second languages are hard!

[ty_guy]

i'm talkin with a 12 year old that lives in spain and i'm not understanding anything she is saying. like i know some spanish but she's damn smart! one of the only sentences i know how to say is "mi espanol es muy terrible", very practical. ahh what the hell does "as estado en estados unidos" mean? out smarted by a 12 year old! why does this always happen to me!



and what the hell is up with everyone forgein thinking that Canada and the US are the same!?!?!? pisses me off SO much!

[crookedking]

speak to her in english!

THEN YOU'LL BE OUTSMARTING HER!

[mojo]

ped o phile

[ty_guy]

Originally Posted by mojo

ped o phile

pen o pal

[crookedking]

i heard being a pen pal is how it starts.

[Cosmos]

Originally Posted by ty_guy

as estado en estados unidos

i'm pretty sure that means "do you live in the united states?", but its definately something to do with the united states

[mapleleaf4ever]

Second Languages become easier the more you practice them. I chat in German on ICQ with people from Austra, Switzerland and Germany so I don't forget it and I can carry on conversations for hours. :) Aber daß ist wie Deutsch ist so einfach!

[t-skywalker]

other languages are hot...but hard to understand..anyone with accent can come give me some tongue

[krisamata]

i so wanna learn a third language...i tried but i only know a little of it



ummm easiest way to understand what you're buddy is saying is to go onto i think its www.dictionary.com and go to the translator on there...


or google an online translator

[mugsy]

its asking you if you live in the united states, but to me the sentence doesnt seem whole. but i only know the spanish you learn in highschool, could be slang.

[Moon]

uggghh hella annoying. if you can't speak the language up to par, people automatically assume you're stupid alot of the time. its pretty frustrating.

[*K*i*t*t*e*n*]

second languages arent that hard at all you just have to practice... I only know french tho.. but my teacher said its one of the hardest languages to learn.. maybe she just wanted me to feel smart:)... I wanna learn spanish .. its a hott language:P

[lithe]

^ if you know french spanish is really easy to learn.

i want to learn chinese!

[thebobman]

the internet will always save your ass:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Select Spanish to English

DONE LIKE DINNAH!

[LeeBrat]

french...it has been the one language i have never been able to get...i don't know why. i can pretty much pick up on other languages quickly, well at least german*mind you i havent spoken it in so long8 but when i work on it i can actually hold up a decent convo, but french...french is evil (for me at least)

[ty_guy]

Originally Posted by lithe

^ if you know french spanish is really easy to learn.

i want to learn chinese!

ya if you even know a little bit of french then spanish will be soooooo much fun and yes i said fun! there are so fewer exceptions and that is what screwed me up with french.

lithe: doesn't chinese have like 7 different alphabets?!?!?!?!? ok so learning a new language is hard. getting the pronounciation is hard. forming simple senteces is hard. now you are wanting to throw in at least 6 other ways of spelling?!?! you got some balls and all the power to you!

[ty_guy]

Originally Posted by Twisted~AngelX

french is evil (for me at least)

french is THE evil. there is pretty much 3 things i'll never quite understand and that is french, girls and rubix cubes

[Jen-E-03]

defintiely agree second languages are hard to learn....my japanese is slowly comin along. It definitely helps when a person is completely immersed in the language and culture tho.

[Psycho_Laughs]

yeah, i'm thinking of learning either mandarin or cantonese...

3 language should be a challenge :P

[veN]

Originally Posted by lithe

^ if you know french spanish is really easy to learn.

i want to learn chinese!

If you found french easy to learn, you many also find ASL (American Sign Language) easy to learn. It follows a similar sentence structure. It's a lot of fun, but if you don't get to use it on a regular basis, it's totally useless. Also, progressing beyond a basic level (I'm prolly basic+) is also a wasted effort if you're not using all that vocab on a regular basis. I use it every summer, and a little in between, but i've been using it for a number of years, so I've got decent retension.

[nebuchan]

Originally Posted by ty_guy

i'm talkin with a 12 year old that lives in spain and i'm not understanding anything she is saying. like i know some spanish but she's damn smart! one of the only sentences i know how to say is "mi espanol es muy terrible", very practical. ahh what the hell does "as estado en estados unidos" mean? out smarted by a 12 year old! why does this always happen to me!



and what the hell is up with everyone forgein thinking that Canada and the US are the same!?!?!? pisses me off SO much!

Hi I´m from spain and speak spanish german english and i´m now learning italian.

I have troubles when i have to write them except spanish logically.

What this girl asked to you was ¿has estado alguna vez en los estados unidos? Have you been in the United States?

That´s the leson for today.

Adios

Tiësto "live at La cubierta 19-03-2005" I will be there

[anewlife]

yeah, they're hard.

i will start learning (to learn?) another language soon, just don't know which one yet. tried to get into dutch, it's "similar" to german, but uhh...guess it's gonna be spanish, it's a world language after all...any spanish speakers here? and i should seriously refresh my french, it's gotten so sucky it's scary!

sigh :(

[mapleleaf4ever]

Dutch is just fucked man... like German but slap in a bunch of J's and get rid of all the umlauts! Oh yeah, and gargle a glass of Water at the same time.

[yoko*]

A great way to learn another language is to watch fun t.v. shows in the language you're trying to learn..

I speak Japanese fluently as it is, but over the summer, renting Japanese dramas made tweaking my Japanese so much more fun. It didn't feel like a learning process, I was just absorbing it naturally and having fun while at it.

[mapleleaf4ever]

^ When I was learning German I listened to a lot of German Music and it helped a lot especially with colloquial terms.