my history learning languages
By nawala
@nawala123 (20871)
Indonesia
December 26, 2018 5:01pm CST
since i was in high school i have learned several languages, but mostly have been away from my mind.
1. English, i studied it at high school and college as my major, and it is my best foreign language i can communicate, even not well enough for westerner in case of course in Indonesia, English is juts “foreign” language, not for daily life, like in our neighbourhood area. my first obstacle in learning English is the tenses and grammar, because indonesian has distinctive grammar and no tenses at all.
2. Germany/Deutsch. i studied it at high school for one year only, and that was not enough to have good vocabularies in Deutsch. moreover, Germany is a more complicated language than English. i just have few words in Germany now
3. Arabic. i studied it several years but the grammar is more difficult to understand. i studied for religious reason. i am not good at it, but still better than Germany or japan
4. Japan. it is my worst. i don’t understand at all even i tried hard to understand it.
English is easier for self-study because there are a lot of books, magazine, short stories in it. so i can studied it by myself at home.
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8 responses
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
27 Dec 18
I also think that Japanese is a hard language to learn. I am not very good at reading it, but I am trying to get better. I think that the sentence structure is difficult. It is different from other languages I have learned.
I learned English, German and French at school and Italian when I was living in Italy, but English is the only foreign language that I use daily. I can read German, but I forgot some of the French and Italian words. I have started learning Spanish, Russian and Chinese (beginner level)
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
27 Dec 18
@nawala123 How do you say hello in Indonesian? My friend thought me a few words in Indonesian, but I don't remember the exact words. She is from Indonesia, but she lives in my country as an immigrant.
@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
27 Dec 18
@Porcospino
we say
apa kabar: how are you
baik (baik saja): i am fine
selamat pagi : good morning
selamat siang : good afternoon (from midday to 3pm)
selamat sore :good afternoon (from 3 pm to before dusk)
selamat malam :good evening and good night
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@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
28 Dec 18
@nawala123 When I lived in the south of France there were many Arabs who lived there.
@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
27 Dec 18
there are so many arab descendant in europe
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. I had learnt Japanese too, but finally I gave up. It's too complicated for me to understand 
@leny34 (8506)
• Sidoarjo, Indonesia
27 Dec 18
@nawala123 yes that's true, and now I think there are many people who understand English
@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
27 Dec 18
because we hear english so often at school and movies
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@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
11 Feb 19
@nawala123
While growing up | went to Hebrew School after regular school but did not learn and what I learned was not how they say things here in Israel. While in High School I took French but really do not remember that. When I came to live in Israel I learned a little bit of other languages and relearned Hebrew the way they say it here.
@yisuylm (116)
• Nanjing, China
27 Dec 18
i learned English in middle school and colleage ,but now still worse,because i say chinese daily,so i register lot to learn English
