Languages

[Ogrim_Doomhammer]

Tell us about what languages you've learned through time and the stories of how you learned them. I speak spanish because I live in Costa Rica, I learned hebrew in school and finally english, for wich I have a funny story involving pokemon, TV and FAC...

Once I was in US and wanted to buy an expensive pokemon book, (I was 7 years old or something) my parents told me that they wouldn't buy it because I didn't know english and it wasn't worth it.
I said : "Dad if you buy it for me, I promise you, that I will learn english just to read it!" And he yet didn't want to buy it, although my mom said that it was ok and I got the book.....

After that and a couple of dictionaries I had the basic vocabulary, school worked for simple grammar and writing. At the time that I got to 5th grade, I knew everything that the teachers were willing to teach me, because the english teached at my school is the lowest level you can think about, my friends probably speak english worse than any 7 year old US kid. <_<

And because of that trouble with my teachers, I had to search for new ways to learn, TV was the easiest way and it worked for a while.....

Last year my english teacher was really good and instead of doing crappy readings in class, we just had hour-long conversations about whatever we wanted and that helped me a lot with my pronunciation (together with TV and music), another advantage that my teacher was like 23 years old, a really good drawer and guitar player, and we shared many interests....

After he was fired, I contacted him and now he is my guitar teacher, I recieve an hour of guitar class in english every week, perfect conversation practice....

And also last year I started with FAC forums, that also helped a lot....... slangs and that stuff were all learned at FAC, although I do have many mistakes and I know that....

Good story
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[ThaKakarot]

I speak Dutch and English fluently, and i know quite a bit of German

there's no real "story" behind em, i have a german mother and a british father, so that acount for both german and english.
but i spent my first 16 years living in holland... and once you live in a country that long.. you pick up a few things :P

but yeah... i spoke dutch before i spoke english, so i see dutch as my native tongue.

plus TV taught me most of my english... that's probably why people think i sound american

[fallenangel]

Finnish is a funny language. Not that I speak it, but all this bilingual talk made me think of Mike Monroe, who is Finnish (though you'd never know it for how good his english is), and the fact any time I see the language written, it's just a bunch of random letters and accent marks. :wacko:


I only speak english, in true american style. The rest of the world can learn english for my convenience. ^_^

Two years of spanish, but all I can remember are the naughty phrases. And food innuendo.

I never considered english could be a second language for you, Avy, until you mentioned it awhile ago. So...yay for learning from tv 'cause apparently it works.
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[Ogrim_Doomhammer]

Its not only TV, effort also plays a big part, but yes its a second language :)

Believe me, hebrew is more random than any other language...well, russian and czech are also weird and random but.... in hebrew they don't have any vowels, instead, they place little dots underneath each letter symbolizing vowels, if you are a begginer then you get to read stuff with the dots but as you get better you reach a point in wich the dots are rather useless and you start reading the vowels because you know the vocabulary.
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[keautye]

I speak french and english (well duh)

French is my native tongue since I like in a french province. Was lucky enough and began learning english at a very young age (kinda learned it at the same time as french) and it's very rare.
when my parents would take me to see a movie, I always wanted to see it in english and TV helped me improove a little for the pronouciation.

I read a lot a wrote so that's really what helped me and FAC did help too.

Funny thing is that I don't keep a french accent and some people in my english class (I'm in enriched english, regular is just.... waaaaay too easy ) thought I was anglophone instead of francophone :lol:

People also keep making me translate stuff for them n all. That's the sometimes, really annoying part.
I found out last year I can read and translate at the same time. Shocked my parents [i]and[/i] me because I'm the only one who can do that. My sis a little too but I'm better at it. Much.

so yeah, not much of a story on how I learned english
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[Brianhjh]

My First language is Korean, 댜가아읻딕앳

funny language. Unlike Japanese or Chinese, we don't have to worry about memorizing millions of little symbols each with a different meaning, since it is phonetic. Only 24 characters. It looks almost like Chinese because we clump up consonants and vowels together so each syllable fits in one block, thus making it look like there are no distinguishable letters in there.

