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I'm really interested in learning a second language from my native english. I'm sure /lit/ has many multi-linguals, so i'd like to ask them: how did you learn a second language?

>> No.2340877
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I learned Russian because I had an exchange project with some students in Saint Petersburg. I really liked the experience and started learning Russian with a coursebook right away when i returned home. (I was 16 at the time.) From that point on, I never stopped learning and started to visit Saint Petersburg regulary. Because of this I got better and better.

When I look back on to it, I guess that the most important thing for learning a language is one motivation and two practise. Do not try to learn a language without a legitimate reason, you won't succeed. If you like the process of learning a language on itself, meaning you can study an hour a day easily, you will succeed.

It's a fascinating process really...

Pic related. They are two veterans from the Russian army who wanted to drink with me. Needless to say, I got really drunk.

>> No.2341082

>>2340877
speaking of exchange students lol

People think america is the america they see on the movies, and then they come there on exchange student trip or w/e and oh my god, wild savage criminal niggers, spics, and asians ruining everything!!!

such is the future of all multiculturalism.

>> No.2341086

I learned English because two thirds of its words have a common root with French words, duh.

>> No.2342646

>>2341086
i think you mean latin/romance.

bump.

>> No.2342650

I took a course when I was a kid for my second.

I moved to another country for the third.

>> No.2342654

Probably the easiest language you can learn as a native speaker of English is norwegian. See http://www.pagef30.com/2008/08/why-norwegian-is-easiest-language-for.html

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As for learning foreign languages, I advice you to check out http://foreignlanguageexpertise.com/.. This guy is truly amazing and his videos on YT are informative.

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>> No.2342669

>>2342658
where is english on this list?

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>>2341082
Same thing here in Australia.
Violent Lebonese, Aboriginals, and (only recently) Africans.


>mfw tourists aren't aware of the situation in this desert.

>> No.2342673

>>2342669

um it's written in english so its prob for poeple who already speak it prob

>> No.2342676

>>2342673
yes but they should still include english. for comparison purposes.

>> No.2342703

>>2342666

Probably not all that different from the one in the American desert.

>see, the borderlands vidya, or the book of eli.

>> No.2342708

So my college has a scholarship to learn Chinese for one semester and then go to china for one. I want to go, but know nothing about china. You guys know anything?

>> No.2342714

>>2342708
see, you go to china and you meet chinese, see chinese cities, etc.

Go to america, nothing but niggers and spics.

Liberals see china as a hateful country, america as a progressive wonderland..

>> No.2342736

Living in Hawaii, see no Hawaiians or blacks but Filipinos and Portuguese everywhere.

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well OP
to answer your quest, i studied french in highschool for four years and found it incredibly easy because its so similar to spanish. if youve studied any romance language in school, jumping into another one will be easy.
i stopped after high school, though, and have since forgotten pretty much all of it.
i started studying japanese after gradating college in religious studies and deciding i wanted to focus on japanese religion in grad school. i have to admit, theres plenty of things i hate about japan and the japanese and their weeab fans on this website (been living in japan for a year now to shore up my language skills), but learning a language that is grammatically so very different from western languages is pleasant, if particularly time-consuming. you can feel your mind cracking open a bit with that light from the clouds parting in the sky when you analyze or even just hear a sentence that would make no sense if translated literally into english, but which you can understand anyway.
learning kanji, the chinese characters used in japanese, is also fun, though theres still many many more i have to learn.
one word of advice if you jump into a new language, is flashcards are your friends. the drill is necessary to absorb stuff, and i use both laptop flashcards (a program called anki) and ones i make on my own and carry around everywhere. a friend uses a program on his smartphone for that too. good luck.

>> No.2343163

>>2342669
>>2342673
>>2342676

It can't be included... because the whole comparison is about how hard a given FOREIGN language is to learn for a native speaker of English. Obviously, English is not a FOREIGN language for a native speaker of English.

What you seem to have in mind is some universal comparison of which language is the hardest to learn, averaging all data. That is possible to know in theory, but AFAIK no one knows.

As for the graph, it seems right to me. I would add Danish to the first group. I think behind Swedish and Norwegian because of Danish's worse orthography.

>> No.2343171

OP you should ask this in /trv/ or maaaybe /int/, not in /lit/. just a bunch of pompous nutsacks in this board.

>> No.2343894

>>2343171
I went to /int/ once, it was /int/olerable.