Foreign languages

by Cornelia August 30th 2006, 7:06 am

First topic message reminder :

Hello.

Seeing people speaking different languages, it motivated me to open this topic to discuss about languages.

How many languages and which ones do you speak. Yes I know, most people here speak English at different levels, but many people speak at least two languages

More, which language (s) would you like to learn or improve?

Personally, I'm not English. My mother tongue is French, but I have English family, my grandmother was British and one of my uncle got married with an English woman.

I began to learn English at age 9. In Québec, because we're surrounded by English territories, it's compulsory to begin English courses at this age. Then, playing RPG videogames helped me much improving my English and I always got nice results in English at school.

I knew that Editboard, which was only available in French one year ago, was about to get translated in foreign languages, putting English in priority, so when I discovered this board, there was still no mod, so I got a great opportunity to practice my English by moderating and helping people.

At age 17, I began collegial studies in Language Arts. In this program, I got extra English courses while I had the two compulsory ones. In the same program, I had Spanigh courses in four semesters. I would like to continue to improve my Spanish, but I still have no opportunity for it...

Finally, in the future, I would like to learn Japanese which fascinates me. I like the Japanese culture and I would like to have a trip in Japan

And you?

by Dany-Sieg January 12th 2007, 9:12 pm

Yes, I'm Armenian. Wink

by maëlstrom_19 January 12th 2007, 10:27 pm

Wow ...

How can you learn 4 languages !? Shocked

I'm definitively the more bad to learn languages... Rolling Eyes

by lockelymarkets January 13th 2007, 1:23 am

I wish I had learned French and German when I was young, because apparently in the first years of your life is the best and easiest way of being multi-linguistal. People who can speak 4 or 5 languages fluently are REALLY lucky!

by Dany-Sieg January 13th 2007, 4:06 am

maëlstrom_19 wrote:Wow ...

How can you learn 4 languages !?

I'm definitively the more bad to learn languages...

I was born with Armenian.
Living in France, french came quicky.
English at school but video-games help a lot.
An Spanish, at school too but I don't master it.

German is a very difficult language to learn, friskybear.
In France, it is used to see which pupil is the best.
( Personnally, the clevest boy I saw never did German... )

by lockelymarkets January 13th 2007, 4:14 am

Dany-Sieg wrote:German is a very difficult language to learn, friskybear.
In France, it is used to see which pupil is the best.
( Personnally, the clevest boy I saw never did German... )

I found German quite easy to learn

by Tristou January 13th 2007, 11:26 am

I think french is a difficult language for foreign people because of the verbs, the grammar...

by Caihlem January 13th 2007, 11:34 am

And all the exceptions Razz

German is a diffcult language at the start because there are many rules to learn, once they're learned, I think Germa becomes a rather traight forward language, seen as there's very few exceptions compared to certain other languages Cool

by ReAnimation January 26th 2007, 9:04 am

I speak English, because I used to be in America, Texas to be exact, so I would have to speak englis in order to talk to my friends. Yes, I have became fluent over years, but years are years, not minutes.

Hablamos espanol tambien (yo y mis hermano, y todo gente de la familia), porque yo soy un persona del espana. Pues, eso define que ustedes consigue el punto. Smile

and My Dad speaks both Spanish & Portugese, but he is currently trying to teach me, so that whenever I am to return to Portugal, I might be half a step away. He must speak to me in spanish to get the point clear of what he is saying.

by basharo2009 February 8th 2007, 3:05 am

i can speak english only although my mother from arabic land [Iraq]
i want to learn arabic so i can read the arabic news Sad

by Buster February 8th 2007, 3:10 am

Dany-Sieg wrote:
maëlstrom_19 wrote:Wow ...

How can you learn 4 languages !?

I'm definitively the more bad to learn languages...
English at school but video-games help a lot.

