anethara Diglot Newbie England Joined 4232 days ago 25 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, Sign Language
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Not sure what to say? I'm Annie! I love languages but I'm not very advanced at all (but
I'm okay with that! I'm just a bit embarrassed being on a language forum and having a
haphazard jack-of-all trades master of none approach to languages). I studied French
for 5 years at school, Spanish for 2 years at school and Norwegian for 1 year for personal
enjoyment along with learning some Russian for a while.
I'm looking into learning a new language (let's see if I can stick to one...) and I was
looking for a language community so here I am. In an ideal world I would love to learn
Latin, Old English, Quenya or Sindarin, more advanced Spanish and Italian.
I'm looking forward to talking with everyone. :)
Edited by anethara on 14 April 2013 at 1:40pm
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iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5252 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
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Welcome to the forum, Annie! A lot of people here study multiple languages at the same time. Usually, the most successful are those who already have learned at least one second language to a high level- B-1, B-2 or above.
You will find loads of advice on learning multiple languages simultaneously here. Use the "g-search" function in the "search tab" and search for "multiple languages simultaneously". It's not an approach I personally use or would advise but we all enjoy learning for different reasons.
I hope you will find much inspiration and advice here to help you along your way. I've never heard of Quenya or Sindarin!
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anethara Diglot Newbie England Joined 4232 days ago 25 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, Sign Language
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iguanamon wrote:
Welcome to the forum, Annie! A lot of people here study multiple
languages at the same time. Usually, the most successful are those who already have
learned at least one second language to a high level- B-1, B-2 or above.
You will find loads of advice on learning multiple languages simultaneously here. Use
the "g-search" function in the "search tab" and search for "multiple languages
simultaneously". It's not an approach I personally use or would advise but we all enjoy
learning for different reasons.
I hope you will find much inspiration and advice here to help you along your way. I've
never heard of Quenya or Sindarin!
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Thank-you for the welcome, this forum seems wonderful and friendly so far.
Quenya and Sindarin are fictional Elvish languages created by Tolkien: so they're
impossible to learn in the sense that you can use them in every conversation in every
context as they're incomplete, but they're complete enough to study and understand. :)
Edited by anethara on 14 April 2013 at 3:05pm
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4999 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 4 of 6 14 April 2013 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
Welcome to the forum!
I wish you a lot of success in any and all the languages you choose to study. Including
the Elvish ones (I have been tempted to try them as well, but I will probably earlier go
for one of their main root languages: Finnish or Welsh)
Just be careful: This forum is quite addictive :-)
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Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4243 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian
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Hey there. I am endlessly interested in Quenya because I was going through a list of known Quenya words and I found a few Finnish loanwords, and the grammar felt right at home hahah.
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Lizzy92 Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4234 days ago 12 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German
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Hi Annie! Welcome to the forum :) I'm British and speak French and Spanish. Asking a
native speaker is always the best option for language advice or questions, but feel free
to ask me anything if you want to discuss/compare notes on learning those languages from
an English perspective!
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