Demirel
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by Demirel on Feb 10, 2008 4:30:14 GMT -5
Apart from German, I speak English, French and Italian. My English ist pretty fluent and so is my French, but my Italian is rather weak (I started learning it a few months ago so that's not really a big surprise). There are so many other languages I'd like to speak, I just don't know where to start...
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Feb 13, 2008 5:52:07 GMT -5
I speak German, Dutch and English. I took French in school but I´m not very good at it. I tried Spanish but had to quit because of finals at school so I´d really like to learn French and Spanish properly and then I´ve always wanted to be able to speak Swedish and Japanese.
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Post by mockingbrid on Feb 13, 2008 8:32:43 GMT -5
Other than English, I've had French classes for 4-5 years. I plan to study some more French when I go to college so I can do some international journalism in some English or French speaking countries. I hate it when other countries try to change things to suit the Americans better. Ireland wants to switch the side of the road to drive on because of the foreigners. So many European schoolkids are learning English. Part if the fun of travelling to another country is having it be different!
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Post by Pilleriin on Feb 13, 2008 12:28:42 GMT -5
My mother tongue is Estonian. It's quite hard language and Estonian is the only language which has a letter called õ. The grammar is also very confusing. I also can German, English, Russian and a bit French. I also understand Finnish, because it's very similar to Estonian. I've studied German for 7 years and I think that I'm quite good at it, but far from perfect. Like in Estonian I suck in grammar. English I have studied for 4 years and I love the language. I even understand the grammar Russian is a bit harder than other foreign languages. Our teacher is quite bad so I can it only a bit, but very many words are similar to Estonian. I have learned French by myself. My mom learned it in secondary school and she has kept all her old textbooks, so in some evenings I learn some new phrases with my mom. And I also want to learn Chinese and Italian!
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mv
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by mv on Feb 13, 2008 15:02:19 GMT -5
I speak Finnish, English, Swedish, little German and French. Few months ago I started studying Spanish and I'd really like learn to speak it properly. Oh, and I know few words and phrases in Japanese because my friend lives there.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Feb 15, 2008 5:45:18 GMT -5
While I love Japanese history, I don't think I'd ever be up to learning a language that has a different alphabet. It's hard enough for me to learn another language with letters I recognize I think it'd be interesting to learn a different alphabet...very hard but interesting I've never tried though.. My dad worked abroad for a couple of years (in Bulgaria, I think, I was 3 years at the time) and he learned Cyrillic alphabet, he uses to say it's easier than it seems...I'm not sure, I guess he just has a very good memory.
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vikki
First piece published in the school’s newspaper
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Post by vikki on Feb 20, 2008 17:21:02 GMT -5
I speak Spanish, my native language. My second language is English. Then I can speak some Japanese, which is easy, but writing is really difficult so I don't write in Japanese. And that's pretty much it.
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annak
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by annak on Feb 20, 2008 19:13:28 GMT -5
Well besides English I'm fluent in Polish. It was actually the first language I learned since both my parents are from Poland. and I took three years of French and don't remember squat from it. Haha I know how to say My name is.
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thenephilim
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by thenephilim on Feb 29, 2008 2:28:48 GMT -5
English (my native language) Spanish (have taken 9 years of it and it is my major, so I would like to think that I'm pretty proficient at it) French (I took 2 years of it in high school at the same time as Spanish, but I haven't since then and am forgetting it. I would love to relearn it) I would like to learn: Italian German Portuguese Japanese Chinese Russian
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Laura
First piece published in the school’s newspaper
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Post by Laura on Jul 15, 2008 2:51:59 GMT -5
Oh I wish I'd speak more languages! I'm a bit jealous of people who are fluent in more than two languages.
I can do Finnish, of course, and English. Not even Swedish, even though it's our second official language. I comprehend English quite well, it seems easy, but speaking and writing don't always go so smoothly. So I'm not fluent in English, but it's still like a second native language to me and I can tell that by all those little things, eg. sometimes I think in English and this one time I was reading and browsing through travel books in a book store and I completely unconsciously ignored that some of them were in Finnish and some in English, until my friend asked me something about the subject. I'd love to live in an English speaking country for awhile to improve my skills.
I also studied German in school for awhile, but nothing sticked in my head, apparently, 'cause I can't remember anything of it.
I'd love to learn French. And Swedish so that I could move to Stockholm :P
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Ansku
First novel published
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Post by Ansku on Jul 15, 2008 4:11:56 GMT -5
And Swedish so that I could move to Stockholm :P Me too! I can undertand it pretty good, but talking or writing. Luckly I still have three years left for my learning. :D
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Michelle
First novel published
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Post by Michelle on Jul 15, 2008 8:20:55 GMT -5
I really need to take Spanish lessons again. There was a job that would have been great for me here but you had to be fluent in Spanish. That seems to be the case for a lot of the public interest work in Florida. I've been listening to podcasts to review but I think I need to take real lessons.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2008 8:48:16 GMT -5
I'd like to learn Spanish or French or continue with German. I selected German as an extra language at school, but I dropped it after three courses because we had a really bad teacher. I still know some words and understand little bit. And then I know Swedish and English of course and Finnish is my native language. I try to improve my English by reading books, since I don't have languages at school anymore. Only one Swedish course that I am going to fail, beacause I haven't studied it for awhile and It is difficult language for me.
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Post by Hanna on Jul 15, 2008 13:52:11 GMT -5
I need to work to remember my Spanish, I used to be pretty fluent, but I don't get to use it too much now. I'd also love to learn Quechua. I picked up some words and phrases in Bolivia, and I think it's such a beautiful language. Not too useful, but...
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