How good are you at languages? I have a brain that just wont let me learn languages. I did however manage to pick up more spanish in 8 days than i have dutch/flemish in 10 years.
My sister was always brilliant at languages and has a business degree in flemish/dutch. She also speaks french and german. Jay can speak flemish/dutch, spanish, italian, french and german all resonably well.
Do some people just have the inability to understand different languages |
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By *averiMan
over a year ago
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"How good are you at languages? I have a brain that just wont let me learn languages. I did however manage to pick up more spanish in 8 days than i have dutch/flemish in 10 years.
My sister was always brilliant at languages and has a business degree in flemish/dutch. She also speaks french and german. Jay can speak flemish/dutch, spanish, italian, french and german all resonably well.
Do some people just have the inability to understand different languages"
I think I would have been quite good at learning languages. If I have too much to drink I find serbo croat real easy! lol |
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over a year ago
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My sister lives in Italy and has married to an Italian for 17 years. During that time he's now fluent in English and I'm still crap at Italian. They have also learnt Portuguese as they are currently living in Brazil adopting a little girl.
I tried to learn some with them so I could say a few words to my niece: big fail.
I learnt French and Spanish at school and have an O level in both...just about order a beer, sod all else!  |
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"How good are you at languages? I have a brain that just wont let me learn languages. I did however manage to pick up more spanish in 8 days than i have dutch/flemish in 10 years.
My sister was always brilliant at languages and has a business degree in flemish/dutch. She also speaks french and german. Jay can speak flemish/dutch, spanish, italian, french and german all resonably well.
Do some people just have the inability to understand different languages"
Huh? Again? In Scottish? 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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J'ai essayé à apprendre le français à l'école et j'ai été foutaise à,je n'avons pas un cerveau pour les langues à tous et admire ceux qui ne  .....oooh lala! |
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i speak fluent Yorkshire, its the only langauge i need lol
Seriously, i have problems learning otehr langauges, although i think you have to live in the place where it is spoken to really pick it up
i have a freind who speaks 6/7 langauges fluently including
Farsi
Arabic
French
German
Italian
Russian
she treaches English at HE level so its no suprise,
ask her to do something most of us do every day though, dunno change a fuse in a plug for example (depsite being shown many times) she cannot do it.
i think its our brains work in different ways |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Languages have always stuck in my brain really quickly and stayed there. My degree is in french and i also speak german, dutch, russian and arabic. I always learn a bit of the language before i go away anywhere as well. |
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Well ive decided im going to nightschool now in the autumn to learn spanish. You never know next year i may haven learnt to say more than "hello how are you today" "see you tomorrow" and two large cups of coffee without". |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I did 7 years of french at school and fair ok when trying to communicate tho not fluently.
I can also speak some turkish, enough to get by on when on holiday.
They do say that english is one of the hardest languages to learn and that russian is one of the easiest.?
I dont have the capability to retain enough info to do languages easily but wish i did  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I can communicate in French quite well and speak some Dutch,German and Greek..enough to get by
Spent 5 years trying to learn to read music tho and couldn't do it
weird |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I am fluent in French, and can also speak Welsh and German, and some Russian.
I think you either have a lingustic brain or are better at maths/sciences, at which I am hopeless. |
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By *horacleCouple
over a year ago
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I can speak basic Japanese aswell as basic Kyoto dialect.
Carl can understand basic dutch but cant speak it.
I took me ages to learn Japanese on my own, still WHEN I win the lottery it will stand me in good stead when I go over there :P
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By (user no longer on site)
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Learning Bulgarian, did Latin(?!) at school. Can speak a little French, Italian, Spanish and German. Can read it and pronounce it better than i can remember the meanings! |
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By *horacleCouple
over a year ago
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"Learning Bulgarian, did Latin(?!) at school. Can speak a little French, Italian, Spanish and German. Can read it and pronounce it better than i can remember the meanings!"
