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Jan 14, 2012 23:10

I am saying this online in public so I can't take it back. There was a time, once upon a time, where I studied French at school. For lots of years. I was never amazing at it, and I stopped after GCSE, and now I've forgotten most of it. There is awesomeness on the BBC website for learning most foreign languages, and I'm going to use it, because I ( Read more... )

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prochytes January 16 2012, 14:14:25 UTC

German is a bit of a problem. I need it for my job, but I am still hopeless. There is a rack of Simenon on my wall for my rusty French, but I have not got around to tackling it.

caladria January 16 2012, 17:19:09 UTC

No sensible language on earth should have that many genders. Or be constructed like German is constructed. But given it's the second most widely spoken language in Europe, it's also annoyingly probably more useful than the French.

(But seriously, someone must have said at some point, "shall we have ein language oder ein torture device for der Englisch?" And they decided, as one, that they hated the English more than anything*.)

*Except probably the French.

chelfie14 January 17 2012, 06:51:05 UTC

Len is Welsh so maybe she could help you with that if you really wanted to learn.

I did spanish in middle, high school, and college. Also learned Swedish while I lived there but it's very rusty. And a verrrryyyy small amount of dutch while I lived in Belgium. Maybe someday I'll get bored and take a course on italian. Always thought it was a pretty sounding language.

caladria January 17 2012, 10:27:21 UTC

Well, Welsh is only going to be useful if I end up living in North Wales (I've put an application in to a place in the most Welsh speaking bit of Wales, so if I end up there I'll have to learn). German and French are the ones that are the most use within Europe, so I'm sticking to them for now.

Isn't Swedish meant to be one of the most difficult languages to learn with dozens of tenses?

chelfie14 January 17 2012, 10:42:05 UTC

Swedish is definitely a pain in the neck yes. It's alot like German in many ways. So it was easy for the Austrian in my class. >.< I like it though. The only problem is they're taught from birth to make certain sounds with their tongue. My tongue won't do them.