What language are you learning?

[Dog--]

French speaking Canadians have a different English accent.. Otherwise there is no different in the way Canadians speak English to the way Americans do.

Noo jus forget aboot it, eh?

 

[evil^milk]

:afro:

And that's awesome Sulkdodds, I'd like to learn Old English too, but I'm afraid it's a bit too difficult for me.

 

[Ennui]

GL HF Dog... it's a very difficult language, although not so difficult as Japanese or Chinese.

 

[Dog--]

I've heard English is most difficult.. I got that down pretty good..

I also heard Chinese is one of the easiest..

 

[Qonfused]

I know a little Spanish after two years of classes. That's about it.

 

[delusional]

I tried teaching myself avestan, but that didn't work out well since no one speaks it anymore.

I despise Spanish though, I hate it with all my heart. Didn't learn shit those three years of Spanish class, but still got a B most of the time. Most boring class evar.

 

[JFry]

I took two years of french in high school and failed the second one. Right now I'm learning html, which means I'm learning html, css, javascript and php. The languages themselves seem fairly simple but it gets a bit confusing trying to keep all these different syntaxes straight.

 

[Kahonee]

I am on my second Latin year and can speak it very well since I have a mastery of both Spanish and English. I guess this means that I will fly through Italian (at least that's what my Latin teacher tells me )

 

[Skaadi]

I've taken about 4 years of German for highschool, that didnt really go anywhere though, it really is an ugly, ugly language. However I'm heading to Poland in a year or so so I'll have to get started on that

 

[Shippi]

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[Druckles]

*cut* wrong thread, sorry

 

[The Monkey]

Apart from Swedish I know English fairly well as well as some German.

 

[TheDan]

I wish I knew more Swedes to practice my Swedish with.

 

[K e r b e r o s]

Learning Arabic, but I got confuzzeled at how the language tends to address women and men seperately.

It's like if I greeted someone in whats more native to me, I'd be more inclined to say, "hello" instead of wanting to greet them in a way that suggested they're feminitivty.

 

[Nemesis6]

It's like if I greeted someone in whats more native to me, I'd be more inclined to say, "hello" instead of wanting to greet them in a way that suggested they're feminitivty.

There's some stuff like that in Russian too. One example would be: If I were to say "mine/my", I would say "мой" since I'm a male. If a female wants to say that word, she has has to say "моя" the R thing means YA, indicating femininity.

 

[K e r b e r o s]

^ It's so wierd but so true! Even the greetings in Arabic, or even discussions, require an identity of either masculinity or feminivity.

 

[Irksome]

Nothing - I tried German for about a month, picked it up very quickly, but I soon found that the amount of time I could dedicate to it was slipping away so I abandoned it.

 

[Sulkdodds]

And that's awesome Sulkdodds, I'd like to learn Old English too, but I'm afraid it's a bit too difficult for me.

Really? This surprises me because it's pretty similar to English in a lot of ways, although much of that is phonetic so if you aren't used to spoken English - which might be the case if you've learned it through messageboards - the resemblance between Old and modern terms (eg gystas = guests). It's also a very inflexion-based language so almost all incidentals like gender, case and so on are intimated by word endings and suffixes.