Do you speak another language?

[furnace]

One of the things I've always wanted to do is learn another language, namely french. My grandad speaks (well, spoke - he had a stroke and forgot a lot ) French, German, Spanish and English, fluently, and could speak a little bit of many other languages. He always said to me that once you learn one new language, the others become a lot easier...

Can you speak other languages? How did you learn them? I'm hesitant about buying these "Learn French" dvds, I had one before but it just taught you loads of odd words, rather than how to string together sentances and actually speak...

 

[Macabre]

1337.

 

[Beerbaron]

i did french and spanish at gcse. can only remember a little.

waits for people with programming languages....

 

[ElRazur]

Yoruba, Hausa, Broken african english* and english.

*Dont know if that counts as a language.

 

[SiriusB]

I am fluent in Grunt

Most students know it

SiriusB

 

[NeptuneUK]

ein bisschen deutsch

 

[Freefaller]

English, French, Spanish, a little Greek, a little Arabic

I understand basic Italian and German.

 

[Sudden]

Hindi and english
been speaking both since I was born.

 

[Dave]

Always spoken English and I learnt French (well, Niçoise ) when I lived in France for 3 years. Coming back over the past couple of days has reminded me how I need to be more proactive in speaking French as my French seems to be getting worse. (left France about June this year)

My infamous clame to fame with French is I did better in French Literature than English Literature when I did the IB

 

[^>Cas<^]

At the minute i only speak english, and at times that can be questionable .
I do plan to learn Dutch and Flemish though, as i plan on moving to Belgium sometime in the very short future.

Casmeister.

 

[Kell_ee001]

English, French, Spanish, a little Greek, a little Arabic

I understand basic Italian and German.

Show off

I've always wanted to learn Spanish

 

[Kroegen]

English, Spanish, German.
I understand basic Italian and French.

 

[paul@]

Catala
Spanish
Turkish
English

How to learn? Jump in the deep end!!

(Go to the country of the language you desire!!)

 

[MarcLister]

English (obivously ) French at GCSE and German at A-Level. I want to get back into speaking German because I liked it so much. There are some classes at Uni but last semester they clashed with a tutorial. Hoping for more luck next semester. They only cost something like £99 for the whole semester.

 

[shimy182]

japanese and english both fluent. but both dodgy.

i want to learn italian. becuase i wouldnt mind working in the car motorsport industry for my future (specifictly in italy obviously)

 

[SiriusB]

Classroom teaching a language just doesn't work. You end up learning too much [or rather taught too much] and none of it goes in.

I remember from my German GCSE classes we were taught all sorts of useless information like just about every different tense and case going. They tried to teach you as much German grammar in 2 years as you learn in a life-time in English!

SiriusB

 

[crashuk]

spanish
english
dutch
understand italian.

 

[MarcLister]

I remember from my German GCSE classes we were taught all sorts of useless information like just about every different tense and case going. They tried to teach you as much German grammar in 2 years as you learn in a life-time in English!

SiriusB

Wrong. They do that at A-level. I can still speak and write fairly well in German but ask me about tenses? Fat chance. I'll have my notes somewhere but we spent ages on that and I don't think any of us were comfortable on that. Us being 4 in Year 12, 2 in Year 13.

 

[SiriusB]

Wrong. They do that at A-level. I can still speak and write fairly well in German but ask me about tenses? Fat chance. I'll have my notes somewhere but we spent ages on that and I don't think any of us were comfortable on that. Us being 4 in Year 12, 2 in Year 13.

What is wrong? My memory? I think not!

SiriusB

 

[Jotun]

French and German. Badly.