Poll: Do you know/are you learning a second language?

[SckizoBoy]

What is Yue? Is that like Mandarin or Cantonese?

Yah, I was just being a difficult ass there... Yue is the linguistic name for the group of dialects spoken in southern China, often called Cantonese, though that's not technically right. Cantonese is specifically the sub-dialect of Yue spoken in Guangdong. Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong can be divided into dozens of regions, each of which has its own form, though most people are just aware of the Hong Kong version of 'Cantonese'. Nearby Guangzhou Yue is a bit different...

 

[NerfedFalcon]

English natively, French reasonably well, currently learning Japanese.

 

[demoman_chaos]

I want to learn German and latin. German sounds like you are yelling at people when you are actually saying please and thank you, and latin has among the best sayings (like "Vae Victus" which means "woe to the vanquished").

 

[game-lover]

Yep. English being my main language.

My dream is to be multilingual. I just think that'll be so awesomes.

Spanish is the first one. I learned that when I was little so it's a given. People tell me I'm fluent but I'm still unsure. Gotta work on my confidence, I guess.

After that, it's French and Japanese. Not fluent in those but I hope to get there.

Then in no particular order, I hope for Italian, German, Russian, Swedish, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Greek and anything else I can get my hands on.

 

[Zarkov]

Ich bin studiert Deutsch wegen viertel Deutsch bin mich. (I think that's right.)

Der einzige Fehler ist, dass man "lernen" benutzt würde. Also glaub ich, dass es sein würde:
"Ich lerne Deutsch wegen viertel bin ich." Aber, ich weiß nicht, wie man "viertel" benutzt würde. I weiß nicht, ob das sinn macht oder nicht.

anyway, you have good German, just watch out for using "bin" when you really don't need it. If you write "ich studiere" that means "I am studying (at a college)"

=]

Thanks for the critique. I'm pretty new at this and it didn't help that is was the middle of the night. XD

This is what I was trying to say:

I am studying (at a college) German, because I am one quarter German.

Ach ja, ich mache die ganze Zeit Fehler. Aber ich glaube, dass es sein würde
Ich studiere Deutsch, weil ich ein viertel Deutsch bin.

I don't blame you man, I've said some pretty stupid stuff in German and the even stupider stuff is yet to come.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

What is Yue? Is that like Mandarin or Cantonese?

Yah, I was just being a difficult ass there... Yue is the linguistic name for the group of dialects spoken in southern China, often called Cantonese, though that's not technically right. Cantonese is specifically the sub-dialect of Yue spoken in Guangdong. Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong can be divided into dozens of regions, each of which has its own form, though most people are just aware of the Hong Kong version of 'Cantonese'. Nearby Guangzhou Yue is a bit different...

so...I'm still a little confused, is Yue similar to Cantonese like how American English is similar to British English? Or is it more like British English and Spanish?

 

[Zarkov]

I've been learning German for about 3 years, nearly 4 now. I understand pretty much everything grammar and sentence structure wise, but my vocabulary is still quite tiny, but I love the language and learning and also practicing with German speaking people both face to face and online.
I plan to then learn Dutch.

Oh, und, ich hab Deutsch seit zwei Jahren jetzt gelernt, und ich liebe Deutsch. Tut mir leid, wenn mein Deutsch nicht perfekt ist. (Use Google translate )

From what I understand, that was perfect except for the overuse of commas and the wrong case on "Jahr", but you did use Google, so no grudges shall be held.

Nö, (native speaker here) das war ziemlich genau perfekt, auch das "Jahren" - und die genauen Kommaregeln versteht sowieso niemand (You could have maybe placed the "jetzt" after "Deutsch", no biggie, though)

I really need to get around to work on my Danish, as I've been living here for almost 2 1/2 years. I can read ok, follow the contents of a conversation, but speaking... sadly, not so much.

Danke! Ich übe mein Deutsch viel, und ich will fließend sprechen. Es ist aber zu schlecht, dass schule mir nichts lehrt. Ich muss jetzt mich zu hause lehren.

 

[n00beffect]

What if you want to AND have to learn it? Like my case: I love English, but at the same time, even if I didn't, I live here, so... By the way, I have a big problem with people who decide to move from their native country, and yet refuse to learn the language of the country they plan on inhabiting. Or at least, don't even make an effort... That just sickens me; that's probably why I don't get along with people from my own country.

 

[Stilkon]

I'm learning Latin for language credits for college. Does Latin count?

 

[Les Awesome]

I speak English as first.
My parents are deaf so I know Sign Language.
My Dads Muslim so I went to a Muslim school where I learned Arabic
Irish is Mandatory to get into college in Ireland
and I'm learning German in Secondary School

Thats 5 Freakin Languages

 

[Zarkov]

I want to learn German and latin. German sounds like you are yelling at people when you are actually saying please and thank you, and latin has among the best sayings (like "Vae Victus" which means "woe to the vanquished").

I've wanted to learn it, but I've always thought Latin was hard to learn.

How hard is Latin to learn?

 

[Zarkov]

I'm learning Latin for language credits for college. Does Latin count?

Yes! And I'm thinking about taking Latin myself when I'm in college.

 

[demoman_chaos]

How hard is Latin to learn?

From what I've heard, quite easy. Most European languages are derived from latin, and latin is an unchanging languange.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

I would say something in Russian, but my current computer doesn't have a Cyrillic package! I can try to transliterate...? Anyway, I'm in the process of learning it. My first language is English. I can understand/read a lot of Spanish, but I suck at coming up with the words on my own, since I haven't practiced in forever.

Russian is awesome. It has a phoneme that sounds like you just got punched in the stomach. And my favorite letter is "zh." Zhhhhhhhhhhh. It's fun to say and write.

 

[Zarkov]

How hard is Latin to learn?

From what I've heard, quite easy. Most European languages are derived from latin, and latin is an unchanging languange.

Really? Awesome! I'll try it sometime.

 

[GrimGrimoire]

I speak Norwegian, New-Norwegian and English nearly perfect.
I can understand Swedish, Danish and some German, French and Icelandic.
I am learning French and Dovah.

 

[Zarkov]

I would say something in Russian, but my current computer doesn't have a Cyrillic package! I can try to transliterate...? Anyway, I'm in the process of learning it. My first language is English. I can understand/read a lot of Spanish, but I suck at coming up with the words on my own, since I haven't practiced in forever.

Do you know about IMEs? They can allow you to phonetically type Russian

 

[Burntpopcarn]

I speak french because that's what they taught me in school when i was a boy (i live in canada) i know a bit of russian too.

 

[Gandalfur]

I'm Icelandic and we have to learn English, Danish (silliest pronunciations in the universe btw) and as a third language we have 3 options: Spanish, French or German. I went with Spanish because it's the most wide spread in the world although I've heard that German is the easiest out of those three.

 

[SckizoBoy]

so...I'm still a little confused, is Yue similar to Cantonese like how American English is similar to British English? Or is it more like British English and Spanish?

American English vs. British English is perhaps a bit broad of an example, though yes, that would serve, though I'd say it's more like... *checks* Right, you're American... for one reason or another, I was hoping you were German ' ... sorry! (Though it was if only to say Yue vs. Cantonese was like Bayerisch vs. Hochdeutsch... but never mind).

Anyway, back to my point, the sets of dialects would be analogous to regional dialects in the States (e.g. South Midland vs Coastal South, for a native, they're obvious to tell apart, but for a foreigner, it kinda sounds the same, like with Cantonese vs. Fujianese, I know they're different, but most westerners wouldn't be able to tell them apart).