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SlateRDays:
Hey everyone. Just back on the scene for awhile and trying to interact again. Do you any of you like learning languages and if so what are you currently or have studied?

I've dipped my toe into French. I dipped my toe into Vietnamese and seriously studied it for 2yrs and then had to stop do to time constraints. I study it passively by counting. Studied Japanese at one point, but it was very time consuming, not difficult, just time consuming. I eventually moved onto Russian and German, with German having more work in it. I found some FSI language course and that's what really gave me the most progress so far, but again, time constraints. I find I will soon be able to get back to studying German, as I'm getting ready to settle my other projects down.

other languages I want to learn: Russian, Italian, Czech and Vietanamese. I'm plan to do these with the FSI courses resources I have. Vietnamese will be more a bringing myself back up to speed and then continuing from a more focused point.

PastyPrincess:
Generally, I like listening to other languages and I have an interest in learning them. So far I've put about a year of studying German in, and that's it, although listening to people speak in other languages simply fascinates me.

SonadoraXVX:
Very much, I'm fluent in Latin American Spanish, and I'm I have dabbled in French, German, and Mandarin, but like yourself, I have not had much time lately, since I'm in grad school now and work full time, but do have Rosetta Stone courses in Russian, French, Korean, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin.

Its great to be able to understand other cultures and have windows into their great works, being able to translate the works yourself and get your personal interpretation of their literary works. In today's global world, it behoves to know how other people think and are saying.

Cheers  ;D

Deborah:
I do but I have always had a hard time with it.  I have some kind of mind blockage.  But this thread has given me the motivation to try again.  Maybe with the dysphoria under control the mind blockage will open.


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SlateRDays:

--- Quote from: PastyPrincess on July 16, 2016, 02:50:51 am ---Generally, I like listening to other languages and I have an interest in learning them. So far I've put about a year of studying German in, and that's it, although listening to people speak in other languages simply fascinates me.

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I actually feel the same way. I love listening to people speak and the various accents of the same region. I'm also always curious how they sound when they sing. German surprised me in how beautiful the language can be when singing. Certain languages I can't tolerate very well. I'm not fully sure why, but it's still a treat to here and try to decipher what the language is. Fore example written differences in Thai, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Looking closely at the characters and then deducing what language it is. In terms of listening; Russian, Czech, German, Belgian. Czech sounds like a mix of Russian, and German. You have to listen to the pacing of how the words are said, and the rhythm. Even if I don't know any words or what is said, I can usually get close to figuring it out.

Besides German, do you favour any other languages when it comes to just exploring and listening?

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