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Other Languages
Topic Started: Dec 15 2006, 12:12 AM (637 Views)
vix
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Run you clever boy and remember...

I've always wanted to learn other languages.

Anyone speak beyond what they were born into?

I've always want to learn Japanese and American Sign Language. I took an ASL class in college and could speak it kinda meh, I could make some sentences but if I needed to, I could fingerspell my way through it but after the class was over, the info kinda faded from my brain.

So, anyone else speak anything else?
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Arrow
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Lonely Rolling Star

I want to get a job in game localization, so I've taken three semesters of Japanese... no where near as fluent as I wish I was, but I'm still learning. One of my life goals is to someday be able to speak a tiny bit of every language. Just common phrases like "hello" and "thank you" in as many languages as possible.
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Queen of the Cosmos
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La vrai reine du Cosmos

I speak a bit of japanese...
As for English, well it is not my main langage and I hope you have noticed that by now.

My mother tongue is french, and it's a fun langage to learn.

As for other langage, I seem to be able to understand some spanish and other langages by the sound or way their words are written.
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Dec 15 2006, 06:55 AM
My mother tongue is french,

she does what now! :woot

:lol
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i took spanish in high school (80 years ago!) and failed it pretty much.
i have refused to study ANYTHING ever, and music and language require practicing and studying....

so i only speaka the english and only playa the cds. :lol

i have students that speak all sorts of languages. i have taught kids that speak 4 languages (at the ages of like 6 to 10).
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aaron
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I took 4 years of french between junior high and high school.
Pretty much sucked at life with that. I know how to say "I can't" "I dont know" and "I hate french", and even then, I'm sure I'm not congigating the verbs right.

I downloaded "learn japanese" podcasts, but haven't updated the iPod yet. I already know a few phrases/words, most of which are pretty useless (who freakin uses shinigami, bankai, senpai or zanpaktu in normal every day language? Freakin bleach)
And the extent of my reading is like fight, magic, save, load and inventory.(aka, I know gamer's japanese)
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Karppa
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Oh friends...

Besides finnish, everybody in Finland has to learn swedish, because 6% of finns want to speak swedish (ain't we democratic) :wtf
English is obligatory, too, and then you have to learn a 4th language as well, but you can choose which one (depending on what your school can cater). Usually german, russian or french)

'Ein Butterbrote mit Kartoffelsalat, danke', guess what was my choice...
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discostu


i can speak cantonese and english,i can understand some vietnamese and mandarin.i learnt french in school but its fading away in my brain.
european countries always seem to know a lot more languages than us brits
we are simply taught one foreign language in school to a low standard in my opinion.
europeans always come over here and manage to speak english but if english people went over to france most would struggle and end up speaking english in a slow and patronising way in order to try and get the message accross
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Loseven
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As I think you know, I speak italian.
I study english at school.
Here it's not obligatory learning more than one language besides english. School system sucks and italy is one of the worst place where you'll find people who speak foreign languages correctly. That's all school fault, as it is not set in the right way. Think that even italian most of times is not spoken correctly by a lot of people who are not good at congigating verbs...
Karrpa, you're english is very good!
I love studying languages (I studied japanese for 6 months, then I gave up as it cost too much and the place where I took lessons was too far from my hometown): one of my goals is learning portoguese and japanese. These langauges are completely different, but I love both places (brazil and japan) and both cultures.

Who wants to learn italian? :P

edit: Karrpa you chose German. :lol
I've been in Germany this summer. I learnt that danke means thank you. :lol
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vix
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Run you clever boy and remember...

It's amazing how people outside of the US are so educated when it comes to languages but most of here can barely do english let alone another language. :lol

I had something like 4 years of spanish and I remember almost nothing from it.

They say the best time to teach a person another language is when they are young as it tends to stick more.
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Other than English I have

Spanish (Mostly)
Music (if you count that, it kind of is its own language you know)
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god damnit

I had 7 years of Japanese (7th grade-12th grade in highschool then a year of college, it was originally my major along with international econcomics haha :rolleyes ) and I lived in Japan as an exchange student in 1996, but I haven't used it much in 6 years and I'm pretty horrible with it now. I can still read it and and write it but my vocabulary has greatly diminished. Most of the crap that comes to my mind when I think of Japanese is my teacher telling me not to chew gum in class, to turn around and shut up, and ummm can I have a pass to go to the bathroom. Important things like that.

I also had 1 year of Latin in highschool.

