Poll: Do you know/are you learning a second language?
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I speak English as first.
My parents are deaf so I know Sign Language.
My Dads Muslim so I went to a Muslim school where I learned Arabic
Irish is Mandatory to get into college in Ireland
and I'm learning German in Secondary School
Thats 5 Freakin Languages
My parents are deaf so I know Sign Language.
My Dads Muslim so I went to a Muslim school where I learned Arabic
Irish is Mandatory to get into college in Ireland
and I'm learning German in Secondary School
Thats 5 Freakin Languages
From what I've heard, quite easy. Most European languages are derived from latin, and latin is an unchanging languange.Zarkov said:
I would say something in Russian, but my current computer doesn't have a Cyrillic package! I can try to transliterate...? Anyway, I'm in the process of learning it. My first language is English. I can understand/read a lot of Spanish, but I suck at coming up with the words on my own, since I haven't practiced in forever.
Russian is awesome. It has a phoneme that sounds like you just got punched in the stomach. And my favorite letter is "zh." Zhhhhhhhhhhh. It's fun to say and write.
Russian is awesome. It has a phoneme that sounds like you just got punched in the stomach. And my favorite letter is "zh." Zhhhhhhhhhhh. It's fun to say and write.
I speak Norwegian, New-Norwegian and English nearly perfect.
I can understand Swedish, Danish and some German, French and Icelandic.
I am learning French and Dovah.
I can understand Swedish, Danish and some German, French and Icelandic.
I am learning French and Dovah.
I speak french because that's what they taught me in school when i was a boy (i live in canada) i know a bit of russian too.
I'm Icelandic and we have to learn English, Danish (silliest pronunciations in the universe btw) and as a third language we have 3 options: Spanish, French or German. I went with Spanish because it's the most wide spread in the world although I've heard that German is the easiest out of those three.
American English vs. British English is perhaps a bit broad of an example, though yes, that would serve, though I'd say it's more like... *checks* Right, you're American... for one reason or another, I was hoping you were GermanVolf99 said:
' ... sorry! (Though it was if only to say Yue vs. Cantonese was like Bayerisch vs. Hochdeutsch... but never mind).Anyway, back to my point, the sets of dialects would be analogous to regional dialects in the States (e.g. South Midland vs Coastal South, for a native, they're obvious to tell apart, but for a foreigner, it kinda sounds the same, like with Cantonese vs. Fujianese, I know they're different, but most westerners wouldn't be able to tell them apart).
lol, I'm German-American but I don't think that helps. Ok I think I know what you mean now, thanks.SckizoBoy said:American English vs. British English is perhaps a bit broad of an example, though yes, that would serve, though I'd say it's more like... *checks* Right, you're American... for one reason or another, I was hoping you were GermanVolf99 said:
Anyway, back to my point, the sets of dialects would be analogous to regional dialects in the States (e.g. South Midland vs Coastal South, for a native, they're obvious to tell apart, but for a foreigner, it kinda sounds the same, like with Cantonese vs. Fujianese, I know they're different, but most westerners wouldn't be able to tell them apart).
Learning Spanish because it's all my school offers.
Later, though, I do have languages I want to learn, Russian in particular.
Later, though, I do have languages I want to learn, Russian in particular.
learning a third actually
I learned german in school because I have to
I'm learning dutch because I want to (and having a dutch wife pressuring you to also helps. Dammit, I'm no linguist, and it's hard as nails)
I learned german in school because I have to
I'm learning dutch because I want to (and having a dutch wife pressuring you to also helps. Dammit, I'm no linguist, and it's hard as nails)
English (derp) and Spanish. Since America is so famous for Spanish-speaking immigrants, and every summer Ohio seems to be swarmed by them. Made sense to learn that over French or German.
