Anyone Learning A 2nd or 3rd Language? If So What Language & How Are You Learning It?

[Deleted member 708208]

As the title suggests I am asking if any other members here are learning a second
or maybe even third language?

I'm always working to learn new languages as I travel around the world and find it stimulating but relaxing at the same time. If you are learning another language how are you going about learning it? I find the combination between immersion, songs, and the Pimsleur approach work well.

Example, listen to a song that quenches your cultural appetite in the background.

If necessary, lower the speed of the video and subconsciously absorb the language. Learning
other languages is intrinsic in adding value to an individuals life.

 

[Veil123]

I am at the fifth language right now. Right now I am trying to get used with PHP. It is sad that I can not improve by listening to songs or watching videos but with enough practicing I will eventually get to the master position soon enough.

P.S. Language is a language...

 

[Deleted member 708208]

I am at the fifth language right now. Right now I am trying to get used with PHP. It is sad that I can not improve by listening to songs or watching videos but with enough practicing I will get to the master position soon enough.

P.S. Language is a language...

Some may see that as a smart ass statement but I 100% agree with you. As someone who is familiar with learning
Python and the Node JS stack I can attest to it being a language, although I didn't consider it in the title. Really cool!

 

[Veil123]

Some may see that as a smart ass statement but I 100% agree with you. As someone who is familiar with learning
Python and the Node JS stack I can attest to it being a language, although I didn't consider it in the title. Really cool!

On a serious RL note, English is my second language. As I live on the Balkans, once you know one language from the Slovenian group of languages you pretty much know the rest of them (Bosnian, Serbian, Macedonian, Croatian, Bulgarian). Never had enough time so that I consider learning a new speaking language tho.

 

[Deleted member 708208]

On a serious RL note, English is my second language. As I live on the Balkans, once you know one language from the Slovenian group of languages you pretty much know the rest of them (Bosnian, Serbian, Macedonian, Croatian, Bulgarian). Never had enough time so that I consider learning a new speaking language tho.

Slovenia is on my stop, that's pretty damn neat. I am in the process of better understanding the Cyrillic alphabet. Still,
I take programming languages serious. If you think about it, they deserve the same merit.

 

[Veil123]

Slovenia is on my stop, that's pretty damn neat. I am in the process of better understanding the Cyrillic alphabet. I mean but
I take programming languages serious. If you think about it, they deserve the same merit.

Well, the Cyrillic is not that hard once you get used to it, but for the rest, it is not that easy.
There is only one difference between the programming and the speaking languages: You can't code a person to follow your orders

 

[Kronate]

Currently learning c# with asp.net and R at in college, and Angular, although that's more of a framework... also trying to pick up German by using Duolingo!

 

[Gogol]

Trying to learn Czech currently, which will be my 4th (not counting computer languages).
I suck at it till now so don't judge me yet lol. I follow the tutorials available in YouTube and throughout www. I also happen to work with Czech people so that helps a lot too.

I try watching Czech movies with caption on, which seems to help the cause. For instant translation I use Google Translate which works fine.

 

[siliboy]

I'm trying to learn Italian. I started with DuoLingo app and I think everybody should get it. It has different languages to learn, and it's quite fun and easy. Why waste time playing stupid games on your phone, when you can play a game and also learn something.

 

[Vox1Hex]

Trying to learn Czech currently, which will be my 4th (not counting computer languages).
I suck at it till now so don't judge me yet lol. I follow the tutorials available in YouTube and throughout www. I also happen to work with Czech people so that helps a lot too.

I try watching Czech movies with caption on, which seems to help the cause. For instant translation I use Google Translate which works fine.

Ouu, good luck with czech language, very tough.

 

[HoNeYBiRD]

Slovenia is on my stop, that's pretty damn neat. I am in the process of better understanding the Cyrillic alphabet.

Well, that won't be much of a help in Slovenia, neither in Croatia, it's a Serbian, Bosnian thing in the former Yugoslavian countries.

My native tongue is Hungarian. I'm learning English for 20 years now, it's a never-ending process. We were taught German in highschool for 4 years, i never really liked it, i can still understand some of it. Later i started to learn French, but i quit. Now if i were to learn a new language, it would be Arabic or Russian.

