new languages are a lot of fun i wish i could learn them all!
By cole585
@cole585 (167)
United States
August 21, 2011 12:18pm CST
i have some knowledge of spanish and very limited knowledge of japanese but i want to learn them both fluenty! I know spanish enough that i can read it but i cant listen to people talk in spanish they talk faster than i can translate...and everyone that is a japanese freak knows that the japanese talk pretty FREAKIN FAST haha i think that if i learned both of the languages i mentioned above that i would learn 2 more and that would be french and german but that would be it... i dont really have any want to go to china or any other country before i die. Does anyone know any languages and how long did it take you to learn your language fluently? Have you ever been to the country with the language you learned? What is your favorite language of all time? :) Have a wonderful day
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@msrema (36)
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21 Aug 11
I believe it is always good to learn new languages if everything is affordable. My mother is Achik, when I was in primary school I have to read in Bengali medium then I learned Englsih. As the neighboring country's language and by the blessings of satellite I didn't even notice that now I understand the Hindi language. If I get the opportunity I wish to learn Japanese and French.
@cole585 (167)
• United States
21 Aug 11
Wow all you people on here know like multiple languages! i dont acutally know enough to speak in a different language to the point i would be able to make intellegent conversation that is impressive! i wish that america taught different language and a younger age... it would help a lot! i think that if i could find way to memorize a language from every continent i would be good this way i would never be without communication no matter where i was i always wanted to go to india its so different from where i live in the means of texture of surroundings its beautiful! ohio is a nice state but i love india im just assuming your from india but where are you from?
@catamari (127)
• Romania
21 Aug 11
Hello msrema and cole585. I found that to learn a foreign language it's a very fun and very useful too. I believe that basic knowledge in any language is not so hard to learn. I wish to have more free, spare time to learn more languages too. I started to study English on June 2010, one year ago, more or less, and now I know pretty good to speak, to read, to write and even to explain a little about English. My goal is to be an English teacher. But... I love to study more language too. For example I've started to study a little arabic, german and now japanese. Then I stoped because first of all I want to know very well English. Then, if I'll have more spare time I'll continue to study more languages. I really like to do it. See you, soon! Cata
@cole585 (167)
• United States
21 Aug 11
Thats great catamari! and you know english very well! the only actual errors i picked in the whole paragraph you wrote was First of all i want to know very well english haha switch your english and very well around in the sentance so that it sounds like i want to know english very well. but that is about it! you are very good at writing english! and in just a year thats amazing! i believe you will be a great teacher! id learn english from you hahahaha
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
21 Aug 11
I wish I would have learned Spanish when I still lived in the Southwest and there were millions of Hispanics around that would be more than glad to practice with me and teach me! But, too late now. One of my myLot friends wanted to learn another language and she posted this link:
http://www.busuu.com/
It is free! I am a cheapskate so I save all things that are free or cheap. This looks like a great place to learn a language and I may join it soon. My eldest son is in love with a Mexican girl and her mother doesn't speak English. I really want to learn some Spanish before I go to visit so that we mothers can get to know each other a bit.
You're right when you say people talk so fast. I learned some Spanish in High School (way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth!) but when our teacher brought in a native speaker as a demonstration we couldn't understand a word, it was so fast! I think it is just practice, practice, practice!
@cole585 (167)
• United States
21 Aug 11
Wow i love the site you gave me thanks! i never knew there was like a social network for people that wanted to learn different languages this is pretty sweet i culd get into this :) i hope they have japanese i didnt see it htough :( o well even spanish is great haha i have a friend that actually wants to become an ambassador and he actually does know multiple languages fluently but he has decided to do this since he was in the 3rd grade so all his classes have revolved around teaching him the languages he needs to learn... i wish that i would have taken that route but o well i love computers more than language but its still fun haha :)
@mellaw (84)
• Philippines
22 Aug 11
Hello dragon54u thanks for sharing the site I visited it and look great,I like to learned other than English languages even though English is the best language bcoz it's common to use for most country.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
22 Aug 11
Mellaw, I got this from a discussion from one of my friends. We can learn a lot from our fellows here on this site! 
@GemmaR (8517)
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21 Aug 11
The only language other than English that I know some of is Spanish, and I'm nowhere near fluent in that. I know enough to get by on if I had to visit the country on holiday, but I would love to be able to learn the language properly some day. I always say that when I have finished my degree, the next thing that I am going to do is buy a Spanish DVD and learn the language. Ideally, I would like to move to Spain for a year in order to immerse myself into the language so that I can learn a little bit quicker than I would if I stayed at home.
@jricky1 (6800)
• China
22 Aug 11
Wow,you know so much about language,but i only know english and a little spanish.I have a passion about learning languages,i think it would be really great if i talk to the people using their language,it's kind of enjoy.So,just keep for fun but also it is helpful if we plan to travel to outside world.
