My French is a bit rusty and could probably use a major tune up, I would like to learn Dzongkha, the native language of Bhutan.
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My French is a bit rusty and could probably use a major tune up, I would like to learn Dzongkha, the native language of Bhutan.
Id like to learn Spanish because i think thatd be the most useful to me, Japanese would be interesting too.
I'd love to get better at French and Spanish, but I've gotten to the point with both where I'm not dissatisfied with what I know.
On the list next would be Arabic and Russian though learning more than one year of high school German would also be awesome. Italian would also be cool, but somewhat useless.
Arabic.
My dad lives in Dubai and is speaking it more and more. So why would I like to learn it? Because one day I was on the phone with him and he was in the car with one of his friends, and he talks to me then talks to his friend in a long line of Arabic.
I'm like yelling at the phone "THAT'S NOT ENGLISH!" because yeah, hearing my dad speak Arabic is freaky, especially when I don't know what he's saying.
I'm hoping to go to France next year (with my moderate knowledge of French I should get around fine), so after that I should be fluent or at least semi-fluent. A friend of mine speaks relatively fluent Spanish and I also speak a little bit of that (I'm WAAAY better at French), so I'd love to be fluent at that to.
I used "fluent" far too many times in that sentence. It's a funny word.
I'd also like to learn Italian. And Latin (a lot of use that'd be:rolleyes2), and just about every other language under the sun.
I have no racial/ethnic/cultural identity.
So Latin I guess.
Probably Italian, first off, because it's my background. It's also very useful.
Japanese, because I'm a giant flaming weaboo.
And while it's not really a super useful language for me to learn, Estonian is really pretty and I like when Huxley teaches me. I only know a few phrases though.
Hah. I live right on the border with one of the most Welsh-speaking counties in Wales (Gwynedd) and I appreciate how useless it is. Except for getting jobs in which case it's a huge boost, despite the fact you don't need it for most of the jobs that 'require' it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
I speak a fair bit of German and would love to be fluent in that. I wish I spoke a better degree of it than I already do. However yesterday some Germans came into the shop in which I work and I had a brief chat with them in German (asking them whereabouts they were from, etc), whilst neglecting to mention WWII because I am Basil Fawlty. If I had to pick a language I've no knowledge of, I think I'd pick something like Russian or Norwegian.
I always found German to be a rather nice language to study. Pronunciation isn't too difficult to get around after a while, the grammatical structures are generally nice and consistent (though they take a while to get used to if you've never studied grammar at all) and it sounds nice. My German isn't great in no small part due to the circumstances in which I was taught it during my last two years of study (each week would be: two hours with the teacher, two hours with us on our own with work set for us).Quote:
Originally Posted by Krelian
I always thought it was a hard language to learn if your native language lacks grammatical gender, conjugation and declination. Also, I always thought there were so many exceptions to all the rules. But I'm glad you found it nice to learn. You should be able to improve your German by doing the same I do to improve my English: watching films, reading books and joining a German language forum :D It generally shouldn't be too hard to find someone you can practice with on the internet.
About the Germans visiting your shop. Did they tell you that they were Germans or could you tell by their accents?
I'd basically like to know every language. If I got three wishes, that would be one of them. Top of the list though, are Chinese, Spanish, Nahuatl, and Old Norse.
Japanese right now, as I wish to TEFL some money in Japan. Being able to speak the language isn't necessary, but it'd make my life easier, and more likely to get the job.
What? TEFL is totally a verb.
I'd love to speak German and Latin. Although I'd better get on the ball and learn my Chinese for the future.
Japanese n.n
A good portion of the world knows English, so the only time when I have trouble with languages is when I want to play a game that hasn't been released outside of Japan (LIKE THE SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN SEQUEL D:)
Sometimes there's a billboard in Spanish that I'm curious about, but I know enough to work out what it says :p
Off the top of my head, French and Cantonese. I can already do one, albeit not as well as I want. The other is just hilarious when I try it.
I want to improve my French as well as advance my Japanese studies.