I am going abroad for two months and a couple weeks and was wondering if that time would suffice to learn how to read/write a language (not speak)? I am going to Brazil and can already read/write/speak portuguese, however I would like to learn how to read/write in a new language while I am there as I will have a lot of free time from 0700-1500 weekdays.
Now I would like to express that my interest was lying in either Cyrillic or Sanskrit, but I am not sure if the time would suffice. I am not fond of learning Kanji/Pinyin to be quite honest. As you can see my interests lie in something less romanic.
Albeit if these alphabets are too complicated or require more time to learn than 2 months, maybe sticking to a roman language would be better, Spanish/Italian/French etc.?
Thank you for your attention and I await your feedback. Thank you.
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Anonymous2008-06-21 10:10
GERMAN
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Anonymous2008-06-21 10:25
Since you already know Portuguese, Spanish will be easy to learn.
Russian would be the obvious choice if you want to go for a language using Cyrillic, but the grammar is fairly hard, so I doubt you'll be able to get too far within 2 months. The script won't be the problem though, you can easily master it in one or two days.
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K2008-06-21 13:07
>>2
Actually I come from Germany, so I already speak it fluently. Thanks for the tip anyway.
>>3
I was thinking about Spanish as I know Portuguese and many things are similar in appearance. Concerning Cyrillic, would I be able to read and write within a two month period? Or just write basic sentences due to it's grammatical difficulty?
I was also considering perhaps Arabic, or would that be too difficult as well for that timeframe?
>>4
I KNOW THAT HEBREW COULD BE LEARNT IN TWO MONTHS WITH LITTLE TO NO PROBLEM, THE GRAMMAR IS VERY SIMPLE AND THE SCRIPT COULD QUITE EASILY BE LEARNED IN A MATTER OF HOURS. I'M LED TO BELIEVE ARABIC IS QUITE SIMILAR IN THESE RESPECTS.
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Anonymous2008-06-21 15:48
So you know English, German, and Portuguese.
Learn Spanish and French. Congratulations, you can communicate with 90% of the world.
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Anonymous2008-06-21 17:09
Hey, if you want to write Cyrillic you'll need to learn the cursive Cyrillic.
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K2008-06-21 18:49
>>5 >>6
I don't know if you are trolling or bored, but thanks anyway...
>>7
I have considered Spanish and I suppose it makes the most sense now and considering I also know portuguese it won't be that hard to learn. Thanks.
Yeah, considering that 1/3 of the world population are Indian/Chinese now. But you can talk to 80-90% of the BUSINESS world with those aforementioned languages.
By the way, I found a russian learning book I used to have. Cyrillic is then! hah!
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K2008-06-24 10:54
By the way, I found a russian learning book I used to have. Cyrillic is then! hah!
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Anonymous2008-06-25 13:51
Cyrillic is easy to memorize, it ressembles the Greek alphabet a lot. Hard is to learn Russian vocabulary and grammar.
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Anonymous2008-06-25 17:15
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Yeah, I can read/type Cyrillic simply because it was sort of a meme on 7chan to write English (or German, or Spanish) in it.
Can't write cursive, though.