Sawyl asked:
in other words, not those who learned at school/university, or who needed it for work/travel etc.
in other words, not those who learned at school/university, or who needed it for work/travel etc.
If so, what language did you choose? And why?
and, how successful have you been?
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I’ve tried to learn kiswahili, polish, sign language and hebrew.
I tend to get bored with it after a short while, so I know a smattering of 4 languages!
Ja! Ich Deutsche sprachen.
Purely for fun, and to make sense of all that German telly that we used to see via satellite!
I was born in Ukraine and spoke Ukrainian and decided to learn Russian for fun. I chose Russian because it is incredibly hard
I’ve learned to speak and understand it to the point where you can’t even tell it’s not my first language. Currently I’m learning to read and write in Russian and to speak Spanish. I recommend that you learn Spanish because in the US it’s more useful then Russian.
I’m currently trying to teach myself Latin. I was bored so I hought Hey, I’ll try this. So far I’m pretty slow because I have limited time and materials, but I hope to improve. Plus, the latin has been helping my French in school.
I’m trying to learn italian!
Something differnt than most of the common ones like french german or spanish… Though from beginning to learn italian, spanish is quite similar. It’s just the pronunciation of the words, which is pretty cool.
I’m also in the process of learning hawaiian or hawaiian slang just for the heck of it!
well i did french and german at school, but since we used to visit france every year i decided to take it further, so once i was 18+ working i decided to go to night school further my french. it helped thats for sure. im pretty good at it now enjoy being able to do another language.
also due to holidaying i decided to learn basic spanish italian….i did short courses at home for these as i only wanted basics….they were good fun coz i could them in my own time did not have 2 hours homework per week like at night school!!
im thinking of doing chinese next
French because it is beautiful.. easy no.. wanted to learn it in high school had to drop it and have regretted it ever since.. it has such great rhythm and beauty.. here is one you will like.. accroches-toi a ton reve. ( phonetically pronounced.. akroshay twah a tone riv) here is the rhythm.. akroshaytwah… a tonriv.. it means hang on tight to your dreams.. good luck
Yes.
Esperanto, Latin, Classical Egyptian, Ancient Greek, Old English, Finnish, Arabic.
All purely for the enjoyment of learning a new language, the challenge, and a fascination with languages.
I’ve been reasonably successful, although it varies from language to language and is directly proportional to the work I put in.
Latin, because I want to read Vergil’s The Aeneid in the original. It hasn’t been easy, and progress is slow. But I’m beginning to be able to translate Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, etc., which was impossible for me two years ago.
I love languages. I hope to finally focus on one some day! (I am 18).
Most of my language endeavors are for fun. I have considered learning:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Mandarin Chinese, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Korean, Latin, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
I cannot make up my mind. So far, I have played around the most with Latin, Icelandic, and French.
I’m in the process of trying to learn Korean through various podcasts and other online sources. It’s sort of a hobby for my friend and I, as we are very much enamored by Korean music and Korean dramas.
We’re planning a trip to South Korea once we graduate college.
On the whole, I’d say we’ll probably be able to make ourselves understood and pick up the gist of what’s being said. (Listening to the music has been a great background.)
I’m currently learning Mandarin. The reason being that I was unable to take french this year. At first I did it just because I wanted to fill in the void, but as time passes I have become increasingly interested in the culture as well as everything else. I don’t know if I’ll ever use it much but it’s pretty neat to be familiar with it. As for my success I’d say I’m faring out pretty well. I have a knack for languages so it hasn’t been too difficult. You’d be surprised at how simple it is actually, not many rules or tenses to learn.
I’ve been learning German as a past time. I chose German because I have German relatives and it would mean to the world to them if I could speak to them in German. I can hold a small conversation quiet easily and ask for things that i need but I’m still learning so I should be fluent in a year or so.
I’m learning Basque just because I got the virus – I realize that there are quite a few people around the world that are learning or have learned it without a serious reason, so I guess there must be some virus, hehe.
In order to learn it, I thought I had to learn Spanish first, so I did – just to have access to more online materials, plus most Basque speakers are bilingual, that is they also speak either Spanish or French, and I already spoke French.
It is incredibly difficult but it sounds very, I don’t know how to say, I guess primordial would be the word…
As for the success, it’s too early to say, ’cause I just started (I’ve only learned the numbers 1-20 and the verb to be in the present tense so far), but I’m feeling pretty motivated…
I prefer to learn Mandarin Chinese, because it is the language which sounds nice, it is the language which is spoken by most people. It is the language, which has potential to influence the future. I learn Mandarin from Anyone who is interested in Chinese can join me.
Yes.. I’m permanently learning new languages. I always have a teach yourself language book with me. I’m currently learning japanese, but have previously learned finnish, basque, russian, latin, ancient greek, portuguese, old english and italian (among others). I never get to the fluent level, and some of the languages i have started (such as polish and hebrew) I can’t remember any of, but I still have the books and return to them frequently. I get a lot of tourists at work, so I try to learn the key phrases and vocab first, so I can get practice at speaking and pronunciation.
I’m also interested in language evolution and etymology so I try to pick up the old languages (hence latin, old english and greek).
I also spend a lot of time also reading historical works (my favourite being the old english works such as Beowulf, early english works such as Chaucers Canterbury tales, and middle english stuff, such as Shakespeare) and linguistic books.
In the future I plan to learn hindi, sanskrit, romanian, magyar, welsh and gaelic (haven’t decided whethere it will be scots or irish yet, but there are similarities that would allow me to pick up both easily), heiroglyphics (both egyptian and mayan) to name a few.
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