What language are you currently learning?
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Korean, would love to finally learn Hebrew too… :cry2:
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Japanese and Chinese. About to take up Korean and eventually want to learn Thai
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portuguese! ( i suck at it
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Euskera (Basque)
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the book "Trask's Historical Linguistics" by Robert McColl Millar basically uses Basque as an example for everything. Would be something good to look into if you can get your hands on it.
I studied Japanese the most and then some Korean. Was turning my brain into mush, and I was pronouncing Japanese like an English speaker but with a Korean accent.
I'm currently learning Arabic. Have the alphabet down. Though it sucks how Arabic is written without vowels. I'm thinking I need to learn from the Quran.
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currently german and its kicking my ass
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I've been learning to read Russian for a while. I'm finding speaking it much more difficult.
I'm also trying to refresh my Modern Hebrew.
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English is my mother tongue and it is constantly evolving (most the time not for the better in my opinion - Bloody lazy Americanisms) so I am still learning English.
I'm my early teens I spent two years in Switzerland and so had to learn French and German as the Canton we lived in was bi-lingual. I also learned Italian, a language I've loved.As a child, I was a chorister, and so sung in many languages including Latin. Starting with languages at such an early age helped me to get my brain structured to adapt to languages.
I did an eight week course to learn basic Norwegian as I was due to go out there to work - very nice to be paid to learn a language. Then the job was cancelled.
Like all languages you have to speak and communicate in it often to keep up. My French is abysmal. My German is somewhat better but German word structure is somewhat off putting. ARD the First German TV station ARD is actually Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Let's stick to ARD. Easier huh!
Italian is my favourite language - I can listen to it all day and I have tons of Italian popular music and so it is my best language.
When asked how many languages I can speak, I answer, three. 1. English, 2. a mixture of French, German and Italian and 3. music. To me to be able to read music, and a music score (full orchestral) and hear it in my head is a language I have a large collection of Eulenberg music scores and Dover Editions.
Just a word to you all, never, never, never, try to learn Finnish or Hungarian. Damn! They are tough.
I have lived in Thailand for 22/23 years - I still cannot speak anything other than basic Thai. It's tonal and I cannot get my head around the different tones. It's a mind block thing. Fortunately, my ever loving Thai partner of 19 years speaks excellent English as well as Standard Chinese and Japanese.
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English， I have learnt it for more than twenty years, but it seems still sucks
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Just a word to you all, never, never, never, try to learn Finnish or Hungarian. Damn! They are tough.
A retirement home I volunteer at has some Hungarian speakers. I decided to try to learn some Hungarian.
I got a course "Learn Hungarian in 3 Months" - two years later I was half-way through the course and everything still looked like gibberish. -
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slowly learning Japanese
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Slowly learning Thai (or ThEnglish :P) at work
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I want to learn Japanese, care to provide some tips?
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This is advice I'd gotten when I was thinking of learning Japanese.
Learn the particularly difficult and complicated writing systems FIRST. There are two syllabaries (Katakana and Hiragana) that make the same sounds but have different cultural and grammatical implications. There's a third system of chinese based ideographs called Kanji, I'd been told that there are around 2,136 that are commonly used.
After you've gotten the writing system down THEN start learning the vocabulary and grammar together.
Good luck.
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Here's information about the list of Kanji expected to be learned by highschool students.
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Here's information about the list of Kanji expected to be learned by highschool students.
I think it’s not necessary to learn 漢字 for a beginner
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This is advice I'd gotten when I was thinking of learning Japanese.
Learn the particularly difficult and complicated writing systems FIRST. There are two syllabaries (Katakana and Hiragana) that make the same sounds but have different cultural and grammatical implications. There's a third system of chinese based ideographs called Kanji, I'd been told that there are around 2,136 that are commonly used.
After you've gotten the writing system down THEN start learning the vocabulary and grammar together.
Good luck.
Luck is something that you will need for sure!
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Katakana and Hiragana were easy, except for that Shi/Tsu that looks exactly the same in katakana, gonna start with some grammar, I believe kanji shall take a whole life to learn, but at least Fire and Tree are easy to remember. Thanks for the advices and links.
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I am learning japanese as well. Actually, I am playing a game called "Learn Japanese to Survive - Hiragana battle", and it's really cool. I have to go slow, cause I keep forgetting which character is what lol
