Question Which language do you want to learn? And why?

Blaze said:
I have a cousin that speaks sign language and it's awesome! I was gonna take lessons last year but I'm already too busy with school, once I'm done I might look into it again.

But yes, you're right, there's a lot of factors involved. (and ya 4.0 is GPA, it's comparable to an A+, but that's only for sciences. Languages were always a different story 😛 And it was not for lack of trying)

@Professor Walsh Indeed, French is my first language 🙂 Ou comme on dirait, moé j'parle le franglais! (if anyone understand that, they are probably French Canadian).
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Bonjour, je parle un petit peu français! Ça va? Canadian French is so different!
 
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That's really good! Oui ça va, et toi? ;)
I wish I had a knack for learning languages but I sadly do not.

I took 5 years of Spanish lessons and don't remember much of it but I would like to brush up on it.

I'm hoping to start learning Thai in the not so distant future. Hopefully I retain it better than Spanish.
 
For two years in high school, our class was carrying French, English, German and Latin. The point is, if you don't use it, you lose it. I was OK at French, passable at German and kind of lost with Latin. You can interpolate some languages - Dutch is partway between German and English and the only other language closer to English than Dutch would be Afrikaans.
 
I would like to speak German and French, at least, but it ain't gonna happen, unless I have a chip implanted in my brain.

I had French for years when I was a child in school (it was madatory), but it didn't stick. I had English classes as well (The book is on the table is a classic), but I only really learned the language much later.

I tried Ukrainian for 3 years (because my grandparents were from Ukraine), but it is too difficult and I gave up. 😳
 
I would love to learn Japanese, Russian, and Lithuanian. I managed to learn German in six months...I discovered that if you live in the country whose language you want to learn, it's much faster. And I speak it without a foreign accent...like a native. However, I can't really read much. 😛 But I can speak a bit of Swiss German, which is a notoriously difficult dialect to learn (if you're not a Swiss native). Total immersion is the key...you'll learn much faster.
Also, I'd love to learn Dutch! Living in Holland would be amazing because there's lots of tall people...like me. 😀
 
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I used to be able to speak Japanese pretty well. Now I'm very rusty.

I started in school from year 2 to year 10 then continued once I left high school. I had no friends in my little town (everyone had left for uni) so I used to hang out with the backpackers- they used to help me with my Japanese while I helped them with English. They taught me how to make a few cool meals too like sushi, origini, etc.
I could read/translate most of the manga of a series I was heavily into back then (Sailor Moon) with ease. So that was pretty cool.
 
American (not USA but of the Americas) Spanish because I live in the USA and it's the second most spoken language and some day I might retire to some out of the way place in Mexico....so I'd have to learn the indigenous dialect as well.

There are also a number of books I want to read in Spanish.
 
That's what they taught us in school - they didn't bother to even teach us the vosotros form because they don't use it in Mexico apparently.
 
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