Movies with subtitles is a good way to learn. Especially starting from learning your 3rd language, when you watch movies on the language you want to learn with subtitles on your 2nd language, so you can perfect your 2nd language too in the process. Monolingual dictionaries are also good.

 

[Gogol]

Ouu, good luck with czech language, very tough.

Yupp tough for sure. I am just grasping the words for now. Will go into sentence construction later on. I am genuinely interested to learn this language especially because it sounds very sweet to me.

 

[Vox1Hex]

Yupp tough for sure. I am just grasping the words for now. Will go into sentence construction later on. I am genuinely interested to learn this language especially because it sounds very sweet to me.

Interesting that somebody would like to learn this language of such shit country like Czech :-D Native speaker here...I always wanted to know how does it sounds for foreigners, I thought it must be something like Russian...but harder accent.

 

[Sweetrevenge]

So, I'm from Madagascar, the giant island next to Africa.
Malagasy people (all 23.5 million of them) speak Malagasy language (check it on Google).
So Malagasy is my first language. French is our second official language.
So, here we learn to speak in French from the early age too. So I know how to speak French since I was 3 years old.
In school, the English is taught as the 2nd language from the 4th grade or 6th grade, depending on your school's choice.
It is mandatory in our curriculum from 6th grade.
In 10th grade, you must choose between Spanish and German language as a 3rd language option.
After high-school, Chinese and Japanese were part of my curriculum at the university.
So I learnt 6 diffrent languages.
Now, the problem is it's hard to find people to practice all of them here, so my brain just retain the three first one.
I can barely speak German, Chinese and Japanese and I only understand written Spanish.
Although, to master English, I watch movies and series in the original version, I sing along pop songs, and most of the books I'm interested in are all in English too.

 

[Gogol]

Interesting that somebody would like to learn this language of such shit country like Czech :-D Native speaker here...I always wanted to know how does it sounds for foreigners, I thought it must be something like Russian...but harder accent.

I dunno why you think CZ is shit.

I have been there twice and stayed for 2 months in Chrastany. It's a lovely place man. Prague is a bit over crowded but nothing like India lol. People are very friendly too.

 

[Vox1Hex]

I dunno why you think CZ is shit.

I have been there twice and stayed for 2 months in Chrastany. It's a lovely place man. Prague is a bit over crowded but nothing like India lol. People are very friendly too.

Personal experience Fortunately nothing like India

 

[trunkss]

My second foreign language is Italian. I'm currently perfecting my Spanish (did 3 years while at Uni) and have started Portuguese. All these languages are very similar so even though I've only started Portuguese I can read a newspaper and understand 90% of it.
For Spanish I intend to sit the B2 exams in May and in November for Portuguese. Then French (did about 5 years in school) and German. After I get to and intermidiate level to all these languages I want to learn Russian (3-4 years down the life). If Russian goes well I might try Serbian. I have no idea as to how I'll fair with Russian, all the other languages I mentioned are latin based, so it will be something totally new. The good thing is that I have a lot of ex-soviet friends at the gym so I will be able to practice a lot.

How I study (except for classes):

1)Duolingo on a daily basis. Everyday after my lunch I spend as much an hour. I have a specific time of the day that I do it so that I never miss it. Also, when I'm travelling my public transport or I'm waiting for whatever reason at a queue (i.e doctor) or I'm bored with the people that I'm with etc I'll take out my phone and study.
2) I've created a second FB account and there I have news only from foreign sources: DW in portuguese, CNN in spanish, Euronews, Vice, UFC Espanol etc. I get the news that interest me, but in a different language
3) I watch films and TV series in those languages. First with subtitles for the deaf, so that they are in the same language as the dialogue and then without subtitles

 

[TricePaige]

learning German on an apps like DuoLingo and Memrize

 

[TricePaige]

then there's news and movies that i subscribe to

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

I find learning a new language tough, I usually try hard for a month and then give up.
I think the best way is to probably live in the country and mix with the locals.
Will have another go at learning French, Spanish and Italian in the future, or should I just save time and learn Russian and Mandarin?