Who speaks a second language?

[Zird]

I studied horticulture at TAFE and some Botany/science at Uni. Latin is the language for naming and describing plants and in years/centuries gone past was the language of science and was compulsory learning for science/medicine students.

I was thrilled that from the botanical words I could/can pick up considerable numbers of word meanings in the latin based Portugeuse..

I presume that Latin language is a heritage from Roman Empire days.

As an aside - Kennas how have you managed to do a staggering 11.000 posts in 3.5 years which is roughly an average of say 3,142 posts per year and an average of 8.6 posts per day..

 

[cuttlefish]

Apparently according to a book I came across recently there's "Five languages of Love" ... no wonder its so freakin' difficult to understand women

 

[Zird]

Cuttlefish, maybe it is not just the language/s that is important but the chemistry - wiithout it it is just physics..

 

[Mr J]

The key is to be able to think in a different language. Not translate the idea, but to think in the idea.

I assume you mean taking the language as your own, rather than thinking and translating? I never gave much thought to language, I've just always taken the words and applied them to my vocabulary. Example, when I think beautiful, I also think belle, bella etc. Actually, I don't think I think English there at all!

As an aside - Kennas how have you managed to do a staggering 11.000 posts in 3.5 years which is roughly an average of say 3,142 posts per year and an average of 8.6 posts per day..

I don't know about Kennas, but I work at home and it's not time intensive. 3000 posts a year seems like a lot, but it's really not. It's no different than sending an sms from work once every hour.

 

[Tink]

Buongiorno a tutti : )

English - Italian

Understand most latin languages, and German, as spent some time in Germany/Switzerland, as have some relatives living there..

Also did French/German at school

 

[Sean K]

By thinking in another language I mean that when you look at a table, you shouln't see 'table' and then translate. You should just see a meja, or a mesa, or whatever it is in the other language.

Yes, 11,000 does seem a lot, but I don't have anything else to do.

Travelling gets in the way sometimes. Going on a tour through the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu on the weekend and next week I have to travel from Santiago to Puerto Varas in Chile. Spewin.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

Dobrae Utra!

Ya gavaryu pa Ruski.I speak Russian.

Not enough to be fluent but can hold a conversation. Have been working on this for about 8 years but still have untold trouble with grammer such as gender, case and adjectives.

 

[swm79]

Privet

kak pozhivaesh?

K sozhaleniyu, ya poka ne govoryu po russki

thats about the extent of my russian - was good friends with a russian guy all through primary school.... his parents didnt really speak much english

also, was with some ruski aj's my mate knew in the uk for a while - crazy guys

 

[Mofra]

Travelling gets in the way sometimes. Going on a tour through the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu on the weekend and next week I have to travel from Santiago to Puerto Varas in Chile. Spewin.

Hola, I'll be there in October.

I am frantically trying to learn some Spanish phrases however I think I would have been better off learning from scratch so I can understand the language rules a little better.

Learnt some Italian at High School.

 

[Sean K]

Hola, I'll be there in October.

I am frantically trying to learn some Spanish phrases however I think I would have been better off learning from scratch so I can understand the language rules a little better.

Learnt some Italian at High School.

Getting the accent is important, but I recommend you keep learning everything you can before you come over. Not many people speak English here.

 

[Mr J]

By thinking in another language I mean that when you look at a table, you shouln't see 'table' and then translate. You should just see a meja, or a mesa, or whatever it is in the other language.

Yes, what I said . I wouldn't take it as advice, but a part of a process. We can't just decide to "think in another language", it's something that comes naturally or through practice.

 

[Whiskers]

I'm learning body language. It trancends all 'verbal' languages.










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[theasxgorilla]

Yes, what I said . I wouldn't take it as advice, but a part of a process. We can't just decide to "think in another language", it's something that comes naturally or through practice.

True. And when you dream in another language, then you know you've arrived.

 

[IFocus]

Getting the accent is important, but I recommend you keep learning everything you can before you come over. Not many people speak English here.

My mistake before spending a year traveling South America, accent and not leaning enough before going.

Spanish is an amazing language, you have no idea how women work the language when they talk to you........cannot be done in English, oh man......