@cole585 (167)
• United States
22 Aug 11
well i suggest busuu.com like dragon did to me! its great rosetta stone is the same thing as this site and better! but its free you get the exact same thing. but for free haha i love it and there are people from all over that use it so people from mexico and spain ( any other places that use spanish hahahah) can tell you if you are saying something wrong! its great
@Rick1950 (1575)
• Lima, Peru
21 Aug 11
The best way to learn a foreign language is to be in the country where it is spoken and, at least, take a course in there. But you can learn it in your own country, without needing to travel abroad, if you take lessons at an Institut where that tongue will be tought. It's recommendable to do the complete course. My mother tongue is Spanish, but I can fluently German too. I lived there almost five years and took a couple of courses. If you can read Spanish, you're almost on the goal. Buy a book and dvds to learn the pronunciation with. As in each language, there are in Spanish different accents. But exercising the pronunciation you can improve your understanding.
@cole585 (167)
• United States
21 Aug 11
yes language is very important to me and poeple that speak other languages seem to have a higher rate on being able to memorize things quicker and learn faster. i love knowledge and i think learning a new language will also help me in my other studies
@erez98 (166)
• Israel
21 Aug 11
we are sharing the same hobby.
i am always excited to learn a new language.it gives me so much satisfaction to realize that i learn new words every day and more than that, that i understand new words everyday.
i am speaking french, english , hebrew but i know some of many other languages, like, for ex, italian and swedish....
i must admit that when i am getting older i have less time to do that but, at least, i try to keep in my memory all the words that i have learnt in the past.
@cole585 (167)
• United States
21 Aug 11
yea i know i hate the feeling when im trying to remember how to say something and i jsut cant think of the word and i know that i know it. The verb to speak in spanish for example! omg yesterday i had to look it up and i used it the day before haha (hablar btw) trying to remember it now!
@catamari (127)
• Romania
21 Aug 11
Hi erez98. I think you are great if you know more languages. I hope be able too, to speak more languages. There we need to have more spare time or free time. Now, because of the internet, we can find very fast a lot of comunities where we can talk with native english, japanese, italians, spanish and so on, people. We need to know how to use in a good moods the internet. To learn a language, to comunicate the internet could be very useful. See you soon! Cata
@soulist (2985)
• United States
28 Aug 11
I know very little French. But I would love to learn more, Japanese, Gaelic, Italian. Gosh I would love to learn as many languages as I can. I might look into taking night classes at the local collage to learn some new languages. I think it would benefit me in so many ways.
@kaplya (1578)
• India
22 Aug 11
Yep I too had this same wish but it was never granted!hehehehe At present, I can speak Hindi, English, Urdu. Hindi is my mother tongue so no problem there also Urdu is quite similar to Hindi so I had to learn only the script of it. English took kind of 3/4 years to master it's all four components (reading, writing, listening and speaking). Language that I am concentrating at at this moment is French. I know basics of it but practical knowledge of the language is proving to be very tough to learn. I wish to visit France someday, got many online friends there.:)
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
28 Aug 11
I do travel often on my business trips to differnet parts of the world. It is always very interesting to learn about the cultures and traditions of the people in different countries, including the languages spoken. And, indeed, it is very helpful if one can speak the language. With my frequent visits there, I have picked up some basics of Thai language. It is not that difficult to learn, but it takes time to have the right accent, the right tone. That is the difficult part of learning a language.
@rajeev075 (1961)
• India
21 Aug 11
i Know english hindi little urdu and snaskrit but it the hindi where i had command where i can speark fast and heard fast.
As i saw some time english movies they speak so fast that half of the dialoughe or even more go out from mind and i didn't go the idea so i use subtitle for it there it help ful for me to understand.
can iask well y u wan learn many languages?
@cole585 (167)
• United States
21 Aug 11
i dont know really... its just something that i would love to do learning more than 2 languages is my goal and if i reach that i will definetly go for more :) i didnt mean to leave out peoples languages as if they were not important either!!! i just noticed that and im sorry peoples haha your language is just as important as any. i just am more interested in the others but yea i have always loved learning new language its actually fun to do and that makes it easy to learn for me but im glad that you learnt english :) i swear if i was born anywhere where they dont speak it i would never have learned it our language is so stupid haha i mean it just doesnt make sense to me at all when i think about it but when you grow up with it it does i guess
btw one of the reasons our language is stupid ( it it) is correct grammar! why do we need both in the same sentance right next to each other! just get rid of one haha o well what was your original language...your home country?
@minomarimat (372)
• Philippines
22 Aug 11
My favorite language, other than English (of course), is Japanese! I'm an anime fan, so there's no question about it. But if there's a second favorite, that would be Korean. Not to be biased on Asian languages, but I just love these.
