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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 25 of 39 30 October 2013 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me it's German. I really, really hated German. It was my least favourite subject in
School, and after five years, I still didn't get beyond A1/A2 level. Last September, I decided to give it a new chance, and now it's the language I care most about, and within a year, I've managed to go from A2 almost all the way to B2. And if there's a language that'll never grow on me, it has to be Chinese, but that might be because a lot of native speakers here are rude and loud, and thus the language(s) come off as a bit too rough for me... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| IndÃritheach Senior Member United States Joined 4043 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 26 of 39 30 October 2013 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me, that language would be Spanish. Hate, hate, HATED it in school, and now I couldn't imagine not speaking it.
I also was never really interested in French, but having gotten to a decent level of Spanish I've been considering tackling it next. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 27 of 39 30 October 2013 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Looks like we are getting two main groups of school based haters here. I belong to the
European: the propaganda for English and German was too strong, even though I resisted with all my power :-D The Americans seem to suffer the same thing about Spanish. I guess a few more and we'll have mapped quite a good portion of the world. Do the Germans have such a nemesis? And what about canadians or russians? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 28 of 39 31 October 2013 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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For some reason almost all German profs are kinda strict, it's as if you need discipline to learn it by traditional methods... so as much as I love my lycee, it nearly killed my enthusiasm for German, although it had been my own choice to study it. while there's no guarantee to get the language you want, I could've signed up for Spanish or Italian for example.
And uni temporarily killed my love for English, but by now it's back ♥. French is also commonly learned at schools and commonly hated/disliked. Spanish is quite rare and I think it's normally considered cool (there are also no immigrants to form a bad stereotype...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5922 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 29 of 39 31 October 2013 at 10:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I can't think of a language that I didn't like at first but which I now want to learn because I love it. I did start on Polish a few years ago and then I dropped after a month or two, but that was mostly because I was sure I was pronouncing the language very badly. Then sometime last year I listened to more Polish without attempting to immediately pronounce the sounds I was hearing and that seemed to help. My Polish pronunciation still sounds terrible sometimes (at least to my own ears), only now I am much less self-conscious about it. Edited by mick33 on 31 October 2013 at 5:25pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4903 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 30 of 39 31 October 2013 at 11:09am | IP Logged | ||
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French. For me it was French.
From the very beginning there was something about the way it sounds when it's spoken that I didn't like. It's okay when it's sung, but not spoken (I have the same problem with Italian by the way). And it's also partly because of a bad school experience. I had 3 different teachers in 4 years and their behaviour towards us was sometimes just plain horrid - and no, we were no angels either, but you know as the question, so the answer. And being a minor and a pupil doesn't mean that's okay for a "teacher" to call me names or calling me stupid whenever I make a mistake (and I was one of the "luckier" ones as I was one of the best pupils of the class). So French was certainly the first thing I dropped when I could drop subjects. So till this day, and even though I know it's unjust to the language itself, I associate French with unfriendliness and rudeness. Something that certainly isn't true, but I can't help it. Now that I work in Luxembourg and am surrounded by French speakers my feeling towards the French language got much friendlier (I guess because I can now connect some nice memories with the language), but I'm still not very fond of the way it sounds ... but hey, at least I don't hate it anymore ... :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 31 of 39 31 October 2013 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
The same here. Maybe it's an aquired taste. Now I like it a lot, and I also noticed that most of my favourite greek authors and thinkers were fluent in German, had studied in Germany or were influenced in a deep level from German writers of various fields. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 32 of 39 31 October 2013 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I disliked Spanish in school as well as I couldn't find the point of learning the language and I didn't like the sound of it. Two trips to Spain and 6 years later, I am in love with Spanish and I'm going to take an upper-division Spanish course next semester in college, even though it has nothing to do with my major. I even read Spanish literature for fun. The language has grown so much on me and all it took was a lot of exposure in the right context.
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