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BSAman
Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:47 pm Posts: 17
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i speak english, sign language, and i'm working on learning german
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Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:52 am |
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Mctwisp
Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:33 pm Posts: 102
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Well, I speak brasilian portuguese, my native language.
I learned English by myself, but now I'm studying in a course, to improve my diction, 'cause I'm a little slow to speak.
In the same course, I learned japanese for four months. I learned a few things, like: Konnichiwa, Hajimemashite, watashi wa McTwisp desu, blah, blah, blah.
I stopped learn japanese, 'cause I was going to travel to Canada, then I needed to improve my english.
Oh, and I tried to learn Sindarin. =33 hehehe
but, It was sooo long time ago, then I forgot. Nuts xS
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Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:35 pm |
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Wanderer
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So... I kind of have to learn another language for a later time. I can choose between these three: French, German, and Russian. Which do you recommend I learn out of these three?
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Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:45 pm |
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Sleet
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Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 16939 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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German. Totally.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:57 pm |
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KJOokami
Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2011 12:36 am Posts: 1707 Location: West Philly
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Whichever you find most intriguing. Actually being interested in the language you're learning makes it way easier to pick up.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:22 pm |
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Wanderer
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I am not really interested in any of those three languages. I can't quite see myself living in those countries, so I am not sure how much I would use them anyway. So I would prefer if it were easy to learn and apply.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:36 pm |
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Athodyd
Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:11 pm Posts: 31 Location: Bottom of a gravity well
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I would say go for French; it's the least useless and easiest of the bunch.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:44 pm |
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Gren
Joined: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:47 pm Posts: 1177 Location: Argentina
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well, spanish (native language) and english (not perfect but it's something). Also, a single words of japanease and portuguese (but anything enough to say I know the language)
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Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:49 pm |
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Onlythebassist
Joined: Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:35 pm Posts: 247 Location: Angleterre
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I know English as my mother tongue, French as a second language and I'm currently learning German as my third. And for all those who are assuming the French is the impractical high-school diploma version - coup moi Mais vraiment, j'adore les langues et j'adore parle avec gens autres en Francais 
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Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:34 am |
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0404
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Russian Comrade! Cool effect! English is my really bad first language and Korean is my mother's tongue.
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Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:01 pm |
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Sleet
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Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 16939 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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Russian sounds the most fun. I have to agree.
French is probably more useful though.
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Sat Oct 20, 2012 11:16 pm |
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Devil Skirrl
Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:42 pm Posts: 8623 Images: 0
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German is actually the best, but we're responding to a post from seven months ago...
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:09 am |
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Karl
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:27 pm Posts: 1664 Location: Singing Fortepiano
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Hey... better late than never, no?
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:18 am |
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Radio Blue Heart
Joined: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:27 pm Posts: 2642 Location: North Carolina
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I want to learn Spanish. As a spoken language, Russian is easy. You just have to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. It it alsogood if you want to learn other Slavic languages. It is also a very important inter-ethnic language in East Europe and Central Asia.
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:42 pm |
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0404
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to de Mexico! can you teach me Russian? 
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:54 pm |
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Radio Blue Heart
Joined: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:27 pm Posts: 2642 Location: North Carolina
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No. My friend Jonathan speaks it but I don't. Those are just some factoids that I learned from him.
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:09 pm |
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0404
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I have few Russian and Ukrainian friends, it is just amusing to listen to them talking in their own language. all the Accents that I only seen on movies in real life!! I don't bother to ask them to teach me how to speak their Language, because I know it is really really hard question to answer.
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:00 pm |
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Radio Blue Heart
Joined: Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:27 pm Posts: 2642 Location: North Carolina
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I should make an effort to learn Russian or Serbian. I am fascinated by both cultures.
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Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:01 pm |
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Oblivious Adobo
Joined: Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:30 am Posts: 62
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English is my native language, I know a little Tagalog and I'm currently taking Spanish in school. I find Spanish easier to speak than Tagalog, but I find Tagalog easier to spell/read.
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Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:28 pm |
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Sleet
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Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 16939 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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Tagalog, huh? How common is that as a second language there?
