"Stiff Tongue", anyone?

It is never too late to learn a new language. I am fluent in two (English and German) and can get along in French and Italian. During the years I spent in North Africa I tried to learn Arabic and I found that to be very difficult and only learned a few basic phrases.

The nearest I've ever come to learning a different language is having to learn Kentucky hill speak when my husband first took me back there to meet his parents. They use English words but in a different way than I learned.

I use to try Japanese, but I really didn't get to do very well on it. Mostly on self study which is really hard because I didn't have anyone to practice it on. I had this interest when I was still watching a lot of anime and reading a lot of manga. (^_^") Now-a-days, I am trying Korean since it's part of the work I do. I don't know how to speak fluently. I try to listen to how they say their words or phrases, yet there are still some pronunciations that even themselves can be misleading. Sentences are quite difficult as their word order is totally different with what I try to teach them in English.

i believe you will get better as time goes by. if you are not getting it from a language school, you can get it from the people who speaks that language. my experience with the Bisayan language, specifically the Cebuano language. i am pure Tagalog and even though i learned a few words while watching tv programs, my experience in Cebu is a lot different. i have to speak with their language. i lived here for almost 20 years. so far, more people think i am already a bisaya.

I live in the Southeast part of the United States. Anybody who has ever spoken to me can tell you I speak Southern with English as my second language!!! When I was in High School, I took French & found it almost impossible to speak!!! I could learn the words with NO problem, but couldn't write nor speak with any luck!!! My teacher said that if ANY of us Southerners went to France, the French would fall over laughing listening to us speaking French with a Southern accent!!! Now that our country is being invaded by people from South of the Border, I want to learn Spanish, but haven't started trying to learn it yet. I have found that my French comes in handy when hearing Spanish spoken as they seem to share some of the same word (or atleast similar words). I feel your pain when it comes to French as it was painful for me too!!!!

I actually found French an easy language to learn, People say English is the hardest.

If you want to learn it badly enough, you will do it. I think it would help if you could find people who can talk with you or check out tapes or something to listen to. I have never learned a second language.

Scientists say learning a new language later in life helps decrease the chances of getting any form of dementia by a significant amount. I want to learn Spanish since it is the second most spoken language in the United States. Hopefully I'll do that before too long.

I have totally no talent for learning languages. I tried French in high school, it's the only class I ever failed and I had a tutor. So I admire all of you who have more than one language more than I can say.

I think Chinese would be hard for me to learn as it has a bit of an accent to it and it contains the symbols instead of letters. Plus the alphabet is much larger then the English. I am fluent in Spanish and although it has a bit more letters then English I find it easy to speak.

I like French too. But I have never started to learn it. I think that listening is the most difficult when I learn foreign language. I have some problems with my ears.

I don't think it's late to learn a new language. Actually i myself want to learn Mandarin which is like totally different to me. I know a few words though from the dramas i watch :D My friends say it's a tough language but i'm giving it a try soon.

Hola!I tried 3 languages...Spanish,simplified chinese and nihonggo but I found it easy to learn and pronounce is spanish since some of our filipino words are almost same as theirs. In this 3 languages i only knew and understand some sentences and few words. Learning other language for me is something really to brag because not all people in this world had the chance to understand,speak and even pronounce the foreign words. But i agree that it is not that easy to learn and you have to exert more effort to do so and perfect the language and speak like natives. here's some; hello= hola(spanish),nihao(chinese),konichiwa(japanese) i love you=te quiero(spanish),wo ai ni(chinese),aishiteru(japanese) what's ur name=como es su nombre,Ni jiao shenme mingzi,Anata no namae wa nani ka na Im fine thank you=estou bien gracias,Wo hen hao xiexie ,Imu bakkin wa anata ni kansha my love=mi amor,wo de ai,watashi no ai goodbye=adios(span),zaijian(chin),sayonara(jap.) It gives me a twisted tongue whenever i tried to pronounce the words but it boost me up because i know at little skill grows a bigger knowledge and soon be an expertise....

im not sure if it's french or what... but Angelina Jolie's accent at The Tourist is sooo great! :)

hi theresaaiza oh french was also my bane of existence and spelling was the pitts why do they have so many silent letters, why not leave them out if they are not even pronounced anyway. I a m sure not bilingual although I would love to be. I took French and Spanish in college and Spanish is not as hard as Frenc h. I am a native English speaker so that was no problem but French was so hard for me and now Merci and beaucoup and bonjour are also all I remember.I am not at all sure what beaucoup means anymore. lol

I talk English as this is my mother tongue but I had to learn French at school and now I can talk it fluently so I can understand you perfectly while learning French. Hopefully my partner is from France so we can communicate very well now. Then I started learning Hindi as my grand mother is from India, this was really difficult but I manage to talk it now. But now learning Mandarin is causing me a lot of difficulties. I have much problems in pronouncing the words as there are four tones in mandarin and if this is not taken into consideration then we might say something else which can be far from the thing we want to say.