Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 89 of 111 20 August 2014 at 10:08am | IP Logged |
Guys. Play nice.
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Stolan Senior Member United States Joined 4037 days ago 274 posts - 368 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Thai, Lowland Scots Studies: Arabic (classical), Cantonese
| Message 90 of 111 20 August 2014 at 7:26pm | IP Logged |
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 Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3750 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French
| 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 Newbie Canada Joined 3761 days ago 15 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Catalan
| 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 Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5241 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin
| 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. |
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Thats cool, how many people have you spoken to? What did you talk about?
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JClangue Newbie Canada Joined 3761 days ago 15 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Catalan
| 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. |
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Thats cool, how many people have you spoken to? What did you talk about? |
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Like five people at a local language conversation club. Politics, sports, traveling. Things
like that.
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BOLIO Senior Member United States Joined 4663 days ago 253 posts - 366 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| 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 Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| 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. |
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Or you can tell them that English and Spanish are some of the easiest languages to learn...
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