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>he only speaks one language

>> No.4223352
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But I play the trumpet.

>> No.4223361

I learn only what I can master. People who speak languages only to an average degree of competence are the scum of the Earth.

Whenever I hear people speak English with an accent or use awkward syntax I feel compelled to cause them grievous bodily harm.

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>>4223352
I play the strumpet

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>>4223363
I play the crumpet

>> No.4223367

>>4223346
>implying laughing white girls in bikinis are likely to even speak their own language properly

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>>4223352
Who the fuck ARE you?

>> No.4223370

>>4223368
Oh, god. Why did I laugh?

>> No.4223385

>>4223366
>>4223363
Awful.

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mfw people say they can speak multiple languages but aren't fluent in them and realistically can only ask for directions and order coffee.

>> No.4223409

>>4223361
Autism overload.

>> No.4223415

>>4223368
I cant help feeling bad for that man, imaging having to live inside that body

>> No.4223417

>>4223361
Idk, I sometimes feel that way but then I have to remind myself that english is a stupidly hard language to master and that I'm fortunate enough to have been born into it.

>> No.4223451

>tfw living in france for two months and can almost read books in french

any advice for speeding up the learning process? I've been reading along to audiobooks so I get the pronounciation right.

>> No.4223824

>>4223451
simple mon ami, couche avec un(e) français(e)

>> No.4224434

>>4223346
I'm almost perfectly quadrilingual.

Some people seem to find this an achievement, yet it seems pretty trivial to me as I grew up in a multilingual environment.

The number of languages you know has nothing to do with education... Or does it?

>> No.4224448

>>4224434

Language acquisition is one of the most rudimentary forms of learning. All it takes is time and repetition, and you will be able to converse fluently in any language you like. It apparently gets easier after the first ones, especially if the languages are related, eg. Latin, German, Spanish and French.

Now what you can do with these languages on the other requires some sort of education, whether institutional or individual. I doubt anyone writes good essays in any language without a solid background in literature and writing.

>> No.4224454

>>4223361
>this mad over accents

If you were a linguist, you'd realize how fucking stupid you sound.

>> No.4224477

>>4223346
For anyone interested.

http://www.duolingo.com/

>> No.4224492

>>4223417
>english
>hard to master
Ай сериосли хоуп ю гайс доунт тинк дат, сука блять!

>> No.4224507

lol. /lit/ is so easy to troll

>> No.4224506

How do I to commit to repetition of language if I have no need to speak it on a daily basis? I find this problem to be difficult to overcome. I'd speak to myself and elucidate my thoughts but my family would think of me as mad.

>> No.4224509

>>4224506
do they not understand that practice makes perfect?

>> No.4224513

>>4224492
Not even real.

>> No.4224543

>>4224513
This thread is not real.

>> No.4224574

>>4223361
no yu are ze skum, go die in a fiya

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>>4223346
>he wants to be a writer.
>he wasted hundreds of hours learning a second language instead of reading and writing.

>> No.4224582

>deux-mille treize
>il ne parle pas le francais
honhonhonhonhon

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>>4224582
>Zweitausenddrei
>er spricht kein Deutsch

hahahahaha

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>>4224589
>Dos míl trece
>el no habla Catalán

jajajajajaja

>> No.4224596

Parlo il italiano e l'inglese.

Im learning Italian and so far its pretty difficult.

>> No.4224599

>>4223417
>English
>Hard
I don't know what thy guy writing kyrillic letters said, but English grammar is simple as fuck. You don't even have cases or genera. Take "this" as an example: where in romanic languages you have to differenciate between four or more cases, all with different forms in singular and plural and everything in compliance with at least two genera, there's but "this" and "these" in English.

You're averagely fortunate.

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>>4224595
>MMXIII
>NE INTELLIGO LINGUA LATINA
>GRANDILOQUUS HILARITATEM

>> No.4224607

>>4224599
English has a fuck ton of retarded complicated shit thought. Like 'got'. How the fuck do you employ that?
I have, I have got, I have gotten, have you, have you got, etc. It's deceptively simple in some regards but complete bullshit in others.

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>>4224600
>Etruscan gibberish

>> No.4224610

I speak English, Italian, and Romanian. :3
Trying to brush up on my Spanish.

>>4224595
Català's fucking gorgeous; I wish it were more commonly taught.

>>4224596
>il italiano
l'
But yeah, you'll get the hang of it after a while.

>> No.4224612

>>4224608
>Etruscan
I don't think so squire.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/etruscan.html

>> No.4224613

>>4224612
>joke.jpg

>> No.4224617

>>4224596
non e difficile, é molto semplice, per la lingua é molto rational.

>> No.4224621

>>4224617
The accent is easy too.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0DlXx1WCw54
I did use google translate for some of that, as it's been several months since my work in Italy, but with a few hours practice with a grammar book you can really be flying. There are not many irregular words in Italian and they really appreciate you trying to do as the Romans do.

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>>4224492
chorosho brat

>> No.4224633

>>4224617
Its mainly the genders and irregular verbs that are messing me up. Its interesting though.


>>4224621
Yeah the accents easy and I got pronunciation down pat (except for maybe the sc + vowels)

The Italians Iv talked too are very friendly about me screwing stuff up to. Its nice.

>> No.4224640

>>4224617
romance languages all are alike in their morphology and syntax, I like that.
Also if the english language wouldn´t have a germanic grammar system you could think it´s romance by looking at its vocabulary.
e.g. regard, translate, fortunate etc

>> No.4224641

America is the only language that matters.

>> No.4224661

>>4223346
English, Farsi, and passing Spanish. Suck my dick, OP

>> No.4224718

>tfw Arabic is my native language, and know French, English and can read Russian.

Feels glorious. When I finish Russian, I will learn Hebrew.

>> No.4224748

>>4224621
you fucked up your pronunciation there, scemo

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>>4223346
>speaking any Romance language
>actually taking the time to LEARN a Romance language

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>>4224763
>Not speaking any Romance languages
>Not studying Romance philology

>> No.4224908

Where do you guys learn new languages? Pimsleur is soo expensive and I'm at uni so I can't torrent. I'm not in a position to take foreign language courses yet either.

>> No.4224945

>>4224908

>>4224477
It's free too.

>> No.4224968

>>4223417
>>4224492
>>4224599
>>4224607
There is no such thing as a difficult natural language, only one that is similar or dissimilar from your mother tongue.

>> No.4224978

>>4223361
you speak English with an accent too, you know

>> No.4224985

>>4224908
Pimsleur is on Soulseek. Probably on some torrent sites, too. Use duolingo as a supplement.

>> No.4225000

>>4224968
>There is no such thing as a difficult natural language, only one that is similar or dissimilar from your mother tongue.
This. All people everywhere around the world express (roughly) the same thoughts in (roughly) the same ways. The difference between the expressive power individual people's language skills is vastly huger than the difference between the expressive power of languages.