Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabe Thread MK II

I assume your parents speak Bengali then? Swedish is great. It's like a song

Hey, I'm fine thanks! Home for a few days over Easter weekend before I go back down to Bristol, so I really haven't been up to much recently What about you - how are you doing?

Dad does, mum speaks a bit too.

In what way?

Dad does, mum speaks a bit too.

In what way?

I assume your parents speak Bengali then? Swedish is great. It's like a song

I remember you posted on a thread of mine...well done on beating many of those straight out of school kids and getting yourself that UCL offer! #YoungMatureStudents! #WeRock

Hervorragend! I'm fine also I actually attempted to learn the very basics of British Sign Language recently, and I can now use it to spell my name...and that's pretty much it...
And I need to explain the Jan Smit reference I think that -if my recollection of your old profile picture is even mildly accurate-, you resemble the Dutch singer in some way, kinda!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLE3C0101D6CA0FDA0&v=YKVRxfNsP9k

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLE3C0101D6CA0FDA0&v=BfEZEfvTM0s

His stuff is often very lovey dovey but the Dutch is clear and simple, so I'm a fan

Ahh that's fun! My mum knows some BSL, but I don't know any of it at all. I've just chosen my units for second year though, and I'm hopefully starting Czech in September, which I'm sure will be awesome

And I really didn't understand what you meant by Jan Smit, although I've had a look at those youtube clips and actually, I can kind of see what you mean. Very surprised that you remembered though, aha.
And in terms of music, it's good that you can listen to it and understand it. I think my favourite deutscher singer is Cro, and although it's a bit more pop/rap, there are a few songs of his songs that are fairly straightforward. Plus his new songs always seem to be on the radio station I listen to. :P

That's so cool! I can definitely see the appeal in learning Czech the country is really beautiful, especially Prague seems to have this mysterious and almost mythical feel to it - and I've just gathered that from pictures of the place! lmao I've heard that Czech spelling can be a real nightmare though! I once heard about a grammatically correct sentence in Czech which consists entirely of consonants! But yeah you're not a newby to languages that are notorious for being "difficult" (or at least have such a reputation ) with German, Russian, Czech...lol Seems like you'd be fine in most of Europe hahah

Ooh that sounds really good, I must look his music up sometime! I've been meaning to start listening to German stuff, but I swear I have like a phobia of not understanding anything

Yeah, I think that it seems like a really interesting language to learn, and likewise an interesting country to learn more about and hopefully visit, so with luck I'll get into that class in September. I know it is supposed to be quite tricky, but it does share things with Russian and I can't think that there'll be a better time to learn it so...
You've just reminded me that I have some reviewing to do on memrise for German, so I should probably do that before bed as well aha. But yeah, I guess I do enjoy new challenges aha. My challenge for the summer is to work on my French more and eventually try to get it up to the level of my Spanish. But that's also been on the back-burner a bit this semester, so we'll see :P

And I shouldn't worry too much about not being able to understand it. Sometimes you get more out of it when you don't, and you work more to figure out the lyrics. If you enjoy listening to the music, then you can work at the rest.

PRSOM

Interesting indeed!
Your language goals are always ambitious, you're like Fish ^^
Ph uck staying up any longer I would just go to bed...(I already am)
Perhaps thou could utilise thine mobile device or personal tablet gadget to access the Memrise from the comfort of thine beds?

I know... Ambitious is definitely one word. I'm sure unattainable would be another :P

Meh, once it gets past 10 I pretty much just sit on my bed and work, so I'm good for a while. My night owl tendencies have kicked in already :P

Goodnight though

Yeah, I think that it seems like a really interesting language to learn, and likewise an interesting country to learn more about and hopefully visit, so with luck I'll get into that class in September. I know it is supposed to be quite tricky, but it does share things with Russian and I can't think that there'll be a better time to learn it so...
You've just reminded me that I have some reviewing to do on memrise for German, so I should probably do that before bed as well aha. But yeah, I guess I do enjoy new challenges aha. My challenge for the summer is to work on my French more and eventually try to get it up to the level of my Spanish. But that's also been on the back-burner a bit this semester, so we'll see :P

And I shouldn't worry too much about not being able to understand it. Sometimes you get more out of it when you don't, and you work more to figure out the lyrics. If you enjoy listening to the music, then you can work at the rest.

An English native with passable French and decent German. I'm thinking that Swedish is next due to the similarities with German and the big aspiration is Russian.

I'm definitely an Eastern Europe person rather than Spanish etc although I'm sure I'll get round to it later.

Any suggestions of what else I might like?

Like Scott said Cro is the best place to start. Listen to Traum, it's probably one of his easiest to understand. The lyrics are helpfully commented below the video if you get stuck.

Dutch!



Thanks for the suggestions I think I could get over my phobia now

You're welcome. I'm going to Amsterdam later this year so I'll definitely be learning a bit. Do you think I can get by with my German? I can read Dutch and Afrikaans fairly well because it looks like German with a few more As and Os added to words. I don't know whether they'd understand my spoken German though?

Neinnnn Ehrgeizig & angemessen lol So your mind is basically on 'student mode' - That's a very useful setting

An English native with passable French and decent German. I'm thinking that Swedish is next due to the similarities with German and the big aspiration is Russian.

I'm definitely an Eastern Europe person rather than Spanish etc although I'm sure I'll get round to it later.

Any suggestions of what else I might like?

Been having a massive Memrise binge today. Feeling quite good about it even though I still have this essay to be getting on with