Post: #51

I'm currently immersed in French, if any of you guys would like to pen pal or something hit me up. My level is intermediate.

Post: #52

(10-02-2014 08:24 PM)Cunnilinguist Wrote:  I'm currently immersed in French, if any of you guys would like to pen pal or something hit me up. My level is intermediate.

Go penpal on interpal, there's nothing that'll make you learn frances faster with a madamoiselle on the other side of the screen.

Post: #53

Well I sure wish I would have stuck with my 90 day challenge now.... Since I will be in Lima in 3 days.

Start now fellas.........

Post: #54

Doing a 12 week Egyptian Arabic course, about 1 week in. Using flash cards to supplement my learning, very useful by the way. Hopefully at the end my English/French/Arabic combo will unlock the Maghreb and other areas in Africa.

Post: #55

(10-02-2014 08:46 PM)brofists Wrote:  Go penpal on interpal, there's nothing that'll make you learn frances faster with a madamoiselle on the other side of the screen.

Damn,...this was gold, thanks. I just signed up.

Post: #56

I'm living in a very multicultural flat at the moment and our newest flatmate is French so this may be the excuse I need to take my French to the next level, I already speak Spanish + Brazilian Portuguese so it should come rather quickly. I'm under the impression though that of the romance languages French is the most difficult, and I find the French much more impatient with their language than Portuguese/Spanish speakers, but we shall see.

Post: #57

(10-03-2014 02:16 PM)LaPastillaRoja Wrote:  I'm living in a very multicultural flat at the moment and our newest flatmate is French so this may be the excuse I need to take my French to the next level, I already speak Spanish + Brazilian Portuguese so it should come rather quickly. I'm under the impression though that of the romance languages French is the most difficult, and I find the French much more impatient with their language than Portuguese/Spanish speakers, but we shall see.

You'd be surprised. In terms of grammar, Spanish and French have a lot of similarities, but when it comes to pronunciation the two languages are quite different. French is not the most phonetic language, and there are many quirks to pronouncing letters (especially the vowels and their combinations). It can take some time to comprehend the language by ear. There isn't as much leeway for comprehension as with Spanish at least. I can't say anything about Portuguese.

I've picked up a lot of the words and sounds easier because of their similarities or existence within the English language. A good portion of modern English vocabulary comes from French, and in fact, the early Norman kings and nobles of England did speak French at their courts for a while. That's not to say there isn't some common vocabulary between French and other Romance languages (el país and le pays), but English definitely helps me a lot.

Post: #58

having a tough time finding Spanish language classes in my area which blows my mind considering it's like 90% Mexicans where I live.

I did come across this online tutor that does 1 hour classes on Skype for $15. 1st class free so I decided to try it, class scheduled for Saturday, I'll report back how I like it.

http://m.whyspanish.org/Sign-up.html

Also anyone know of any other service similar to this? and what do they think of it.

Post: #59

Started learning Russian about a month ago.

Follow my progress and my questions, which will help you get a glimpse of my learning process, in my Russian thread:

/thread-41034.html

Post: #60

Recibí una ochenta y seis en una examen de español. Debemos que escribir la idioma en el hilo.

Translación: I received a 86 in a spanish exam. We should write the language in the thread.

I'm up for the challenge. Language courses seem to be the only useful thing I'm learning in college.

Post: #61

^Je suis d'accord, mais est-ce qu'il y a besoin pour traduire? Ce serait amusant de voir!

Post: #62

Yo no sé francais. Translación por favor?

(I don't know French. Translation please?)

Post: #63

(10-14-2014 01:06 PM)R Smoov Wrote:  Yo no sé francais. Translación por favor?

(I don't know French. Translation please?)

Bruh google translate.

Pero ante de todo, seria mejor "Yo no se leer Frances, me lo traduces por favor?" El verbo mas comun en espanol es "traducir". Tambien existe "trasladar" no "transladar" como tenias. Pero "trasladar" se usa mas para significar "move" en el sentido de "Nick's Hardware has moved to a new location on 100 oak street.". A veces si veras "trasladar" usado como "traducir" pero sin duda "traducir" es la palabra mas comun.

Alors...

Je ne sais pas si je porrais ameliorer mon ecriture francais ici, mais nous verrons. Tout le monde devrait utiliser http://www.wordreference.com/ pour les aider avec leurs questions sur la lange

(Entonces...

Yo no se si podria mejorar mi frances aqui, pero vamos a ver. Todo el mundo deberia usar http://www.wordreference.com/ para ayudarles con sus preguntas con tal de los idiomas)

Post: #64

Je suis récemment arrivé au jour 90 de mon apprentissage français. Vous devriez utiliser des autres claviers pour écrire chaque langue. Le système Windows a "Language Bar". Regardez au-dessous.



/thread-41034-...#pid846606

J'utilise "French (Canada)---> Canadian French" parce qu'il a le modèle "QWERTY". C'est plus facile pour moi.

