Archive: 14 posts

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Oh hey, LBPC is back. When did that happen? Anyway - when the site was down I started working on learning Japanese, so I figured that LBPC coming back online is as good an excuse as any to make a thread about learning languages. Have you learned any languages besides your native language? If so, which ones? Etc, etc.

2015-07-25 21:42:00 Author: theswweet Posts: 2468

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I've not really attempted to learn a language outside of school. I remember doing 4 years (10-13) of compulsory French (last two years in primary school and first two years in high school) and then Spanish for one year (3rd year of high school) also sort of compulsory (either a language or a skill course). I remember very little of the two languages. I hope to learn another language although I'm planning on doing this when I am older.

2015-07-25 21:59:00 Author: Shooter0898 Posts: 996

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I'm autodidact and i learnt most of my English from just watching YouTube videos. But now that i'm learning German i just can't be arsed because it doesn't interest me as much as the English language did.

2015-07-25 22:09:00 Author: Woutery Posts: 793

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Learned some very basic french to get by on the odd week holiday or day trip years ago and did 5 years of German at school which is basically learning to parrot certain phrases to pass an exam then forgetting most of it because it isn't used.

2015-07-25 22:25:00 Author: Rabid-Coot Posts: 6728

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I can tell you this - with no job or money, it is difficult to learn French. Which I am attempting to do. Also, HI! LONG TIME NO SEE LBPC!

2015-07-25 23:00:00 Author: Super_Dork_42 Posts: 1874

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I've been using Anki as well, and I've got a few grammar books that I've been working through as well. The Spaced Learning thing sounds interesting, so I'll definitely have to try it in the future!

2015-07-26 02:14:00 Author: theswweet Posts: 2468

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I took three years of German and one year of Spanish when I was in high school. Awhile back I started Rosetta Stone Italian and have really enjoyed it. Unfortunately my hard drive crashed and I need to reinstall the software. You need a headset with a microphone since it evaluates how well you pronounce the words and phrases.

2015-07-26 13:14:00 Author: TheCountessZ Posts: 537

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Good for learning vocabulary and grammer rules This annoys me more than it should.

2015-07-26 15:05:00 Author: Woutery Posts: 793

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Portuguese is my native language. But I've known Dutch ever since I could remember because my mother (who's belgian) has always spoken to me in Dutch, while everyone else I knew spoke Portuguese. Yeah, it got weird at times. Apparently when I was a toddler I'd mix both languages in a single sentence and my caretakers wouldn't know what the hell I was saying. Fun times. Throughout my childhood and teenage years my Dutch was pretty basic. After high school I moved to Belgium (four years ago) and it has improved loads since then. I think having known two languages since an early age made it a lot easier for me to learn English compared to my classmates. The portuguese in general are pretty darn bad at it. Our previous Prime Minister caused national embarassment every time he went to an international conference and his broken english sounded like something straight out of a polandball comic. English classes in high school were torture for me because of how far behind most of my classmates were. Only I and three others could speak with a reasonable degree of fluency. After I moved to Gent I was pleasantly surprised to see that the flemish students spoke English pretty decently. I learned French for 3 years in middle school, but I've since forgotten pretty much all of it due to lack of practice and my contempt for the language. Ironically I'm probably going to relearn it soon, 'cause it's pretty valuable to know French if you're looking for a job in Belgium (bilingual country). FML. I tried to learn German during my first year of college but I gave up on it. It was a rough couple of years for me, having to adapt to living in another country all of a sudden. Being depressed because I didn't know anyone there except for my grandfather and uncles (who I rarely saw anyway). Studying in a university that operated very differently than higher education does in my home country, having to figure it all out with barely any guidance (because I was stupid and didn't visit the counsellors out of fear of embarassment). Besides, I was already having difficulties with improving my dutch. Throwing "oh, and here's another language for me to learn" on top of that pile of worries wasn't the best idea. I just didn't have the energy and motivation for it. Still, I'd like to learn German for realsies someday. I don't like leaving things unfinished. If anything so that I won't have too much trouble assimilating once Merkel's Fourth Reich swallows the EU whole. Another language I'd like to learn is Spanish. Not because it'd be particularly useful to me here in Belgium, but because I think it's the most beautiful-sounding language in the world. And besides, spanish and portuguese are pretty close linguistically so it's pretty easy for speakers of one to learn the other and vice-versa. I recently had a road trip through Spain (and France, but eff France) and had no trouble understanding the locals as long as they didn't speak too fast.

2015-08-18 12:54:00 Author: SnipySev Posts: 2452

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Apparently when I was a toddler I'd mix both languages in a single sentence and my caretakers wouldn't know what the hell I was saying. Fun times. Hah, my little brother used to do this to. My family is half Chinese and while my mother wanted my little brother to learn Chinese the rest of us would constantly talk to him in english. He'd mix up "bye bye", and "z?i ji?n" (Mandarin for "bye bye") and he'd end up saying "bye ji?n".

2015-08-19 08:05:00 Author: Kalawishis Posts: 928

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Merkel's Fourth Reich it's sad that I have to read such phrases in a LBP forum

2015-08-20 11:50:00 Author: avundcv Posts: 2526

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it's sad that I have to read such phrases in a LBP forum If it wasn't apparent, I was being sarcastic.

2015-08-21 23:32:00 Author: SnipySev Posts: 2452

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it's sad that I have to read such phrases in a LBP forum http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.675732 WHAT ARE YOU UP TO GERMONEY (...still joking)

2015-09-14 00:58:00 Author: SnipySev Posts: 2452

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My first language is flemish (A weird Belgian dialect of dutch which I will forever treat as a different language. .-.). I learned English through movies and videogames. I got taught french in school, but most of my knowledge comes from collegues at work who speak it. I'm not a fluent speaker yet but I almost always understand what they say. I wish to learn japanese as well but seems like a very tough language to learn.

2015-09-17 17:24:00 Author: nysudyrgh Posts: 5482

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