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| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6312 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 1 of 8 05 August 2007 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Greetings from Germany!
I'm glad that I've found this wonderful forum about learning foreign languages. At the age of 10 I had my first encounter with the English language at school and was outright fascinated from the possibility to speak in another language - which for example my parents could not understand :-) At that time I thought every word in German has one exact counterpart in English. Later I discovered the truth ... but that made it much more interesting. I soaked up every new word or expression and never used lists or cards for learning them. I simply couldn't imagine, that someone has to learn them. In my point of view as a little girl: I hear a new word (e.g. table) from the teacher, take this word and make a little sentence, (e.g. The table in our kitchen is brown.), then I go home and tell everybody of the family this sentence (of course more than once!) - I really got on their nerves... The progress in school was rather slow, the other pupils were not that excited. So I began to play with the words, invented stories, wrote them down, made new combinations and repeated them endlessly. Now my dream job was to become a simultaneous interpreter (11 years old). And it was my favourite game to play simultaneous interpreter. Everything a family meber spoke I .... But then teenage time came and afterwards I was caught up in all the usual obstacles and chances of life. Skip three and a half decade and see I'm back :-) This time it's not only English, but all the other languages, too. There are no restrictions - I can learn whatever and however I want. I collected many many useful resources for language learning and do use them now. I am a pure language hopper :-) and happy to be here in this forum. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6575 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese | Message 2 of 8 05 August 2007 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to the forum!
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 8 05 August 2007 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Studying Danish? What an admirable idea..
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| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6435 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 4 of 8 05 August 2007 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Welcome to the forum! I remember thinking the exact same thing about French as I walked into my first lesson. Verb conjugations? Adjectives? Genders? What the hell? You never really think about your own language in grammatical terms until you study another one, I find. How are you doing with the Danish? I've been learning for three or four weeks now. Iversen (above) is a great help. Speaking German already must give you a bit of a help? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6427 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 8 05 August 2007 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, I never got the spark when I learnt English, but I did with German. Cases, genders, Time-Manner-Place... I used to just LOVE constructing sentences in German when I began. It was just like fitting a jig-saw puzzle.
I did also discover you can't have word-to-word translations when I compared Korean, my native language, with English. It just helped me so much with German and Mandarin, once I knew this. Good luck with Danish. Any plans to learn more "exotic" languages? Korean perhaps? :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| audiolang Diglot Senior Member Romania Joined 6311 days ago 108 posts - 109 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Romanian*, English | Message 6 of 8 06 August 2007 at 7:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to the forum.I had lots of sparks when I learnt English :)
What happened to the dream of being an interpreter? I hope it's not too much of a personal question. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6312 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 7 of 8 06 August 2007 at 9:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow – what a kind and warmly welcome!
@Szia, Vlad You are a trilingual! I deeply envy you :-) @Dav, Iversen Danish is such a wonderful language – my favourite sentence today is “min pengepung er slunken” – I told it everyone in the office ... @Hi, burntgorilla I started with Danish last week and I am in no hurry. I’ve also read your learning log and would like to share with you Danish experiences. @An-Nyeong, Jiwon Yes- Korean is already on my list! It’s interesting that you had the same experience with German! @Salut, audiolang The dream has only changed – now I want to explore and discover the vast fields of foreign languages. I don’t have to do any exams, just enjoy and indulge. That is pure luxury for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5838 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 8 04 December 2011 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | ||
This a thread from 2007, so already 4 years have passed since then... ... and now I am following glossia.passion's Danish footsteps! Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful |
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