Reve Newbie United States Joined 4507 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish
| Message 1 of 3 29 July 2012 at 10:30am | IP Logged |
Hi! I'm Reve, I'm from the West Coast of the United States, and I'm currently attempting to teach myself Danish. Mainly because my goal is to visit (and maybe even move to) Denmark -- I really like the Scandinavian countries, Denmark in particular -- and I'd like to be able to really get involved in the culture while I'm there. (I've also been learning Spanish off and on, mainly in school -- it's not my focus right now.) Language is something I've always been extremely interested in, though admittedly most of my exposure to other languages is through music. I'm a bit of a music fanatic.
Anyway, since this is my first attempt at teaching myself a language (and because I'm broke), I've basically just been cobbling together an understanding from everything I can: free online resources, Danish music, flash cards, even changing the interface language on my browser and some websites to Danish and attempting to hold conversations with Cleverbot.com. I just found the Scandinavian/Nordic Language Resources thread, so I'm checking out the links there now... oh my gosh, what a godsend.
I've been really struggling with pronunciation and need to build my vocabulary, but I have a basic grasp of the grammar and some reading comprehension. What I need is more practice speaking it with people, I think. (Cleverbot is fun, but it's nowhere near the same as talking to an actual human being.) At any rate, I'm glad I came across this site -- it looks like it'll help me a lot!
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Jappy58 Bilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 4628 days ago 200 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Guarani*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi), Arabic (Written), French, English, Persian, Quechua, Portuguese Studies: Modern Hebrew
| Message 2 of 3 29 July 2012 at 5:00pm | IP Logged |
Welcome, and I wish you success in your language learning voyage! :)
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liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6219 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written)
| Message 3 of 3 29 July 2012 at 10:42pm | IP Logged |
What part of Oregon? I'm here as well!
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