LondonDream Triglot Newbie France Joined 3948 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: French*, English, Arabic (Maghribi) Studies: Spanish, Italian
| Message 1 of 5 05 February 2014 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
Hi everyone :) ! I'm currently a languages student at university and I've been
interested in languages for about 7 years I think and when I discovered this forum I
thought it could be very helpful :D.
I'm a native french speaker, and I'm also fluent in algerian arabic because my parents
are algerian. I've tried to learn classical written arabic as well, but I just can't
lol .
I'm also fluent in english. Actually, I didn't "want" to learn it, I just enjoyed
english and my Scottish teacher was really passionate about her work and made me want
to know more about English, so at 13 I started to read books/ watch tv shows which were
not available in french, and I also listened to songs with lyrics on youtube, read the
comments and looked up unknown words, and without really noticing I acquired a lot of
vocabulary and improved my oral comprehension :).
I also took Spanish classes for 3 years at school, but had to stop for a year and I did
not study on my own so I've lost a lot of vocabulary and get kinda confused with the
conjugation, but I can still understand about 70% of a text or a video. I just started
learning again and I'm taking a Spanish class in my university, I hope I'll be able to
improve fast, because I just love Spanish so much, as well as the
music/literature/cinema :).
I also started Italian at the beginning of the school year. So far I like it, but I
tend to mix it with Spanish sometimes, especially when it comes to numbers :/.
I'd like to learn Brazilian portuguese as well because I love Brazilian music, but I
want to improve my Spanish and Italian first .
Edited by LondonDream on 05 February 2014 at 4:06pm
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 5 05 February 2014 at 4:35pm | IP Logged |
Welcome to HTLAL! That's an impressive list of languages you have there. :-) Please feel free to join us in the forums or to create a "Language Learning Log".
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4652 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 3 of 5 05 February 2014 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
Quote:
I'm also fluent in English. Actually, I didn't "want" to learn it, I just enjoyed
english and my Scottish teacher was really passionate about her work and made me want
to know more about English, so at 13 I started to read books/ watch tv shows which were
not available in french, and I also listened to songs with lyrics on youtube, read the
comments and looked up unknown words, and without really noticing I acquired a lot of
vocabulary and improved my oral comprehension :). |
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Sounds familiar, now I wish I could repeat this trick with my Spanish or German or Arabic.
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LondonDream Triglot Newbie France Joined 3948 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: French*, English, Arabic (Maghribi) Studies: Spanish, Italian
| Message 4 of 5 05 February 2014 at 5:23pm | IP Logged |
Zireael wrote:
Quote:
I'm also fluent in English. Actually, I didn't "want" to learn
it, I just enjoyed
english and my Scottish teacher was really passionate about her work and made me want
to know more about English, so at 13 I started to read books/ watch tv shows which were
not available in french, and I also listened to songs with lyrics on youtube, read the
comments and looked up unknown words, and without really noticing I acquired a lot of
vocabulary and improved my oral comprehension :). |
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Sounds familiar, now I wish I could repeat this trick with my Spanish or German or
Arabic. |
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Haha same for me, I noticed that when you wish to learn a language it's more harder and
"less natural" than when you do it without really working for it, like learning grammar
and stuff like that.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 5 of 5 05 February 2014 at 7:54pm | IP Logged |
Welcome LondonDream! I am Brazilian and I can speak French, we can get in contact if you
want.
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