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  • German
• Want To Learn
  • More German
  • Japanese
• Most likely to kill my GPA in college
  • German

Seriously any german help I can get would be appreciated

edited 13th Feb '12 3:12:41 PM by stevebat

Trying to get some discussion going here:

You people who are doing self-study, how are you doing it?

People out of school who are taking classes, where did you find said classes?

Finding materials to study from on the internet, mostly. And flashcards, lots of flashcards.

The lack of guidance can be quite frustrating, I don't think I'd recommend it if on can help it.

I look online, and it's always "... class! For a mere €400!" and I'm not $525 worth of interested. Or motivated.

Livemocha is a decent site for learning basic phrases and vocabulary, and it's build on a Free-to-Play model.

As an experiment, I tried to see what the old Anglo-Saxon months would be if we used them nowadays. Here are the results (though I cheated a little by borrowing a bit from Charlemagne's calendar):

• January: Afteryule
• Febuary: Sunmonth
• March: Rhedamonth
• April: Eastermonth
• May: Milkingmonth
• June: Lithamonth
• July: Afterlitha
• August: Plantingmonth
• September: Harvestmonth
• October: Winterfilling
• November: Fogging
• December: Yulemonth

edited 5th Apr '12 12:40:16 PM by SantosLHalper

Native language: French.

Somewhat Fluent : English.

Might eventually put more efforts into learning it he finds more awesome songs and movies in it : Spanish.

I love to listen to songs in Spanish. I absolutely loathe it when it's written.

Also, i'll admit I smiled when I saw someone above list 'Québécois' as a language.

That's even more interesting when compared to the month names on the French Republican Calendar:

• January: Snow month (Nivôse)
• February: Rain month (Pluviôse)
• March: Wind month (Ventôse)
• April: Germination month (Germinal)
• May: Flower month (Floréal)
• June: Prairie month (Prairial)
• July: Harvest month (Messidor)
• August: Heat Wave month (Thermidor)
• September: Fruit month (Fructidor)
• October: Wine Harvest month (Vendémiaire)
• November: Fog month (Brumaire)
• December: Frost month (Frimaire)

Know:

• English
• Cantonese

Learning:

• Italian (currently taking a year off)

Plan to Learn:

• German (just because)
• Japanese (so I could read imported Light Novels)
• Latin (hey, it's really handy)
• Mandarin Chinese (given that I'm Chinese and I don't even know the most common Chinese language...)

edited 20th Jun '12 7:38:00 AM by Pokénatic

Fluent:

• English

Learning:

• Mandarin (in class, but since I hate class so much I'm going to do it by myself once this year's over)

Want To Learn:

• Japanese
• Korean
• Sanskrit (because learning Latin is now too mainstream)

edited 20th Jun '12 7:46:02 AM by AirofMystery

First language:

• Italian

Fluent:

• English

Proficient:

• French

Desperately looking for someone who will help me with:

• Dutch

Native language: French

Fluent in English

Still learning Spanish

edited 28th Aug '12 1:15:46 PM by MrColor

Native Language

• Finnish

Foreign Languages 'known'

• English
• Swedish (a bit of words, but grammar has escaped my memory.)

Want to learn

• Italian
• Some other European languages

I really want to learn Italian but I don't know how to start learning it.

edited 3rd Nov '12 12:27:19 PM by drakonsenshi

I'm gonna join this party!

• Native: Portuguese

• Fluent: English

• Learning: French and German.

• Wants to learn: Man, the list is just way too big...

edited 14th Jan '13 9:27:09 PM by HopelessDaydreamer

Native English speaker, and passable in Spanish. Behold the power of my lexicon!

Hey, Dutch is my native language. What can I help you with?

• First language: Japanese
• Fluent in: English
• Wants to learn: Irish, Romani, and perhaps Scottish Gaelic

I can speak : English (fluently), French (first language with Comorian), Spanish (barely), Comorian (first language with French, though I'm not as good with Comorian as I am with French)

Planning to learn : German, Arabic.

Edited by GeorgieEnkoom on Oct 2nd 2020 at 9:10:17 PM

Native Language

Swedish

Speaks Fluently

English

Has studied and knows, but is rusty and wants to get back into

Japanese

Mandarin

French

Wants to learn

Swahili

Irish

Finnish

German

And more - I like to learn languages.

Edited by MagmaTeaMerry on Oct 2nd 2020 at 10:17:47 AM

I can no longer search language partners on italki, so I circumvent it by using mylanguageexchange.com.

First Language: English

Fluent In: French

Learning: Japanese

I'm currently reading the Smurfs and Tintin in their native languages. Though I understand most of it, some words are difficult to comprehend since I rarely speak the language. I want to learn Japanese and I bought a "how to" book while in the country. I have little motivation or need to learn it even if you disregard the pandemic.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Oct 2nd 2020 at 5:21:19 AM

First language: Indonesian

Fluent in: English

Learning: Japanese and Javanese

Quick tip: Think of Indonesian grammar when it comes to describing words as backwards.

As in, noun first, then adjective. :v

Native language: Swedish

Speaks Fluently: Finnish and English, roughly on par with Swedish

I understand most Norwegian dialects very well and can communicate well enough by using Swedish, as my dialect is easier for them to understand than what is spoken in Sweden.

I've studied French and German, of which the latter is easier for me to speak. I've forgotten most of the French grammar and numbers, but I can grasp the context when hearing it. While my vocabulary is limited, I get by in shops on both languages.

There are loads of languages that I understand enough words from so I can piece together a rough context. These include: Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Estonian, Icelandic, Latin.

I would want to become fluent in all languages mentioned above, as well as be able to read Classical and Medieval Greek. I would also want to speak both Old Norse and Old English, well enough to quote ancient poetry like Benjamin Bagby does.