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Post by sierchio on Mar 28, 2020 16:33:42 GMT -5
Any bi-lingual people on the board??? I want to learn multiple languages... Starting w/ Spanish. I'm watching YouTube video now. Do you think this would be a successful way to learn or ??? How did you learn your second language?
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Post by sierchio on Mar 28, 2020 16:36:14 GMT -5
So far I'm not feeling very confident I'll learn anything
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Post by inger on Mar 28, 2020 16:59:11 GMT -5
So far I'm not feeling very confident I'll learn anything I learned some “Tarzan talk” Spanish out of necessity back when I had to deal with having Mexican workers. Even then, I found that the Mexican folks sometimes were unsure what to tell me to say, or that dialects varied between parts of the country. I recall asking how to say “Greenhouse”. Logically, one might think Casa (house) Verde (green), but because it simply meant that the house was green, it didn’t cover it for them. It took about four days for them to come back with invernadado, but the next group of Me I and I dealt with had no idea what invernadado meant. Sierch, I believe it to be a trait you almost need to be born with. Like some are good at math, spelling, science, or mechanics. You either have it, or you don’t. The difficult thing is that if you have no one to speak the language with you don’t tend to progress further than menu items or where is the rest room? |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 28, 2020 17:36:48 GMT -5
I speak Bengali. But I suck at picking up new languages. I was terrible at French in high school.
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Post by inger on Mar 28, 2020 19:20:16 GMT -5
I speak Bengali. But I suck at picking up new languages. I was terrible at French in high school. Do your mom and pop converse with you and each other in Bengali around the house? Do any of you make automobile warranty calls from home? 😂 |
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Post by noetsi on Mar 28, 2020 19:20:36 GMT -5
more useful to speak virus  |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 28, 2020 19:50:50 GMT -5
Any bi-lingual people on the board??? I want to learn multiple languages... Starting w/ Spanish. I'm watching YouTube video now. Do you think this would be a successful way to learn or ??? How did you learn your second language? I took Spanish in college, as knowing a foreign language was a requirement of the degree. But, if you do not use it regularly, you’ll slowly lose it. It’s a little expensive, but Rosetta Stone is a good investment, and you can practice it at anytime with automatic feedback. |
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Post by inger on Mar 28, 2020 20:08:12 GMT -5
Any bi-lingual people on the board??? I want to learn multiple languages... Starting w/ Spanish. I'm watching YouTube video now. Do you think this would be a successful way to learn or ??? How did you learn your second language? I took Spanish in college, as knowing a foreign language was a requirement of the degree. But, if you do not use it regularly, you’ll slowly lose it. It’s a little expensive, but Rosetta Stone is a good investment, and you can practice it at anytime with automatic feedback. I’ve heard it cooks very evenly, though... |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 28, 2020 20:10:42 GMT -5
I took Spanish in college, as knowing a foreign language was a requirement of the degree. But, if you do not use it regularly, you’ll slowly lose it. It’s a little expensive, but Rosetta Stone is a good investment, and you can practice it at anytime with automatic feedback. I’ve heard it cooks very evenly, though... The flan is to die for... |
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Post by inger on Mar 28, 2020 20:14:05 GMT -5
I’ve heard it cooks very evenly, though... The flan is to die for... I have a few shirts made of it... |
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Post by sierchio on Mar 29, 2020 7:18:37 GMT -5
Any bi-lingual people on the board??? I want to learn multiple languages... Starting w/ Spanish. I'm watching YouTube video now. Do you think this would be a successful way to learn or ??? How did you learn your second language? I took Spanish in college, as knowing a foreign language was a requirement of the degree. But, if you do not use it regularly, you’ll slowly lose it. It’s a little expensive, but Rosetta Stone is a good investment, and you can practice it at anytime with automatic feedback. I can probably find Rosetta Stone free online... that's a good idea, I'll have to give me a look |
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Post by sierchio on Mar 29, 2020 7:25:37 GMT -5
I speak Bengali. But I suck at picking up new languages. I was terrible at French in high school. Do your mom and pop converse with you and each other in Bengali around the house? Do any of you make automobile warranty calls from home? 😂 The summer between 7th and 8th grade, I was hooking up with this High School girl. (first boobs I saw in real life and first boobs I touched.. she was realllllly "loose") She informed me that she was taking German class so when I mailed in my choices for electives, I put down the German class... because I figured I'd have a chance to be in the same class as her. The German class was in the High School... Welp, I got into the German class.. but we stopped talking before summer was over. I had no interest in learning German. (for some reason, I thought HS classes were waaay different than MS classes.. and I thought we'd be able to like make out in the back of the class somehow.. but I digress. There was a "shuttle bus" that would take you from the MS parking lot to the HS. I would purposely miss the bus and walk over... and then wander around the HS "lost." Show up to class w/ about 5 minutes left to go. Lasted about 2 weeks before they told me I could no longer take the class. Needless to say, I never learned a word of German. SIGH... the things we do for "love" |
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Post by sierchio on Mar 29, 2020 7:27:13 GMT -5
Part of reason why I want to learn Spanish is to talk to the Mexican girls where I'm working LOL. When I was working over-nights at the grocery store there were some Mexican girls that spoke very little English... and I was fancying learning the language as well. 90% of the reason I want to learn Spanish...
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Post by inger on Mar 29, 2020 10:36:39 GMT -5
Part of reason why I want to learn Spanish is to talk to the Mexican girls where I'm working LOL. When I was working over-nights at the grocery store there were some Mexican girls that spoke very little English... and I was fancying learning the language as well. 90% of the reason I want to learn Spanish... Mixing business with pleasure will wind up getting you in trouble. Stay away from those girls... find somebody you can talk to instead of taking Spanish so you can learn the few words you need to know to get laid. And never someone you work with... |
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Post by Renfield on Mar 29, 2020 16:36:24 GMT -5
Foreign languages are baffling. It's like they a different word for everything.
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