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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2012 14:02:40 GMT 2
German has always been my first love when it comes to languages. It's the language that got me interested in language, and its the language that introduced me to some of my most treasured Historical persons of all time! Languages are perhaps my greatest love, yet it is a shame that I can never seem to concentrate long enough to learn a language very efficiently... I've started and stopped learning a few languages, with German being the only one I've made any decent progress in. I still hope one day I can break this spell of lacking motivation and become the true polyglot I've always wished to be! Mine was English! ;D Love teasing you over and over with that. I would like to second you with the love for German, but this week my progress with it was almost zero. Need to keep it constant. A nice thing regarding languages happened to me this last few days...started with music actually, but gave me the idea to keep in shape my French by listening and learning some tunes I really like. It works btw. Also keeping Spanish alive with movies.
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Post by symphonyofstorm on Nov 12, 2012 10:36:42 GMT 2
Hi, I'm new here so this is also a bit of introduction native: Italian foreign: good knowledge of English and no-so-fluent Finnish (but I'm taking classes ) want to learn: Swedish and Icelandic The funny thing is that I studied Latin for a while when I was 14 years old and I decided I didn't like it because it had too many cases... and now I'm studing Finnish with its 15 cases! But this time I like it a lot, probably because I like the country and the people
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Post by emila96 on Dec 30, 2012 13:42:55 GMT 2
hi Naitive: Poland good: English bad: germany i learn: espania I'm sorry for my english but I don't know very good
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Post by hukkakaura on Jan 12, 2013 15:04:14 GMT 2
My mothertongues are: - Euskera (basque) - Spanish I speak more or less: - English (some years ago I knew a little german >_< but I've mostly forgotten!!!) I WANT to learn - Suomi - Irish If anyone want a language exchange here I am!
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Post by celtickiwi on Jan 28, 2013 1:39:23 GMT 2
hmmm Why do so many people all across the world speak english? I feel patronized going to other countries and they are fluent in english
I speak some swedish, german and Maori (im originally from New zealand)
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Post by lendalind on Apr 17, 2013 16:27:20 GMT 2
I speak: German, Estonian, English and learn: Finnish, Northern Sámi, Norwegian My native language is German. Besides that, I'm also fluent in Estonian and can (at least more or less) express myself in English, too. ;D I used to learn French for quite some years in school as well, but never liked it too much. Hence I already forgot most of what I learned back then. Right now I'm learning Finnish and Northern Sámi. Learning Finnish is great, I feel that I'm making progress and I also have lots of chances to use it (my Finnish course, Finnish friends, trips to Finland etc). For Sámi it's the opposite. I'm sort of a total beginner and learning it on my own, using a textbook and some internet resources. I'd like to find a native speaker to torture whenever I come up with questions... or just try to talk to. But somehow it's not that easy to find any Sámi speakers.
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Post by maris on Apr 19, 2013 23:21:03 GMT 2
I speak: German, Estonian, English and learn: Finnish, Northern Sámi, Norwegian My native language is German. Besides that, I'm also fluent in Estonian and can (at least more or less) express myself in English, too. ;D I used to learn French for quite some years in school as well, but never liked it too much. Hence I already forgot most of what I learned back then. Right now I'm learning Finnish and Northern Sámi. Learning Finnish is great, I feel that I'm making progress and I also have lots of chances to use it (my Finnish course, Finnish friends, trips to Finland etc). For Sámi it's the opposite. I'm sort of a total beginner and learning it on my own, using a textbook and some internet resources. I'd like to find a native speaker to torture whenever I come up with questions... or just try to talk to. But somehow it's not that easy to find any Sámi speakers. maybe this will help you www.e-skuvla.no/en/portfolio/north-sami/or www.samernas.se/ (http://www.eng.samer.se/servlet/GetDoc?meta_id=1261 writes this about it: The Sami Education Centre is a folk high school in Jokkmokk with a very long tradition. It was established back in 1942 and is owned by a foundation comprising SSR (the National Association of Swedish Sami), Same Ätnam and Jokkmokk Municipality. At the Centre you can study duodji (handicrafts), the Sami language, as well as courses in business, nature and social studies. Short courses and distance learning are also available.) Hope this helps you a bit
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Post by anwiel on Jun 9, 2013 11:37:17 GMT 2
Well hello, good topic for me, because I´m love to learning languages=) Native: Czech Really good at: Slovak, English Good at: Spanish and I hope so - Japanese Learning: Swedish, Elvish ;D Want to learn: Arabic, Finnish, Latin My biggest love is Japanese. I love all about Japan but to learn Japanese when I´m not living in Japan is pretty hard
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Post by isa on Jul 11, 2013 12:47:16 GMT 2
native: French
foreign: Dutch (Good knowledge) and English (Good knowledge)
I know a tiny bit Finnish. I plan to take soon some lesson as it can be interesting for me as much for work then for pleasure
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Post by inessiivi on Jul 29, 2013 6:50:29 GMT 2
Native: English Studying: Icelandic, Faroese, Finnish
I got started with languages when I started learning to read Old Norse out of historical interest. From there I started looking at its closest descendants, Icelandic and Faroese.
I speak Icelandic sort-of-okay now. It's my main focus of study, and the only language I've worked on with another person (a native speaker in my town). I know just enough Faroese to embarrass myself with. I like Faroese because the /r/ sound is easy on my poor English-speaking tongue. I didn't learn to roll my r's until I was eighteen. Before, I would just make this...spitting sound. I still avoid uvular consonants because they're so hard, so no German or French for me.
I am also studying Finnish on the side, but it's more difficult, being out of the Indo-European family. My accent in Finnish right now is somewhere between "oh no" and "do you have a head injury?" But I really like languages with noun declension, for some reason.
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Post by pustelnig on Apr 13, 2015 17:45:56 GMT 2
Native: Polish Not bad: English Bad: Russian Want to learn: Finnish and Icelandic
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Post by WitchiLily on Feb 20, 2018 19:03:01 GMT 2
Native: French Foreign: English, German, Italian. I'm learning at the moment: Finnish (though I'm more fluent in Finnish than in Italian ), Swedish And I would like to learn Russian in the future !
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