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| MLSUSA94 Groupie United States linguisticventures19 Joined 5714 days ago 50 posts - 53 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 33 05 May 2009 at 2:18am | IP Logged |
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reason you've wanted to learn a language?
I've been attracted to Spanish before after seeing this Cuban cartoon. How about you? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6192 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 33 05 May 2009 at 2:43am | IP Logged |
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I want to learn Mongolian specifically because I think it sounds more badass and manly than any other language I've heard. I just need a decent manual before I can get started on even a part-time basis.
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| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5731 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 3 of 33 05 May 2009 at 2:23pm | IP Logged |
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I started learning Russian because I had been listening to Russian music that had been featured on a racing game for Xbox and I liked the sound. I also was playing an online game that had a lot of Russians, Scandinavians, and people from the Baltic states, and their forum was bilingual in English and Russian, and that is where I first started learning the Cyrillic alphabet. I quit playing that game long before I started getting any sort of proficiency in Russian, though. My current interest in Russian is based on its power as a literary language and as a medium of learning other languages in the former Soviet Union. Also, I will be spending the 2009-2010 academic year in Russia.
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| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5738 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 4 of 33 05 May 2009 at 5:03pm | IP Logged |
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I actually learned German by playing on a mostly German MMORPG server. Can't say it didn't work, though - imagine using your target language through text and voicechat to a large group of people, several hours a day!
I picked up a little Dutch and Finnish there, too, but I forgot all of it except for one word: kirkossa. What a random word to remember. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5861 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 5 of 33 07 May 2009 at 1:20pm | IP Logged |
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I actually learn Japanese through comic books(manga). I was doing this due to peer pressure, even though I dis like the Japanese culture( It is just too werid for me to accept it).
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5772 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 33 07 May 2009 at 4:21pm | IP Logged |
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If it comes down to the start - I picked up Japanese because of an ex boyfriend of my mom. That man spoke seven languages fluently, was a huge fan of anything Chinese (also worked as a translator from Chinese to German) - and I hated him. So when I first developed an interest in Japanese culture, he told me Japan sucked and anyways they only were a bad imitattion of China. Obviously that made my fleeting interest in Japan turn into a desire to learn that language.
Oh, a friend whose parents are Vietnamese immigrants once told me that she's rather have people use her nickname because Germans can't pronounce Vietnamese correctly anyways. Where does this sudden interest for Vietnamese come from, I wonder? Edited by Bao on 07 May 2009 at 4:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6900 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 33 07 May 2009 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
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I got hooked on Chinese because I got mad at myself for not understanding anything during my first visit in 2005. "I'll just google around a little, have a quick look and get a rough idea what it's all about", I said to myself - about the same as someone innocently deciding to try drugs just once or twice. Once the lid was off there was no putting the genie back in the bottle. I have been squirming on the hook ever since and loving every minute of it.
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6452 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 8 of 33 07 May 2009 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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I started studying German after loving Rammstein's music.
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