Comments | hagrids_beard: many many languages and I'm an monolingual fool, one who doesnt know her own language at that

hagrids_beard

many many languages and I'm an monolingual fool, one who doesnt know her own language at that

Aug 29, 2002 15:36

The thing thats truly SUX about being an English speaking person is you get so lazy and so conceited you stop trying to even learn other languages, just assuming whenever you need to speak to someone else, they will have a good knowledge of English. I have decided that this is going to have to stop, so for my elective in uni (something to do for ( Read more... )

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mad_madrasi August 29 2002, 10:27:21 UTC

How about Portugese? I can say 'Go suck your toe' in Portugese. :D manu86 taught me. But it's SO hard to pronounce the words!

hildigunnur August 29 2002, 10:30:45 UTC

Well, as much as I hate to admit it ... it isn't very practical to learn Icelandic unless you intend to live in Iceland and/or become a scholar in Icelandic literature.
As for the other languages ... I suppose that French, German and Italian are the most useful. I know that Italian isn't very hard to study, at least compared to French and German.
There are few languages there that don't use the latin alphabet (like we do). Japanese, Hebrew, Mongol, Punjabi and Urdu all use a rather alien (to us) alphabet. Bulgarian and Russian use the cyrillic alphabet and Greek of course uses the Greek alphabet.
That said, only language of those above I have experience in studying, is French and well, I think I've forgotten almost everything I learned.

Well.... amaterasu August 29 2002, 18:17:17 UTC

I'd suggest going with Italian, as there's half a chance you might use it. Italian seems really easy to me, but then again, I took both Latin and Spanish, which are very similar ( ... )

ciircee August 30 2002, 11:58:09 UTC

I've had Spanish and German and I prefered German muchly. Currently I'm dying to take Japanese...only TWO irregular verbs! Plus, thanks to anime, I can say all sorts of helpful things! Okay, not really, but I like the way the language sounds and how it looks. I'm sure it'd be hard but rewarding.

Okay, okay, sue me, I just want to have more people speak Japanese...

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oops hagrids_beard August 30 2002, 15:39:22 UTC

I left off spanish, that is an option.
Ive done German before, and I found the prounciation difficult to be honest. I liked it, but it didnt sit comfortably with me. However I visit german speaking countries far more often than I visit bulgarian speaking ones :)