I used to be able to speak Assyrian. But I stopped using it and forgot how to.

Edit: I know how to curse in Assyrian however. The other day me and my cousin were at Crown telling the dealer to put a dick in his pussy.

Edited by "9GABmeme420": 9/3/2016 08:39:01 PM

People that learned languages after their school years, approximately how long did it take you to learn them? How intense did you have to study it?

Anyone able to help me..

For those who have the know-how, what's a simple and free way to learn a language online?

Google Translate.

it depends on the person really... im able to pick up languages really easily whereas my sister has to sit and study them properly. I think the best way to do it is conversing with someone who actually speaks the language.

The DuoLingo app. Not exactly "online" in the sense of sitting at a computer, but it's a really great app that has daily challenges and XP in the sense of a video game, where you can level up by completing units of the courses. It tracks your "fluency level" as well.

English (fluent) and French (B2)

10mins in and I already really like it. I've set my daily goal so will try and keep that up for a few weeks and report back.

Love it!

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I'm Italian so I was exposed to it from a young age. That was dialect though so I learnt proper Italian at school and at uni.

It's a nice language (biased) but not really useful outside of Italy whereas spanish or french are useful in lots of places. After I'm done with Mandarin, I'll be doing spanish myself. My sister only needed to do a couple of years of study to be fluent enough to live there.

You've obviously never been to mainland china.

or Germany

Really? Wouldn't have thought you were Italian when I met you.

I'm from the north, the stereotypical italian you see are usually southerners.

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I do French at uni. I've finished the language units and now I'm just doing cultural units. I'd say I'm very good at formal French. I'm strong at reading and writing in French, as well as at expressing myself verbally. I can understand most of what French people say but when they talk too fast or with slang, then I battle a bit.

I did Year 12 Latin. That was one of the best things I've ever learnt. Obviously nobody in the world speaks Latin, but it's great to learn. It teaches you incredibly difficult grammar (and still not as hard as Ancient Greek) so that it's incredibly easy to learn the grammar for every other language. It also teaches you analytical skills (because Latin sentence structure is almost wholly dependent on word endings). Then when you get good enough, you study some of the world's greatest literature and history in Latin. It's like doing three subjects in one. We did all the grammar in high school, then we touched on Livy and Virgil.

In the old days, most privileged people in England would go to Oxford or Cambridge and do Classics (Latin and Greek). Otherwise perhaps Chemistry. Then after that they'd do law, medicine, join the clergy, cram for the Foreign Office, join the armed forces or something like that. But the thing was because they were taught Classics so thoroughly, they could learn modern languages incredibly easily. It was an absolute piece of piss.

This is why so many educated English people spoke flawless French and German. There were even people who, after having learnt Greek and Latin, mastered things like Chinese, Hindi (bearing in mind Britain's colonial interests) and Russian.

I'm also trying to learn Swedish.

I've a lot of Swedish friends, I'd quite like to live there and it's a fun language to speak.

It's tough going learning it from Australia. Feasible but not easy.

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Was about to ask if you were Calo like me, although I also have family in Milan, Rome, Turin and Florence so I can't really give you shit for being from the north :lol:

Edited by milan_7: 9/3/2016 10:50:02 PM

Tack! Det är jätte rolig

I am starting to speak Assyrian and Kurdish but I keep getting confused and lapsing into Arabic.

I have a niece who speaks English, Arabic, French, German and Afrikaans (her parents only speak three each, no Afrikaans) and from when she was 5-7 years old she struggled to differentiate between the languages, so her speech was all five mixed together with her own form of grammar. Her teachers told her parents not to worry and that it would sort itself out, which it did.

I think it does tend to sort itself out. I base that on anecdote, though. How did she come to speak such different languages at such a young age?

I'm no Lega Nord supporter or anything :lol:

Also that video is far from accurate, I just like Christopher Walken :)

Can read Ancient Greek and Ancient Hebrew - but they aren't really spoken languages (despite their modern equivalents).

Basic Spanish as my step-mother and her family (who lived with us for a while) are Peruvian.

When I was about 7 I would go to 'Finnish School' each Saturday, then the place closed and my parents split so I stopped learning it after that unfortunately. Only know a few words now. :(

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Fluent bullshit and sarcasm.

My really brief understanding of Swiss German is it's basically German mixed with Italian, yeah?

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I'm Intermediate at Dutch and looking for a course at the moment for Mandarin considering our Chinese overlords coming down on us.

Also surprised no-one has said Auslan yet. I'm self-taught so my technique probably isn't fantastic but I can hold my own

Have been casually keen on learning this too.

I think my Mrs is also, could be something fun to bring the little one up with.