Post: #65

Translate that shit.

If we're all posting different languages it would help to say it in English as well so we can have a common language to see what it says.

Post: #66

I took my free 1 hour course on Saturday, it was alright I guess. very I formal and unstructured. we basically just chatted for about 40 minutes and then went over some ser vs estar problems.

kinda felt obligated to take at at least 1 paid lesson as well so I took it on Monday. same things just chatted in Spanish, not worth $15/h. I can chat with any 1 of my 3 harem girls for free. if she had set lessons planned or some sort of structure maybe it'd be worth it, but I don't need to pay some broad to chat with me.

also bought the 3 books roosh recommends in bang Colombia. will be going over drills and exercises from those. pulled out my 1000 most common Spanish word flash cards and broke them up into 10 stacks, will hammer out a stack a week and only add the most challenging words to the next weeks stack.

been hitting pimsleur lessons everyday. been listening to them 2 times each now, on #15. have a long ways to go. 15/90.

I may use the services of italki and find an informal tutor that charges $10 or less and commit to doing a few lessons a week. I want to hit Spanish from all angles

Post: #67

(10-14-2014 04:38 PM)KsockZ Wrote:  I took my free 1 hour course on Saturday, it was alright I guess. very I formal and unstructured. we basically just chatted for about 40 minutes and then went over some ser vs estar problems.

kinda felt obligated to take at at least 1 paid lesson as well so I took it on Monday. same things just chatted in Spanish, not worth $15/h. I can chat with any 1 of my 3 harem girls for free. if she had set lessons planned or some sort of structure maybe it'd be worth it, but I don't need to pay some broad to chat with me.

also bought the 3 books roosh recommends in bang Colombia. will be going over drills and exercises from those. pulled out my 1000 most common Spanish word flash cards and broke them up into 10 stacks, will hammer out a stack a week and only add the most challenging words to the next weeks stack.

been hitting pimsleur lessons everyday. been listening to them 2 times each now, on #15. have a long ways to go. 15/90.

I may use the services of italki and find an informal tutor that charges $10 or less and commit to doing a few lessons a week. I want to hit Spanish from all angles

Good work KsockZ

Stick with it! I'm kicking myself for not sticking with my Spanish Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone now.

Post: #68

I speak fluent French and Portuguese, conversational Dutch and Spanish

In the process of learning Farsi which may be even harder than Russian

Post: #69

(10-14-2014 08:07 PM)LouEvilSlugger Wrote:  I speak fluent French and Portuguese, conversational Dutch and Spanish

In the process of learning Farsi which may be even harder than Russian

^ Why Farsi of all things?

Post: #70

(10-14-2014 12:35 PM)R Smoov Wrote:  Recibí una ochenta y seis en una examen de español. Debemos que escribir la idioma en el hilo.

Translación: I received a 86 in a spanish exam. We should write the language in the thread.

I'm up for the challenge. Language courses seem to be the only useful thing I'm learning in college.

Recibí ochenta y seis en un examen de Español. Debemos de escribir el idioma en el hilo

- Even though "Idioma" ends in 'a', we use Masculine articles for it.
- When you say your grade, just say you recieved [score], no "una" or any words like this.
- Use "Debemos de", not "debemos que".
- Even though 'thread' is 'hilo', if you say something like this I would not understand what you are trying to say....

Quote:Yo no sé francais. Translación por favor?

(Yo) no sé (hablar) Francés.

Post: #71

(10-14-2014 08:07 PM)LouEvilSlugger Wrote:  I speak fluent French and Portuguese, conversational Dutch and Spanish

In the process of learning Farsi which may be even harder than Russian

PM Sent (regarding French).

Post: #72

I'm learning German and Russian. With German I've been learning it for seven years - so I am conversational in it - but my vocabulary is small and I am just out of practice. If anyone on here would be willing to be my penpal - please let me know.Started my second year of Russian at university. I'm just starting to get the hang of making sentences and how things work.

90 Day Goal for German: get a reliable pen-pal and translate five posts of my blog into German. I'm 3/5 of the way through one post already

90 Day Goal for Russian: work on building a really solid foundation in Russian fundamentals so that my progress can take off

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Post: #73

(10-14-2014 08:14 PM)LeBeau Wrote:  

(10-14-2014 08:07 PM)LouEvilSlugger Wrote:  I speak fluent French and Portuguese, conversational Dutch and Spanish

In the process of learning Farsi which may be even harder than Russian

^ Why Farsi of all things?

I traveled to Iran in 2013, fell in love with the country and Central Asia in general and thought I could use an oriental language

Post: #74

Does anyone else use duolingo? They've got Danish, Gaelic and are adding Turkish as well as the 'big' languages

Post: #75

(10-15-2014 03:47 PM)britchard Wrote:  Does anyone else use duolingo? They've got Danish, Gaelic and are adding Turkish as well as the 'big' languages

I've used them for German. I'm waiting for them to add Russian for English speakers.

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