auntblabby
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thai also uses intonations as well. somebody told me they use 13[!] of 'em!  |
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raylit20
Blue Jay
Joined: Mar 24, 2012
Age: 23
Posts: 99
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I ran across some Japanese while engaging in my SI and thought it would be fascinating to learn. I had counting to 20 and some basic expressions down within the first few minutes. I've even successfully taught some co workers to count to ten. Ichi, ni, san..
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IndieSoul
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Joined: Jul 03, 2012
Age: 18
Posts: 342
Location: A planet in the Solar Federation
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Blindspot149....I LOVE your signature.
I've wanted to learn Italian for a long time. I have no Italian ancestors whatsoever, but I just love the language and culture. And the music.
I'm going into my senior year of high school this fall, and am one of the students chosen to take Sign Language. It's an ITV class, which means the school uses a program similar to Skype to connect the teacher to the classroom. About 30 students signed up for the class, and there are 6 spots available. They use a lottery system to determine who gets in 
The guidance counselor at school knows how much I wanted to take the class, combined with the fact that I need a foreign language because I made the mistake of putting it off until senior year. He recommended me for it - I'm very grateful for this 
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Joe90
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Posts: 8425
Location: Great Britain
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It's funny - every few weeks a thread asking this same question comes up, only sometimes it asks if Aspies find it easier to learn a foreign language and other times it asks if Aspies find it harder to learn foreign languages. So I don't know what one is right.
There are a lot of foreign people in my country now, and half of them are good at learning English and half of them aren't, even if they've been over here for a few years. It depends on age, younger people can learn foreign languages much faster than older people, generally.
Personally I am no good at learning foreign languages. I struggled with French and Spanish at school - and Spanish was my special interest for a little while but I was still behind on it!
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Wandering_Stranger
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| I used to have French and Spanish lessons whilst at school. Learning both at the same time (we'd have 1 lesson of French, then 2 of Spanish and vice versa in a week) was too confusing. |
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amboxer21
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Age: 26
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Location: New Jersey
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| I started learning sign language and was up to 300 or so signs in a matter of a month and a half. I quickly lost interest due the lack of someone to sign with. |
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Unseen
Sea Gull
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Age: 28
Posts: 237
Location: Bulgaria
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Learning languages is one of the things I am best at. In English class, I was always a straight-A student.
This talent developed into a job - currently I work as a translator and everyone tells me I'm very good at it. I don't even have to think - I just look at the text and it speaks to me, guiding my hand  |
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Davidlorenzo41
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Joined: Nov 28, 2012
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Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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| CanisMajor wrote: | I love learning languages! It's one of my passions. I took four years of Spanish and three years of French in high school. I would've taken more if I didn't have to take phys ed and arts classes to graduate. 
However, I don't learn languages to communicate. I learn them just because they fascinate me. I love learning complex grammar. I love finding out an entirely new grammar structure that I never would have even thought of, that takes me a week of study before I get the grasp of it. I think it's amazing how babies in other countries can pick these things up without too much effort, yet for an adult it's a challenge. I also love learning new sounds that don't exist in English. I'm really good at hearing the subtle differences between different sounds (like a Spanish "D" verses an English "D"), and I'm really good at making the sounds, too... which I always read was near-impossible beyond about 18 years old. I used to think that was crazy, but now that I know I'm Aspie, it could very well be an example of hearing sensitivity. I'm also fascinated by English grammar, by word histories (etymologies), and the way language branch out into families like a genealogical tree... |
Sounds like me. Except I have managed to learn to communicate in Spanish, but that was the last thing I mastered. I love the grammar and perfecting my accent. People have to ask me if I'm Mexican or American after they hear me speak, even though I really look like a "gringo." I'm into etymologies too. Since I made the effort to learn to actually communicate, which is hard even in English, I've gotten to the point that people tell me I seem more comfortable conversing in Spanish than English. And I've really gotten good with everyday spoken Spanish since I married a Mexican woman three years ago. Now I'm working on teaching her English and just got her Rosetta Stone. We'll see how that goes.
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