Just wondering if anyone else is currently learning a language? I'm learning French at the moment using Duolingo, and managed to make a 100 day streak a week ago, which I'm quite pleased with. Anyone else using Duolingo?
Cool literal translations from French: potato= pomme de terre or Earth apple. And the breakfast is 'small lunch'.
best french translation i ever came across was this: in english, roosters say [censored]-a-doodle-doo. in french, they say cocorico.
Nah, best one is French ducks: coin coin!
I'm learning Mandarin Chinese and Hindi, and was conversationally fluent in German for a long time but I've forgotten so much of it that I'm better at understanding than speaking it now.
I can't speak any language other than English, however I am teaching my two year old daughter to count to ten in Japanese and say Japanese phrases :) She gets to seven, thinks about it, then says eight, nine, ten slowly.
While I'm still fluent in Dutch, I used to be fairly proficient at French, German and Italian as well at various stages of my adolescent years. Perhaps I should try to pick them up again.
Wanderer Ward
9 years ago
Wanderer Ward
Mage
I learned French and Indonesian in primary school, German in high school, and studied French and Latin at uni, as well as teaching myself Italian in preparation to study over there, plus I picked up a handful of phrases for various others (Farsi, Romanian, etc) while working with children, to assist with the language barriers...
All this combines to make me relatively good at translating/understanding written and spoken languages that I know, as well as ones that are similar (i.e. Spanish), but I'm only moderately good at actually speaking them (shyness/stage-fright never helped in oral exams!)
Really, my thought processes are a mess of multiple languages which sometimes leave me unable to remember the word I want to say in English (like the other day when I could only think of the French word but could not remember the English equivalent), and I know that I dream in these languages, too.
Sometimes I swear in german automatically, despite the only german i know being from inspector rex....
9 years ago
Thu Jan 29 2015, 09:37pmSionainn
Oh, I swear in italian due to Assassins Creed games. B)
I know a bit of Maltese, am currently trying to learn more it does help if I am over there though.
So many multilingual (even if only a little) people!
9 years ago
Sat Jan 31 2015, 12:06pmsuppi
I'm learning Sanskrit, an ancient language. I can speak, read, and write 4 other languages, besides my mother-tongue. It's awesome that there are so many languages from all across the world.
I lived in Finland for a year when I was 5 so I know a very limited amount of Finnish, though I will likely be heading over there to study for six months, so will hopefully be able to pick some more of it up. I learn Mandarin and Spanish in primary/elementary school, and then I did a year of French at uni... but I am not proficient in any of them :( I had to drop French, as I got sick and missed to many classes and went back, and didn't understand anything...
Mystic Ward
9 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
The only language other than english I can converse in in is Auslan. Unfortunately I don't have a practise partner so I'm really rusty.
I'm fluent in HTML, CSS, XSLT, and Razor, and getting their with JQuery, plus have conversational level JavaScript, and can read (but barely reply) in php and .net...
(...I just want to be part of the conversation!)
Lol Min I used to be fluent in Python
I learned french throughout high school and uni, but it's rusting. Lately I've been learning japanese but it's been hard to get to class ... the more i miss the harder it becomes.
really just fluent in English(der) and Spanish though I can scrape together some Indonesian.
Lol Min, they definitely count!
I did also learn Japanese until year 10, but a lot of that has faded now. If I had all the time in the world, I'd definitely learn more languages (French, then Italian, then German, then Spanish, then Japanese, perhaps Chinese/Arabic/Norwegian/Portuguese)
I'm using Duolingo too, but to learn (or more like re-learn) German. I learnt German in primary school and high school, but I've forgotten a lot. Using Duolingo as more of a refresher than anything.
Other than that, I can speak basic conversational Cantonese and of course, English.