Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

I'm quite curious about how to get a U at GCSE French. I think I'm predicted C-A!

"Je utilite avoir un chien" as an attempt for "I used to have a dog"?

How do you get a U in any language? I'm sure some time in your life you would have heard someone say a few phrases of Chinese, or Spanish, or German, or French, or Italian, or Japanese or whatever. Even if you slept through all of your classes, Google Translate can save you from a U. They should award medals to U students.

I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to have access to Google Translate in the exams. They might have got a bit lax since I did mine though...

I'm quite curious about how to get a U at GCSE French. I think I'm predicted C-A!

"Je utilite avoir un chien" as an attempt for "I used to have a dog"?

Hehehe it was like in Welsh when I saw someone use 'arfer' (to use) when trying to say 'I used to play rugby!'

I then look in the grammar book and I'm like 'oh'. -.- (turns out you can 'Roeddwn i'n arfer i chwarae rygbi')

I thought it'd be:

Roeddwn i'n chwarae rygbi

That too, but I think if you want to stress the 'used to' bit, you can use 'arfer'

(EDIT: just checked, there's no 'i' between arfer and the next verb, mae'n ddrwg 'da fi )

That too, but I think if you want to stress the 'used to' bit, you can use 'arfer'

(EDIT: just checked, there's no 'i' between arfer and the next verb, mae'n ddrwg 'da fi )

Mine have nothing! Bengali is all, and I've lose fluency in that

You should start speaking random Languages around...

Yeah! So hopefully they'll even speak to each other in different languages... Always useful when wanting to say something without others understanding

Priority for them:

English ---> French ---> Bengali+Arabic ---> Spanish ---> Mandarin ---> German ---> Italian ---> Japanese/Russian ---> Swahili

I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to have access to Google Translate in the exams. They might have got a bit lax since I did mine though...

I do already kinda speak random languages around. For example: quoi instead of what; pourquoi instead of why; ja instead of yes; andiamo instead of shall we go?... the list is endless. I've even managed to make my (not very linguistic) friends become used to my random foreign words every few sentences, and they don't even comment on it- but it does confuse random people in my year though!!

I love being able to speak to certain friends in a foreign language that most of my other friends can't understand!! Even though it's a limited conversation, it's always amazing- especially when other people overhear me speaking Mandarin...

What do you mean by 'priority for them'?

I do it in school the quoi especially!

I can't Mandarin obviously but I do it with French... And Swahili soon one day

Like, in order of exposing them

Hahaha! My big ones are ja and pourquoi! I literally never say yes anymore- unless I'm talking to a teacher!!

Hopefully some day you will be able to speak Mandarin!! I can do it with French and Italian also, and the odd bits of Esperanto... wow, Swahili!

Ohhh! I understand!! I would probably expose the languages I'm better at (at the moment, French and Italian) first before doing bits of the ones I'm not as good at (Spanish, German, Mandarin) and perhaps when the child is older, maybe even Esperanto, as it just helps with language learning!

I'd just be worried about passing on bad linguistic habits if my offspring picked up a foreign language from me. I hate helping people, not because I don't want to (I really do like helping people and stuff), but I'm always 99% I'm completely wrong and I don't want to feed them lies and stuff, so they're better off not listening :P

I'd just be worried about passing on bad linguistic habits if my offspring picked up a foreign language from me. I hate helping people, not because I don't want to (I really do like helping people and stuff), but I'm always 99% I'm completely wrong and I don't want to feed them lies and stuff, so they're better off not listening :P

So guys, what would be the next language that you want to learn? Mine would be Portuguese; it's similar to Spanish so it's easy to learn, but different so that it's exciting. He tratado de enseñármelo por Internet *mas ainda não sei fala-lo. (Is that correct?)

So guys, what would be the next language that you want to learn? Mine would be Portuguese; it's similar to Spanish so it's easy to learn, but different so that it's exciting. He tratado de enseñármelo por Internet *mas ainda não sei fala-lo. (Is that correct?)

So guys, what would be the next language that you want to learn? Mine would be Portuguese; it's similar to Spanish so it's easy to learn, but different so that it's exciting. He tratado de enseñármelo por Internet *mas ainda não sei fala-lo. (Is that correct?)