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Post by Katrina on Aug 12, 2006 9:24:35 GMT -5
Here's a place to discuss languages - what you speak, your favourites, the order of the English language, anything at all.
I speak fluent English and Afrikaans, and I've been learning French since September 2005.
My favourite language is French, and that's why I started studying it. The sound of someone speaking French is beautiful to me, and it flows very well. I also love to hear Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. Latin also fascinates me, even though it is a 'dead' language.
So, this is where you can express all your language-related feelings. Come and enjoy!
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Post by Brighitta on Aug 12, 2006 10:42:08 GMT -5
I speak Russian and English fluently, Greek less so, and know a bit of French.
Latin is something I'm going to start learning soon, 'cause I want to go into Law and it will be very useful.
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Post by Catherine on Aug 12, 2006 12:50:37 GMT -5
Wow. I am quite impressed. And jealous. I only speak English and a little Spanish. Ok, and a little, tiny bit of French, but that doesn't count because it's only from Ballet.
I love the way French and Italian and Latin sound. Actually I sort of just like languages in general.
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Post by victoria on Aug 12, 2006 14:03:29 GMT -5
I'm terrible with languages. I speak English and Norwegian fluently, and as a result I can understand Swedish and Danish as well. I had German for 4 years, until 2004. And I can't speak it if you put a gun to my head:P But I can understand it pretty well though. I've had Japanese for the last two years, and I can read and write simple things. I can understand speach more than I can speak it myself, but obviously not very well. I couldn't watch a film in Japanese without subtitles, hehe.
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Post by Katrina on Aug 12, 2006 15:55:46 GMT -5
Because I speak Afrikaans, I can understand Dutch almost fully, and Afrikaans and Flemish are virtually the same, so I can get along in Flemish-speaking areas quite well.
For those of you who speak languages with different alphabet/number systems, I have a question. How difficult is it to adapt to the different ways of writing, et cetera?
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Post by Brighitta on Aug 12, 2006 17:13:58 GMT -5
Very difficult. Trust me.
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Post by subtlecollision on Aug 13, 2006 20:25:00 GMT -5
I am likewise jealous. I wish I had the opportunity to learn more languages. I have been studying Spanish for a few years and am starting German next year. I know a tiny bit of French.
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Post by *Hanani Aya|~· on Sept 11, 2006 14:07:56 GMT -5
See, this is the reason I hate england. We have such a limited choice of languages that you can learn at school. German, French, spanish, and maybe italian. On occasion, (although VERY rarely) you might have the option of Latin or russian, but that is highly unlikely. I'm interested in other things though.... My Native language is obviously english, and I know some german, a bit of japanese (self taught), a teensy of french, and a teensy of Nepalese. (which I picked up from my nepalese friends.) As you can probably tell, I love languages! I find it all very interesting
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Post by subtlecollision on Sept 11, 2006 15:42:38 GMT -5
I started German this year, and I really like it. It doesn't come as easily to me as Spanish does, but my teacher is really patient. My friend called me an overachiever for doing two languages this year, but I just really enjoy it. Our German teacher said that studies have shown that of all the languages, German makes a person smartest. It's really confusing.
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Post by Katrina on Sept 21, 2006 23:24:49 GMT -5
I discovered last year that studying two languages can be very difficult. I started French last September, and until the end of that year, I was forced to take Zulu (We chose our school subjects at the end of the year, and until then we had to take everything). I absolutely hated Zulu, it was a total waste of my time. I found myself speaking French in Zulu lessons and Zulu in French lessons. It was really a useless time. Now that I'm only studying French, I don't have to worry.
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Post by kim on Sept 24, 2006 14:28:45 GMT -5
Zulu? sounds interesting, i would have loved that, but i hate french. i wish we had the chance to learn zulu, all we get are french, german and spanish. and since i dont paticularly like france or germany the only interesting one would have been spanish, but there were other courses i'd rather take. but i wan to take swahili at some point.
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Post by strangexgirl on Sept 25, 2006 13:16:28 GMT -5
I speak English, and had 3 years of Spanish classes and am now a Spanish tutor.. I want to learn French.
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Post by subtlecollision on Sept 25, 2006 18:30:38 GMT -5
Where is Zulu spoken?
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Post by Katrina on Sept 27, 2006 12:54:33 GMT -5
Zulu is spoken in exactly one province of South Africa (KwaZulu Natal), so as far as that goes, it's of very little benefit unless one lives in that province. It is similar to some other languages spoken in South Africa, but I found it to be an unworthwhile experience. Not to mention that thet grammar is impossible! There's no differentiation between 'he', 'she' and 'you', which makes it very confusing.
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Post by subtlecollision on Sept 29, 2006 20:22:56 GMT -5
Oh! Okay, thanks. That definitely sounds difficult.
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