Shinshin: I am 23 as by now and I don't have any problems with learning languages. Of course I never stopped learning foreign languages since I was four ... on the other hand I never put much effort into it.
Are you fluent in any foreign language?

And how did you try to learn Japanese? Why is it so difficult for you? Maybe you just didn't yet find the right way to learn languages.



Suave_yamapi: Yes. There are special schools which might allow their students to take more than three foreign languages, but that's rare.

And, yes, the Rechtschreibreform is so utterly stupid. People begun to write just how they want to.

I so want to emigrate.
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Here when applying for high school (which btw. we call middle school, high education is university), you pick one or two language classes and go with it 'till the end. Choice is usually between english, deutsch, french and spanish, which are far more practical then latin and ancient greek .

shinshin wrote:

Do you think that's too old to learn to be fluent in a new language?

That's different for every individual, though there's certain truth that younger ppl assimilate foreign language better .
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boris wrote:

Here when applying for high school (which btw. we call middle school, high education is university), you pick one or two language classes and go with it 'till the end. Choice is usually between english, deutsch, french and spanish, which are far more practical then latin and ancient greek .

Well, I didn't learn to speak English in school anyway. I had, like, the worst teachers ever.
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Mr_Kyoling wrote:

Well, I didn't learn to speak English in school anyway. I had, like, the worst teachers ever.

Hahaha, me neither. I remember one of my english teachers was sectarian, she talked nonsence all the time and me and my classmates just played cards during class...
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Mr_Kyoling wrote:

Shinshin: I am 23 as by now and I don't have any problems with learning languages. Of course I never stopped learning foreign languages since I was four ... on the other hand I never put much effort into it. Are you fluent in any foreign language? And how did you try to learn Japanese? Why is it so difficult for you? Maybe you just didn't yet find the right way to learn languages.

Aside from English, I'm fluent in my native tongue Tagalog and Visaya. I studied French before in high school, and took the first two required courses for my major in college. I did pretty well and I think I could have gotten even better if I also took the intermediate classes. So yeah, I'm not so bad in learning languages Even now I'm absorbing Japanese pretty well on my own without taking any classes, but it's been hard discipline-wise. It doesn't help much either when I have a major that requires my full attention. I'm just wondering if I could still learn languages as well as I used to before when I get to that age. I probably still could. I just hope that my passion for Japanese would still be there at that time.
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Well, besides being fluent in English, I'm studying French and Japanese. French was taught in school but I never paid attention- I regret that now , anyways, I'm gonna do self studying.
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shinshin wrote:

Aside from English, I'm fluent in my native tongue Tagalog and Visaya. I studied French before in high school, and took the first two required courses for my major in college. I did pretty well and I think I could have gotten even better if I also took the intermediate classes. So yeah, I'm not so bad in learning languages Even now I'm absorbing Japanese pretty well on my own without taking any classes, but it's been hard discipline-wise. It doesn't help much either when I have a major that requires my full attention. I'm just wondering if I could still learn languages as well as I used to before when I get to that age. I probably still could. I just hope that my passion for Japanese would still be there at that time.

I suppose you won't have any problems with learning languages in some years or even later in your life, then. And if you're interested in languages in your youth I doubt that interest will cease in a couple of years.

My grandma started learning Italian in her late sixties

altec wrote:

Well, besides being fluent in English, I'm studying French and Japanese. French was taught in school but I never paid attention- I regret that now , anyways, I'm gonna do self studying.

Oh, you are in Iceland? Are you Icelandic?
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Tsuchiya wrote:

Well, saying that I'm able to speak Latin is a bit exaggerated. I had it at school, for about 3 years, but we never talked in Latin during the courses. We just translated texts. But you're right. It was very tough, because there are no situations, in which you could use that language to practise it. Although we had a girl in our class, who was able to read and translate Latin texts, as if they were written in her mother tongue - she was really creepy. *haha*

Well, it should make it easier to learn latin based languages like French, Spanish, Italian... If you want to.
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Well, of course I speak German and I speak my dialect *lol* Some people say, that this is like an own language. During my studies in an other part of Germany no one understood me when I was speaking dialect

then english - I think I am fluent in it. I have had it about ten years in school and University.

I learned also French at school. But I didn't use it very often since then so I understand all, but speaking is a bit bad

In University I had Spanish and Dutch. Well I only have basic knowledge, but it's better than nothing.

As I have some relatives from the Philippines I am learnign Tagalog - very slowly, but I do!

And - of course - like everyone here, I am learning Japanese. I am still a beginner...


So not many languages, but I am proud of it.

I can only speak 2 xD

Tagalog and Ingles

I was learning korean but...I got lazy

i speak otaku...you only need to know one word


Moe

Tu_triky wrote:

i speak otaku...you only need to know one word Moe

do i need to know baka too???

I speak German (logically), French, English (but its bad... ), a little bit Spanish and I learn Japanese because I want to study Japanology 8 is this word right???)
Oh... And I have the subject Latin in school...
My friends say that is very much but I don't think so...
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Leenary wrote:

I learn Japanese because I want to study Japanology 8 is this word right???) Oh... ..

yes the word "Japanology" is used in Europe, here in North America we use the term "Japanese Studies" but it refers to the same thing.

Tu_triky wrote:

yes the word "Japanology" is used in Europe, here in North America we use the term "Japanese Studies" but it refers to the same thing.

Then its good ^^
I think I have to learn more english
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My English? It's bad... really XD

Leenary wrote:

Then its good ^^ I think I have to learn more english

well you were not wrong....you used the proper term as it is used in Europe.

Leenary wrote:

Then its good ^^ I think I have to learn more english

don't worry. In school, my english was also not very good. Only by using it again and again I improved it.
A good practise is watching movies in their original. No problem with dvds these days

Tu_triky wrote:

well you were not wrong....you used the proper term as it is used in Europe.

Yes you right...
I call it ''La kurios English''...
Totally baka because in England I understood not all words. This was really bad... -.-'' I hate it...
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My English? It's bad... really XD

Leenary wrote:

Yes you right... I call it ''La kurios English''... Totally baka because in England I understood not all words. This was really bad... -.-'' I hate it...

it's very impressive though that you speak all those languages...you should be proud....that is very rare.

Tu_triky wrote:

it's very impressive though that you speak all those languages...you should be proud....that is very rare.

O.o I like languages. That is the reason, why I speak all these languages... But why it's rare?
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My English? It's bad... really XD