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Post by gertieshirtypants on Jan 13, 2013 6:40:51 GMT -5
Are any of you Figjams planning on learning a new language this year? Or brushing up on a language you've already learnt, but are now rusty in?
I am hoping to take some Spanish classes this year - to at least maintain, but hopefully improve, the Spanish I learned in 2011.
How about you?
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Post by lillielangtry on Jan 13, 2013 6:56:19 GMT -5
Well, the usual - trying to achieve complete fluency in German and attempting not to completely lose my Spanish.
I'd quite like to learn how to pronounce Portuguese properly. I've had a few lessons and picked up reading very fast because of Spanish, but I didn't manage to really fix the sounds in my head. I just sound like I'm speaking Spanish with the odd letter changed, which isn't right at all! But to be honest, I probably won't get round to it.
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Post by riverhorse on Jan 13, 2013 7:03:03 GMT -5
I'm going to Dubrovnik in May and would like to brush up my very rusty, very elementary Croatian picked up 20 years ago, to at least be able to speak some rudimentary sentences while I'm there. But I guess that doesn't really count as learning a new language!
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Post by psw on Jan 16, 2013 22:18:54 GMT -5
I'm exploring dialectology and accents. I'll be in NZ for most of February and wondering how long it will take to understand Kiwi and catch on to the local idioms and speech patterns.
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Post by sprite on Jun 18, 2013 22:14:13 GMT -5
i'm supposed to be learning/practising spanish, but the videos i want from the bbc language site won't download because my connection is too slow. i have the rosetta stone but i'm not impressed with what i see as my partner goes through. we did an evening course last fall, and really enjoyed it. we're hoping to move to south america for a year, so that's why we chose spanish.
i speak french and keep saying i'm going to read more in french to improve my grammar which runs from absolute crap to completely made up.
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Post by crazycat on Jun 18, 2013 22:22:46 GMT -5
I started madarin lessons early this year but only attended 3 lessons before work committments got in the way. I can speak very basic sentences but would love to learn more to make my trips to China a little bit easier.
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Post by mei on Jun 30, 2013 12:37:48 GMT -5
i'm also thinking of mandarin chinese. but i've been thinking about it for five years. life (or well, work) would be so much easier now if I'd actually started at some point in those five years. so maybe I should start now after all... i might find some online podcasts or something to start with, and then work with a private teacher as I want to learn starting from the characters (which none of the group courses I've looked at do)
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