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| 07 Nov 2012 05:22 PM |
| Okay. I know English (obviously) and a little Spanish. I want to be fluent in at least three other languages in five years. Anyone have any reccomendations? I know I want to learn Italian, and i'm in the process of learning it. So, any reccomendations for two languages other than Italian? Thanks! |
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mrhammm
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| 07 Nov 2012 07:27 PM |
| Chinese because it is widely spoken by the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, Russian because it is spoken(and official) in Russia, and all former USSR territories, like Tajikistan, Dutch because you will have a basic view of the Northern Germanic languages. It is closely related to German, and the Scandinavian languages, as well as Afrikaans spoken in South Africa. |
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| 07 Nov 2012 07:59 PM |
| Thanks. I was considering Chinese and German, and adding on more languages eventually. I appreciate it. |
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| 07 Nov 2012 08:31 PM |
| German is also the base for many languages, such as Ænglisc (evolved into English), Dutch, and many more. |
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StanAdam
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| 08 Nov 2012 09:46 AM |
Japanese is a nice language. Contrary to popular belief, it really isn't that difficult.
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TheMyrco
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| 08 Nov 2012 10:47 AM |
| @Supre: Dutch wasn't derived from German, but it did influence it a lot over time. |
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| 09 Nov 2012 10:28 AM |
Spanish isn't difficult to learn. ^^
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TheMyrco
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| 09 Nov 2012 10:42 AM |
| @mikey: Depends on what you mean. Mastering a language will take time, a lot of it. |
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| 09 Nov 2012 10:37 PM |
| Latin, it'll help you with many other languages like French, Italian and more. I suggest German for taste though. I would like to talk in German one day, it sounds funny and weird. |
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| 10 Nov 2012 06:07 AM |
@Myrco
I took a Spanish course last year and never got past the test because there were too many different translations of one word... For brother, the course had about 3 different translations, and there were about 20 words in all.
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TheMyrco
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| 10 Nov 2012 09:04 AM |
| @mikey: Many other languages have synonyms too. Not quite an excuse. |
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| 10 Nov 2012 09:07 AM |
I'm not great at memory, so... Yeah. I don't know where I got it from. I used to remember everything. Usually when I try to figure out another language I forget within a week. German seems easier. Maybe French. I would never be able to learn Arabic though.
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TheMyrco
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| 10 Nov 2012 09:08 AM |
Dutch, do Dutch! I can help you c: |
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| 10 Nov 2012 09:11 AM |
Um... ok...? I'll try to find something on google about Dutch...
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TheMyrco
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| 10 Nov 2012 09:14 AM |
| What would you like to know? |
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| 10 Nov 2012 09:17 AM |
"I'm not great at memory, so... Yeah. I don't know where I got it from. I used to remember everything. Usually when I try to figure out another language I forget within a week."
I used to have that attitude until I got off my аss and mastered two languages other than my first. |
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| 10 Nov 2012 09:52 AM |
@yarko
Well, most languages seem harder than they are. I found some website that has all kinds of languages and I'm checking it out. ^.^
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| 10 Nov 2012 09:56 AM |
@Myrco
I noticed Dutch has a strange, or at least different way, of stringing words together. For example: Jan komt Karel op straat tegen.
I'm learning this from e Language School (DOT) net, so it would be nice to know if it's reliable.
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| 10 Nov 2012 10:04 AM |
eLanguage School (DOT) com
remove spaces.
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TheMyrco
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| 10 Nov 2012 12:16 PM |
Jan komt Karel op straat tegen. -> Jan meets Karel on the street/outside
That's perfectly fine, but the whole verb is "tegenkomen" -> "meet/see/__" wich excists out of two parts:
tegen and komen tegen -> against komen -> to come
Vowels which excist out of two parts are always seperated in sentences where the first part will move to the end of the sentence:
(note kwam = past (strong verb (NOT irregular) -> changes vowel in the past)) Ik kwam ___ tegen -> I met/saw ___. Kwam jij ___ tegen? -> Did you meet/see ____? Wij kwamen de kat tegen. -> We met/saw the cat.
Hope that helps. |
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| 10 Nov 2012 01:23 PM |
The website said that Jan komt Karel op straat tegen was: Johns runs Charles on the street into It also said the komttegen was supposed to be strung as "run into"
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TheMyrco
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| 10 Nov 2012 02:36 PM |
Yeah, that is a more accurate translation. To run into....
"Jan runs into Karel on the street" |
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