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Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:05 pm |
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Oblivious Adobo
Joined: Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:30 am Posts: 62
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I haven't met a single person that uses it where I live now, but I lived in San Diego there are a enough people in San Diego that used it that it is offered as a 2nd language at schools there.
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Thu Nov 01, 2012 9:54 pm |
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Zukio
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:23 am Posts: 492 Location: The Shadowy Parts of the Pride Lands
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I have taken two years of German, a bit of Spanish, am currently trying to learn some Japanese, and have an Italian dictionary that I need to crack someday. I feel bad though since I can hardly remember what I have learned.
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Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:18 pm |
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Sarnoff
Joined: Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:33 am Posts: 80 Location: Boring NC
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I have taken 3 semesters of German, had a bad teacher, didn't learn much. Don't think I'll ever take any more of it since the grammar is way too confusing to remember. On the bright side I can confuse/insult my friends with it and probably can speak fluently enough to not die in Deutschland.
I'm also apparently good at faking speaking languages because I can convince people I am speaking a foreign language almost all of the time.
I think I might take Spanish in college though because I'm debating Miami PD, LAPD, or Texas Border Patrol. Also I have wanted to go to Juarez to say I have survived it and see what it's like.
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McFly
Joined: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:55 pm Posts: 1014 Location: On the island of Nunya. Nunya business!
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English is my native language. I took a couple of years of Spanish, and I would've taken another had it not been for my mom stepping in. I'm currently trying to learn sign language from my grandmother, who took a class on it a few years back.
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jopencjusz
Joined: Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:48 pm Posts: 1012 Location: Poznań (Poland)
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My native language is Polish, also I know English and a little Spanish.
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Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:57 pm |
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kurowolfe
Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:18 pm Posts: 2623 Location: Sabah, Malaysia
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My apologies for necro-ing another thread, but I need some help. Recently I've watched this scene in an anime, and apparently the song is in Esperanto. But I'm not sure whether the pronunciation in the song is correct or not. Lumis eterneSo, is there a native speaker or someone who knows Esperanto here? If so, can you help confirm if the pronunciation is correct? I don't want to be misled again, like this other anime and its wrong pronunciation of baumkuchen =w=
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Kyuunado
Joined: Sun May 05, 2013 3:43 pm Posts: 1682 Location: Skulking in Hatfield, England
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I speak English and just enough Spanish to claim I can speak it. 
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Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:43 am |
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Lifio13
Joined: Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:27 am Posts: 180 Location: Scotland
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My main language is English, however, I do know some German, but mostly forgotten what I've learnt from when I stopped it stopped being compulsory for me over a year ago. I do know a little bit of French too, but I last studied that when I was 12, and switched to German.
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Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:59 pm |
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Sleet
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Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 16939 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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I kinda wanna learn an unusual language (Icelandic? Romanian? Swahili?) but don't want to go through the work it would take. Learning a language is not easy.
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Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:16 pm |
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Duster
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Joined: Sat Jan 05, 2013 1:44 am Posts: 646 Images: 1 Location: Deep In The Heart of TEXAS
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Nah, it CAN be rather easy, it really just depends on the language. And your native young too, I've heard that changes thing up a little.
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Hukley
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Joined: Sun Mar 17, 2013 6:17 am Posts: 2257 Images: 9 Location: Switzerland
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My native language is German. I also speak English and French. (We have to learn 3 languages in school  ) And I speak a little Italian and Russian.
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Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:27 pm |
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Obbl
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Note that I don't speak Esperanto, but I study pronunciation in languages with IPA and Wikipedia is great as a resource in that area. It's very close. Since Esperanto is a created language, its pronunciation is not exact and varies a little depending on the speakers background, but she has some obvious Japanese influence in a few places that aren't necessary to copy faithfully. Just note that the 'ĝ' is pronounced like 'j' (it sounded like she was softening it a bit which normally isn't necessary, maybe artistic?), 'g' is pronounced like 'g' (again with the softening), and 'r' is pronounced like 'r' (from Malay and many other languages but not English and Japanese  ) Everything else was correctly pronounced as far as I'm aware. Esperanto is very simple to pronounce because every letter has one sound and all letters in every word are pronounced, nothing is silent.
