if u wanna learn a language go to the country where its spoken and stay there for 2-3 months. When you come back you'll be a fluent speaker of that language.  

Posted by Rotaruc

if u wanna learn a language go to the country where its spoken and stay there for 2-3 months. When you come back you'll be a fluent speaker of that language.

Not everyone is like that, you have to first know the basics to even survive there, then you need the determination to speak with the people there and actually try to learn their language.  

Posted by Rotaruc

if u wanna learn a language go to the country where its spoken and stay there for 2-3 months. When you come back you'll be a fluent speaker of that language.

A girl in my Spanish class did that and she's still not that great at Spanish.  

I can speak German, English, Arabic and read and write French.  

Posted by Blueh

A girl in my Spanish class did that and she's still not that great at Spanish.

The problem with spanish classes is that they usually teach a rather formal and 'regionless' Spanish, which is effectively spoken no where in the world. People will be able to understand you, but you won't be able to understand people very well.  

Also I doubt I'll need French because if things continue as they are now they'll be Muslim in 40 years.  

Posted by MementoJoker

I can speak German, English, Arabic and read and write French.

How'd you learn each one past your native? Classes? Immersion?  

Posted by Blah64

The problem with spanish classes is that they usually teach a rather formal and 'regionless' Spanish, which is effectively spoken no where in the world. People will be able to understand you, but you won't be able to understand people very well.

It's the result of the teachers usually not being native speakers themselves, so they understand the language grammatically but not conversationally. Also a lot of them are trained in Spain, so they teach Spanish closer to how it's spoken there. Which ends up being a problem if people don't know what words mean elsewhere (cojer lol).  

Swedish as main language (since I'm from Sweden).

English in school, movies and internet (actually mostly movies and internet). Graal initially made me interested in learning english better so I could understand what everyone was conversing about around me.

I know some spanish from school, but I had a very bad teacher so that went nowhere. I'm actually picking it up again since my girlfriend has a spanish/argentinian heritage, which is great as she can correct me whenever I say something wrong. I try to make up a sentence or two each day that I want to be able to say just to be able to progress further. I know the basic grammar and such already, it's mainly my vocabulary that is lacking.

I went to japanese classes for half a year in highschool, the class was on distance via web streaming. I had to switch teachers like 4 times during this period which is why I gave up. I'd like to pick it up again sometime though since I find it very interesting.  

Posted by Talon

How'd you learn each one past your native? Classes? Immersion?

English TV, German, Arabic mother tongue and French school.  

I'm not fluent, but I am learning Japanese, German, and Latin at school. I can hold conversations in all languages.  

Learning japanese, I've been able to make lots of small talk with my japanese friend over skype. She and her friend both help me out taking turns to guide me through the basics, the first japanese they taught me was Ai: Love, affection and Ko: Child. They tell me to remember those and I'll be able to remember it all. I speak well in spanish but I don't like it at all, especially since theres many ways to mess up even if you know spanish. I'll be visiting tokyo,japan soon to enter a contest. I was invited by my friends and they have a room waiitng for me when I actually have the leave. The contest is far away but I'd like to practice everything.  

i'm planning to speak Japanese, I know it will help me  

I used to pretend that I spoke fluent Italian on Graal, but multitasking on my iPod to check translation sites became tedious work. I can speak some German, but I'm not too great. Plus, my slight accent makes it so difficult to sound out umlauts.

I can read and write in Profanity, if that counts.  

Posted by Winter

accent

Vocaroo please