Would you like to learn a new language?
By Citychic
@Citychic (4067)
United States
July 22, 2009 10:24pm CST
Hello Mylotters, How many of you would like to learn a new language. Have you thought about getting together with someone of a different language to learn about it right here at mylot? Since there are so many people here from different parts of the world. I kind of think that it would be easy to do, what do you think. For example we learn through repetition
. And if we keep on hearing the same word repeated over and over again, sooner or later we will learn it right? I hear the word Hola from spanish people all the time. I think it means Hello but I'm not 100 percent sure. Anyhow if anybody knows what this word means for sure please tell us and also anything else pertaining to learning a foreign language that you'd like to share, please feel free to share it here. Learning don't have to be difficult. When we try to learn from one another. Happy mylot.

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6 responses
@maximax8 (31044)
• United Kingdom
23 Jul 09
Hola means hello and it is said like good day. It is a greeting and I heard it when I went to Guatemala. The local people there are really friendly. I liked traveling so much in Central America that I thought about learning Spanish. I began evening classes in it last September. I did level 1 and I hope to do level 1a in September this year.
I learned French for five years when I was at secondary school. I find that useful when I go to France, the French speaking part of Belgium and I spoke it when I was in French Polynesia. I think that learning a new language is really enjoyable. I admire how well the non English speaking people communicate on My Lot.
@bluehibiscus (702)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I'm in the process of learning Hindi (fyi anyone who speaks Hindi and would like to learn English or Russian write me/add me). I can read basic Devanagari now and I am always excited whenever I look up a word in the dictionary and I recognize the letters right away. I feel accomplished.
@brienn (825)
• Philippines
23 Jul 09
I am amazed to those people who are multi-linguist. I wish I can learn some new language too, as a Filipino, the language the I can speak is only Tagalog and English. I want to learn the language of Japanese and Italian, because they are very much different to other language.
@chedvah (66)
• United States
23 Jul 09
What a great idea! I love language and have some exposure to German, Spanish, French, and Hebrew, as well as a little Sign Language. I have a Masters in Secondary Education for teaching high school English, so I should do fairly well in my native language of English as well. LOL. My understand of hola is hello; I know 'shalom' is the equivalent in Hebrew. French and Hebrew are the two languages that I am focused on learning more of at the moment. I teach prayer book Hebrew at my synagogue to students in the 4th - 6th grades. I'm just barely above where they are in my understanding of the language. LOL. I tutored French at the community college while a student there, but that was a number of years ago. I'd love to be able to learn from other mylotters who speak either French or Hebrew. :)
