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Fly wrote:

Bugs42 wrote:I was pretty good with Spanish back in high school, but I seem to have lost it in the almost 2 years it's been since I had a class. I think I'll take it as my foreign language in college... I'm deciding between that or Latin.

?? Latin is a dead language while Spanish is the language of the future... easy decision, i think.

Why Latin?
* Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
o Translation: "Anything said in Latin sounds profound."

I'm speaking Bulgarian .
Also English and Spanish.

i speak 2 native dialects
english
then i had latin classes for 2 years back in high school

I do french in school(still in Secondary School...high school for you Americans, I'm from Ireland), but don't know how to say an entire sentence in the parlez-vous. I'm planning on learning Latin over the Summer holidays, as my French teacher suggested that might be more my style, and it would then help me learn more languages(including French). We do Irish in school as well, but that's a joke really. Major problems as regards Irish education standards. I plan on learning the subject some day, but not in school. I'm also learning Hebrew, but I'm still working on the Alphabet(AlephBeth). I've contacted a few Rabbi's about getting lessons, waiting for replies. I knew some Quenya a while back, that's a form of Tolkien elvish for you non-fantasy nerds. Speaking of nerds, I also knew some klingon years ago. **Cringe!!!**

A kickass site for learning Hebrew(I'm focusing on Biblical, but Biblical and Modern are really interconnected):
http://foundationstone.com.au/ .

pugrit wrote:i speak 2 native dialects
english
then i had latin classes for 2 years back in high school

Man, I wish we could do Latin in school!!!

Lol the only language I speak is english i'm to lazy to learn another one . I probablley should learn another but I doubt I ever will.

latin grammar is easy. i only have problems in vocabulary casue you really need to familairiaze/memorize with a lot of new words in order to make complex or even day to day conversations in latin.

but i do like how latin sounds though..sounds cool and sounds like what demons/ancients speak in games.

i speak spanish and i am learning a bit of english reading some forums like phoenix, english is the universal language, then i need it . sorry for my bad english.

TheElectricAlchemist wrote:We do Irish in school as well, but that's a joke really

No it isn't ;D. The Irish people have really bad accent and it's like ... what?! .
No offence, some of my managers are Irish and i know that.

@mankeke: I found Spanish much better ... anyway, enjoy English

russian
english
mongolian
spanish

have any heard japanese language ? i think its coolest language in the world

speaking:

german (native)
english
latin (5 years learned)
spanish (2 years learned)

i will learn French but now nothing

I speak/read/write in english and french, /me learning japanese cuz me is big manga fan!!

TheWorldJoker wrote:So, does anyone hear speak any foreign languages,

Besides my mother language (local dialect and standard german), I've learned Latin, English and French in that order in school. There we have almost never spoken Latin, the focus was rather on reading and translating Latin. Although it's the Language that I had to deal with for the longest time at school, I've forgotten the most, compared to the other languages. During my math studies I've also learned a little bit of Spanish. It's difficult for me to keep the former language knowledges, because job and family deserve my time more. Especially I'm a sad that my French skills are diminuishing continuously for that reason - many years ago I knew many words in French, that I couldn't say in English. On the other side I need to use English often, so I'm used to it - probably producing errors that I'm not aware of, because people don't rearely correct me now, as I'm not longer a pupil.
Thomas