I hate other languages :(

zanmatto

Daaamn youuu, need for two credits in another language!

Shankusu

Wow, fascinating stuff.

I am considering learning Russian at some point before my education ends. I hope I know what I'm in for.

Futore

this is the most interesting thing to ever interest anyone ever forever

Garlic Bread

i would love to learn other languages

i want to be Cypher from X-Men

Muggins

THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT ME

SirToasty

Two years of Spanish freshman and sophomore years and I am done. I hated Spanish.

Polago

I love other languages. They're pretty neat to learn and help expand people's horizons somewhat.

sdrawkcaB emaN

Veretas wrote: »

THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT ME

Honor Lock

Pharezon

Languages are cool.

Garlic Bread

I had German freshman year and the first half of sophomore year. Then I transferred high schools and my new one didn't offer German. So then they gave me Spanish junior and senior years and I cut all the time (but managed to pass Junior year). They kept telling me I needed to pass it Senior year even though I had two language credits (they said they needed to be the same language)

I didn't pass and graduated with NHS credit

DJ Eebs

we had crepes in french club

Fire Truck

Yeah, I'm currently studying four foreign languages. Given that I'm kinda dumb, I posit that the OP is in fact a magnificent idiot.

Garlic Bread

in sophomore german class the teacher wanted us to bring in German music every friday. i brought in some Beatles songs they did in german. i tried to get my friend to bring in David Hasselhoff but she wouldn't.

Pharezon

Fire Truck wrote: »

Yeah, I'm currently studying four foreign languages. Given that I'm kinda dumb, I posit that the OP is in fact a magnificent idiot.

Studying 4 of them at the same time? Is that hard?

Killjoy

I got to speak a bunch of Hindi/Urdu today with a guy on the bus. I've forgotten a whole lot and can only hope it'll be easy enough to pick up again if I'm living around Indian people.

Garlic Bread

Fire Truck wrote: »

Yeah, I'm currently studying four foreign languages. Given that I'm kinda dumb, I posit that the OP is in fact a magnificent idiot.

Is studying multiple languages at the same time difficult? I'm pretty good with learning them, and I want to learn a lot, but I don't know if that would be a hard thing to do.

NotASenator

Twitter thread

bowtiedseal

I love other languages!

I am working on picking up a third but it is slow going because I don't have a lot of time to devote to it

DJ Eebs

does oreo mean something in another language because I'm eating a whole mess of them right now and wanted to relate that to the topic at hand

Shankusu

if I could have one wish it would be to understand and fluently speak, read and write every human language

SirToasty

I suck with other languages. Having to learn new grammar rules and shit. Just not my bag.

Linksville

Shankusu wrote: »

Wow, fascinating stuff.

I am considering learning Russian at some point before my education ends. I hope I know what I'm in for.

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Centipede Damascus

In the middle of my Freshman year, I moved from a High School that had Japanese and German available to a High School that only had French and Spanish.

That's really the only thing I missed about the school I left.

I Win Swordfights

I am in my first year of french and everyone cannot seem to grasp that you drop the long a sound off of a regular -er verb, and fuck youuuuuu.

TrueHereticX

Learning Scots Gaelic at the moment

It's difficult, but it's a cool language

TheySlashThem

I am taking my first semester of spanish right now

I guess I'll keep going with it

couldn't hurt

Faricazy

Shankusu wrote: »

Wow, fascinating stuff.

I am considering learning Russian at some point before my education ends. I hope I know what I'm in for.

DA

SirToasty

Shankusu wrote: »

if I could have one wish it would be to understand and fluently speak, read and write every human language

Just go to heaven.

DJ Eebs

Shankusu wrote: »

if I could have one wish it would be to understand and fluently speak, read and write every human language

maybe if you dig a tunnel to hell god will reverse the tower of babel thing

Centipede Damascus

NotACrook wrote: »

Twitter thread

http://twitter.com/rstevens/statuses/952137069

DJ Eebs

ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »

I am taking my first semester of spanish right now

I guess I'll keep going with it

couldn't hurt

my spanish teacher in elementary school brought roadkill that she picked up while riding her bike to class

bowtiedseal

ideally I would like to learn tagalog and french and maybe italian, in addition to more or less speaking spanish and getting better at portuguese cause I suck at it

woah long sentence

Centipede Damascus

Shankusu wrote: »

if I could have one wish it would be to understand and fluently speak, read and write every human language

DodgeBlan

为什么你学别的文化， 美国有最强的经济。。。

TheySlashThem

speaking of speaking spanish

can someone tell me if my title and location make sense

if I fucked it up, I'd rather find out now

laughingfuzzball

I speak a little German, and I'm learning Koine Greek. I also have to learn Ancient Hebrew at some time, probably at the local Jewish center. One of the company recruiters I've been talking to wants me to learn Russian, because it's the lingua franca for her part of the region, but I don't know if I'll end up working in her part of the region or not. Even if I don't, languages are pretty divided in the rest of the region, so I might anyway just because, unless I figure out what country I want to work in, Russian has the strongest odds.

I studying for linguistics. Every time somebody asks me what language, I want to punch them.

I recently decided to focus on sociolinguists and minority language development. That should be fun.

DJ Eebs

I don't see "queso" in there so I'm pretty much lost

Linksville

To contribute:

I've taken 2 years of Spanish in grade school. The only thing that I have from that now is the ability to roll my Rs very well. I want to learn French in the future. Also, I am jealous of my cousin, he can speak French, Spanish, English, Swahili, Malagasy, and Italian. Dude is only 12 and has lived on every continent in the world excluding Antarctica, fucking bastard.

Fire Truck

Keith wrote: »

Fire Truck wrote: »

Yeah, I'm currently studying four foreign languages. Given that I'm kinda dumb, I posit that the OP is in fact a magnificent idiot.

Is studying multiple languages at the same time difficult? I'm pretty good with learning them, and I want to learn a lot, but I don't know if that would be a hard thing to do.

Technically this semester I'm only taking classes in three of them. I can imagine that trying to start a bunch of languages at the same time would get overwhelming. The thing that helps it work for me is I reach a level of proficiency in one language before I start on another.
I was almost fluent in French before I started in Spanish. I could hold a conversation in Spanish before I started Mongolian. I was in a similar place with Mongolian at the beginning of this semester when I started taking Mandarin lessons.

I actually think once you have one foreign language down, learning another becomes easier. The pathways already exist in your brain, and you learn tricks to it.

NotASenator

bowtiedseal wrote: »

I love other languages!

I am working on picking up a third but it is slow going because I don't have a lot of time to devote to it

I'm not sure if Latin would count as an extra language, but my Russian friend says I am progressing along nicely with Russian. I believe she might just be hot for me, so I can't be sure how accurate that appraisal is.

Muse Among Men

My Spanish is passable, though I should really speak it more and read it more and watch more Spanish media. I am currently taking my second year of Italian, and my knowledge of the structure is good, I just really want to expand my vocabulary. Afterward, I intend to learn another language. Probably Japanese because it is the only other non-Romance language offered.

Does anyone here have any tips or help they could offer those in the throes of learning a new language?