I learned English when I came to Anglophone Canada 6 years ago, I learned English mainly from reading Children's books out loud. Bearstein Bears are superior, Franklin is the worst name for a dyslexic turtle ever. Not so much TV. I still don't watch a lot of TV, maybe couple of hours a month. I started learning French in Grade 7 and I'm getting better at it, I'm using the same method I used to learn English. I'm also learning Japanese concurrently and it's quite easy because I don't have to worry about the pronunciation, grammar, and the kanjis like the majority of English-speakers learning Japanese. (Korean is quite similar in that aspect). ^_^ I love learning languages, almost as much as drawing.
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[Nilitac_Tesgrah]

I speak English (American style [woah, bad thought]), and I dabble a little in both Spanish and Japanese. But, that's it. I knew a little bit of French, but not anymore.
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[TK421]

I speak english [Irish style ]

and i can speak some French and Irish, i'm learning them at school

[ i could probably speak cantonese but my father never thought me when i was a baby <_< ]
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[grimfairy]

Wow, everyone is so bilingual here. My native tongue is also English of the American type, so butchered English basically. I'm not really fluent in any other language. I took French for 2 years but I can hold a very basic conversation, there's a lot of words I get caught up on and have to look up. I'm trying to learn Japanese currently, even thinking of taking some college classes of it. I'm only learning it in my spare time briefly. The best I can do for Japanese is　わたしのにほんごわよくないです。I'm not sure if it's even accurate. >.> I've been learning to speak Japanese and haven't really delved into the hiragana/katakana/kanji so when I type in Japanese I just [i]hope[/i] it's proper. lol.

I'd also want to learn German but I don't think I have the brain capacity to learn so many languages. I only know some basic German currently and naughty words, of course.

[MedalMask]

I'm in sophmore year on completing the true american english language!
Other than that, I know some pig latin and I will learn Japanese all through high school.
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[KeheiZero]

Just English. I know a couple phrases of French from high school. But it is something I'd like to pick up again later in life.
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[firewingneko]

I learned french when I was a kid but got basics in english as well. I improoved by watching movies, reading stories, FAC and stuff like that.
I learned how to speak it better by watching tv and microphone convos on msn

Now I mostly write in english when I'm not doing school work and it gives me some problems when I have to write in french because I get to make more mistakes when I write
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[Hawk4444]

1. english



some spanish and very little french.
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[theWriter]

1. Good ol' American English. No story. My parents are American, my dad's mum is British, we've lived here forever. BLah blah blah.

2. I'm learning French. Obviously it's bound to be butchered; I can read very well and have been told I have a plaubile Frenchie accent, but I can't write worth s**t. Always forget the dumb accents. Zut.

3. Latin. I've been learning it on my own. It's hard. I hate it. I don't know whhyy I'm doing it. Must be boredom...or something. Has helped me with my French, though. That I admit.

4. Pig Latin fluently, of course.

5. Bits and pieces of German and Spanish. Spanish basically I know innuendo and "where's the toilet?" German I could hold a somewhat understandable conversation for, like....five seconds.

I love languages. They're so...cool. :wub:
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[UltimaMewtwo]

Un pequeno espanol.
(A little Spanish.)
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[BonzaiRyuza]

[quote="theWriter (Megan)"]3. Latin. I've been learning it on my own. It's hard. I hate it. I don't know whhyy I'm doing it. Must be boredom...or something. Has helped me with my French, though. That I admit.[/quote]
Through what source have you been learning it on your own? That might be why you hate it XD

I take Latin, as well. Taken it since high school (because I didn't want to take Spanish...), and I know the language they teach fair enough, but I can't speak it because I haven't taken conversational Latin (not...as if I'd need it...).

And American English, of course XD

[stefie-chi]

i know english,french and a tiny bit of japanese and im trying to improve on all of them -_^

[Zekk]

I speak english, Uninted States variaty, and just enough Japnanese to lisitan to gravatation with out subtitles.

[CheshireGoddess]

I know just about as much as a retarded 5 year old german child would know. 3 years gets you know where !!
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[stefie-chi]

its more than i know ^^ i know very little of anything actually