Learning a New Language

[Doctor XFizzle 8,669]

Have you tried picking up a new language in your own leisure time and not because some class at school forced you to?

 

I tried Japanese only for the selfish reason that I could watch raw anime episodes (w/o English translation) and I entertained the thought of visiting Japan in the near future.

 

As for forced learning through school, had about 5 years of Spanish, 7th-11th grade. I didn't take it for 12th grade because the AP Exam scared me off with the recorded speaking session lol.

 

If you are interested in learning a new language, I came across this article that appears pretty helpful and maybe it could help you out

 

http://lifehacker.com/5903288/i-learned-to-speak-four-languages-in-a-few-years-heres-how

[Champion RD92 8,658]

I took 4 years of Spanish in high school, but I completely forgot almost everything I learned lol XD

[Typhoid Libby 1,265]

The language currently used is self-learned.

[Swordfishtrombone 384]

Yep. Latin. Its a good language.

[NewCalamity 3,454]

While I learned French in school I have surprisingly retained some of that knowledge and I can survive a few days in Quebec City.

 

On the other hand, I have been self-teaching myself my family's German. For my German side was "Westernized" and ceased teaching the language.

 

I've got a good chunk of things accomplished, though I'm at the point where it is hard to move forwards on my own.

[Flow 1,628]

I've learned some Japanese in high school, all because I'm a weeaboo

[SrFrog 927]

Bought a Japanese learning course for 100$ and I have yet to move on from disk 1, though to be fair I picked up hiragana quite easily.

[Mephala 2,633]

I want to learn Japanese, French, Spanish, German, and Polish. Possibly Italian.

[Shankveld 4,949]

Spanish is my fiancee's first language and is the only language his family can speak, so I've picked up quite a bit. But thanks for the helpful website!

~

[Killian Jones 2,655]

I learnt English while watching cartoons on the BBC, several of the principles there were present.

[Lumen 106]

I learnt English while watching cartoons

 

Me too!

[Emerald Flame 381]

I took three years of German in high school, and I plan to continue learning it. I also want to learn Italian and Japanese.

[Moosefullaeggs 543]

I took two years of Spanish; the only things I retained were present tense verb conjugation and pronunciation, woohoo.

 

More recently, I started to pick up Norwegian; since I have a few friends from over the interwebs who speak it as a native language, and such. It's been quite easy to pick up basic phrases and sentence structure - I think I might actually follow through with this one~

[Doctor Whooves™ 332]

This reminds me of a buddy of mine who knew Klingon.

Bloody annoying, that's what it was.

[Twiliscael 3,960]

Only Fren ch from school. Je deteste l'espagnol parce que il est stupide a mon avis. Et mon grandpere a un ville en Paris.

[Aureity 3,055]

Took one year of Spanish.

 

Then I realized I needed 4 years of a language to graduate from my high school, so I took the easiest language, Chinese.

[Marcato 2,143]

The only new language i would ever want to learn would be japanese so I can watch all my favorite anime's without sub titles.

 

Really though i dropped second language first chance i got in school. Meh, i don't really want to learn a language i will never really use.

[spunkboy 17]

-snip-

Edited August 28, 2017 by Epic Duck

[Moosefullaeggs 543]

Oh, and I have a slightly firm grip on understanding romantic languages.

 

Only Fren ch from school. Je deteste l'espagnol parce que il est stupide a mon avis. Et mon grandpere a un ville en Paris.

 

I'm fairly sure this guy said that Spanish is dumb and his grandfolks live in Paris. *Spins index fingers around; celebrating this elementary achievement.*

[Twiliscael 3,960]

Oh, and I have a slightly firm grip on understanding romantic languages.

 

 

 

I'm fairly sure this guy said that Spanish is dumb and his grandfolks live in Paris. *Spins index fingers around; celebrating this elementary achievement.*

 

I hate Spanish because it is dumb and my grandpa has a villa in Paris. Good try, though!

[Moosefullaeggs 543]

I hate Spanish because it is dumb and my grandpa has a villa in Paris. Good try, though!

 

Almost; almost!

[butter scotch 79]

Forced French in a class of morons and partly learned russian and german which I don't have much time for...

[Runty 41]

I can speak a minute amount of Afrikaans, which i am learning at school

I would like to learn French, Latin and maybe Norsk or Russian

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

I've been trying to teach myself Hebrew. That's about it.

[Flutterash 41]

I want to learn german, which I have picked a couple of times and left, I'm a very disorganized person. However, I'm designing a plan which involves FIM german dubbed episodes =D (I saw The Best Night Ever a couple hours ago, and found it factible)

 

Of course, English is my second language (Spanish is mother) and I like to think I'm adequately proficient in spoken Japanese (I am, also, a weaboo)

Edited April 21, 2012 by Flutterash