What languages do you know and how do you learn new ones?

There are still many people from the deep south in the US that I swear aren't actually speaking English. It's amazing what dialects can do.

Same thing here - I swear some people from Newfoundland have their own version of English.

schweb said:

There are still many people from the deep south in the US that I swear aren't actually speaking English. It's amazing what dialects can do.

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I used to work for an oilfield service company, Schlumberger, and many years ago was sent to our division HQ in Lafayette LA for a class. Checking into the motel I would have sworn I was in a foreign country and I was born in Tennessee and raised in the South and Midwest.

Lol at Dropbears Brent, poor innocent Koala's being made to look bad. They are always so stoned on Eucalyptus that they couldn't motivate anything to attack.

Dialect is certainly a wonderful thing, as so diverse. The UK is great like that, get a broad Geordie, Glaswegian or Welshman to speak to you, and reagrdless of where your from you will struggle to understand.
Sad to say though, that for the most part now, the yoof of today all speak in some pseudo yardie London estate language that bears no resemblance to English at all, and really gets on my nerves. Not helped by certain TV shows "promoting" it as acceptable.
It's not, and my daughter has been warned! The day she utters the words" awright bruv" she's out.

I used to live in Malaga, Spain. Went to school there for 3 years and learnt to speak fluent spanish within the 1st year of school.

Due to the school not teaching English my parents decided to move back to England as I was not learning English lol.

Annoyingly I can not speak Spanish anymore and would love to learn it again.

I learnt french at school and now speak Khmer - pretty useless unless you live in cambodia but great because nobody expects a expat to speak it here and when you turn around and speak to them when you have heard them say something inappropriate it is amusing! Living in the country is the best way and determination! But what is fluent! to learn. Once you have learnt a second language a third is easier because your ear is tuned to listen..

tlhIngan maH! naDevvo' peghoS

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Looks like the hex key for page all on a Panasonic phone system what does the binary really mean. I am impressed with all of your language skills still
practicing English after 53 years.

osxx said:

Looks like the hex key for page all on a Panasonic phone system what does the binary really mean. I am impressed with all of your language skills still
practicing English after 53 years.

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Them are my robot speaking skillz! BEEP BOOP

Can anyone recommend some cheaper alternatives to Rosetta Stone that are good? Without a doubt, I'd love to have Rosetta Stone, but the price is steep.

German (studied for about 3 years)
I took it in school, I'm not very interested in learning a any new languages at the moment.

What languages?
Java,VB, Obj. C,C#,C++, RPG.

What, oh, human languages....English, french, RPG IV(I swear the non free stuff is another langage from another planet)
;D

schweb said:

Dutch always seemed confusing to me...almost like a really drunk person trying to speak or write German.

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Agreed - I'm bilingual in English and German and Dutch always confuses me as well. After living here most of my life, my brain is pretty good at switching between English an German on the fly. When I hear Dutch, I always think it's English or German at first and spend far to long trying to figure it out before I realise it's neither.

I also have 4 years of French from school but don't really consider myself to be a language person - I learnt German as a kid, so it doesn't really count.

I do find that you can get the gist of most European languages if you know 2 or 3 of the major languages.