Learning new language!

[Liampope]

I paid £150 for a years worth of Sunday-classes in Mandarin with our local Chinese community centre. Every Sunday for two hours we'd get some great tuition and practice, it's a lot easier to pickup a language when you get a chance to practice it with fluent speakers.

Out of interest, how was your mandarin after a year of that? This thread is now making me feel like a lazy arse for not learning more than a few words and sentences of mandarin, what with having a mandarin speaking wife! Freaking difficult and I haven't got time - they are my excuses. I guess I really need to learn it before we have kids or they'll be able to say 'daddy smells of poo' without me realising!

 

[memyselfandi]

One of the local language schools near me does a 5 week Japanese course (for essentials and as a taster) so I'm going to give that a go in October, when it runs, to see how I get on with it.

If it goes ok, it's been a long time since I tried to learn a language in a class environment, that I'll probably sign up for their full even classes in January.

 

[wannabedamned]

One of the local language schools near me does a 5 week Japanese course (for essentials and as a taster) so I'm going to give that a go in October, when it runs, to see how I get on with it.

If it goes ok, it's been a long time since I tried to learn a language in a class environment, that I'll probably sign up for their full even classes in January.

You're lucky, and I'd jump on that chance. There's no where near me doing courses unfortunately. As much as I'm doing okay teaching myself, I'd love to beable to learn in a classroom aswell