Its true, many people are not for video games, but they do help in the Language Arts.

by Digit@l February 11th 2007, 8:02 pm

I`m an Arabic man > i can speak arabic and english and little of italiano ... Mr. Green

by abualkam1982 October 2nd 2007, 8:50 am

Well.. for me..

i am Arabic.. i am studying English Language as a major in the University.. i can understand some French and Italian.. I'd love to learn German (Dutch).

by Caihlem October 2nd 2007, 8:51 am

German is way different from Dutch affraid

by Guest October 2nd 2007, 11:18 pm

I speak American English. I need to learn french because I think Ishimaru Chiaki and Blood {edit: and Eximma} are making fun of me.

They are evil people. Blood seems crazy and Ishimaru reminds me of Katt What the fuck ?!?

Besides, the ladies dig the french language! Love

by Eximma October 3rd 2007, 3:44 pm

Kilsek wrote:I speak American English. I need to learn french because I think Ishimaru Chiaki and Blood are making fun of me.

They are evil people. Blood seems crazy and Ishimaru reminds me of Katt

Besides, the ladies dig the french language!

That's why we speak in French Mr. Green

By the way,

I think Ishimaru Chiaki and Blood are making fun of me

Maybe me too Foreign languages - Page 2 Dd3zx

About video games, I don't really play, but you don't learn a lot with this ^^" I prefer to watch films in Japanese (XD) with English subtitles Wink

by Guest October 3rd 2007, 4:07 pm

Eximma wrote:

I think Ishimaru Chiaki and Blood are making fun of me

Maybe me too

See, it is a conspiracy!

by Caihlem October 3rd 2007, 9:27 pm

The only thing I hate about Blood is peoplethink he's me

by Cornelia October 4th 2007, 7:45 am

Kilsek wrote:I speak American English. I need to learn french because I think Ishimaru Chiaki and Blood {edit: and Eximma} are making fun of me.

They are evil people. Blood seems crazy and Ishimaru reminds me of Katt

Besides, the ladies dig the french language!

Or maybe because you like it, to be chased by a crazy catgirl with a double sword Foreign languages - Page 2 Icon_mrgreen

*makes a double sword appears and begins to chase Kilsek, but...*

- Oooouuuuuch! My forearm Foreign languages - Page 2 470746

Damn Dad, he exhausted me with weeding jobs in the backyard, and there were branches who were hard to pull up and it took me much time before I finally find the cutter Foreign languages - Page 2 470746

And now, my forearms and my hands are aching. Foreign languages - Page 2 470746

by Caihlem October 4th 2007, 7:15 pm

May I remind you here youare nder MY supervision, so no double sowrds Foreign languages - Page 2 Redface

by Cornelia October 4th 2007, 8:21 pm

By the way, going like this, we should split and make it a Bar topic. Foreign languages - Page 2 Icon_mrgreen

by Evidence October 5th 2007, 11:41 am

I speak estonian, but also can speak english and very little bit of russian. Here are quite many french&english speakers, as I see...

by bpotur October 9th 2007, 7:48 pm

My native language is Turkish. I speak English and French fluently.

by bLACKADDER October 10th 2007, 5:13 pm

My native language is Dutch. The foreign languages I speak are English (reasonably well), a bit of German and a bit of French. I also "speak" a (very) little bit of Dutch sign language. Mr. Green

by fraulina January 22nd 2008, 3:34 am

hi! i speak only greek

by hitesh January 22nd 2008, 4:05 am

fraulina wrote:hi! i speak only greek

then how u wrote english.

I speak English, & Many Indian Languages.

by fraulina January 22nd 2008, 4:37 am

i know litle eng.
too bad

by $hassony$ January 22nd 2008, 11:01 am

by Caihlem January 22nd 2008, 2:24 pm

$hassony$: Don't spam

by Naki January 23rd 2008, 10:24 pm

Hi to all
I am Albanian from Kosova
speaking languages albanian, english, polish, croatian,bulgarian now iam attend intermediate german course hope soon te speak and write this language too.
Thanks to the staff for their great work i am trying to do my best (specially in albanian langauge tools) hope soon to help much more
so far best regards from Kosova