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gemstone123
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 Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:08 am Post subject: Self-studying languages... |
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I'm self-studying a French GCSE and I've recently started learning a little Italian. Is anyone learning languages on their own?  |
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kc8ufv
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| I've been a bit busy in the past month or so, so my studying is a little behind, but I am studying Japanese on my own. Podcasts really help. |
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I love languages! I have many language books and even some ds games to learn French and Spanish. I took Spanish in high school, but the classes progressed too slowly for me. I tried taking classes in college but they were always full (spoken languages were full, I did take ASL classes). Unfortunately I never get a chance to use the languages so I get a bit rusty.
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gina-ghettoprincess
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I have been learning Spanish, Italian, and Russian for a while, and I have also recently started learning Swedish, Finnish, Romanian, and German. I think I'm addicted to languages 
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Daniella
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I've learnt English on my own but that wasn't much effort... there are quite some American TV-programmes, and loads movies, and loads of songs, games, so...
But my motherlanguage is Dutch, and my English is okay but not anywhere near as good as my Dutch. I can do a bit of German, and a tiny bit of French, both because of school, but that's about it, really. |
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DianaMarie
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:34 pm Post subject: Japanese |
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| My 17 year old daughter is studying Japanese - she has many books and is learning to write it as well as speak it. It is quite impressive - her passion for the Japanese culture is also very cool - I tease her tho because she is a finicky eater and could never stomach their cuisine. I am trying to get her to sign up to Wrong Planet. Peace Out! |
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OuterBoroughGirl
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I'm studying Spanish with Rosetta Stone. I also work in a school located in a very Spanish dominant neighborhood, where many of the staff and students speak Spanish as a primary language.
In spite of the fact that I also studied Spanish in school, I'm not learning the language as quickly as I'd like, bu I have made some decent headway.
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sefer
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| I am doing some Hebrew. There's not as many resources out there as there are for the more popular languages, but I am getting by. |
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kc8ufv
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| sefer wrote: | | I am doing some Hebrew. There's not as many resources out there as there are for the more popular languages, but I am getting by. |
One idea that may help find more resources, if you haven't already thought of it, if you have a Jewish community in your area, ask the people at the synagogue (sp?). They may be able to point you in a useful direction. |
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Jaejoongfangirl
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I loved learning Spanish in school - I speak it around the house a bit now and I can still get the gist of what fluent speakers are saying when they speak to each other around me. It's pretty cool. But I can't roll my r's so I sound silly speaking it myself. ): But I can understand others rather well. (:
Then I taught myself hiragana and katakana a couple years ago. It took maybe two weeks to get them down.
Since then I've used flashcards to learn maybe 100 simple kanji and their general meanings. I can identify alot of individual kanji, but I can't translate them into something meaningful very well.
I'm thinking of possibly minoring in japanese since I know I enjoy it and I already know all my kana. Plus I'd love to visit there someday. Plus it would be a shame to let the time I've spent learning it so far go to waste. (:
Also, I love the Korean writing system. I've thought about teaching myself that, but I haven't had time recently.
Arabic looks awesome too. |
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beingme
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i did introductory greek as an elective last semester, and now i'm planning on continuing with it on my own 
in classes i was more comfortable with writing and oral exercises. listening/aural exercises made me anxious. even listening to a simple dialogue made me so nervous i can't understand a single word when it's played. i'm hoping it'll go away with more exposure to the language. |
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jesuisledoughboy
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:23 pm Post subject: Swiss German! |
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I tried teaching myself Dutch a few years ago; I even got the books and CD's for it, but my attention span is too short. I can say basic sentences, and read street signs, and navigate webpages in Dutch, but that's not very impressive, since I'm a german Major. I did the same thing with italian a few years before. (I'm Puerto rican, so understanding italian isn't a big accomplishment)
Right now I'm in Switzerland, trying to learn Swiss german. It's a lot easier to keep focused when everything is in the target language. |
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OddDuckNash99
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I self-taught myself Spanish when I was a junior in high school. My school's language program was dreadfully slow, so I taught myself advanced grammar by going ahead in the Spanish book. I also increased my vocabulary to a level of fluency in only six months' time. I accomplished this by watching DVDs with the Spanish subtitles on and translating the sentences/words that way. I filled countless notebooks with the subtitles from my favorite movies and TV shows.
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Iuri
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| I started to learn French on my own two years ago and I can undestand many of written texts since it's not very different from my mother language, Portuguese. But I haven't been studying enough. |
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Nika
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: Self-studying languages... |
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| gemstone123 wrote: | | I'm self-studying a French GCSE and I've recently started learning a little Italian. Is anyone learning languages on their own? |
Very cool. I speak both if you want to practice together.
I'm sort of teaching myself Polish and Polish Sign Language at the moment. I taught myself Portuguese, Farsi, American Sign Language, and bits and pieces of other languages. As you can see I really enjoy languages. |
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