Anyone here learning or have learned a new language?

sopretty

mixery wrote: »

learning Italian atm. such a sexy language.

Well you've learned how to get a girl to undress today anyway hahahaha

Micky Dolenz

The One Who Knocks wrote: »

Buona fortuna!

Ho cominciato a imparare l'italiano 3 anni fa, secondo me che è una bella lingua. Dove si vive in Italia? Quale parte?

I live in Roma, south of the city.

Yeah, it's a lovely language. The motorists are nuts but the weather makes up for all. Already 20+, warm and sunny.

Sir Arthur Daley

sopretty wrote: »

Vivevo a Perugia è dopo ad Assissi.
è una lingua bellissima e un paese bellissimo.

Qual è il clima?

Crumpets

Learning German

mixery

sopretty wrote: »

Well you've learned how to get a girl to undress today anyway hahahaha

ive also learned German & English(not my first language), but preferisco italiano .

The Narrator

For anyone interested in learning languages, there is a free interactive site called Duolingo which offers ''courses'' for French, Italian, Spanish, German & Portuguese.

Also offers courses on learning English through others languages, for anyone looking to learn English.

Oat23

I wanted to learn Japanese. I wasn't smart enough so I learned Korean instead.

Rhotheta

Learning German and Italian. My German is at an intermediate level and my Italian is very basic.

sopretty

WikiHow wrote: »

Qual è il clima?

Dicemo che quando sono tornato in Irlanda, ero cosí abbronzata, mia Mama non mi ha conosciuto al aeroporto! L'inverno, sí, e molto freddo, ma non piove spesso come quí.

Eileen Down

After eight years of living and working in Spain I'm still struggling to make myself understood. I'm aware what the problem is though.... I'm as thick as caca de buró.

sopretty

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I live in Roma, south of the city.

Yeah, it's a lovely language. The motorists are nuts but the weather makes up for all. Already 20+, warm and sunny.

I'm not that jealous. At all. Nope.

Mr Pseudonym

Rhotheta wrote: »

Learning Italian and Italian.

I didn't know you could count languages several times. In that case, I speak English, English, English, English, and I'm brushing up on English.

Micky Dolenz

sopretty wrote: »

I'm not that jealous. At all. Nope.

I don't know, near got burnt at the weekend. Had to roll out the factor 50

sopretty

Eileen Down wrote: »

After eight years of living and working in Spain I'm still struggling to make myself understood. I'm aware what the problem is though.... I'm as thick as caca de buró.

Have you tried any grammar classes? I can't pick up a language by just hearing it. I have to see it written and learn the rules lol. Then I come on in leaps and bounds. Would never be able to pick a language up from just hearing it.

sopretty

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I don't know, near got burnt at the weekend. Had to roll out the factor 50

Feck off.
We don't need your type here :P

Gosh, what I wouldn't give for a pizza ai funghi!!!!!

OneArt

I speak German as a second language and I still have trouble with cases and pronouns. Learned it in school and college and now I live here, also have to teach beginners in English through German sometimes. Once you get past the nitty-gritty grammar points in German though, it's an okay language to learn especially if you speak it every day. It is amazing how many English speakers are here though and can only order drinks or food, despite having been here for a long time.

I'm picking up my Spanish again. Only did a year of it but in comparison to German, it's piss easy. It'll probably get more difficult as I go along. I figure it's best to learn another widely-spoken language. I'd love to learn Russian as well, but I don't know how my mouth would cope with forming the words.

population

I'm a fairly fluent Italian speaker at this point having lived in Naples for the guts of 5 years, however I am still learning the language in the sense that I think if a language is not your mother tongue, you learn something new all the time. I have also been studying French for about a year as I work in Paris on occasion and wanted to feel a little bit less lost in conversation. My French is very much a work in progress.

nervous_twitch

I speak French and once upon a time had very good Spanish. Then I lived in Spain. I think you have to love a country's culture to make a real go of learning their language.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I honestly never expected so many people to say Italian.

sopretty

OneArt wrote: »

I speak German as a second language and I still have trouble with cases and pronouns. Learned it in school and college and now I live here, also have to teach beginners in English through German sometimes. Once you get past the nitty-gritty grammar points in German though, it's an okay language to learn especially if you speak it every day. It is amazing how many English speakers are here though and can only order drinks or food, despite having been here for a long time.

