A foreign language
Hey guys, long time.... waddup :)
For quite some time now, I had the desire of learning a new language. On giving it a few thoughts(sincere as well as a few crazy lazy hours), i've come to the conclusion that maybe I will zoom on learning German, maybe.
It'll be really appreciated if some of you german dudes could guide me with some ideas or techniques or some e-learning methods or whatever stuff that you might feel, could be effective. I would be perfectly adjusted with some online sites or some courses that you might feel could suite to a guy previously exposed to the english language.
I'm kinda ok with english, so any good site, any good e-book or any other important feeds could do.
Looking forward to your help,
Thanx and regards,
prad.
You're doing a big mistake, I'd definitely recommend you to start with Spanish instead.
23/12/2011 01:55German ftw! "Ist sowieso die beste Sprache :P"
Dunno about e-learning though... German is fcuking hard to learn! like 50% of the german population isnt even able to speak it fluently :D
23/12/2011 02:22spanish sux! :D german sounds much cooler ;)
Spanish is quite easy. German sounds cool but is hard. French sounds super cool but is even harder. Plus e-learning is not easy... Plus i dont think you can learn a language by browsing the internet.
I've learned the basics of many languages simply through the Internet. You may think it's not possible to learn the pronunciation of the words, but the truth is quite the contrary: you can either use a computer program to spell words in different languages (may be slightly inaccurate sometimes) or alternatively actually watch educational videos or have an interactive teacher who can help you.
I think it's a great idea to learn languages, because languages truly are the pedigree of nations and keys to understanding foreign cultures. It's also a lot of fun fun!
I'd like to offer you my short guide to choosing the proper language to learn. The guide consists primarily of a small number of easily memorizable rules. The rules are written below.
Written by Lolo`
1. When choosing to learn about the language, culture or history of any country, you must focus on future of the country. The future you seek for is a firm standing in economy, political power and stability, military forces, population (higher = better) and the lack of any influential religious beliefs (i.e. no Sharia law etc.).
2. The language itself should appeal to you in some level. Do not choose to study something which does not feel right, interest or benefit you.
3. If the choice comes down to two separate languages, be sure to review the statistics of the countries once again - if one of them is obviously the inferior country, choose the stronger option. If neither of these countries, however, stands out as the winner, it is better to leave the choice to lady Fortuna. Throw the dice.
If these steps did not ease your mission, please consider not learning any language altogether. Perhaps this is not something a person such as yourself should use their precious time at.
P.S. I would say that some strong options would be Standard Chinese (Mandarin) and Cantonese as well as the languages you may already master: Bengali and Standard Hindi/Hindi-Urdu (India is on the rise). Some interesting languages would be Arabic and Portuguese as well as Japanese.
P.P.S. Out of the two options you have, I would probably lean over to Spanish despite Germany's strength simply due to the amount of people speaking the language. For example Spanish is spoken in over 20 countries (I don't remember the exact figure) whereas German is spoken in 5-10 countries. I remember reading that there are thrice as more native speakers of Spanish in comparison to the option you so unfortunately decided to choose.
go for german.
24/12/2011 13:59Originally posted by Lolo`I've learned the basics of many languages simply through the Internet. You may think it's not possible to learn the pronunciation of the words, but the truth is quite the contrary: you can either use a computer program to spell words in different languages (may be slightly inaccurate sometimes) or alternatively actually watch educational videos or have an interactive teacher who can help you.
I think it's a great idea to learn languages, because languages truly are the pedigree of nations and keys to understanding foreign cultures. It's also a lot of fun fun!
I'd like to offer you my short guide to choosing the proper language to learn. The guide consists primarily of a small number of easily memorizable rules. The rules are written below.Learning a language - what to choose?
Written by Lolo`
1. When choosing to learn about the language, culture or history of any country, you must focus on future of the country. The future you seek for is a firm standing in economy, political power and stability, military forces, population (higher = better) and the lack of any influential religious beliefs (i.e. no Sharia law etc.).
2. The language itself should appeal to you in some level. Do not choose to study something which does not feel right, interest or benefit you.
3. If the choice comes down to two separate languages, be sure to review the statistics of the countries once again - if one of them is obviously the inferior country, choose the stronger option. If neither of these countries, however, stands out as the winner, it is better to leave the choice to lady Fortuna. Throw the dice.
If these steps did not ease your mission, please consider not learning any language altogether. Perhaps this is not something a person such as yourself should use their precious time at.
P.S. I would say that some strong options would be Standard Chinese (Mandarin) and Cantonese as well as the languages you may already master: Bengali and Standard Hindi/Hindi-Urdu (India is on the rise). Some interesting languages would be Arabic and Portuguese as well as Japanese.
P.P.S. Out of the two options you have, I would probably lean over to Spanish despite Germany's strength simply due to the amount of people speaking the language. For example Spanish is spoken in over 20 countries (I don't remember the exact figure) whereas German is spoken in 5-10 countries. I remember reading that there are thrice as more native speakers of Spanish in comparison to the option you so unfortunately decided to choose.
