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| Saerlith Bilingual Triglot Newbie Belgium Joined 4691 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Dutch*, Flemish*, English Studies: French, Japanese | Message 1 of 5 13 January 2012 at 10:26am | IP Logged |
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Hello everyone.
My name is Amelie (without an acute accent on the middle "e", it's important ;)). I've been using Saerlith on forums, games,... for years. I don't really know how I came up with it, I just threw some letters together and thought it looked nice. I'm 24 years old, Belgian, and a teacher in the making, with Dutch and English as my subjects. I enjoy music, languages, horses, my cat, psychology and many many more things in various different fields. I've been dividing my time between all the things I love until now, but I feel it's time to start focusing my time and energy on something more specific. I have chosen to dive into the world of languages completely, and it has brought me here. My native language is Dutch. Though I'm Belgian, I can perfectly manage to speak like a Dutch person, and I can switch between various dialects with ease. I started learning English when I was thirteen. In English, I can seamlessly switch between a British, an American and an Australian accent. I quite easily pick up regional dialects and accents, which I believe to be a great advantage in language learning. I can manage some French if I have to. I have only ever learned French in school and unfortunately, I've had some pretty awful teachers. After eight years of dreadful French classes, I had developped a serious aversion to the language and even though I passed all of my tests for it, I never got around to communicating in it fluently. My passive knowledge of the language (especially reading skills) is rather okay, but I can hardly manage to produce anything substantial. I can give someone directions if I have to, I can buy things, ask where someone's from and the likes,... That's about the size of it. I've decided I need to improve my French drastically at some point, since my country is bilingual and French is one of the two official languages. Even though I live in the Dutch part, a decent knowledge of French is required for many different jobs. Other than that, I can manage to understand some written German, since it's so close to my native language, but I've never actually learned any German. I kicked off with Japanese. I think it's a beautiful language and I would simply love to able to watch for example Full Metal Alchemist without the subtitles one day. I have some friends who speak Japanese as well, and I figured I needed something entirely new. I need a challenge in my life, because things have been getting rather boring lately. I'm working with Pimsleur, which suits my learning style really well. I've only started this week, but so far so good. I'm enjoying it and I already find myself holding mini- conversations with the mirror and occasionally answering my boyfriend in Japanese when he asks me how I'm doing and so on. I have a "language bucket list", and I hope that, as I get on with it, I will continue to want to learn new things and add to that list. As for now, languages I most definitely want to learn are Japanese, French, German, Hindi, Italian and Swedish (not necessarily in that order ;)) I will no doubt have a great time here, and if anyone needs help with Dutch, you now know where to find me. Edited by Saerlith on 13 January 2012 at 2:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4706 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 2 of 5 13 January 2012 at 1:16pm | IP Logged |
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Welkom, Amelie!
I'm currently learning Dutch, and I'm loving it! If you need any help with Italian or Portuguese, just ask! =) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SueK Groupie United States Joined 4742 days ago 77 posts - 133 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 5 13 January 2012 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
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You are so in the right place! Welcome!
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 arashikat Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 4668 days ago 53 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Tagalog*, English Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 5 09 February 2012 at 10:14pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Amelie! Japanese IS an awesome language isn't it? Full Metal Alchemist is also great. I like watching animes because I do catch vocab work here and there, but dramas are better in helping me get a feel of more authentic Japanese (Naruto's Dattebayo! doesn't really help).
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5000 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 5 of 5 10 February 2012 at 3:36pm | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the forums.
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