I'm picking up my Spanish again. Only did a year of it but in comparison to German, it's piss easy. It'll probably get more difficult as I go along. I figure it's best to learn another widely-spoken language. I'd love to learn Russian as well, but I don't know how my mouth would cope with forming the words.

I found German really 'harsh' or something in school. Granted, I only studied it in First Year in secondary school, but it just didn't appeal to me.
I was in love with French.
I studied French & Spanish in college, but dropped out.
I then ended up on a course to learn Italian, based in Italy. Worked in Italian companies here for a while then and got translation one-to-ones with a lecturer, with an emphasis on financial translation. Loved translation, would hate interpreting!
Lol.
The only one I can speak fluently though is Italian.

I just imagine that if I gave someone an instruction in Russian, everyone would jump into line and salute me or something haha! I suspect it's difficult to learn though.

vicwatson

Leaning Engrish

Morpork

I've been learning Japanese for about 6 years and counting. I wouldn't say I'm fluent, but I'm getting there.
I lived in Osaka for 2 years and met my girlfriend there who now lives in Ireland with me, so I can still practice Japanese everyday.

OP and anyone who is interested in learning Japanese writing I recommend playing Slime Forest Adventure if you're into games. It's how I learned 2000 odd Kanji in a relatively short time. www.lrnj.com
There's also another game on Steam coming out soon, but the name escapes me, sorry.

For some good early video lessons I used "Let's Learn Japanese Basics I & II" from the Japanese Foundation, featuring Yan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Learn_Japanese

dd972

Everlee Better Rider wrote: »

German here, I've only started in the last few weeks and to be honest I'm struggling but I'll stick it out.

I'm finding the hardest part is to have the confidence in speaking it with my German friends, but they're very good and very patient, and I feel like I'm getting there.

Ich versuche auch Deutsche zu lernen, aber ich find es ein sehr langweilig und kompliziert Sprache, geduld ist sehr wichtige. ( No google translate, honest )

Viel Gluck dabei

Tokyo

I've lived overseas in various countries for a good chunk of my life, so other than English I speak five other languages to varying degrees of fluency. Probably the one that looks the strangest to those that don't know it is Georgian - ვიცი რომ ქართული ძალიან კარგად. Learning it was through immersion - I ended up living on the South Ossetian border without a word of the language to my name and nobody there spoke English, but with lots of pointing and flashcards and figuring things out I picked it up slowly but surely. Took me about a year to be conversational, and it's pretty decent now, albeit pretty useless outside a former soviet country of 4 million people.

Falthyron

Italian doesn't look too difficult...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRskvLyCoU0

Links234

Morpork wrote: »

There's also another game on Steam coming out soon, but the name escapes me, sorry.

Influent?
Not meant to be great tbh

4zn76tysfajdxp

Has anyone here learned Esperanto?

dxhound2005

Eileen Down wrote: »

After eight years of living and working in Spain I'm still struggling to make myself understood. I'm aware what the problem is though.... I'm as thick as caca de buró.

Burro. You must know about the extra letters in the Spanish alphabet including the double r (rr). And the accent you put on the O would normally only be used on a verb to indicate that it was the past tense, not a noun.

I learned Spanish in 1979 from a Linguaphone course. Anybody remember them, are they still going? It was books and audio casettes and a correspondence course which meant posting exercises to London to be corrected and returned. In the middle of the course the Post Office strike happened (four months with no post or phones). Spanish is easy to read as the stress is on the second last syllable of any word unless indicated otherwise by an accent sign. I also found the pronunciation very easy including the lisped c and z sounds. "Aprende español, un idioma sin fronteras". (Learn Spanish, a language without borders).

I have an interest in languages and I like to think that I could recognise most of them in a few seconds from my years of listening to shortwave radio stations.

Eileen Down

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Burro

I rest my case.

Legs.Eleven

The auld Spanish will be work in progress for me forever. Easy language once you get the subjunctive and tenses down.