How many languages are you fluent in, /lit/? Did you grow up with them being spoken around the house, or learn them later in life? Do you have dreams in other languages?

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Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:10:48 No.6963554 [Reply] [Original]

How many languages are you fluent in, /lit/?
Did you grow up with them being spoken around the house, or learn them later in life?
Do you have dreams in other languages?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:16:16 No.6963581 >>6963554 I speak english and espanish. I consider myself bilingual then. I'm from Argentina.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:17:17 No.6963587 I speak French because Quebec and Spanish because spic.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:18:58 No.6963597 >>6963581 che pelotudo, la concha de la lora

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:20:37 No.6963608 >>6963581 Are you white? >>6963554 English, French and Ukrainian. I am a Canadafag as well

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:22:54 No.6963622 File: 14 KB, 327x367, tumblr_n75dd28lwQ1tewpj4o1_400.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One tbh Might as well kill myself

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:29:44 No.6963645 >>6963622 Me friend No burger do not eat friend.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:34:47 No.6963673 >>6963608 of course I'm white. What part of question is this?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:36:50 No.6963682 All the romance languages only count as one tbh (except maybe romanian) -t. language expert

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:37:09 No.6963685 Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbocroatian, Croatoserbian, BCS, SCB, BCMS, and English.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:38:52 No.6963692 >>6963682 Spaniards and the portuguese still have to learn italian beforehand or they'll be reading at a snail's pace.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:39:05 No.6963693 >>6963673 /int/ meme >>6963685 What country?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:40:20 No.6963703 >>6963685 What about BDSM?`

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:48:22 No.6963729 >>6963693 >What country? Yugoslavia, then Serbia, then USA >>6963703 >What about BDSM? Working on it.

Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:49:44 No.6963739

>>6963554
Swedish, Finnish, English and Flemish.

I'm a Fennoswede who was born and raised in Sweden and got to learn Finnish through mother tongue education even though both my parents are primarily Swedish speakers. I studied statistics at the University of Antwerp for four years and I made a real push towards learning Flemish since I consider that to be the polite thing to do if you're going to spend an extended period of time in a foreign country. I don't think I need to go into much detail regarding why I learn English.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:54:20 No.6963759 French and English only so just fuck my shit up

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:55:08 No.6963761 Portuguese, spanish, english sort of studying italian and french, but without any discipine

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 20:56:40 No.6963770 I was born in Dominican Republic so Spanish is my native language. I'm fluent in English but other than that, I don't know anything else. It'd be cool to learn German and French.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 21:00:45 No.6963792 basically just English, some Spanish, and I'm learning German now

Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 21:19:38 No.6963897

Born in the U.S. so fluent in English, obviously
I've been studying French since I was 12 (so for 9 years) and I can read most things I encounter. I just spent 3 months in Europe, a majority of that time being in France, and had very few problems with communication there but definitely wouldn't say I'm completely fluent.
I have 3 close friends that are Italian, so that in addition to its being a Romance language has caused me to pick up some of that.
My girlfriend and I are trying to learn Russian for reading purposes but it's been slow going.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 21:48:07 No.6964033 >>6963692 What do you mean by this? Also, I speak Spanish and English fluently, some French and learning German.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 21:50:01 No.6964046 >>6963554 >How many languages are you fluent in, /lit/? 2 and 1/2 >Did you grow up with them being spoken around the house, or learn them later in life? later in life >Do you have dreams in other languages? A veces

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 22:03:41 No.6964118 I speak English and you could say I'm near fluent in Dutch. My gf family is dutch and I've been to the netherlands with her for two months once

Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 22:04:50 No.6964126
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Fluent in albanian, english, french and italian. Can have a decent conversation, read and understand fairly well spanish. Currently started learning russian, just finished learning the alphabet and how to write in cursive, plus some basic words/expressions.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 23:18:38 No.6964452 >>6963554 I speak Spanish, Esperanto and English fluently, I learned Mandarin in high school, and I can read Hebrew and Latin. I'm a burger btw

Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 23:22:50 No.6964476

>>6964452
Oh yeah, I forgot the rest of the question.
>Did you grow up with them being spoken around the house, or learn them later in life?
I grew up hearing Spanish and English around the house and learned Hebrew because I was Jewish.
>Do you have dreams in other languages?
Yes, but mostly I dream in English.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 11, 2015 23:46:31 No.6964621 I'd say two and a half. English as mother language, French is strong but a bit rusty though I have no problems communicating. Mandarin Chinese is coming along slowly but surely, it's damn hard though.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 00:52:55 No.6964884 >>6964452 >I learned Mandarin in high school richfag detected

