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Learn me a new language.

  • 12-01-2014 8:39am
    #1
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭


    Long story short, I want to learn a language. Perferably something I could use home and away. Also, something I could learn conversationally first.

    I've done some research and decided to rule out three languages. Chinese - their ingenious numbered menu system negates the need to learn their' lingo. Dutch because it's gobbledygook and Russian because they think that that jail house hooch they drink is as refined as whiskey.

    Any other suggestions appreciated.


    I currently speak "ing-glish" and have vague understanding of australian.


Comments

  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Ammericann.


  • #3
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Try Welsh.

    You can spit at everyone and get away with it.


  • #4
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Grazie is thank you in Italian, Prego is a good word because it has multiple meanings like you're welcome, come in relax etc.

    Now you have two words in the Italian language. You'll be fluent in no time.


  • #5
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Grazie is thank you in Italian, Prego is a good word because it has multiple meanings like you're welcome, come in relax etc.

    Now you have two words in the Italian language. You'll be fluent in no time.

    Love Italy. Been there a few times. Learning their language will just make them irate. Cursing at foreigners in their native tongue gives them such pleasure. I wouldn't want to ruin that for them.


  • #6
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Repeat after me:

    An-yon-g (1st word)

    There's your first Korean word. When Koreans hear it here they love it! Then when they smile say:

    E-phoo-da ( 2nd word)

    If they aren't interested in talking say:

    Ship-sick-yae (3rd word)

    Korean lesson over €50 please


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  • #7
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    Repeat after me:

    An-yon-g (1st word)

    There's your first Korean word. When Koreans hear it here they love it! Then when they smile say:

    E-phoo-da ( 2nd word)

    If they aren't interested in talking say:

    Ship-sick-yae (3rd word)

    Korean lesson over €50 please

    Done. Off to ride the hole off some Kreyan yung won.


  • #8
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    Done. Off to ride the hole off some Kreyan yung won.

    How will you know if she's Korean though?!


  • #9
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    How will you know if she's Korean though?!

    She'll know.


  • #10
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    Love Italy. Been there a few times. Learning their language will just make them irate. Cursing at foreigners in their native tongue gives them such pleasure. I wouldn't want to ruin that for them.

    They don't like if you don't at least make an effort though, they'll try up to a point before they give up and offer broken English.:pac: it's a funny country because of the different dialects, for instance a native speaker in Milan will struggle to understand a Sicilian. They have their own language which meshes in to the whole thing someways.


  • #11
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    It's 'TEACH me a new language'.

    Try mastering English first :P


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  • #12
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    DoozerT6 wrote: »
    It's 'TEACH me a new language'.

    Try mastering English first :P

    It's learn in this region. Google "dialects" there bosco.


  • #13
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Bosco??? Are you calling me ginger??? Are ya??


  • #14
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    It's learn in this region. Google "dialects" there bosco.

    County Culchie isn't a real region


  • #15
    purplecow1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,877 ✭✭✭purplecow1977


    Judging by the thread title,you may want to begin with ENGLISH.


  • #16
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    purplecow1977 wrote: »
    Judging by the thread title,you may want to begin with ENGLISH.

    It's his application he's being judged on.


  • #17
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Mildly racist, car crash waiting to happen, poor attempt at humour type thread locked.


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