I want to learn a foreign language!

Yay for Dutch! I was thinking nobody would say that, there was loads of Greek, Latin, Arabic etc.

I love learning languages! Right now I'm trying to learn a number of them.

Are you currently learning a language?

Share your experience!

Anyone???

If I go to Edinburgh I might to Russian as my outside subject, but seeing as it's so difficult, I might go for an easy Scandinavian language . What's your university of choice?

same! I just love it.

I currently can somewhat speak punjabi and japanese.

I want to learn hindi, a chinese lang, arabic and spanish/portugese

**note if anyone knows these languages and wants to teach/help me! Please say **

Ahaha But you don't know German (judging from your sig?), so wouldn't a romance language be easier? Lots of people get put off by having to learn Cyrillic for Russian, but that is the easy part, and also it is fun because people can't read what you have written Which Scandinavian one do you think you would go for?
Erm well I really hope to go to Cambridge. But obviously I probably won't get in! But if I could go there it would be amazing.

Ahaha But you don't know German (judging from your sig?), so wouldn't a romance language be easier? Lots of people get put off by having to learn Cyrillic for Russian, but that is the easy part, and also it is fun because people can't read what you have written Which Scandinavian one do you think you would go for?
Erm well I really hope to go to Cambridge. But obviously I probably won't get in! But if I could go there it would be amazing.

I can speak fluent Dutch, German, French, Arabic, and English.
I lived in Holland for 10 years, so thats my first language, German is closely related and quite similar and I picked that up during A level and I was an exchange student in Munich for a while. My family speak French fluently, it is their first language but we prefer to speak Dutch. My parents learnt arabic at school, and they passed it onto me. I started attending arabic school and I mastered the language in about 2 years.

I want to learn Italian and Latin some time in the future ..

No, I don't do German. The only other romance languages the unis offer are Italian, Catalan & Portuguese. All of which don't appeal to me, the only romance language I think would interest me other than French and Spanish is Romanian. I learnt a little bit of Swedish in the past though, and I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was. The only difficulty for me was the way they do plurals, but having learnt Welsh in the past their plurals weren't so bizarre.
What year are you in?

Yay! Another Cambridge applicant!

I want to learn Dutch as well! Are you a native Dutch speaker?

Oh, fair enough And the good thing about Swedish is that if you know it then you can understand most of Norwegian and Danish as well! Swedish can be really hard to pronounce though, especially the northern accents or so I am told. Welsh sounds so nice too! Is it compulsory?
Also, I have to say that I have seen you when I've been stalking the 2012 language applicants thread (), so good luck & congrats on your offers! and also I'm surprised there are so few males..
I am in year 12 at the moment




Yay! Are you applying this year or next year?

I know some Cantonese and some Mandarin. Oh, I also know some sentences in Penang Hokkien (all of them are Chinese languages).

Oh, fair enough And the good thing about Swedish is that if you know it then you can understand most of Norwegian and Danish as well! Swedish can be really hard to pronounce though, especially the northern accents or so I am told. Welsh sounds so nice too! Is it compulsory?
Also, I have to say that I have seen you when I've been stalking the 2012 language applicants thread (), so good luck & congrats on your offers! and also I'm surprised there are so few males..
I am in year 12 at the moment

Hehe, yup I am.

cool. Are you learning it out of interest or are you chinese?

Hm... Dutch and French... Are you Belgian?

that's a lot of languages you speak!

After studying a long list of languages over the years I settled on Korean and I'm currently at university in South Korea on my year abroad as a part of my degree... it's an amazing language!

Still, Spanish and Portuguese will always hold a special place in my heart. I will always speak them both, no matter what happens.

Nope. I'm Dutch. I was born in Holland and lived there for 10-11 years before moving to London.
My parents speak French because their country was colognised by the french so they went to French schools back then. I travelled to Brussels 3-4 times a year for about 10 years because a lot of my family live there so my French got better there