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anybody bilingual?
    #5337937 - 02/25/06 01:00 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

If so, what languages do you speak?  Currently I only speak english, but I'm attending my state university in the fall, and am going to minor in a foreign language. :earth:

I can't decide, though, I could choose German, French, Spanish or Russian as a minor, but there are several other classes (hebrew, korean, japanese, chinese), too.

As an english speaker do you think german would be fairly easy to pick up?  I've (pretty much) narrowed it down to german or french.  For just a couple thousand bucks extra I could study abroad in any EU country, though!

Regular tuition is about 6 thousand for about 15 credit hours, not including room and board, including that it's about double, but if I studied abroad in france or germany or the netherlands it's still only about eight thousand.  It's worth it, imo, just to be in a diff. culture (not to mention close proximity to the coffee shops in amsterdam  :grin:)

Are any of you guys college students or going this fall?  What's your major/minor?  Share!  I'm hoping to go for a double major in physics/chemistry, if not just one or the other :smile:  :mushroom2:

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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: jmg5]
    #5337939 - 02/25/06 01:02 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

ok, ok... joke of the day

Q: what do you call someone that speaks more than 2 languages

A: multi-lingual

Q: What do you call someone that speaks only 2 languages

A: Bi-lingual

Q: what do you call someone that only speaks one language

A: American


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #5337947 - 02/25/06 01:04 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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Prisoner#1 said:
ok, ok... joke of the day

Q: what do you call someone that speaks more than 2 languages

A: multi-lingual

Q: What do you call someone that speaks only 2 languages

A: Bi-lingual

Q: what do you call someone that only speaks one language

A: American




:grin:

The way I see it is I have no excuse NOT to learn another language. :mushroom2:


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: jmg5]
    #5337956 - 02/25/06 01:08 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

whats your excuse for learning one

I'm not fluent in any language but I'm functional in several


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #5337975 - 02/25/06 01:15 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Don't know, I have the resources to do it so I guess it would it be a waste not to.

That and the joke above would no longer apply to me :tongue2:


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: jmg5]
    #5337982 - 02/25/06 01:17 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I speak English, French and Hebrew.

I would reccomend French, it's a beautiful language.


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: UTB]
    #5338002 - 02/25/06 01:25 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

a frenchman told me it's a nasty language, I aim more for a usable business
language, spanish, japanese and german are the top three aside from english


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: UTB]
    #5338184 - 02/25/06 02:39 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

OH GOD!
am i finelly not the only Israeli around these boards?!?!?!?

back on topic though...
it's hebrew and english for me.

my mom and dad speak spanish as well (and i understand some but not enough)
i should learn spanish too and if i could i'd like to also learn german (just cuz i heard it's easy to learn once you know english so...)
spanish should also be pretty easy to pick up...


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Simisu]
    #5338201 - 02/25/06 02:46 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

native fluent in two

working on more

its hard to get good at a language learning it only through classes in school i think


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: jmg5]
    #5338276 - 02/25/06 03:15 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I'm a second year German student, and I really like it.  I think it's one of the easier languages for an English speaker to pick up. 

I'm not proficient in it, though.  I can read most things and understand the jist of it, and I can comprehend and memorize enough to pass the classes.  But if I were to converse with an actual German, they'd think I was retarded.  :tongue:

It's fun, though.  However, French might be a good choice too.  It's a really beautiful language, and probably no more difficult than German.


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #5338282 - 02/25/06 03:17 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

Prisoner#1 said:
ok, ok... joke of the day

Q: what do you call someone that speaks more than 2 languages

A: multi-lingual

Q: What do you call someone that speaks only 2 languages

A: Bi-lingual

Q: what do you call someone that only speaks one language

A: American





:lol: :lol:


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"Religionists, with their guaranteed eventual paradise, of which they know nothing, taking it all on 'faith,' can't be expected to understand or sympathize with those with a yen to storm the Gate of Heaven and see for themselves what all the praying's about!" ~Robert Hunter


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: jmg5]
    #5338300 - 02/25/06 03:20 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I went to french immersion up until high school, so all of my elementary school education was in french.

When you learn a language from an earlier age, you pick it up much more easily. Remember, you can take the class, but unless you put yourself in a situation where you can really practice the language, you won't learn it, and the closer you are to adulthood, the more practice you're going to need (if you're over the age of 18, it's going to take a good deal of dedication to learn another language).

Good luck though!


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Phluck]
    #5338395 - 02/25/06 03:53 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

yea i completely agree


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Help on the Way]
    #5338404 - 02/25/06 03:58 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I speak english and broken spanish. Kind of pathetic considering my dad and his entire family are from Madrid.

Although Im expecting to start trying to learn Russian soon and then live in Russia for a while doing pharmaceutical research and learning SAMBO.


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Phluck]
    #5338422 - 02/25/06 04:09 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

Phluck said:
I went to french immersion up until high school, so all of my elementary school education was in french.

When you learn a language from an earlier age, you pick it up much more easily. Remember, you can take the class, but unless you put yourself in a situation where you can really practice the language, you won't learn it, and the closer you are to adulthood, the more practice you're going to need (if you're over the age of 18, it's going to take a good deal of dedication to learn another language).

Good luck though!




I'm definitely going to apply for the study abroad program after my freshman year.  If I do choose french I can either go to Paris or Lyon, sounds like a lot of fun.

Thanks for the input, everybody :shineon:


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #5338527 - 02/25/06 05:14 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

Prisoner#1 said:
I aim more for a usable business
language, spanish, japanese and german are the top three aside from english




:thumbup:

i speak english, and i can communicate in german and spanish (used to be fluent in spanish but its been a while).

german i found rather hard to learn the male female and neutrals (der die das), but from what ive heard french is a bitch and you will learn german much faster (and french is a waste in nowadays business world).
ps, china is gettn strong, might be good to start learnin some mandarin


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: eligal]
    #5339482 - 02/25/06 10:14 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

i can count to like 20 in mandarin and know a bunch of random words but its pretty hard.... the writing system seems impossible to me

but im pretty sure Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world so it would probably be good to know


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: Help on the Way]
    #5339887 - 02/26/06 12:44 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

English, Spanish, Arabic (Kurdish), Tagalog

lerned em' when I was in the military...


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: jmg5]
    #5340289 - 02/26/06 07:56 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

i had the luck to grow up bilingually... spanish and german... and you can judge for yourself how fluent my english is...  :sun:


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Re: anybody bilingual? [Re: jmg5]
    #5340657 - 02/26/06 11:13 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

My thoughts:
1) most classes emphasis more spelling and writing upfront than is necessary to communicate. If you want to rapidly get to the point where you use the language, try picking up Pimsleur's language CDs. They only work on listening and speaking, but I think they are very good. Start with one of their 4 or 5 CD sets for $20-$40. The next 30 CD set will cost a bit, but much less than school will.

2) to learn and retain how to use the language, you have to use it outside class. www.mylanguageexchange.com is a good way to meet speaking partners to practice.

3) chicks dig foreign guys. Its a universal thing.


A friend of mine grew up in Taiwan and speaks good Chinese. For awhile he taught English in China, which is a low-paying job any white person can get (even if they don't speak Chinese). Now though he is a financial reporter. He travels a lot, living in different countries for 2-3 months at a time. That sounds fucking awesome to me.


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