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 01:20:45 No.6964985 Speak norwegian and english, understand danish/swedish perfectly, somewhat understand icelandic and faroese (can read them), learning german and french.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 01:27:04 No.6965010 >>6964884 He's Jewish. What did you expect?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 01:44:03 No.6965065 File: 5 KB, 600x400, Flag_of_Esperanto.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Esperanto Doing the new Duolingo lessons

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 01:55:48 No.6965099 Amerifat so English. Also B1 Russian and probably A2 German, but I dgaf about German anymore. My lifetime language goals are C2 in Russian, and maybe C1 in Mandarin and Spanish.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 01:56:46 No.6965104 Murican and chink

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 08:02:13 No.6966048 >>6965010 Nah, I'm shit tier Sephardic. I learned it online.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 08:06:18 No.6966064 Just English and memeish pls no bully

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 08:10:45 No.6966075 >>6964126 nice handwriting, nerd but seriously that's some beautiful shit right there

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 08:14:46 No.6966090 Why does everybody here speak french?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 08:15:58 No.6966097 >>6966090 croissants and shit

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 08:44:24 No.6966204 >>6966090 It is the obvious language for anglophone literature nerds.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 08:49:44 No.6966217 I'm natve Persian speaker, and I started learning English from an early age. Thinking of studying Russian, German or French in university next year.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 09:55:51 No.6966394

>>6964985
Minn negri. Excellent choices for languages to learn. Faroese is bullshit though, backwards icelandic with danish slang.

I speak fluent icelandic and english, somewhat competent in german (I read and speak it enough that people don't misunderstand). Understand some swedish/norwegian. Studying spanish now but starting to regret it because french sounds better. Think I will stick with it though until I can read something in it.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 09:56:56 No.6966398 >>6963581 This is Brazilian shitposting

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 10:00:26 No.6966406 Only speak 1 = English. I used to be able to read and write Latin but I dropped it in school. And I used to be really good at French but I got a shit teacher in my GCSEs who made me despise it. Wish I still kept them on. Oh what could've been.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 10:01:17 No.6966411 I know Latvian and English. In Russian, I know as much how to tell you to fuck off or to ask you what's the time.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 10:10:16 No.6966444

White Canadian here.

>Italian
Mother tongue, 3rd generation immigrant.
>English
Picked up at school
>French
Picked up at school
>German
Duolingo, German friends, and practice.
>Greek
Books (New Testament translations, I shit you not), friends, and practice
>Russian
Duolingo, other websites, a Russian HS teacher I've kept in touch with for years, and practice

It isn't that hard.
Thinking of Latin or Hebrew next tbh fam

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 10:12:03 No.6966449
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I'm fluent in Swedish and Finnish, both of which i consider to be my native tongue. I do have some problem with pronunciation in English, mainly with soft R's. I understand Russian, and i can read the Cyrillic alphabet, though i have difficulties with forming understandable sentences.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 10:13:27 No.6966452

>>6966406
> shit teacher
Yeah, they see you perhaps two hours a week - it was your weakness, son.

> Oh what could've been
Nothing's stopping you from starting again.

I didn't do well at languages at school, and yet I've taught myself Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Quranic Arabic, some Anglo-Saxon, and some Russian, and Mandarin.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:13:25 No.6966662 >>6966444 there is no russian on duolingo you lying faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:23:05 No.6966688 >>6966662 It's very close to being launched in beta, like 98%. But it's not up yet, no, so he's a fig.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:28:30 No.6966706 Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, English >Do you have dreams in other languages? not really

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:31:10 No.6966712 >>6965065 Meme language. Flag was even designed to match your stan smiths

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:32:29 No.6966716 >>6966452 Where do you find the time? What is your daily schedule like? Genuinely curious, not trying to start some shit.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:33:04 No.6966722

I'm Spanish so I speak Spanish. I studied English and French at school. I live in Italy so I'm quite fluent in Italian. And my gf is German, so I'm studying German, although at a slower pace than I'd like.
I studied Japanese on my own for a year in highschool
I also studied Quenya on my own that year

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:34:16 No.6966727

English. I'm from America so I speak this natively.

