what languages are you doing or want to begin?

Now I'm studying French, Spanish(Euro), and Portuguese(Euro), then going on a high school year abroad to Portugal! So after that Spanish and Italian wont take much time to learn.

Later on I'd like to learn: Modern Greek, German, and Modern Hebrew!

Total, that's...7! And I plan to be fluent in all of these by the time that I'm done with uni! Planning LOTS of time spent abroad!!! Probobly around a decade. I'll start Hebrew after uni though, because I can move there and get citizenship there(cause I'm jewish :cool:

) so I've got plenty of time for that!

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oblivious

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currently fluent in chinese and english, soon to start norwegian, swedish and possibly take up french again

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ModernHippie

Fleece

Where are you from ModernHippie?

Belgium.

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Im doing spanish, portuguese, french and catalan, which i love to pieces. i did latin gcse and ancient greek at school, and although i dont remember much, i think the stuff i did then still helps me a lot now. i want to pick up italian, just because, and modern greek because of a number of things, and german, because i want to work at euro 2008 in austria and switzerland! i have also learnt random welsh phrases from a welsh housemate. i love the sound of welsh, and i had (no, have) an obsession with some welsh people, so would love to learn it. people tell me i'm overdoing the languages thing but i dont care really.

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I want to learn Catalan SO much!! How do you find it in comparison to Spanish. I also did ancient greek and latin, I found they helped too but I prefer modern languages!

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leannemann

I want to learn Catalan SO much!! How do you find it in comparison to Spanish

its really like spanish, but then it lulls you into a false sense of security and you say something in spanish with a catalan accent and its completely wrong. but for the most part its not difficult, its kind of like a french/spanish/portuguese/italian hybrid, but still it is quite unique. there are things which are hard to grasp, like there are two different constructions for IR verbs, and there is no system for knowing which verb follows which system, and then there are things which are really simple. the vocab is quite similar to other languages, its easy to guess, they are like shortened spanish words, but there are completely unrelated words as well. the spelling is mostly straightforward, and once you know the rules making words feminine/plural is simple. but its not a hard language to pick up, especially if you have a background in romance languages. my lessons were entirely in catalan from the very beginning (mainly because my teacher cant speak english very well!), even complex grammar, but still we all understood and did pretty well! i think its a cool language, for some reason the way things are spelt and spoken are really attractive to me.

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JakeR

catalan is closest to portuguese in my experience with it. then to french. i think that catalan is a really cool language! it's sad that it's probobly going to dissapear in the next couple generations though... :frown:

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Fleece

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ModernHippie

Belgium.

Cool

my sister is living in Leuven next year for her year abroad at uni.

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JakeR

catalan is closest to portuguese in my experience with it. then to french. i think that catalan is a really cool language! it's sad that it's probobly going to dissapear in the next couple generations though... :frown:

no no no, this is false! it is a thriving language! and i have been told that it is the 9th most spoken language in the EU...

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I would love to learn Catalan to look at the syntax & lexis in comparison to other languages but it doesn't really appeal to me in the sense that I think it will hugely improved my career prospects!

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Goldenratio

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I mean no offense by this: but what use is catalan, unless you live or work in catalunya or occitaine? I speak its closely related partner: Valencià and always get funny looks when I tell people I speak it. I know Català is an official language of the EU, and will help to learn other latin based languages..... but?
Other than that, I'm still working on English, Spanish, German, French, Valencià, Dutch and Russian(phrases), as I think that a language is mastered but never fully 100% known.

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I would like to learn Catalan to compare it to other languages as I said above. As I also said above, I think career prospects are not really improved by learning it. Perhaps people want to do it because they enjoy it, who cares if people look at you?!

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AmyGrace

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wow you guys do so many. I cant wait to catch up :biggrin:

ive just finished high school and going to college and currently studying French and picking up Spanish in Sept (gcse in 1 year, a+as level in 2nd year)
when i go to Uni i wanna maybe pick up Italian/Chinese/Japanese
and when im older i want to learn Gaelic...just cos im half irish..seems like a big challenge and i love challenges :biggrin:

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Woah, GCSE and AS/A Level in a year sounds crazy, but then I realised that it's what I'm doing only in Italian! Although I'm not sure if there's actually an exam board that does Italian :s-smilie:

. Then I'm going to learn Portugeuse because I don't think I want to learn German as I'd rather stick to Romance languages. Also if I go to Newcastle uni (which I don't really want to do) I'd probably learn Chinese becuase they don't do Italian. Spanish rules btw! Good choice!

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