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| gRodriguez Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3974 days ago 44 posts - 56 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, Galician Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 1 of 11 22 November 2013 at 4:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I currently speak English (even though my writing skills are horrible) and portuguese,
and even though I'm also studying Spanish, I was planning on learning one more language after I've finished Spanish, mostly because I want to speak an exotic language for the chic factor (not sure if I'm using the term correctly), but I want to a have reason to learn it. And I'm sorry things like: the beauty of the language and the great amounts of culture and history that comes with the language, don't matter that much to me like it does for MANY people on this forum. What I really would like to know is what are the biggest countries in mechatronics? And I know that many european countries speak English very well, but speaking the language of the people I need to do business with would surely give me an advantage. Edited by gRodriguez on 22 November 2013 at 5:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4236 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 2 of 11 22 November 2013 at 5:29am | IP Logged | ||
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If you are C2 then your English cannot be so bad though, but nayway, perhaps Germany and
Sweden? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| gRodriguez Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3974 days ago 44 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, Galician Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 3 of 11 22 November 2013 at 5:48am | IP Logged | ||
I have a serious problem writing long texts in English, I heard it has something to do with the fact that Portuguese can have much longer sentences than English, so I wind up getting confused while writing not to mention it becomes pain to read it. If what I wrote in my first good doesn't show that, it's because I had that English=/=Portuguese thing in mind and the fact that it took me a decent amount of time to write it. I know Germany is one of the biggest countries in Mechanical Enginering (which has a lot to do with Mechatronics), but exactly what kind of reputation does Sweden have? Edited by gRodriguez on 22 November 2013 at 5:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4236 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 4 of 11 22 November 2013 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
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But you had to do extensive writing for C2 though? I suppose you can use the skills
therefore, I think in C2 you have to write essays and such. I am not very informative about mechanical engineering as I am more into chemical engineering, but Sweden do have Volvo and IKEA, maybe that has something related to mech? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| gRodriguez Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3974 days ago 44 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, Galician Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 5 of 11 22 November 2013 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
I am not sure how I had a decent score at TOEFL at writing, it was probably because I had some TOEFL classes before the test. If I learned anything with those classes I already forgot everything except for that diference between the length of sentences in Portuguese and English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4614 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 6 of 11 22 November 2013 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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You could try Japanese.
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| gRodriguez Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3974 days ago 44 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, Galician Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 7 of 11 22 November 2013 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
That's probably what I'm going for, but even though the pronunciation seems easy to me, all those thousand of characters really intimidate me. And since there are so many of course they have to be complex, if they weren't it would impossible to differentiate all of them, that's another problem for me. It would probably take half an hour for me to write a single sentence in Japanese, each character would take the time of sentence, and they would probably look like s*%@. Does anyone know what the difficult for Japanese is for a Brazilian Portuguese speaker? I read it's *****, but I guess that's suppose to be for an English speaker. Since it's much easier for a lusophone (at least a Brazilian one) to pronounce Japanese words, the difficult should go down to **** or is the pronunciation such a small part when compared to everything else that it isn't worth a level of difficulty? Edited by gRodriguez on 24 November 2013 at 1:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4584 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 8 of 11 23 November 2013 at 2:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Characters are the main problem. Then the unfamiliar vocabulary, then the the unfamiliar grammar. I don't
think pronunciation would have too much effect. Most people round these parts use the book "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig. Now this does make it alot easier and less time consuming than for the folks learning through rote memorisation. However, with the time you spend learning the meaning and writing of the characters through Heisig you could already be doing useful things with German. So if you're not really enamoured with Japanese I'd pass. Edited by AlexTG on 23 November 2013 at 2:13am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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