I can read and write French well, but I need to get better at actually understanding spoken French.

>Do you have dreams in other languages?
I remember in like middle school, occasionally people in my dreams would say stuff in French. It was usually not the best.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:35:28 No.6966730 >>6963554 Fluent in French, advanced in English (my talking suck), currently improving my Spanish. It's very rare but sometime Idream in English or Spanish.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:38:43 No.6966744 >>6963554 3 - English, Russian, French. Learning Latin and Greek, maybe some Spanish if I end up moving back to the States for those sexy south American writers, German if I manage to study in Germany.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:45:56 No.6966763 Once you learn english why learn any other? All the works in other languages have been written/translated into a more scholarly/artistic form in english. It's a bit like western music notation, why learn anything else?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:48:19 No.6966766 >>6966763 I'm curious, what countries have you lived in?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:49:23 No.6966770 >>6966763 The Anglophone literary translation industry is actually disproportionately weak. France alone translates a wider range of foreign literature than the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Rep of Ireland combined.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:51:52 No.6966774

>>6966763
>>6966770
It's not only a thing of what languages one can read in. Most of the people here are from North America, so you're not likely to immigrate, but I'm from Europe and here it does make sense to learn a third language. With English you can go around as a tourist for some time, yes, but if you go to Spain, Italy, Germany, France, you'll need to study the language.
I'm from Spain and a lot of people are studying German like crazy to go there looking for jobs.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:57:41 No.6966792

>>6966766
Does it count if I lived there at least a month whilst travelling?

France, UK (all parts), Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Iran, Thailand, China, Japan, Indonesia, USA, Canada, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Nigeria, South Africa.

>>6966770
Quantity != quality. Shamefully I will disclose that French is my mother tongue here, so I'm delighted with what you are trying to attempt here :^)

>>6966774
>if you go to Spain, Italy, Germany, France, you'll need to study the language.
This is hilarious. Even the old people worth talking to will not insist on the native tongue.

>I'm from Spain and a lot of people are studying German like crazy to go there looking for jobs.
lower-class-stories.html

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 11:59:47 No.6966794 >>6966792 >lower-class-stories.html >I have no idea about Europe. Not gonna try. Have a nice day.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:05:37 No.6966811 >>6966794 Are you trelling me? I grew up in France.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:34:28 No.6966902 Portuguese, English and Spanish. I've also been studying German and French for some time now, but I'm still a long way from being able to read Goethe or Ranciere in their original languages, for example.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:35:38 No.6966909 >>6963554 Italian (native), English (C2), French (C1), German (shit tier). I'd love to learn Farsi, Russian and probably Mandarin but their writing system pisses me off.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:37:22 No.6966917 >>6966909 What books can you read with French C1?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:41:57 No.6966931 >>6966917 Everything? The "hardest" part of French is writing with a perfect orthography and accentuation, reading and speaking are not an issue at all, especially if your native language is a Romance one.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:42:41 No.6966937 >>6966716 I tend to change the language around every few months. Practice. Practice every, single, damn day. Without fail. Seriously every day.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:46:18 No.6966953 Fluent in English and German, slowly learning Japanese for the weeb credibility and to piss people off. I'm going to pick up Spanish or French some day.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:49:55 No.6966968 >>6966931 I find speaking and listening significantly more difficult than writing and reading. I learned primarily with grammar textbooks though...

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:59:56 No.6967006

>>6966968
I mainly learn by absorbing the language (preferrably from a native speaker/native books/films) rather than methodically learning the grammar, so that's probably the difference.
In French though I wouldn't couple writing and reading, because you can read and understand perfectly without knowing the exact accentuation of every word, yet you can't write perfectly with the same handicap.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 13:19:20 No.6967065 fluent in Russian, English, and Hebrew know a bit of spoken Arabic and french too

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 13:26:48 No.6967089

>>6964033
Italian is very hard to understand if you are a native speaker of spanish and portuguese, but you could prolly still read a book in italian, with a dicionary on the side for the weirdest words.

Like, a spaniard and a portuguese understading each other is not noteworthy, but for either to understand italian is still an accomplishment.

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>>6963554
I speak, Dutch(mother language), French (started learning at age 10) and English (started learning from when I was a kid, also isn't hard to learn here cuz everything on tv is in English). i'm currently learning Danish and Portuguese.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 17:39:58 No.6968051

>>6966937
For how long a day, would you say?

