2013-05-21, 09:25 PM
How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
3
Which languages?
-Spanish
-English
-French
-Looking for more in the near future
How did you acquire these languages?
-Native Spanish speaker. I just wish I was better with accents, my writing feels awful because I was never able to learn them.
-I learned English at school, starting from a very early age and having most classes in English helped me understand the basics. Later on, it was Maple and here that I got to practice on a daily basis. At the moment, I feel more comfortable writing, reading and listening stuff that's in English than Spanish. I don't feel uncomfortable while talking but I need to improve my pronunciation. I want to get a mic so I can talk with others while playing Dota, or just stream stuff so that I get to talk and practice more. I'm studying to become a languages teacher, mainly English because I really like it.
-I dropped high school when I was 17. I had to wait for a year to present an official exam that would get me secondary school graduate title. During that year I started with French classes at french embassy's place for that. It was really great, I enjoyed myself greatly because learning languages is really fun, also because teachers and students there were awesome. Of course it was only a year or so, and despite getting high level classes it wasn't enough to feel fully competent at it. Nowadays I try to practice with my mom (who is also multilingual, she can speak same languages as me plus German) but there's not enough time or motivation to try and practice more often. I might be able to hold a 5mins+ conversation about very basic topics but right now I feel like I'd do it poorly.
Oddly enough, back then when I was considering university degrees I never though of languages and actually went for psychology despite loving languages so much.
-Soon I'll start a second degree at school. I want to study Philosophy too and it's a requirement to learn Latin and Greek. I'm really excited about it and would love to start already.
3
Which languages?
-Spanish
-English
-French
-Looking for more in the near future
How did you acquire these languages?
-Native Spanish speaker. I just wish I was better with accents, my writing feels awful because I was never able to learn them.
-I learned English at school, starting from a very early age and having most classes in English helped me understand the basics. Later on, it was Maple and here that I got to practice on a daily basis. At the moment, I feel more comfortable writing, reading and listening stuff that's in English than Spanish. I don't feel uncomfortable while talking but I need to improve my pronunciation. I want to get a mic so I can talk with others while playing Dota, or just stream stuff so that I get to talk and practice more. I'm studying to become a languages teacher, mainly English because I really like it.
-I dropped high school when I was 17. I had to wait for a year to present an official exam that would get me secondary school graduate title. During that year I started with French classes at french embassy's place for that. It was really great, I enjoyed myself greatly because learning languages is really fun, also because teachers and students there were awesome. Of course it was only a year or so, and despite getting high level classes it wasn't enough to feel fully competent at it. Nowadays I try to practice with my mom (who is also multilingual, she can speak same languages as me plus German) but there's not enough time or motivation to try and practice more often. I might be able to hold a 5mins+ conversation about very basic topics but right now I feel like I'd do it poorly.
Oddly enough, back then when I was considering university degrees I never though of languages and actually went for psychology despite loving languages so much.
-Soon I'll start a second degree at school. I want to study Philosophy too and it's a requirement to learn Latin and Greek. I'm really excited about it and would love to start already.