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Solfrid Cristin
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 Message 89 of 111
20 August 2014 at 10:08am | IP Logged 
Guys. Play nice.
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Stolan
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Studies: Thai, Lowland Scots
Studies: Arabic (classical), Cantonese

 
 Message 90 of 111
20 August 2014 at 7:26pm | IP Logged 
tarvos wrote:
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Please avoid taking this thread off topic.

Anyway:
I have toyed with the idea of actually learning Classical Arabic to speak it for what it is instead of learning it as a
liturgical languages as I do with Sanskrit. But most don't speak classical Arabic day to day I hear, I have never been
to the middle east either.

For Cantonese I have been neglecting characters, I usually hear something and later on ask a fluent friend what a
word means and he tells me and I just use it contextually, I hope to reach past 6,000 characters like native speakers
(at the end of my life). But I am seriously behind.

Edited by Stolan on 20 August 2014 at 7:35pm

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Enrico
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 Message 91 of 111
31 August 2014 at 3:09am | IP Logged 
English

To travel around the world
Watch Hollywood movies in original
Watch and listen to courses for English speakers about interesting topics like music and language learning
Read books that were not published in my native language.

Italian

Travel Mediterranean
Watch Celentano movies in original
Partial understanding of Spanish and Portuguese

French

Travel Mediterranean
Read Le comte de Monte Cristo in original

Spanish

Travel Mediterranean
Partial understanding of Italian and Portuguese


Edited by Enrico on 31 August 2014 at 7:12pm

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JClangue
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 Message 92 of 111
31 August 2014 at 7:07pm | IP Logged 
So I've studied Mandarin for like 10 hours and I can already have meaningful conversations.
Seems like I'll be fluent in no time! I guess learning a few basic sayings and then practicing
them right after is the most effective way to learn a language. Speak from day one--count me
as a believer.
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rdearman
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 Message 93 of 111
31 August 2014 at 8:02pm | IP Logged 
JClangue wrote:
So I've studied Mandarin for like 10 hours and I can already have meaningful conversations. Seems like I'll be fluent in no time! I guess learning a few basic sayings and then practicing them right after is the most effective way to learn a language. Speak from day one--count me as a believer.


Thats cool, how many people have you spoken to? What did you talk about?
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JClangue
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 Message 94 of 111
31 August 2014 at 8:16pm | IP Logged 
rdearman wrote:
JClangue wrote:
So I've studied Mandarin for like 10 hours and I can
already have meaningful conversations. Seems like I'll be fluent in no time! I guess learning
a few basic sayings and then practicing them right after is the most effective way to learn a
language. Speak from day one--count me as a believer.


Thats cool, how many people have you spoken to? What did you talk about?


Like five people at a local language conversation club. Politics, sports, traveling. Things
like that.
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BOLIO
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 Message 95 of 111
05 September 2014 at 5:57pm | IP Logged 
2015

Pass B1 exam in Spanish

2016

B2

2017

Live life and work in a Spanish speaking country forever more.
Work, play, religion, travel...LIVE in Spanish.
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Serpent
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 Message 96 of 111
05 September 2014 at 11:01pm | IP Logged 
Stolan wrote:
Go to Taiwan and tell a Hokkien speaker or go to Hong Kong and tell a Cantonese speaker "Mandarin one of the hardest if not the hardest language to learn in the world" and they will stare at you blankly with confusion.

Or you can tell them that English and Spanish are some of the easiest languages to learn...


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