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May I ask when you moved to England? I moved here when I was 11 so I am still fluent.

When I was a toddler, plus my parents are English and the only German my dad knows is how to ask for a pint of bitter... Would still be nice to learn the language as I feel it's a part of who I am :smile:

Where in Germany did you move from?

Should probably add there is German blood in the family, however when they moved to England they never bothered to hand down the language to the next generation, which is sad.

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Reply 81

MrHappy_J

French! I've already studied it at GCSE level (self taught with revision books) but I want to get more advanced.

Reply 82

Marijketje

My native language is Dutch, so I can help people with that.

Reply 83

username818763

Original post by The Puppet Master

Where in Germany did you move from?

That is understandable considering the fact that you came here as a toddler :biggrin:

I'm from the city of Hannover, where in Germany were you born ?

Reply 84

Devon

My mom's fluent (or was as a kid??) in Spanish, so I could ask her ocassional questions

Reply 85

The Puppet Master

Original post by arnoob

That is understandable considering the fact that you came here as a toddler :biggrin:

I'm from the city of Hannover, where in Germany were you born ?

Ohhh, I was born in Werl as it was the nearest English hospital, my mum was alone and at the time couldn't speak a word of German. :mmm:

We lived in Iserlohn though. :h:

Reply 86

Gales

Voted for Dutch seeing as I already learn French and Spanish and have no interest in the other two :smile:

Reply 87

thegodofgod

Original post by hannah_dru

Surely if you're learning German already it doesn't count :tongue:

All the extra info (bulet point list) came on after I posted :tongue:

Reply 88

username818763

Original post by The Puppet Master

Ohhh, I was born in Werl as it was the nearest English hospital, my mum was alone and at the time couldn't speak a word of German. :mmm:

We lived in Iserlohn though. :h:

I see, I haven't heard of Werl but I think I have heard of Iserlohn, it is near Dortmund if I remember correctly.

Reply 89

DeadGirlsDance

Original post by Frankster

I can speak in English, German, French but would like to learn Mandarin.. I guess it's too complicated for TSR?

I'm learning Cantonese atm :h:

Going to spend more time on it in the holidays though.

Latin!

Welsh. jk

Original post by OSharp

German is an abhorrent language with their rigid grammar. Plus there are only 2 countries in the world that speak it.

Not as abhorrent as your Maths/Geography.

(And German's amazing....not that I'm biased or anything :wink:

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Reply 93

Kerrias

I'm on my phone and can't see how to vote on the poll, but my vote goes to German. I want to learn so many languages, already studying French, spanish, mandarin and BSL and wanted another language to learn just myself but can't decide between German, dutch and Portuguese. I think German though as members of my family used to live in Germany and are fluent in German and I have German speaking friends, so it'll be easier and more useful.

Great idea on thread and I look forward to it this summer!

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my HTC Wildfire S A510e

Reply 94

hannah_dru

Original post by OSharp

German is an abhorrent language with their rigid grammar. Plus there are only 2 countries in the world that speak it.

There are more than 2. I assume you're just thinking of Germany and Austria which isn't correct (took modules at uni where we learnt about the other countries).

Original post by thegodofgod

All the extra info (bulet point list) came on after I posted :tongue:

Ahh I see

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Reply 95

jstinson

Hmm attempting to learn a language sounds like an interesting project for the summer :smile:

Reply 96

TrollerCoaster

I think we need an AV style voting system here as currently 63 people have voted yet only 18 want to do spanish. And were all gonna end up with spanish

Reply 97

Xtrapolation

I can speak Spanish and French but would like to learn German this summer

Reply 98

DeadGirlsDance

Spanish is winning! :biggrin:

My mum can speak it so that'll help me.

Reply 99

boumavilla

I've voted Dutch! It probably won't win the vote , but if anyone can help me please and would like to help me, could you inbox me on tsr? (I think you can do this) :smile: