FabSwingers.com > Forums > The Lounge > Learning a new language
Learning a new language
Jump to: Newest in thread
 |
By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
|
Towards the end of last year I began learning Dutch. Im still practicing.
I can speak a little and understand a bit of French and Italian. Briefly dabbled in Chinese didn’t last long lol. I love language.
Anyone else learning a foreign language? If so what?
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
Hull |
I remember a little bit of French and some German from school and also I learnt Greek at night school. If you don’t use it though it goes out of your head I find. I watch a lot of Scandinavian tv programs so I’d love to learn Danish or Swedish. I believe they are quite tricky though. I’d love to learn Spanish and Italian as well. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
I can understand a little bit of Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/Dutch and can say a few words but not enough to get me through a conversation.
Lekker is the most important Dutch word though. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
I know fewer Chinese words than the number of years Charlotte and I have been together. She says that there is no point speaking to me in Chinese because I don’t understand.
By the way, ‘I need to fuck you’ is something like ‘war sh-yow gan ni’, which is always useful. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I remember a little bit of French and some German from school and also I learnt Greek at night school. If you don’t use it though it goes out of your head I find. I watch a lot of Scandinavian tv programs so I’d love to learn Danish or Swedish. I believe they are quite tricky though. I’d love to learn Spanish and Italian as well. "
I think Italian and Spanish first as a bit easier as you are right the others, including greek, are I am sure a bit more difficult. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
Hull |
"I remember a little bit of French and some German from school and also I learnt Greek at night school. If you don’t use it though it goes out of your head I find. I watch a lot of Scandinavian tv programs so I’d love to learn Danish or Swedish. I believe they are quite tricky though. I’d love to learn Spanish and Italian as well.
I think Italian and Spanish first as a bit easier as you are right the others, including greek, are I am sure a bit more difficult. "
Yeah I think if you have a bit of French it helps with learning Spanish and then Italian as there are a few similarities with word formations. I guess because they are based on Latin. Greek was hard especially as there are letters that aren’t in our alphabet.
I hear Danish is really hard but it is very similar to Swedish so, again, I’d you learn one it helps with the other. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I remember a little bit of French and some German from school and also I learnt Greek at night school. If you don’t use it though it goes out of your head I find. I watch a lot of Scandinavian tv programs so I’d love to learn Danish or Swedish. I believe they are quite tricky though. I’d love to learn Spanish and Italian as well.
I think Italian and Spanish first as a bit easier as you are right the others, including greek, are I am sure a bit more difficult.
Yeah I think if you have a bit of French it helps with learning Spanish and then Italian as there are a few similarities with word formations. I guess because they are based on Latin. Greek was hard especially as there are letters that aren’t in our alphabet.
I hear Danish is really hard but it is very similar to Swedish so, again, I’d you learn one it helps with the other. "
You are spot on with that.
Buena suerte
Buona fortuna
Kalí týchi
held og lykke
Lycka till and
Good luck  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
I am fluent in Italian, can also speak a bit of French.
I’ve learnt Japanese for about a year, I was able to say sentences and write basic things in hiragana but yeah. That was that  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
I'm learning Arabic. I thought it was nigh on impossible at first because of the different script, but after a long while a pattern started to emerge from all the weird "scribbles" and now they make sense. It's a really flowery language  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I'm trying to learn German and always on the look out for a study buddy
Ja, ich bruache Hilfe..."
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt, aber ich habe fast alles vergessen, weil es schon lange her ist |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
French, Spanish and Italian are the three I can speak, read, write and understand. I can understand a bit of German and know a tiny bit of Russian.
I have just signed up for a sign language course but am yet to start it properly.
There is the story of why I decided to learn and kept on using my languages which I embarrassed myself in front of my big bosses with very early in my career but that’s for another day  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Learning other languages is not particularly encouraged or supported well in this country unfortunately as is in other countries where almost all the kids learn other languages not only at their normal school but by going for additional tuition privately or otherwise |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"I'm trying to learn German and always on the look out for a study buddy
Ja, ich bruache Hilfe...
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt, aber ich habe fast alles vergessen, weil es schon lange her ist"
Aber du sprichst so sehr gut! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *eeveeTV/TS
over a year ago
Doncaster |
"I know fewer Chinese words than the number of years Charlotte and I have been together. She says that there is no point speaking to me in Chinese because I don’t understand.
By the way, ‘I need to fuck you’ is something like ‘war sh-yow gan ni’, which is always useful."
But get your tones wrong and could mean something totally different! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I'm trying to learn German and always on the look out for a study buddy
Ja, ich bruache Hilfe...
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt, aber ich habe fast alles vergessen, weil es schon lange her ist
Aber du sprichst so sehr gut!"
Vielen Dank  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"I'm trying to learn German and always on the look out for a study buddy
Ja, ich bruache Hilfe...
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt, aber ich habe fast alles vergessen, weil es schon lange her ist
Aber du sprichst so sehr gut!
Vielen Dank "
Gern Geschehen. Ich lerne mit duo lingo und manche Büchen. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I'm trying to learn German and always on the look out for a study buddy
Ja, ich bruache Hilfe...
