Some people just seem to have a natural talent for learning new languages? I can't be too sure about myself, but I do recall learning French very easily in high school. Had I kept up with it through college I would probably be fluent right now. How about you other languagefags?
I learn languages rather easily. It's a natural talent, as you said.
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Anonymous2007-11-04 17:55
I don't :(
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Anonymous2007-11-04 19:36
I was very used to hear inglesh when I was a little shota because we had cable tv back then and I watched a lot of shows in inglesh so when I got older it was easier for me to learn it in the high-school.
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Anonymous2007-11-04 19:55
I eat languages for lunch.
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Anonymous2007-11-05 0:02
Im really bad at it, It was really hard for me to speak german and I can still just say "Ich nicht deutch gespragen" and "Ich heiss Kasper und bist 17 jahre alte" English was kinda hard to. So im kinda of a mental retard when it comes to learn new languages.
I learn Japanese insanely quick but I just don't have enough time lately to get fluent
In example we might have a kanji test with 25 new kanji, with their types of readings, and I don't study and I'll finish before everyone and get 100% where the average gets like 70%
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Anonymous2007-11-06 9:21
I met this fag who was like "I can speak Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, French, and a little bit of other languages". I then found someone fluent in German and let's just say the fag couldn't speak German.
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Anonymous2009-07-15 18:34
Sweet. That's why I don't claim to be fluent in anything, lol
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You're overestimating /lang/.
It's moar like 99%.
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Anonymous2009-07-16 9:05
I'm no better at learning foreign languages than most people. The only thing that separates me from them is that I manage to stay interested. Grammar gives me a stiffy.
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Anonymous2009-07-16 11:13
I have a Japanese mentality so it was quite easy for me to learn Japanese. Other languages are much harder for me though.
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Anonymous2009-07-17 2:50
i guess it depends on what you are interested in that decides what your mind chooses to retain. I'd wanted to learn Chinese since i was a kid and heard my mums friend talking in it. now I'm happily on my way to learning 6 or so languages. i wouldn't say I'm a natural. I'm by no means intellectual either. I just enjoy it.
Most people fail at learning foreign languages because they cannot get past their understanding of their native language. Most people think that sentence structure and words have a 1:1 direct translation and that everything works the same way in a foreign language as say, English does.
One problem I always run into personally is when emailing correspondents in Japanese is that I have no idea where to place certain commas as they work quite different in Japanese than in English. I find that those whom write back to me, when they write very proper Japanese, use commas in places I didn't realize I needed because I try to use them in places in Japanese where I would if writing in English.
I am okay in Japanese, but I find I still write sentences that make no sense sometimes.
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Anonymous2009-07-18 16:29
I grew up bilingual, and I got perfect grades in every other language course I took, but I'm still bilingual, with a very superficial understanding of a few other languages soo...