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Which language would you like to learn more?
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Nani Cheri
post Jan 28 2006, 04:30 PM
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At some of our schools in Holland, you can take extra lessons in languages! You can also learn Chinese now, and it's kinda hard if you only speak dutch. It's also harder for people who are older, to learn a new language than for children.
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post Jan 28 2006, 05:02 PM
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That's true, the older you become, the harder it is to learn a new languaje, if haven't learned any other than the native. But I guess that once you manage to learn well a new languaje, it's easy to learn any other after that.

My native languaje is Spanish, I learned English (if it's too bad, fell free to let me know unsure.gif ) and I know basic French. I'd love to learn Japanese tongue.gif a whole diferent thing, don't you think?

And by the way, I'm looking forward to learn German. I hope to travel to Europe onday, soon laugh.gif

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post Jan 28 2006, 05:35 PM
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How come there' no 'french' in the poll. It's a second language for most English students (at school).

For me, English is my second language...but I have been in England for 5 years now...so it doesn't feel so much like it's a second language...and I wouldn't wanna go to any more English classes...If I were to learn more, I would do french.
I have done a bit of it..But I guess French might not be as useful as spanish or even chinese these days..I don't mind chinese...it's becoming more popular and useful ...but...the characters are so hard.
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post Jan 28 2006, 06:42 PM
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I do want to learn some german (just sounds so cool)

but where is french on the list? Je parle un peu de francais, mais je veux plus apprendre. sad.gif

I also want to learn some latin, because unlike most of the other languages it has a more direct application to English and everyday life. (not that learning french hasn't helped my english.)
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post Jan 28 2006, 07:19 PM
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I'm English and I currently learn German at school at GCSE level. I also used to do French until 2 years ago, but it was too difficult learning French and German at GCSE, and doing English GCSEs. Too many different languages, word orders, spellings and all that. Sometimes even the teachers get confused tongue.gif

I've always thought it would be quite cool to learn Russian, but I don't know why. Maybe after my GCSEs I'll start learning Russian!
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post Jan 28 2006, 09:13 PM
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Wow, I wish I could brush up on my Russian. My parents came to America from Belarus (a slavic country in eastern europe) and they've raised me to speak Russian, but my grammar is terrible! However, I do know more Russian swearwords than I should.....svolach. If you speak Russian you'll know what this means. Hehe.
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post Jan 28 2006, 11:20 PM
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id lke to learn spanish most of all cuz most of the people that dont speak english here speak spanish....but i wish i can learn everything else on the poll =)
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post Jan 28 2006, 11:31 PM
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mmm... if I had to choose, English, I suppose. But I already know it so donīt know. Apart from English, I like German and thatīs why Iīm learning it. Itīs difficult because of the genres and other things. Itīs much more complex than English and they tend to mix a lot of words just to make one bigger and incredibly hard to pronounce. Too much for my throat, but it sounds very strong and I like it.

I donīt like languages which derivate from latin too much. Maybe itīs because my native language is spanish and it isnīt a big challenge to deal with Italian or Portuguese which are very simmilar. And we have catalan and gallego here that have few differences with spanish. And I donīt like how French sounds, just too sweet. biggrin.gif

But I definitely would like to learn Chinese. I find it very interesting because itīs a completely different culture, so I think itīs exciting. And in a more practical sense, the future is opened to people who knows Chinese... three days ago it reached the fourth position in the ranking of worldīs most powerful countries. Theyīre above to rule the world tongue.gif And there are lots of them.
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post Jan 28 2006, 11:46 PM
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Warning to all of you people DON'T TAKE CHINESE IT IS HARD AS HELL(I'm Chinese I have to take classes on Sunday it is harded then holy hell)writing is a pain and the pronouing the words are hard too..