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt, aber ich habe fast alles vergessen, weil es schon lange her ist
Aber du sprichst so sehr gut!
Vielen Dank
Gern Geschehen. Ich lerne mit duo lingo und manche Büchen. "
Ich machte meine Eltern verrückt |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *egoMan
over a year ago
Preston |
Even though I should know German. As my family is German, I speak very little.
Still more than the Polish I casually learn.
Mainly to flirt with the polish girls who are so lovely. Expensive at Christmas though… |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
Been learning french for about 5 years as I work in Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire but I’m useless at it since lockdown , on calls it’s so hard compared to in person so I just use a translator now. I do like watching french films though , subtitles help a lot , I know la vie en rose and city of lost children word for word almost |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *oxerosMan
over a year ago
Clapham |
I got very into French over the last few years. Would love to find someone on here to practice a bit of flirty French with actually, si ça intéresse quelque-une… but my big lockdown project is Welsh.
It’s been very cool seeing where Welsh and French overlap.
Ffenestr - fenêtre
Ysgol - école
Lyfr - livre
Fascinating, once you get past the mad spelling.
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"I'm trying to learn German and always on the look out for a study buddy
Ja, ich bruache Hilfe...
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt, aber ich habe fast alles vergessen, weil es schon lange her ist
Aber du sprichst so sehr gut!
Vielen Dank
Gern Geschehen. Ich lerne mit duo lingo und manche Büchen.
Ich machte meine Eltern verrückt "
Wie? Zu viel laut Rammstein? |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
My French is pretty fluent, but it does take me a day or two of submersion to get properly into mental gear with it.
I think what others have already said, about one language leading into another is very true. Not only does it unlock synonyms in vocabulary, but it also teaches your brain to make the links between words that have the same meaning.
I’ve a little Italian, Spanish and German from working and travelling through them years ago. Dutch is the one I’d really like to master, having spent a long time working in the country and with Dutch/Belgian colleagues. I can understand most of what’s said, and written, but my spoken Dutch is still a work in progress. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
I listened to some Russian poetry spoken in modern Russian and couldn't make out what was what. But got onto a translation and phoentics site and firstly see the words and then could hear the actual words and then pronounce them. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"I'm trying to learn German and always on the look out for a study buddy
Ja, ich bruache Hilfe...
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt, aber ich habe fast alles vergessen, weil es schon lange her ist
Aber du sprichst so sehr gut!
Vielen Dank
Gern Geschehen. Ich lerne mit duo lingo und manche Büchen.
Ich machte meine Eltern verrückt
Wie? Zu viel laut Rammstein? "
Nein, niemals 
Sie wollten mir helfen, aber es wurde zu schwierig und sie verstanden nicht.
Es gab eine österreichische Fernsehsendung über einen Polizeidetektivhund, der Kommisar Rex hieß. Das war ein guter, alberner Spaß. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *uzie69xTV/TS
over a year ago
Maidstone |
"I really wanna learn Spanish; tried a couple times but really shy in actually practising!
Really wanna learn sign language too "
BSL (British Sign Language) is amazing and is the only language I've learnt to proficient level (3) as an adult.
As a child growing up in Malaysia I can speak Chinese (Hokkien, mother tongue), Malay (national language) and English (my first language).
J'aime le francais et je parle un peu... |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"I'm trying to learn German and always on the look out for a study buddy
Ja, ich bruache Hilfe...
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt, aber ich habe fast alles vergessen, weil es schon lange her ist
Aber du sprichst so sehr gut!
Vielen Dank
Gern Geschehen. Ich lerne mit duo lingo und manche Büchen.
Ich machte meine Eltern verrückt
Wie? Zu viel laut Rammstein?
Nein, niemals
Sie wollten mir helfen, aber es wurde zu schwierig und sie verstanden nicht.
Es gab eine österreichische Fernsehsendung über einen Polizeidetektivhund, der Kommisar Rex hieß. Das war ein guter, alberner Spaß."
Doch sie sind sehr gut!
Ich kämpfe mit der Wortstellung.
Vielen dank, ich werde Google  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
Does the language of luuuuuv count?
Just brushing up on my Latin as I find it immensely useful in day to day life! Well done school for giving me the opportunity to learn such a vibrant language...amo, amas, amat...  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
|
"I can understand a little bit of Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/Dutch and can say a few words but not enough to get me through a conversation.
Lekker is the most important Dutch word though. "
Slaap Lekker … |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Does the language of luuuuuv count?
Tut, tut young man... Your spelling is atrocious...
It's spelt luuuurrve..."
Sorry, obviously need to improve my oral skills |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *hagTonightMan
over a year ago
From the land of haribos. |
Yes I do. I am learning myself, spanish and german and I use the total immersion technique where for an hr or so. I put on the targeted language and meanwhile, doing the apps like duolingo and verbs, vocab learning, it is fun, one german story that I like to listen to is called die größte chatz, here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ7Vsi4W3BE&t=10s it is fun |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
» Add a new message to this topic
I know basic French…ask for directions, order a cake and can say where I live 