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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4582 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 9 of 61 31 May 2014 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was 17 (like rdearman, not counting crappy French classes in school). I pretty much
just woke up one day and decided I was going to learn German. I spent a month or so saving up change from my school dinners, then secretly went to a bookshop and bought a Berlitz book and a pocket dictionary. For various reasons I didn't want my parents to find out, so I had a special hiding place for them in my bedroom and I used to study under the bedclothes with a torch :D Sometimes I'm really not sure why I decided to do it, but I think it was the best decision I ever made :) 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 10 of 61 31 May 2014 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I grew up speaking both French and English, so didn't really need to "learn" those.
t took a 3-credit introductory Spanish class at 18 in university, but didn't learn much of anything. Our lecture class (2 hours per week) had something like 500 people in it, and the language labs (which I think were an hour per week) had 20 or 25 students. I never bothered with homework of any kind. So it was - sadly - a wasted opportunity. I started learning Spanish again at 35. I'm turning 36 tomorrow, and I started learning Tagalog this past month. I hope to speak 5 languages by the time I'm 40, and then just maintain and improve them. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5908 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 11 of 61 31 May 2014 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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English: 9 or 10
Typical crappy German class in school where excitement goes to die: 13 Good Spanish class: 19 I still don't really know which one of those I should count as my first... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4650 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 12 of 61 31 May 2014 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
Same for me :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5129 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 13 of 61 31 May 2014 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I started to formally learn Spanish when I was 13. I think that's fairly typical given
the times, where I grew up (northern Minnesota) and the school system, although most kids took French over Spanish due to the proximity with Canada. German was also an option, but it wasn't a very popular language to study, despite some heavy German influence in a lot of the local population. A lot of kids don't take second language-learning seriously, but I remember always enjoying it and really wanting to speak it. I didn't feel I started to make much headway until high school, though. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5640 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 14 of 61 31 May 2014 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
The test that I took was actually at B2 level. I passed that test (NT2) after 9 months of learning Dutch in the Netherlands but I certainly wasn't at B2 level at that point. I would say that it took me about 4 years to get to the point where my speaking was at B2 level. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| EnglishEagle Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4574 days ago 140 posts - 157 votes Studies: English*, German | Message 15 of 61 31 May 2014 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks, was that intensive study or just half an hour to an hour each day? I'm very curious, as my friend is learning Dutch at the moment :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3906 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 16 of 61 31 May 2014 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I took French classes when I was 7 or 8 (I learned quite a bit but forgot it all). I was 19 when I decided to start teaching myself (Italian).
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