I'm working on a phd and also read ~50 pages a day of whatever i want, as well as force myself to write at least an hour a day no matter what. I really want to learn at least spanish and stop being a monolingual amerifat, but I'm nervous that an extra hour a day devoted to that wont be enough.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 19:49:16 No.6968565 >>6966398 lel

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 19:59:48 No.6968596 >>6963554 i thought that was spain on fire tbh

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:26:27 No.6968695

Canadafag here, fluent english and enough french to ask directions and beg for help. I Dropped French class after grade 9, regretting it now.

Should I try to learn it via duolingo so I can actually read French lit in its original language, should I go for some other langauge, or is it just not worth the time.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:28:10 No.6968702 >>6968695 You should study more English.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:30:06 No.6968712 >>6963587 >literally speaks three languages due to where and to whom he was born I'm jelly

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:31:15 No.6968714 >>6964126 Teach me your ways patrician.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:35:05 No.6968725 Order a train ticket and shit in German. Also moderate Japanese conversation including sex terminology.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:35:26 No.6968726

I grew up in the worst Canadian province. It's bilingual but even the French Immersion programs only succeeds in providing "intermediate proficiency" in French for less than 1% of Anglo students. As far as I know there is no English Immersion for Francophone students but they end up speaking neither language fluently regardless.

Canada is 1st world

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:35:34 No.6968727 >>6968712 I learned English by myself though. School doesn't teach you shit except for some basic words.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:35:45 No.6968730 >>6964126 you... have a few errors here and there, but that is some great handwriting for a beginner

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:39:40 No.6968748 >>6968726 I also live in Saskatchewan. yo'

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:43:08 No.6968768 File: 1.44 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6966090 To read all these books in their original languages my friend.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:48:36 No.6968789

>>6963554
Native in German and fluent in English.
You start serious English courses at year 5 here, but my fluency mostly comes from being immersed in English internet-culture since age 14 or so. I also had a a few years of Italian in school but forgot most of it.

Right now I'm trying to get into romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian) with a focus on Spanish.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:49:26 No.6968793 >>6968748 I was referring to New Brunswick, but you're right, Sask is a shithole :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:50:24 No.6968797 >>6968789 If you learn Spanish you get Portuguese as a bonus.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:50:57 No.6968799 where my Deutsch niggas at

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:53:20 No.6968811 >>6963554 Native spanish. Fluent in english. Know some basic french. >>6968797 >Portuguese Portuguese sucks.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 20:57:45 No.6968833 >>6968797 >If you learn Spanish you get Portuguese as a bonus. Yee, really like Portuguese though. Has a nice smooth sound.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 21:23:50 No.6968967 >>6966090 it's relatively easy to learn. You can be reading french classics in about a year if you're intelligent and disciplined about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 22:45:04 No.6969300 >>6966217 That's actually really cool. I've been thinking about trying to learn Persian for a while. >>6966712 Rude, tbh

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 22:49:08 No.6969306 >>6968811 >Native spanish. Fluent in english. Know some basic french. ¿De casualidad eres yo?

Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 23:09:03 No.6969363

HUEfag here, so I speak portuguese and english. If it was for this country's shitty system and me not being able to pay for language school I would barely know portuguese, but I managed to pick it up when I was young from some of my father's old text books and school. Now I'm learning french and want to branch out a lot more after, learning languages with different alphabets and all, mainly because of literature, but also to expand my professional skill set and to have a better chance to get out of this country some day.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 12, 2015 23:26:24 No.6969438 >>6966712 I like my Stan Smiths

Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 00:19:00 No.6969652

>>6963554
English Spanish, learned some french, picked up Russian in college can read Latin, teaching myself Arabic. I some times dream entirely in Russian or Latin which is weird as I can't really speak Latin. I'm white american but I grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood lived next to a Cuban family walked to class with a Puerto Rican kid, first job was in a kitchen with Mexican named Lincoln after Abraham Lincoln weirdly enough as my co worker so my Spanish is all over the place.

Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 02:37:39 No.6970143

who /chinese characters/ here?

I've gotten pretty good at reading traditional Chinese and to a lesser extent Japanese- but when it comes to listening comprehension or speaking I have almost no understanding. I know I've gone about learning them in the entirely wrong way, but I just like the runes.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 09:20:31 No.6971128 >>6968768 >éditions "Le livre de poche" Un grand oui pour vous, monsieur (ou madame).

