Learning Languages

[The Andy-Man]

I have recently been filled with an inexplicable desire to become bilingal ( ), but don't know many places (infact, i don't know any) to learn languages. So if anyone knows what books, websites etc can help me leanr languages (any listed below) quickly and resonably fluently, please tell me

Languages i am after:

French
German
Spanish
Italian
Russian


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[Spec]

Mime

Seriously, dont start french, it's really hard and full of exeptions. Try german, it's similar to english.

Spec. (trust me, french is my first language)

[Pekka]

Try Finnish. It's fun to learn.

[Pekka]

Seriously though, isn't there any night schools etc, where you could take classes? Would be lot easier to learn I bet..

[Solver]

Try German, maybe, or Spanish, French is too complex.

Russian is very different, and it's nearly impossible to speak and write without mistakes if it's not your mother tongue, some very nasty stuff there.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Re: Learning Languages

Originally posted by The Andy-Man
So if anyone knows what books, websites etc can help me leanr languages (any listed below) quickly and resonably fluently, please tell me

http://www.apolyton.net has been a great help for me . Oh, you mean learning some other language than English? I guess you could, after gaining some base knowledge, go to some "foreign-language" online forum and just bravely start posting. People won't care if you don't really know the language too well, as long as you show effort and an ability to learn. Our Lord Who Lives At Tampere knows that a little ambiguity and weirdness was good enough for him .

[GePap]

Spanish is regularly common and without many exceptions, so it should be relatively easy. pronoiunciation is simpler than that of German.

Once you learn Spanish, more langauges come within reach, such as French, Italian, Portuguese.

[Meticulous Man]

Actually, I've lately been wondering whether it's true that some languages are "harder" to learn than others. It is very hard, though, to attain native-like skills in any foreign language.

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by Aivo½so
Actually, I've lately been wondering whether it's true that some languages are "harder" to learn than others. It is very hard, though, to attain native-like skills in any foreign language.

That totally depends on what your original language is. German is quite easy for an English speaker and hellishly hard for a Chinese speaker (unless he speaks English too.)

And Andy-Man: why limit yourself to Europe? Try Chinese , or Japanese, or Arabic. I suspect that these might end up more useful.

[St Leo]

Latin uber alles.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by St Leo
Latin uber alles.

Peasant! Attic Greek huper panton

[raghar]

pravda.ru and english.pravda.ru is everything you need to learn Ru speech.
Then after few weeks book could be helpfull.
What is so difficult on Russian language? It's much easier than spoken Chinese. Traditional Chinese writings Rulez.

BTW I learned English from books. Sunruner trilogy and so on. Then i forgot a lot.

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by raghar
Then after few weeks book could be helpfull.
What is so difficult on Russian language? It's much easier than spoken Chinese. Traditional Chinese writings Rulez.

One word: cases.

BTW I learned English from books. Sunruner trilogy and so on. Then i forgot a lot.

Eh... that's how I learnt English too.

[Pekka]

I learnt my english watching tv, since we get all American shows here all the time.. I'd really love to learn Spanish, it sounds so good.

[Uncle Sparky]

While I'm unilingually English, I've sung in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Latin & Ukrainian.

If I was inspired to learn a secong lanuage, I'd probably go with Spanish...

and rather than finding an Internet site, I'd recommend hanging out with people who speak the language.