Hi everyone!
I’m a native American English speaker and I’ve been studying Japanese for about a year.
Thx a lot
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Hello, everyone.
I'm whux, late 20's, English native speaker living in Germany. I studied German as my major at university and have been living here for over 7 years. I would consider myself to be at a C1 level.
Since August 2021, I have been learning Spanish. I have online 1:1 class once a week and have also been studying in my free time. My largest struggle is speaking and reading which are areas that I am hoping to improve. I have not taken a test, but I would guess my Spanish level to be at about A2, maybe B1 on a good day
I hope to learn and maybe, if I'm lucky, spread some of my knowledge as well!
I'm whux, late 20's, English native speaker living in Germany. I studied German as my major at university and have been living here for over 7 years. I would consider myself to be at a C1 level.
Since August 2021, I have been learning Spanish. I have online 1:1 class once a week and have also been studying in my free time. My largest struggle is speaking and reading which are areas that I am hoping to improve. I have not taken a test, but I would guess my Spanish level to be at about A2, maybe B1 on a good day
I hope to learn and maybe, if I'm lucky, spread some of my knowledge as well!
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Hey there! I'm Elise. I'm a US American living in Austria. I'm a native English speaker (US), C1 in German, and around A2 in Italian and Spanish.
Re: languages, I have one of those "high school language classes didn't help, but then I learned to self-study" stories. I was a monoglot until stumbling into learning German super chaotically almost exclusively through comprehensible input a few years ago. I'm now working on refining my German and picking up Italian. I'm a big believer in the power of comprehensible input and spend a lot of time reading (and now blogging) about it. I'm a science journalist so I enjoy digging around in research journals.
Happy to be here!
Re: languages, I have one of those "high school language classes didn't help, but then I learned to self-study" stories. I was a monoglot until stumbling into learning German super chaotically almost exclusively through comprehensible input a few years ago. I'm now working on refining my German and picking up Italian. I'm a big believer in the power of comprehensible input and spend a lot of time reading (and now blogging) about it. I'm a science journalist so I enjoy digging around in research journals.
Happy to be here!
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- Ruprecht
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American, so monolingual English, and college-level German is fading… Learned it pre-internet, so there weren’t many opportunities for comprehensible input and almost no opportunities for output. Basic skills in latin which have faded even more, and a little exposure to ancient greek with, unfortunately, the Erasmian pronunciation method. That made sense to me at the time but I now think Erasmian is a terrible idea. Wish we had learned modern greek pronunciation, then at least I would still have something to show for the time I spent on that, years ago.
Current plan is to learn French and Spanish, which I should have started with in the beginning. As an American, these are the languages I might actually get to use in real life occasionally. If I can find the time to make progress with those, the pipe dream would be to learn Mandarin next.
Hard to shake the desire to brush up on my German, since I was actually pretty decent with grammar and reading, but I keep reminding myself it just isn’t a practical choice for my situation.
Current plan is to learn French and Spanish, which I should have started with in the beginning. As an American, these are the languages I might actually get to use in real life occasionally. If I can find the time to make progress with those, the pipe dream would be to learn Mandarin next.
Hard to shake the desire to brush up on my German, since I was actually pretty decent with grammar and reading, but I keep reminding myself it just isn’t a practical choice for my situation.
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- Le Baron
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Ruprecht wrote:Hard to shake the desire to brush up on my German, since I was actually pretty decent with grammar and reading, but I keep reminding myself it just isn’t a practical choice for my situation.
whilst I could see that Spanish would be most useful (depending upon where you live more or less), would French really be more useful generally than German? German is a big language and the most dominant in the EU after English. Lots of online content and it also exists in the US.
If you had a reasonable level it should be easier to reignite it as opposed to building up French from the bottom.
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- Ruprecht
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Certainly Spanish would be the most useful for me as an American. Much more useful than any other language, of course. I'm sort of a "false beginner" now at Spanish, due to some limited effort off and on over the years. I'm partly hoping French will get me excited about learning again. We have a trip coming up next year where I could probably get by without knowing any French, but it would a lot more fun for me if I could at least have rudimentary conversations. So I'm currently on a crash course to at least learn the basics.
When I think about where I might travel in the near future, French and Spanish seem the best bets. Also, when I flipped down my car's sun visor this morning, I noticed it had three languages printed on it -- English, French, Spanish.
So, sadly, I don't think my prior German learning has done much for me other than just teach me how to learn.
When I think about where I might travel in the near future, French and Spanish seem the best bets. Also, when I flipped down my car's sun visor this morning, I noticed it had three languages printed on it -- English, French, Spanish.
So, sadly, I don't think my prior German learning has done much for me other than just teach me how to learn.
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- boracasli98
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Hello everyone! I'm Bora from Turkey.
I'm 24 years old and I'm a native speaker of Turkish. I've previously studied Greek and Persian at the Istanbul University. I'm currently learning Hungarian and Romanian and I hope I will reach at least A2 in both.
Nice to meet you all!
I'm 24 years old and I'm a native speaker of Turkish. I've previously studied Greek and Persian at the Istanbul University. I'm currently learning Hungarian and Romanian and I hope I will reach at least A2 in both.
Nice to meet you all!
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- CaroleR
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Hi everyone,
I'm Carole and I live on the west coast of Canada. I'm originally a "tête carrée," (aka anglophone) from Quebec and am finally working on improving my French. As an extreme introvert, I may not participate much, but I would like to start a log here. Fair warning, I'll be going into extreme detail and will probably bore everyone silly. Thanks so much to all of you who have shared your experience. Lots of good advice here and I'm grateful.
I would like to mention that I had never considered language learning as a hobby until I found this site. It's not a hobby for me and I'll probably only ever want to learn French. Well, maybe Welsh later. But the main reason for me is that my mom had dementia and I heard someone say that language learning is good for the brain. So I'm learning more for health reasons. And fear, I guess.
I'm Carole and I live on the west coast of Canada. I'm originally a "tête carrée," (aka anglophone) from Quebec and am finally working on improving my French. As an extreme introvert, I may not participate much, but I would like to start a log here. Fair warning, I'll be going into extreme detail and will probably bore everyone silly. Thanks so much to all of you who have shared your experience. Lots of good advice here and I'm grateful.
I would like to mention that I had never considered language learning as a hobby until I found this site. It's not a hobby for me and I'll probably only ever want to learn French. Well, maybe Welsh later. But the main reason for me is that my mom had dementia and I heard someone say that language learning is good for the brain. So I'm learning more for health reasons. And fear, I guess.
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Hello everyone,
Long time lurker, here; it feels a bit strange introducing myself here because I already feel like I know many of you. But here I am, out from the shadows.
I am a native English speaker learning Spanish for now. I 'started' (this time) almost two years ago.
This forum has been indispensable!
I shall start a log soon to share my language learning story, which I hope to update now and again.
Crojo
(as in capital 'C' for, well, 'C', and 'rojo' meaning red in Spanish).
Long time lurker, here; it feels a bit strange introducing myself here because I already feel like I know many of you. But here I am, out from the shadows.
I am a native English speaker learning Spanish for now. I 'started' (this time) almost two years ago.
This forum has been indispensable!
I shall start a log soon to share my language learning story, which I hope to update now and again.
Crojo
(as in capital 'C' for, well, 'C', and 'rojo' meaning red in Spanish).
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- newyorkeric
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Hi,
I used to hang around the old forum and just learned about the "new" one today so I registered. It's good to see a lot of familiar names.
I used to hang around the old forum and just learned about the "new" one today so I registered. It's good to see a lot of familiar names.
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