How are you finding Bulgarian? Hubby and I are thinking of moving there. |
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it can be quite complicated, but once you see the recurring pattern of symbols appeariing and remember what it sounds like, then you are halfway there. for example a letter 'p' there is actually pronounced 'r' here. There is a letter '3' there. HoBo is pronounced 'novo'. Some symbols are actually more odd. A backward capital R is pronounced 'ya' and there is no letter 's'. It sounds complex, but once you get it, it is easy to read, especially maps, at high speed, thankfully! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If you learn the bulgarian alphabet then you are half way there, It is a very complex language.
For example the word's
Edin, Edna or Edno all mean the number one. Word's have feminine masculine and neutral meanings.
But as long as you are making a effort the locals appreciate it and will in turn help you with it.
Sign language works wonders though lol |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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Languages like many other skills are easier to learn when younger as synapses (responsible for the acuisition of any new skill) are formed pre puberty.. hence no wonder our youngsters pick things up so easily. Once puberty is reached it is much harder but not impossible.
Also, once we learn one foreign language it becomes relatively easier to learn a second and third and so forth.
Finally, French, Italian and Portugiese for example have strong common roots in Latin so again, it is easier to learn a second Roman language if you already know one.
All important though is... have the guts to speak it, dont worry abo0ut making mistakes or making a fool of yourself - people love it when foreigners make an effort... it works wonders for international communication and many friendships have started in this way, with two people only understanding parts of what the other said  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" Bulgarian? Hubby and I are thinking of moving there.
Just be aware that they shake their heads for Yes... A nod means No...  "
ah but to confuse you more, the younger kids nod for yes and shake for no, when other young folk then revert to above when with older folk. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Don’t worry about it Diamond, these days anyone can pull off knowing an additional language or two to try and appear sophisticated…. just google a translation."
Yeh thats what I did on this thread
I do love google translator though its been really handy at work when we have non English speaking patients that we need to communicate with |
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I found the best way to learn French was to "apprendre sur l'oreiller"
(if you use Google to translate that word-for-word it won't make much sense but hopefully you'll be able to infer what the meaning is nonetheless) |
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My Sister in law can speak
English
Indonesian
French
German
And a little Russian
How many three year olds can do this?!
Only because she was tought from birth, oh and her Dad runs a language School.
The French teacher only speaks to her in French etc. She can now speak 4 different languages better than 99% of British children can speak English at the same age. When she started Kindergarden her parents were virtually called liars by the teachers as at that age a child can hardly understand one language is what they were told.
But this is Germany, anything from the norm is impossible lol.
This has proved a child is never to young to learn another language. |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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But this is Germany, anything from the norm is impossible lol.
This has proved a child is never to young to learn another language."
I agree, and mine were brought up tri-lingual and for some of the time in Germany where people speaking several languages is norm rather than the exception. I am surprised that you had this impression  |
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I am impressed by how multi-lingual the women on here are, or trying to be.
Not a squeak from us blokes...
Reminder to myself, start a Post on how many engines has anyone stripped and re-assembled.  |
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"Can speak Greek, English and german
Germans not so good but learnt enough living there for 3 years, fluent in Greek and english ain't so bad
Greek is quite a hard one as well..."
I had good teachers, my mom and dad |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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"I am impressed by how multi-lingual the women on here are, or trying to be.
Not a squeak from us blokes...
Reminder to myself, start a Post on how many engines has anyone stripped and re-assembled. "
pmsl... I can strip alright...
Its the reassembly that is the problem.. always a few pieces too many... |
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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"... I can strip alright...
Its the reassembly that is the problem.. always a few pieces too many...
¿¿¿¿¿¿ which bits... chicken fillets, hair, teeth... "
Oh I ll have a go at anything... when it comes to stripping... |
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But this is Germany, anything from the norm is impossible lol.
This has proved a child is never to young to learn another language.
I agree, and mine were brought up tri-lingual and for some of the time in Germany where people speaking several languages is norm rather than the exception. I am surprised that you had this impression "
It is her being able to speak so many languages at such a young age that we meant is not the norm. Yes bi lingual is the norm, but tri or quad lingual is not at that age. |
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