This is a surprisingly well-written and informative guide! Good job on this. You're one of the only people on this forum who takes the time to write these elegant posts containing well-crafted, useful information. It's just a shame that those who put in so much effort to make this community a better place are not appreciated by the administrators. Instead of thanking you for sharing your beneficial insight about foreign languages, they ban you...
24/12/2011 14:25(edited 24/12/2011 14:25)Originally posted by SilverNinjaOriginally posted by Lolo`I've learned the basics of many languages simply through the Internet. You may think it's not possible to learn the pronunciation of the words, but the truth is quite the contrary: you can either use a computer program to spell words in different languages (may be slightly inaccurate sometimes) or alternatively actually watch educational videos or have an interactive teacher who can help you.
I think it's a great idea to learn languages, because languages truly are the pedigree of nations and keys to understanding foreign cultures. It's also a lot of fun fun!
I'd like to offer you my short guide to choosing the proper language to learn. The guide consists primarily of a small number of easily memorizable rules. The rules are written below.Learning a language - what to choose?
Written by Lolo`
1. When choosing to learn about the language, culture or history of any country, you must focus on future of the country. The future you seek for is a firm standing in economy, political power and stability, military forces, population (higher = better) and the lack of any influential religious beliefs (i.e. no Sharia law etc.).
2. The language itself should appeal to you in some level. Do not choose to study something which does not feel right, interest or benefit you.
3. If the choice comes down to two separate languages, be sure to review the statistics of the countries once again - if one of them is obviously the inferior country, choose the stronger option. If neither of these countries, however, stands out as the winner, it is better to leave the choice to lady Fortuna. Throw the dice.
If these steps did not ease your mission, please consider not learning any language altogether. Perhaps this is not something a person such as yourself should use their precious time at.
P.S. I would say that some strong options would be Standard Chinese (Mandarin) and Cantonese as well as the languages you may already master: Bengali and Standard Hindi/Hindi-Urdu (India is on the rise). Some interesting languages would be Arabic and Portuguese as well as Japanese.
P.P.S. Out of the two options you have, I would probably lean over to Spanish despite Germany's strength simply due to the amount of people speaking the language. For example Spanish is spoken in over 20 countries (I don't remember the exact figure) whereas German is spoken in 5-10 countries. I remember reading that there are thrice as more native speakers of Spanish in comparison to the option you so unfortunately decided to choose.
This is a surprisingly well-written and informative guide! Good job on this. You're one of the only people on this forum who takes the time to write these elegant posts containing well-crafted, useful information. It's just a shame that those who put in so much effort to make this community a better place are not appreciated by the administrators. Instead of thanking you for sharing your beneficial insight about foreign languages, they ban you...
On topic: Well I believe it will be very hard to learn any language properly online, but you should give it a try if you're interested. I'd suggest you to watch lots of German TV show's, listen to their music and read some forums.
Good luck.
polish songs are easy to learn :kurwa kurwa :D
24/12/2011 17:16Originally posted by ivanskypolish songs are easy to learn :kurwa kurwa :D
Trust me isn't it! Only curses are simple to learn. For learn hard as German.
hello there
french is so easy to learn... its almost the same as spanish (except for the way they count the numbers from 80 to 99 :D :D :D
imo the major difficulties in "european" or romanic languages are the grammar and the accurate pronounciation.
learning the grammar of any language only depends on your personal lazyness/ will to learn it, pronounciation is all about practise!
do you have any experience in learning languages? ive heard it so often that german must be freakin hard to learn!
kafds' guide might be helpful for you but i think that its only up to yourself and your personal preferences which language you want to learn!
the most "helpful" languages nowadays might be (as others already mentioned) arabic, chinese, spanish, russian and maybe even portuguese...
let us know when you made a decision! ;D
p.s.: learning vocab always sucks! ^^
I've always heard that french was one of the hardest language to learn... And I didn't find german that hard to learn, tho i was kind of a slacker in class, can't speak it anymore since it's been ages i didn't practice it.
It depends on the person who learns and practices it I guess.
Originally posted by qfiman*french is so easy to learn...
lol dude. French basics are easy yeah, but french has much more than "present, future, past" for verbs.
French must be very frustrating to try to learn, and not fun at all. German is actually kind of easy, though I think it's quite an ugly language (not offending or trolling, just saying.) Spanish must be cool though.
Good luck.
27/12/2011 22:50Originally posted by mtoboiii8000German ftw! "Ist sowieso die beste Sprache :P"
Dunno about e-learning though... German is fcuking hard to learn! like 50% of the german population isnt even able to speak it fluently :D
lol, imo it's one of the easiest languages. You write what you speak (I think that's what they called it back in school). I used to speak German at a good level before years, unfortunatelly now I don't remember anything :(
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