Learning a foreign language

[explorerX7]

Spanish was one of the subjects that were taught during my high school years. There were some odd looking Spanish folks in the textbooks and instead of trying to learn as much of the language some of us students would concentrate our efforts on making fun of the folks in the Spanish textbooks because we didn't realize the importance of knowing a foreign language at that time. At this time, many years later, I am thinking that I should have taken an interest in the Spanish lessons and I would now at least be somewhat proficient in the language.

 

[111kg]

I'm in the excruciating process of learning Spanish. Unfortunately' date=' despite what my esteemed college may believe, I'm a terrible Spanish speaker. I don't have the drive nor the want to learn it like I have for the languages of the east. Despite that, I bit my tongue and chose to learn Spanish since it was the more realistically helpful choice for the states. I can't speak it well yet, and I doubt I ever will. However, I'm quite keen at listening to other speakers and understanding the gist of a conversation.[/quote']
It's a good choice. Many people fall in the trap of learning a language they will never use in real life, but Spanish is widely used all over the Earth and you can find communities of Spanish speaking speakers even in New Delhi or Singapore. Even if the progress is slow, it's better than not learning at all or than learning some dead language that just sounds cool, but that doesn't bring any actual advantage.

 

[sorrowscall]

I'm in the excruciating process of learning Spanish. Unfortunately' date=' despite what my esteemed college may believe, I'm a terrible Spanish speaker. I don't have the drive nor the want to learn it like I have for the languages of the east. Despite that, I bit my tongue and chose to learn Spanish since it was the more realistically helpful choice for the states. I can't speak it well yet, and I doubt I ever will. However, I'm quite keen at listening to other speakers and understanding the gist of a conversation.[/quote']
It's a good choice. Many people fall in the trap of learning a language they will never use in real life, but Spanish is widely used all over the Earth and you can find communities of Spanish speaking speakers even in New Delhi or Singapore. Even if the progress is slow, it's better than not learning at all or than learning some dead language that just sounds cool, but that doesn't bring any actual advantage.

Still, once I'm finished with Spanish, I have every intention of once again attempting to learn South Korean. I only got as far as understanding the alphabet before I ended up in college again. I need to start from scratch once more for that, but I'm actually excited to learn it. I feel like if I had one good Spanish mystery novel or telenovel to help, then I might get some drive for it. I'm currently looking in to maybe watching my favorite anime in Spanish if I can find it.

 

[Humphrey247]

I'm keen on learning the top ten most spoken languages so I can have an easier time when I start travelling the world. To practise what I learn, I watch videos in the foreign language or listen to music. I find that it gives me a picture of the culture I should expect to find. I have to say though the idea of translating recipes seems great since I'm improving my cooking skills as well, I'll have to give it a try.

 

[clair02]

We as humans have the capacity to be able to learn as many languages as we please. The only thing that is stopping us is the belief that it can't be done. A lot of people are going around with the belief that it's too late to learn a new language once you're grown up, but I know this is not true. I started studying Afrikaans last year and as soon as I feel that I am ready to move on to another one, I want to study Latin and then Chinese and then German... and the list will forever go on, until the day I die.