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Strangeo Forum Language Learning    Caves Dweller Rascii    Administrator     5/27/2012 Is anyone currently trying to learn any foreign languages (i.e. not your native language)? I'm studying Korean at the moment. It's soo difficult though. I've also studied Spanish, German, Thai and Swedish in the past. Anyway, please share stories and tips that you may have on language learning here. - Rascii   Lollipop Lord C-Rex     5/28/2012 For two years whilst in high school I studied Spanish. I found it pretty difficult at first but it did get easier.   Peppery One Papriko   5/28/2012 English and French, both because I have to at school. Seriously, I wish I could get rid of French. I don't like it. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   Malkin Manager     5/28/2012 I had a teacher in school, a real 'everyone's grandma' type who we all loved dearly called Mrs Escudero. She and her husband came to Australia on the Snowy River Scheme in the ... 1960s, I suppose? She told us once that she learned English from watching and listening to soap operas and repeating what they said to native English speakers.... Thank goodness soapies back then were tamer!!! My TCR Norns   Caves Dweller Rascii Administrator     5/28/2012 Papriko - You're required to learn French in a German school? Do you live close to the border of Belgium or France, or is that just common in Germany? Or are you in a private/international school? I think it's a little unfair for native English speakers since we don't know which foreign language we should learn. For non-native English speakers, it makes sense to learn English due to the globalization of business and English being the "international language". But as a native English speaker I've always struggled to decide which foreign language I should really focus on. As an American, Spanish is pretty useful since we're soon going to be more hispanic than caucasian, but also German and French are very internationally used languages. And of course the rise of China and East Asia makes Chinese seem like an obvious choice, but I've heard life in China is unappealing, so why learn the language of a country that you never want to move to? I'm enjoying learning Korean, but it's only spoken in North and South Korea, so is it really going to be worth all the effort to learn it? I guess only time will tell. - Rascii   Peppery One Papriko   5/28/2012 No, I am doing the so called Abitur which is the qualification that allows me to visit University. You MUST do 2 foreign languages for it. English is pretty common and a main subject, so I just need a second one. I had the choice between French and Spanish. The Spanish class was very wanted, so I ended up in French. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   Geek2Nurse     5/28/2012 I spent a lot of my childhood in Japan, and learned to speak Japanese as a kid...It seemed pretty easy at the time. So my best tip is if you're going to learn a foreign language, do it when you're five years old...but it's probably a little too late for you to try that! I spent some time in Denmark once upon a time. It was only a month, but one thing that helped me a lot was watching subtitled movies with my hosts -- speech in English, subtitles in Danish. It helped me to see the Danish words I had been hearing every day, because I'm more visual with words, and it gave me something to "see" in my head when I would hear that word again, which made it "stick" better for me. --- Optimist: the glass is half full. Pessimist: the glass is half empty. Engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.   Prodigal Sock Ghosthande     5/28/2012 Not whole languages... but through conlanging I've picked up bits from a lot of languages, especially German. Most of what I've picked up is pretty archaic though, like the German equivalent of Old English. Not so useful in real world applications. I got a lot of flack in middle school for never learning Spanish, but I just don't like the language... I'd rather learn something like Quechua. I'm not sure my attention span is long enough to learn a full language, though.   Linda     5/29/2012 I am learning English, French and Latin at school. English and French are OK, but Latin... it sounds cool, but is pretty useless I think   althalus99   5/29/2012 I'm learning Latin, and I know a fair bit of French, but I'm not even vaguely fluent. Viva las Vegas - or not, it's up to you.   Geek2Nurse     5/29/2012 Linda, if you go into anything medical, Latin will help you a LOT. --- Optimist: the glass is half full. Pessimist: the glass is half empty. Engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.   Malkin Manager     5/29/2012 Or even biology in general - knowing that Helios was the god of the sun and an anther was a stem made Helianthus easy to remember for "stem-that-follows-the-sun" - sunflower. I hear tell that Latin is also good for law. My TCR Norns   Caves Dweller Rascii Administrator     5/30/2012 Latin is also good for literature and English vocabulary. I think Latin is good for every aspect of life. - Rascii   Gumbo   5/30/2012 taking latin and spanish love latin, but i wish we could like, you know, skip the useless conjugation and focus on etymology and linguistics and vocabulary and such so we can actually apply it to everyday life in the spring you gotta let the flowers fully blossom   magpie-angel     5/31/2012 in my school we had to learn French, Spanish and in the later years, Mandarin i found spanish easier then french though   Caves Dweller Rascii Administrator     5/31/2012 Wow, that's a long of languages. What did you think of Mandarin, magpie-angel? - Rascii   Sixty Third Karias   6/1/2012 I learned German for a year, two years ago. Or was it three? Not keeping much track, but anyway, I've still got most if not half of my knowledge still there. I teach myself Spanish from time to time, so I can go about Espanol websites. Kinda like how I used to teach myself German enough when I was a kid to go around Mummy's Creatures, lol. The Deutsch version was better than the English. -Karias; a bit fruity and gone bananas in the wrong climate!   mip     6/8/2012 I know about enough Japanese to find my way around fan websites and play Japanese games and a tiny, tiny amount of German. The Japanese is self-taught, the German from school (which... was some time ago now). ... I really should start trying to learn to read kanji. Exploring the Ark A journal for C3/DS - updated last: 5 May 2013   Caves Dweller Rascii Administrator     6/9/2012 I just got Rosetta Stone for Korean. OMG it's amazing. - Rascii   Jacob   6/13/2012 bilingual english/welsh represent Not really active around these parts anymore.   humancontroller   6/22/2012 I'm a native English speaker. Going to be taking my fourth year of Latin this fall. I've found learning Latin to be pretty rewarding. @Gumbo: I get that learning the conjugation isn't fun, but it's extremely important. You don't get to do fun stuff (like spending four months analyzing Against Catiline) until all of that stuff has been firmly pounded into your head.

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