still english and mandarin. although probably both has gotten worse (how does your english get worse when its my primary language?).
taking basic japenese class in summer at school. Decided to ttake an easy course, and i have to learn 2 language ish courses anyways. chose it due to being my 3rd best language (sorry french, i failed you, but chinese +anime makes me know more jap then french).
my neighbour student knows english, mandarin, spanish and is learning germany since he plans to go there to study next year. european people are OP.
Being born and still living in France, I speak and write french fluently.
I’ve spent a lot of time on the internet, at first in french communities, but then mostly on english communities, as well as watching alot of youtube videos in english. I’ve learnt to speak english quite well, and for a few years now I’ve barely ever interacted with internet french communities.
I used to learn german in school, but a few years with a bad teacher made me loose every inch of progress I ever made in this language. Right now I cannot speak german at all, although I can still somewhat get what someone means if it is written.
Apart from that, I don’t have much knowledge in other languages. Having followed ancient greak lessons a few years ago, I can still somewhat read Cyrillic, but I won’t be able to understand what I read (apart from simple things and memes like привет, сука блядь and such).
That’s pretty much it. I’m quite impressed you could learn so many different language, well done on that.
I used to have German and French, but nowadays I only make gibberish sentences with them as a joke. Ex. “Je mise-en vais”, which is a weird way to say “I’m going”.
English, of course. Started reading it since I was maybe 7 or 8 and played Pokémon Blue.
Dutch is my native language, and I’m fairly advanced in terms of vocab. Relatively.
I can speak a tad Japanese I copied from anime (like, who can’t, lmao), as well as traces of Italian (from my school trip to Rome).
I spell a lot of czech words wrong and being away for years at a time certainly does not help that. It makes more sense then you think
mandarin is perfect for whenever you feel like visiting brutal communist dictatorships
also you I did not see you mention you knew canadian>?
tell him to skip berlin, its a hellish city and yes but only us eastern ones are OP
It will take plenty of practice, for English speakers its one of the hardest languages to learn. Though its place in American culture I assume would make it easier for some.
Learn Cantonese instead before the CCP tries to get rid of it
My Mother is from france, her parents fled Czechoslovakia when the soviets invaded and went to France.
she knows French fluently but we never really talked and I doubt she would have taught me.
well that’s half of the language right there, so your making good progress
I thought you were British, Ive wanted to learn dutch and it might make sense too, Ive heard it can help when you are trying to learn Afrikaans, but I have no plans of visiting the netherlands ill probably just jump to Afrikaans
if you visit my country, dont waste your time in Prague, it is just sad. especially if you had seen Prague 15 or so years ago in its glory
prague was a nice city when i was a child but that was a long time ago and now its western spy city
if you ever visit again you need to to the eastern part of my country. Ostrava in particular
Silesia and Moravia are two best regions in my country. They have the best things my country has to offer such as the cheapest beer, beautiful castles and mountains and me(not atm though).
I speak English fluently, obviously, and I’m learning Spanish and French in school. Unfortunately, both my Spanish and French are absolute trash, but I’m trying.
It is not worth your time in my opinion, it would just shatter your image of prague but my country has many other cities to visit besides prague
yes do keep trying if you find passion in it
yeah but you could say blin in school and not get in trouble. I can’t imagine a school any english speaking school being fine with someone saying “fuck”
I’ve looked into it since everyone has talked about it and I would say Duolingo is a great free way to start to a grasp on a language
but on top of that, you should read books in the language, start with children books. like 5 words on the page and move up to harder books from there
finding a comrade that speaks that language is nice too, so you can comfortably chat with them and not feel the pressure of a classroom when learning a language.
another thing is you need the drive to do it, so you might want to take in some of the cultures so you are more inclined to learn the language
set goals but of course be realistic these things do not happen instantly and sometimes you won’t see much progress
on top of books simple children’s shows can be a way to start to, watch a show and then write out what you think it’s saying then watch it again with subtitles to see how close you were as a test.
if you have determination and passion to do it you can at least get a basic grasp on a language
