I'm trilingual - I spoke only Polish for the first 11 years of my life, then I learned English, and then I started taking Spanish from 7th grade till college. So for a while there I spoke fluent Polish, English and Spanish. Now, i'm forgetting a LOT of Spanish. I can understand a lot of it but speaking is hard. Polish also is getting tougher to speak, because I dont' use it as much. It's just easier to speak English. I can understand Polish perfectly but forming sentences is hard..
So basically for me, the best way to learn a language is to be around it as much as possible. If you can't actually GO to Italy or a spanish-speaking country, listen to the language as mush as possible so you get accustomed to it.
WOW I want to learn a slovick language...Polish, Russian, ukrainian, or ALL. No preferance because basically I LUV the accents the native speakers have. Every explaination of ANYTHING, must be exactly whatever they say 'cause they sound so wise and powerful. (note: guys with this accent: SOoo HOT!)
I really want to learn Japanese or one of the most common Chinese dialects like Cantonese.. I really have such an interest in that but I know that I don't really have the time to devote to it right now.
I started learning mandarin...I think that's the most common, then cantonese. Chinese has that very crisp sound, and you actually have to say things at different pitches to make sure you're expressing your thought properly, FUN.
ahh yes Mandarin. I couldn't think of it. Yeah I really want to learn that.
I really wanted to learn Japanese but its always offered on a tuesday night at my school. Maybe when I transfer.
oh and by the way, Polish, Russian and Slovakian languages are all COMPLETELY different. Russian even has a completley different alphabet. I never knew how to read/speak or understand any russian at all... and I used to know this Slovak brother and I could not undrestand him AT ALL when he spoke in his language haha.. it was funny because he would just keep talking and my sister and I would just stare at each other not having any idea what he's saying
at the same time they sound so similar
yeah, but only to the untrained ear! haha
Spanish is actually more closely related to Polish than Russian for example. Knowing Polish really helped in learning Spanish, and certain words are identical!
Certain words are similar in Russian and Polish but.. it's just a completely differnet ballgame
I've got two very untrained ears.
Very interesting, see I just like the accents I have no opinion on whether or not the actual languages sound similar...the accent's are very strong, very (ah hem rhymes with rexy).
I'm tossing around the idea of moving to costa rica. They have an english congregation in need. There's a division of my company there. I'd have to learn spanish, but I could maintain my english, too! And, it's beautiful there!
GO FOR IT, Once in a life time chance, and your young with no attatchments, do it!
You're sooo adorable ;-)
oh also - it's EXTREMELY easy for small children to learn other languages. It's awesome. You probably don't even need to speak the language fluently and you can teach a child to communicate in that language. That amazes me about how humans are created. Imagine having that power to absorb and learn new things quickly and use your whole brain your whole life :) Can't wait.
This is what the pimsleur Courses are designed off of. The way we learn language, when we first learn language.
oh that's pretty cool... i'll hafta check em out
yes. i like the pimslur cd's. i've been so busy though that i haven't even finished the second one yet. so frustrated with myself. i'll get to the end evuantally.
lol, pathetic!
hey mister!!! did you finish either?? i don't think so.
you know what they say when you "assume"?
i didn't assume, i mearly asked a question.
I'm going to make my kids quadruple-lingual.
oh yeah if i ever have kids they're gonna be infinity-lingual
mine aren't going to speak ANY languages at all. just some basic hand signs and grunts.
ha ha ha,WOW, now thats something scary!
my kids and i will speak in eye movements and tonally varied grunts indicative of different inflections and situational intensity. it'll be a riot.
that it will be, and perhaps a difus offense I would think.
mine will talk in airplane signals
mine will do faggy interpretive dances for everything.
mine will speak in binary by taking their shorts on and off, on for 1, off for 0