I'd like to learn Spanish and sign language, and Dutch would be awesome so I could go live in the netherlands.
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Loseven
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Latin sucks. >_>
I hate it.
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god damnit

I hated Latin, too. It was such a waste of time. If it wasn't taught by the boy's track coach (I was on the girl's team in highschool) I would have just slept through it. We made the dumbest sentences like, the horse pulled the farmer's cart and stuff. :rolleyes
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Loseven
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I'm obligated to study latin for 5 years, ultil the end of lyceum. And it does suck. Don't like anything about it. And I hate latin history (and history in general) as well.
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Jag
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I speak Spanish and Japanese, but those skills have become very rusted since I learned Arabic for the military. I'm hoping to reignite them before the next four years of working in Arabland kill them completely.
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fleacollar


Took three years of french in high school, which was four years ago. I really don't remember anything.
That's great that many of you know another language. I'm jealous.
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Sembe Norimaki
I speak as native tongues Spanish and Catalan (spoken in barcelona, mallorca and so, where I've lived)

Then, I speak moreless english, and took 3 years of french at school, with some reinforcement of some times we've gone to france, since it's so close :)

hm .... then I can speak a very little bit of euskera (another local-spoken language here in spain, this one in the basque country) and then I know a little bit of italian, just to make myself understand with a bit of aid from my hands :D
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La vrai reine du Cosmos

waxc3
Dec 15 2006, 07:09 AM
Queen of the Cosmos
Dec 15 2006, 06:55 AM
My mother tongue is french,

she does what now! :woot

:lol

J'admire tes prouesses a trouver un autre sens a mes phrase :)
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Dec 18 2006, 10:25 AM
waxc3
Dec 15 2006, 07:09 AM
Queen of the Cosmos
Dec 15 2006, 06:55 AM
My mother tongue is french,

she does what now! :woot

:lol

J'admire tes prouesses a trouver un autre sens a mes phrase :)

I admire your prowesses has to find another direction has my sentence :howyoudoin
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discostu


i admire your prowess to find another meaning in my sentence?
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discostu
Dec 18 2006, 02:32 PM
i admire your prowess to find another meaning in my sentence?

mine was the exact copy from googles language helper. it is always a little twisted and funny.
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i admire your prowess to find another meaning in my sentence?


It's the word-for-word translation, stu. She thinks it's cool that he picked up a double entendre :flirt

I took 3 years of French in junior high and high school but it all pretty much deserted me when I went to France. In school everyone speaks very sloooowly and clearly and has a tiny vocabulary. In real life people speak quickly and run their words together and they use all sorts of words and expressions you've never heard of. I felt like an absolute idiot trying to talk to people in Paris. I could read the signs okay, but just couldn't figure out anything anyone was saying.

I'm glad I took a language in school, though since I like to travel. I've been trying to learn Italian, which, so far, seems easier than French. It's definitely easier to pronounce.
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Loseven
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kickstart
Dec 18 2006, 10:16 PM
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i admire your prowess to find another meaning in my sentence?


It's the word-for-word translation, stu. She thinks it's cool that he picked up a double entendre :flirt

I took 3 years of French in junior high and high school but it all pretty much deserted me when I went to France. In school everyone speaks very sloooowly and clearly and has a tiny vocabulary. In real life people speak quickly and run their words together and they use all sorts of words and expressions you've never heard of. I felt like an absolute idiot trying to talk to people in Paris. I could read the signs okay, but just couldn't figure out anything anyone was saying.

I'm glad I took a language in school, though since I like to travel. I've been trying to learn Italian, which, so far, seems easier than French. It's definitely easier to pronounce.

Hahahaha, that's definately what happens to me with english. I have no big troubles in understanding signs, posts or whaterever written, but when I listen to a song, for example, I usually don't understand anything. I need to read the lyrics, especially when the singer screams >_>

Hey, kickstart, why do you want to learn italian? I'm curious, since that's a language no one speaks out of italy, and it's not useful. Really difficult to learn. Grammar is tough. :dead
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I've been to Italy twice and I just loved it. I know it's not as useful as French or Spanish, but I just really liked the language. I'd love to travel more around the country and be able to communicate easier.

I started trying to learn Italian with the Pimsler system where you just listen and speak without learning to write. It seems like a lame idea at first, but they say that's how babies learn a language: they learn to speak before they learn to read. And really, as you've seen, it's more useful to be able to speak well than to write well. So far it's really an interesting way to learn although I haven't gotten far because I'm not disciplined enough to do it everyday.

Oh, and don't feel bad about not understanding music lyrics. Even people who speak english have a hard time figuring it out. And when you do find out what they're saying, most of the time the lyrics still don't make sense :shrug
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