What is the language that you would like to learn?

We don't use carts either! We use trolleys!

I used to learn Indonesian at school. Its compulsory for every child from Prep to about Year 8. I learned it for eight years and never learned more than the word for the color red. Terrible language.

 

I'd like to learn Portuguese, although I've been warned against it by native speakers... lol

 

Why? I think that is not really difficult to learn. And is a romanic language that people usually doesn't want to learn. But can be good learn it.

 

Ah yes, not buggies but trollies...something weird it was.

 

It depends, I think, on the quantity of strong waters you have taken. I studied Latin and French at school and once 'made up' Italian to communicate with a large party of persons similarly imbibing, and we seemed able to converse very adequately (and I wasn't that drunk). They thought I spoke some odd northern dialect, I believe. Sober, asking for the way to the Cathedral or the toilet is about my limit. It's like our ex-Prime Minister, Bliar - all a matter of confidence really.

 

Of all the languages in the world today, I would dearly love to be able to speak the language of my country fluently and correctly before I attempt any other language.

 

The first one was fairly easy, and yes I understand without dictionary.
The words are very similar to portuguese.

I always had good grades in english and french and bad grades in native language.

I only studied french, my teacher used to make listen french singers on the radio.
I could work my way trough rome talking to people, I understood what they said in italian and tough my speaking is not as good as the understanding it wasnt hard.

 

I learned a New Zealand word today...

Boinkin'

...apparently it means herding sheep.

 

Where are you originally from?

 

I originally hail from:

The city of St.Louis
The State of Missouri
The United states of America
The planet Earth

 

St.Louis.lol

 

You are from America but you don't know how to speak good English? Is that what you said in the last post???

 

No not at all. Yes I am an American. Yes I speak the english language quite well. What I meant was that I wish that I spoke it better as in a higher level. As I was never able to finish college and take the higher levels of english.

 

Shakespeare had the same problem, and Bunyan, and Jane Austen, and Dickens. Must have gone to evening classes!

 

I would love to be able to speak Irish fluently...

 

Well, I can sing 'The Soldier's song' in it, and when people wince it it is my voice, not the pronunciation. The problem is not to find people who can speak it but people prepared actually to do that thing - and I've stayed in three Gaeltachta (is it?). Only west of Galway did I hear it spoken, and there they believed we were English and pretended there was no beer in the pub: we had to send in a teetotal Indian girl to buy us bottles!

 

My Grand father is a gaeilgeoir but trying to speak to us in irish frustrates him greatly. He spent his life teaching the language and became fluent to give himself a post primary education. My mother is not quiet fluent but has a high level of Irish. She does not speak irish to us, but will speak to grandad in irish when she wishes to have a little privacy. I spent 14 years learning it and had very little by the end. Too much emphasis on the junior and leaving certificates far too little on converstaional usage.

Lols, a summer in the gaeltacht is a right of passage for most irish teens but while there I was surprised at how much english was spoken and mixed through irish.

 

A Chara - My parents were both fluent in Cymraeg ('Welsh'), but believed our Country was finished and didn't teach me, but, as you describe, spoke it when they didn't want me to know what was going on. That - and the fact that my cousins in Ceredigion spoke no English - was a wonderful incentive to learn, though I sometimes still make silly mistakes. A pal of mine, born in Oxford and half-'Welsh' half-Irish has managed to lean the latter well enough to put me right very firmly when I try, which is very seldom indeed. Good luck with it!

 

Korean.

 

I am four weeks into a beginers course in college, we are still learning the alphabet!!

It is very difficult.

 

I'm already learning German on my own.

I would like to try Japanese as well.

 

I studied for one year Japanese. For me was a mix of easy and difficult language. The grammar can be difficult or not, depending how you get it. The vocabulary like every language, and the most difficult I think that is the writing system.

 

Indeed, the use of three alphabets make Japanese one of the hardest languages on earth, but it also depens on the native language of the individual.

 

Well, I think that makes easier than the Chinese. For me is easier to learn or to write Japanese, because of the use of the three alphabets, and the two silabics are quite easy to learn, the hiragana and the katakana. It is one of the few things that I remember of my studies of Japanese:

あなたは日本語を勉強しますか

ANother thing is that a language so different to the ours, that is really easy to forget if you don't practice.

 

I'm still trying to get Italian down fluently.