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I've seen that some people on these forums are learning different languages. I myself have recently started to learn Swedish. I started learning it because I wanted to learn some sort of language which is different from the more generic French/German sort of languages, and plus I find Swedish a pretty interesting language.

So HL2.net... what languages are you learning?
 
None currently - I know spanish, French and er, English. So I guess my next stop, once I get the chance, would be either italian or german.
 
After 6 years of Latin, 2 of German, and a little French (by accident) I was a bit scared of other ones. I'm going to teach myself Spanish, simply so I can survive.
 
I tried doing French. Got through 1 semester, and got a D, and got kicked out. I really liked that language. So I know a small bit of it. 1-12, abc's, and some poem about red apples in a basket.
 
know swedish and english (ofc) and ive been trying to learn Spanish for about 4 years now...i still dont know shit. I had to retake 3 years of it. I try my hardest, my entire family speaks it, my cousins speaks it, i go to spain atleast twice a year...BUT I STILL CANT ****ING LEARN IT, ITS ****ING IMPOSSIBLE!!! NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRY I JUST ****ING CANT!!! THERE ARE 9999999 CONJUGATIONS TO 9999999999999 WORDS ITS DRIVING ME INSANE!!!! F***CKK YOUUUU


sry, but yeah its pretty aggrevating. Besides, i hate the language, its so annoying. I just wanna punch whoever is talking in spanish in the face as soon as i hear him/her. Specificly kids, just wanna kick their little heads off and yell "STFU". I dont know why, but spanish overall just creates this anger in me for no reason, and im forced to learn it because of my partly herritage. Italian i love but i dont speak it, to busy learning freaking spanish. It flows much better when they speak and its like music, spanish sounds like people screaming and yelling really fast THEY JUST WONT EVER SHUT UP OMG *shots my head off* :flame:
 
Well, english. I'm still reading it (A-level university course) and I've read french for a few years but it didn't really stick. I have a good ear for accents which helps alot, and I speak english fluently. And of course Swedish.
 
Russian and C#.

I haven't been able to afford classes for either. Russian is taking a position on the back burner, C# is on the foreground.
 
Russian, and it's annoying that the adjectives change according to the gender of the word proceeding them. One example: "Nova Prospekt" is wrong - Prospekt is a masculine word and thus "Nova" has to be "Novij".
 
I'm still learning to perfect the English language.
 
l33t


I dont think im ever going to learn another language. I just dont catch on. Ive taken 7 years of spanish, and I dont know how to say or write anything in Spanish.
 
Well, I know English anyway but I learned some French at School even though I was useless at it. At the moment I'm learning some Polish.
 
Technically learning chinese, but it'll never work. I've got no brain for languages.
 
Russian

but it's [unbelievably way too] hard, so next semester I'm taking Italian instead.
 
TheDan said:
I've seen that some people on these forums are learning different languages. I myself have recently started to learn Swedish. I started learning it because I wanted to learn some sort of language which is different from the more generic French/German sort of languages, and plus I find Swedish a pretty interesting language.

So HL2.net... what languages are you learning?
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I'm learning Ukrainian all over again :(
 
I know perfunctory German, but right now I'm learning Old English as part of my course.
 
I am going to try to learn Arabic. Only reason is that it'll be useful to the field i am going in. Or, at least want to go in.
 
I learned Arabic a few years back for about 3 years. Amazing how much you forget over time. I still remember the basics though, thats all you really need though.
 
I assume you've taken a look at the Wikipedia Anglo Saxon section? It's truly amazing to see articles written in Chuvash(some Turkic language written with Cyrillic. Doesn't stop at that one, though, there's a horde of them). But anyway, I found something at Wikipedia:

"For ?ǣm ?e sēo folces ?iccnes is hw?thwēgra sm?l, is ??t Swēonisce land cū? for his stilnesse, micelum wudum, and beorgwēstenne." Initial diagnosis: They have "?" and "?" - I recognize the latter one from Icelandic: In that language, it's a soft D. The ? is like the TH of "them". I gotta say, looking back at that stage of the English language, I envy their usage of the ? and the ?(an ? with a tilde over it), it would make a lot of English words easier to learn.
 
Annoying, I can't get the special letters in here. Well anyhow, the modern English language would rock if we got the ae letter and the contracted th letter in. Maybe just for the lulz/some variety.
 
I want to learn Russian, is it hard?

Could you learn it from a book? If so - I'm sold. I'll try it. (seriously)
 
You can definitely get started, I know I could. That is how I learned the basics, but it really depends on what type of book it is: For example - You won't learn anything from just reading transliterated tourist phrases. You need to start by learning the alphabet. I did that myself just by transliterating some sentences from a random comic strip in Russian. After I got the basics down I started on a two-book system with an included CD. The book(one of them since the other is grammar stuff, etc) and CD tell a story from start to end, the first chapters focusing on teaching you the alphabet. I don't know what kind of things are available in Canada, but if what's available in England is any indication, you're screwed unless you join a study course.

In a nutshell without the ranting: Picking out a random teach-yourself-Russian book from the local bookstore won't help. In Denmark, probably because it's such a small country, there's only one real self-study book(which is used everywhere here for learning Russian, even in my Russian class), and you need to find out what the conditions are like in Canada, which product(s) is preferred for this.
 
Nemesis6 said:
"For ?ǣm ?e sēo folces ?iccnes is hw?thwēgra sm?l, is ??t Swēonisce land cū? for his stilnesse, micelum wudum, and beorgwēstenne." Initial diagnosis: They have "?" and "?" - I recognize the latter one from Icelandic: In that language, it's a soft D. The ? is like the TH of "them". I gotta say, looking back at that stage of the English language, I envy their usage of the ? and the ?(an ? with a tilde over it), it would make a lot of English words easier to learn.
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Are you talking about thorn when you say TH? The characters don't show up on my end.

Oh and of course, I have been learning German and Indonesian for about five years now.
 
It's thorn, aye.

What I like about the word thorn is that if you spell it like that with the thorn symbol as 'th', it looks like you've written 'porn'. Ha-ha!
 
Nemesis6 said:
You can definitely get started, I know I could. That is how I learned the basics, but it really depends on what type of book it is: For example - You won't learn anything from just reading transliterated tourist phrases. You need to start by learning the alphabet. I did that myself just by transliterating some sentences from a random comic strip in Russian. After I got the basics down I started on a two-book system with an included CD. The book(one of them since the other is grammar stuff, etc) and CD tell a story from start to end, the first chapters focusing on teaching you the alphabet. I don't know what kind of things are available in Canada, but if what's available in England is any indication, you're screwed unless you join a study course.

In a nutshell without the ranting: Picking out a random teach-yourself-Russian book from the local bookstore won't help. In Denmark, probably because it's such a small country, there's only one real self-study book(which is used everywhere here for learning Russian, even in my Russian class), and you need to find out what the conditions are like in Canada, which product(s) is preferred for this.
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I actually found (for like 5 minutes of googling) this site, it SEEMS to teach you the basics, but I can't figure out what alphabet letters are what, are they in order like qwerty (abcdef) or abc as on a normal keyboard.... I'm going to take a guess and say it's shit?

I'll probably buy a book or something.
 
I know English and Spanish fluently.

Seeing as I'm moving to a French-speaking area in Canada, I might as well begin learning it ASAP.

BTW, off-tipoc, but does Canadian English have a different accent than American English?
 
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