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VEB152
Joined: Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:37 pm Posts: 249 Location: Land of vowels with dashes and consonants with commas
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Speaking of Esperanto, Obbl is pretty much correct, as far as I know.
Speaking of languages... Russian's native, I guess I can say I'm proficient in English, I have some knowledge in Serbian, and minimal knowledge in French that was not displaced with Physics, Maths, etc.
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Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:55 pm |
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kurowolfe
Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:18 pm Posts: 2623 Location: Sabah, Malaysia
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I see, that's good to hear. Thank you very much, Obbl, Veb ^^ I was worried because I am very well-aware that the Japanese have some trouble pronouncing some sounds like the 'l' and 'zh' sounds. There is another version of the song, being sung by the voice actor of the purple-haired lady. Which is more fluent and beautiful, I think. Lumis Eterne (Eri Kawai)I have heard about Esperanto and the history behind it, but I never did actually heard the language being spoken until I watched this particular anime. Maybe I'll learn a little of it some time later, since it does look easier to pronounce and learn. As for the thread, my main languages are Malay and English, and I consider Japanese as a third language. I also have some working knowledge of Arabic, Mandarin, Jawi (the Arabic-inspired writing system of the Malay language) and the Bajau language. Tried learning French and German before, but the pronunciation is way too hard for my Malay tongue =w=
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ShadowLightning
Joined: Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:53 pm Posts: 728 Location: The magical land of "Tomorrow"
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My native language is Filipino. But I speak in English a lot more. Problem is, I'm terrible at both of them. I know grammar is a problem everyone faces at some point, but mine is just...uuggggh. I struggle with words a lot recently.
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Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:06 am |
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kurowolfe
Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:18 pm Posts: 2623 Location: Sabah, Malaysia
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Filipino, as in Tagalog? I never heard of Filipino before.
Another question about the English language, does 'a couple' mean 'exactly two/a pair' or 'a few'? As in a couple of times; does it mean exactly two times, or a few times (=> 2 times)? This has always confused me as a secondary English speaker.
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ShadowLightning
Joined: Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:53 pm Posts: 728 Location: The magical land of "Tomorrow"
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I think "a couple" just means a few. Maybe. I'm not sure. Yes, I speak Filipino. Tagalog is just like a deeper version of Filipino. Which is harder and more difficult to understand.
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Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:42 pm Posts: 8623 Images: 0
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I was always taught "a couple" equals two, "a few" is three, and "some" is any number four or greater.
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Obbl
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Couple and few are becoming more and more equated in general usage, but the progression is still: couple < few < some/several Usually a couple doesn't refer to any more than like five (if it ever goes that high). A few is usually about the same but also refers to small handfuls of little objects (like jellybeans). Some or several refer to larger numbers (usually it starts being used around 5 to 7) or larger handfuls than would constitute "a few". It's all subjective and some people never use "a couple" to refer to any more than two (since that is the literal meaning of the word). For the handfuls, I contrast "I'm going to have a few jellybeans" versus "I going to have some jellybeans". If I pour "a few" jellybeans into my hand, I expect the number of jellybeans to be small enough that I could probably count them fairly easily just looking at them (you could probably glance at 10 jellybeans in your hand and know that's about how many you have. 15 is probably pushing it.) If I pour "some" jellybeans into my hand, I expect that I would have to count them individually if I wanted to know how many I actually had (with 20 jellybeans in your hand you'd have trouble deciding how many you had at a glance.) It also has to do with the contrast between "a lot" and "a little". If you only want "a little" number of jellybeans, you're probably going for "a few". If you think it's more than "a little" (maybe not "a lot", but more than "a little"), you probably want "some". A few is also used facetiously when there are clearly more than "a few". (eg "How many jellybeans have you had?" "Oh... a few"  )
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Sleet
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I try to never use "a couple" unless I mean literally two.
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