Do you speak another language?

I'd use Irish on a daily basis. It's compulsory in the Republic so it's been drilled into me since playschool. I also did French for 12 years and still can't speak it. I should really make an effort to learn more French, it's a nice language, but I never really made any French friends :/

I'm now learning Spanish and I'm finding very easy - thanks to http://www.michelthomas.com/ :D. It also helps that I have lots of Spanish pals around.

Portuguese is a very romantic language, hmm, maybe someday.

Anyone know if Welsh is compulsory in schools?
 
I was taught Spanish for 5 years - and can barely say my name is etc. Awful teaching - lack of real motivation (albeit regretted now).
 
I speak fluent English (obviously), a fair bit of Welsh, some German, French and oddly enough a bit of Swedish. :p

Morlan said:
Anyone know if Welsh is compulsory in schools?
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AFAIK it was compulsory up until the third year of secondary school here, and then as an optional subject thereafter. That was the situation when I was doing Welsh but I left school 10 years ago so its probably changed, hated it because we had such terribly backward teachers. :D
 
daz said:
Hoping to learn French over the next 6 months...
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Hoping to learn french over the next 4 years... :p

The problem is, now I cna ask for beer, food and attempt to chat up girls, I really have no desire to learn any more. :D
 
I speak German to a just passable standard, even if there are pauses while I think of words / how to get around ones I don't know.

Also know a bit of French - like how to order of coffee or something.

I would love to learn Chinese (well, Cantonese), though. That's an amazing language.
 
I speak French to a GCSE level. Has anyone got any idea how to improve my French now that I'm out of education? Ideally including a qualification, something like an evening course that ended up giving you an A level maybe? I'd like the option of moving to France many years down the line if I fancied it.
 
burns said:
I speak French to a GCSE level. Has anyone got any idea how to improve my French now that I'm out of education? Ideally including a qualification, something like an evening course that ended up giving you an A level maybe? I'd like the option of moving to France many years down the line if I fancied it.
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Evening courses at your local college? You should be able to study for an AS/A level qualification.
 
If you want to learn a language I thoroughly recommend spending time in the country where it is spoken. I could hardly speak a word of French but having spent a few days in it here and there I find it coming almost naturally to me, memories flooding back from the GCSE days.
The only problem I have is that I get my languages mixed up. When trying to speak French I usually get it mixed up with Irish, e.g ...

"Bonjour monsieur, cad é mar atá tú?" and "Je m'appelle agus je suis Éirreanach"

It confuses the hell out of the poor Frenchies :p
 
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Tiny bit of French (remembered from school) and a tiny bit of German (basically what i've heard on the telly!). Nothing really. Never been much good at other languages, don't seem to have the head for it.
 
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