills. I really want to learn German at the moment though.
 
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LagoonaBlue said:
I know at least 2 people who have done that and it worked for them.

I studied French and Spanish at school (French for 3 years, Spanish for 2). I enjoyed learning them whilst at school, however I don't know enough of the languages to consider myself fluent and I am not sure if I want to go back and improve on my language skills. I really want to learn German at the moment though.
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German is a very interesting language. I dabbled a little into it, but I was nowhere near able to speak it. I found learning three genders(masculine, fem., neutral) to be very confusing. But, if I had the time, I would definitely study it more.
 
Some people are gifted in it others not so much, that to be said anyone can do it.

I really think being around it (immersion) is the way to go. My German spoken is kinda rough, and with that I can half ass a touch of Swedish, I know a tiny bit of Mandarin and hand ful of Latin. When I was dating a Jewish girl I picked up a few words of Hebrew but I wouldn't call myself a speaker, but it's interesting that's been over 5 years with no upkeep and if I hear a number or letter it clicks instantly.

Everyone should know a few basic traveler phrases and more so foods. SJWs be damned, any time no matter how broken I order a meal in native language you get hooked the fuck up and it really seems to honor people.

I'm rather lucky I'm kinda quick on spoken, reading and writing more so are very difficult for me to pick up.
 
Bassomatic said:
Some people are gifted in it others not so much, that to be said anyone can do it.

I really think being around it (immersion) is the way to go. My German spoken is kinda rough, and with that I can half ass a touch of Swedish, I know a tiny bit of Mandarin and hand ful of Latin. When I was dating a Jewish girl I picked up a few words of Hebrew but I wouldn't call myself a speaker, but it's interesting that's been over 5 years with no upkeep and if I hear a number or letter it clicks instantly.

Everyone should know a few basic traveler phrases and more so foods. SJWs be damned, any time no matter how broken I order a meal in native language you get hooked the fuck up and it really seems to honor people.

I'm rather lucky I'm kinda quick on spoken, reading and writing more so are very difficult for me to pick up.
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Its the other way around for me. I find speaking extremely difficult, but writing is a breeze. (Unless you are doing japanese or chinese then rip)
 
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polonium said:
I was always under the impression English had neutral gender (he, she, it)
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He is masculine, She is feminine, it is neutral.

The only other neutral pronouns(I believe don't quote me on this) are:
I, me, we, us, you, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, something, both, few, many several, all, any, most, none, some, myself, yourself, itself, my, your, its, our, their, mine, yours, theirs, them, and they.

Sorry for this, I just really love grammar.
TD;LR version: There's a lot of neutral pronouns, but not all of them are.
 
I love learning languages, and I basically taught myself English.
In my opinion, it depends on the language you're learning. If you learn a language completely different from yours it might be a bit complicated at times. Nevertheless, you will be able to learn it if you study hard.
The easiest way to learn a new language is picking one that kind of resembles your mother tongue. For example, English and Spanish. They are both pretty easy to learn, share the same alphabet (except for the Ñ) and share some few grammar rules. (But obviously the pronunciation is completely different)
 
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