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 09:22:17 No.6971132 >>6966662 >>6966688 >not being one of the testers >not speaking to my physics teacher and having him confirm things

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 09:31:36 No.6971153 >>6968051 I did two hours/day until I got the grammar down and then scaled it back to just an hour, not including the time spent "immersing" myself in native materials (websites, books, movies, whatever).

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 09:36:18 No.6971171 Polish, icelandic,engli and french

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 09:48:44 No.6971229 English and some French

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 09:50:30 No.6971236 Dutch, Frisian and English. I'm working on my French

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 11:11:40 No.6971512 Japanese, Spanish, English. Fluent in all but japspeak, struggling through murakami novels trying to make heads or tails of this shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 11:16:02 No.6971529 English because it's the only language I need to know

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>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 13:09:56 No.6972023 >>6964126 What do you do in your every day besides learning languages? I mean, is there any time left?

Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 14:51:21 No.6972493

>>6963554
Native Portuguese (Brazil), B2 English, finishing B2 Spanish (I read faster in this rather than English, though), B1 French (I'll read Le Petit Prince in original as soon as I finish The Book of Disquiet), starting German (2nd attempt). Stopped in A2 Italian +10years ago (want to return someday), gave up Russian. I think I can read Galician without problems, and I discovered I have very problems with Catalan (I have the sample of Jacint Verdaguer's L'Atlàntida and oh my...)

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 14:59:27 No.6972529 >>6968797 It is not that automatic. It is easier for Portuguese speakers to learn Spanish than other way round. >>6968811 >Portuguese is the best language for swearing. 'Palo en el culo' doesn't sound at all like the beautiful 'pau no cu'

Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 16:42:45 No.6972982

>>6972023
I am only learning Russian at the moment, so, after dedicating it 1 hour per day I still have plenty left. Albanian is my native language, I went to a catholic school run by italian nuns so I started learning italian from kindergarden basically (plus my mom spoke italian and I grew up watching italian tv). Started learning french when I was 16, took classes for 2 years then moved to France for uni, where I've been living for 2 years now. Spanish just comes natural to me (knowing italian and french, it is quite easy, plus I practice on duolingo on my phone every now and then). So yeah, that's it basically. It has more about to do with circumstances and my parent's choices more than my genuine will to learn these languages, and I am glad for that.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 17:17:52 No.6973125 File: 1.45 MB, 2448x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6968768 You have a lot of time on your hands ;-)

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 17:32:06 No.6973180 >English >Spanish >German >math

Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 21:35:04 No.6974023
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>>6968768
>Tfw have the whole La Comedie Humaine in Portuguese
>Tfw have two translations of La Recherche du Temps Perdu in Portuguese
>Tfw have three versions of Joyce's Ulysses in Portuguese
>Tfw have Finnegans Wake in Portuguese (Finnicius Révem)
>Tfw have Infinite Jest and a lot of Pynchon in Portuguese
But I still didn't find any rimed version of Odyssey.
>Tfw have

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 21:53:02 No.6974109 >>6973125 What fucking language is that

Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 22:24:44 No.6974211
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Anyone who started learning a second language really late? Almost all I do is read and I've been getting bored of it lately after 6 years of it being my main hobby. I only speak English and I'm 25. I think I should try learning new languages in order to give me a new perspective and some new reading material but I fear it's too late. I hear all this shit about how you're supposed to learn languages when you're young and how hard it is to learn when you're older.

I want to do it but I feel like it's a lost cause.

Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 22:39:01 No.6974268

>>6974211
I started to learn French with 28/29.
It's easier to learn when you are younger, but as you get older you have more focus. Try Spanish. As a language, it is the second best literature after English. As a country, Spain has the 4th best western literature (1st France, 2nd England, 3rd Italy, 5th Germany, 6th Russia)

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 23:10:03 No.6974366 >>6974109 Pretty sure it is welsh

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 23:27:51 No.6974471 >>6974268 >It's easier to learn when you are younger, but as you get older you have more focus Thanks for pointing this out. This gives me a lot of hope.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 13, 2015 23:30:14 No.6974480 >>6974211 28 and started learning German a few months ago, making okay progress. Just takes discipline and it really helps to have someone that will learn with you.

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