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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6120 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes  22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 89 of 204 12 December 2008 at 11:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| Hype Triglot Newbie Norway Joined 5825 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Swedish Studies: French | Message 90 of 204 13 December 2008 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Cheers It's just my way of giving myself something to work on I guess. I've always been somewhat amused yet impressed by Scottish accents. I'm not saying I want to speak like they do in Glasgow. But I just want a Scottish twist to my accent, I don't want to sound all Norwegian. And I totally agree with you about what you've said, those I've told that I want a Scottish accent has actually frowned at the idea as well(except for my English teacher). And I've seriously been working on it, I've been listening to BBC Scotland a lot, I've sometimes recorded myself so that I'll spot my mistakes, I also talk a lot of English so I don't think people will get a hard time understanding me. Edited by Hype on 13 December 2008 at 7:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dizzycloud Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6596 days ago 88 posts - 109 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Turkish | Message 91 of 204 13 December 2008 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Fair enough, at least if you listen to BBC Scotland you won't have problems understanding them as much as other foreigners perhaps! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6032 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 92 of 204 13 December 2008 at 10:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It is reassuring to know that even native speakers sometimes find it difficult. I've never had much exposure to the Scottish accent (actually none, save for Trainspotting) and now all of a sudden I find myself in the deep. BBC Scotland is the key.. Edited by Sennin on 13 December 2008 at 10:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6657 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 94 of 204 18 December 2008 at 11:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm 48 years old.
English: native speaker. French: My grade school taught it. I picked up a bit there and went on to do some on my own, and then took it in high school and college. It's still my strongest non-native language. Spanish: It was a very popular language when I was in high school, and it seemed very practical. I took three years of it in high school. German: When I was in graduate school, I heard that if I wanted to go on for my doctorate, I would need reading knowledge of both French and German. Because I worked for the university, I was able to get a discount on the classes. I never went on to get my doctorate, but I have traveled in Europe and used German and don't regreat learning it. Italian: The area where I live has lots of Italian-Americans, and a local organization offered inexpensive Italian lessons. I kept it up on my own. After having studied French and Spanish, Italian was not too difficult. Portuguese: I have some penfriends in Brazil, and I've tried learning Portuguese on my own. My biggest problem is that I find myself lapsing into Spanish. Norwegian: It's another language I'm trying on my own. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5819 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic | Message 95 of 204 18 December 2008 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm 19.
English is my native language. I started learning German at the age of 16 (a little below fluency level), and when I have the money, I'd like to move to Düsseldorf. I started teaching myself Swedish a few months ago (since my studies with this are on and off, I haven't gotten too far). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| sarasvati Newbie Russian Federation Joined 6683 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Studies: Breton | Message 96 of 204 21 December 2008 at 11:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm 18.
my native language is German. -I started learning English at age 11 in school (but i was exposed to it since age 4 through friends from the us, a lot of traveling to English speaking countries and an English class my parents made me take when i was like 7) + just spent a year studying in the US. - I started learning French when I was 13. Now I can read and understand it pretty well, but talking can still be difficult... - started with Spanish at age 15. and actually i think I'm more advanced than in French by now- funny -started with Hindi about two years ago. I'm doing alright. I'm now trying to read newspapers now and with my dictionary i can get the gist..=) needs a lot of work though -took an interest in Italian about a year after i started learning Spanish, and found it quite easy to understand (easier) books, as it's so similiar to French and Spanish. -now I've just started with Russian, so far I've mastered the cyrillic alphabet and that#s about it ;) and I studied Hebrew and Tamil for some time, didn't have the time and motivation to go into it deeper though ,a nd now I've pretty much forgotten everything. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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