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Post by Marina on Jun 5, 2011 17:12:46 GMT -5
I'm currently in the process of learning Hebrew and French.  Hebrew would be totally cool to learn! |
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Post by cmthecla on Jun 5, 2011 18:14:25 GMT -5
I want to learn German, French, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. I should really just brush up on my Spanish right now, but I've decided to go with Hebrew first |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 6, 2011 2:49:53 GMT -5
I image Latin would be harder cause no one speaks it nowadays. You'd think it'd've been easy for me, since I have a background in Spanish and French, but nooo.... It's ENTIRELY different. Everything is denoted by the endings, rather than the word's placement in the sentence. The verb is at the end of the sentence, subject at the beginning, so you can have a sentence that's three lines long and it's only once you get to the LAST FREAKING WORD that you find the damn verb. Then you have to go ALL THE WAY BACK to the start of the sentence and start piecing it together from there, but you better pray that you can figure out whether that word that ends in -o is a dative or ablative and is it plural or singular? You don't know! And don't even get me started on the fourth declension of nouns...EVERY ENDING IS THE SAME! Literally, it's: Singular Nom. manus Gen. manus Dat. manu(i) Acc. manum Abl. manu Plural Nom. manus Gen. manuum Dat. manibus Acc. manus Abl. manibus That's FOUR different cases that have the exact same spelling and since everything's based on endings, you've no idea how to approach it. /end rant |
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Post by pjthefey on Jun 6, 2011 8:43:11 GMT -5
Pretty much all of them, especially ancient Greek.
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Post by Marina on Jun 6, 2011 11:35:09 GMT -5
@dodger:
Wow, that's tough. In Russian I think there are 6 cases, but only 2 of them have the same ending.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 6, 2011 18:13:44 GMT -5
@dodger: Wow, that's tough. In Russian I think there are 6 cases, but only 2 of them have the same ending. It's annoying, to the point where I wanted to pull my hair out. *eyetwitch* Though I can sight-read basic Latin now, which is good I guess. Still, it's irritating. /rant over |
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Post by Marina on Jun 6, 2011 18:23:37 GMT -5
@dodger: Wow, that's tough. In Russian I think there are 6 cases, but only 2 of them have the same ending. It's annoying, to the point where I wanted to pull my hair out. *eyetwitch* Though I can sight-read basic Latin now, which is good I guess. Still, it's irritating. /rant over I guess it was worth the pain then? That's how I would want to learn most languages. If not until I'm fluent, at least until I can guess what something says by context. |
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Post by formerlyanon on Jun 12, 2011 9:50:19 GMT -5
I abhor not knowing what is going on, so in a perfect world, I would learn any language I could get a grammar and vocabulary book on. However, back in reality, I have cognitive problems that prevent me from learning languages well. I still can't count to ten in Spanish, despite trying to learn for years after it was the "cool" thing to be able to do in elementary school. I'm in high school right now, and learning Japanese, which is not an online course, we have an actual teacher and everything. It's insanely hard for me, but the writing comes easily. I don't have a problem remembering the characters and their English meanings, or the sounds for the phonetic ones. It's remembering the vocabulary and grammar that is pretty much killing my grade right now. It's a good thing I enjoy it, or else I would have flunked out my first year of it.
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Post by harleyquinn on Jun 12, 2011 14:02:08 GMT -5
I need to keep going with French/Japanese/Mandarin so I don't forget what I learned. And German is no problem.
But I also want to learn:
Korean,Tagalog, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Swahili (I used to know some when I was younger but I forgot it all :/), Yoruba, Farsi, Hindi, and a ton of others I can't think of right now.
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jun 12, 2011 23:04:29 GMT -5
I want to learn Sanskrit and Greek, ancient and modern. I tried Latin for a day and I hated it.
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Post by Vergissmeinnicht on Jun 13, 2011 11:51:46 GMT -5
I would love to become more fluent in Spanish. I know it well enough that at this point reviewing basic grammar and throwing vocabulary lists at me is no longer helpful. I need to take a conversational class, or something really based on increasing over all proficiency. I want to study abroad for the purpose of immersion in college.
I also want to learn a third language. I'm deciding between German, Japanese, and Russian. There are lots of languages I'm interested in, but I also want to focus on what I can feasibly achieve a good level of fluency in, rather than learning the basics of several languages without having good communication skills in any of them. Three languages would be enough.
Also I recognize that I don't have a shot in hell of learning Mandarin at this point, even though I think it would be interesting.
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Post by Dobby on Jun 13, 2011 12:26:00 GMT -5
I'd love to become completely fluent in Spanish, and learn German, Irish Gaelic, Portuguese, Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, Hebrew, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, and just basically any language possible.
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Post by ashshields on Jun 15, 2011 3:36:47 GMT -5
I'm fluent in New Zealand Sign Language! And it's actually an official language now, so even better. I'm taking German, and I've got to the point where I can get the general gist of a movie in German without subs, which is brilliant. I started to learn Japanese, but all I can remember now is one set of characters and a bit of vocab. I intend to learn Esperanto. And basic French, Greek, and Italian before June next year, because of a trip to Europe  |
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