Instead of shopping this friday, I am learning multiple foreign languages | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 941862 United States 11/23/2012 11:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My French is nearly conversational. Already up to level 2 in German. Spanish is pretty easy. Danish is pointlessly hard. Russian is crazy HARD (!!!!!). Turkish is probably hard... will try it soon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28248129 How do Russians' heads not explode when talking that gibberish :P Next up are Japanese and Chinese. Iste mundness vry undess |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27069898 United States 11/23/2012 12:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My French is nearly conversational. Already up to level 2 in German. Spanish is pretty easy. Danish is pointlessly hard. Russian is crazy HARD (!!!!!). Turkish is probably hard... will try it soon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28248129 How do Russians' heads not explode when talking that gibberish :P Next up are Japanese and Chinese. I found Danish pretty easy, but I had already studied German and they are close. Spoken Danish sounds like drunken German. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 28248129 United States 11/23/2012 12:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My French is nearly conversational. Already up to level 2 in German. Spanish is pretty easy. Danish is pointlessly hard. Russian is crazy HARD (!!!!!). Turkish is probably hard... will try it soon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28248129 How do Russians' heads not explode when talking that gibberish :P Next up are Japanese and Chinese. I found Danish pretty easy, but I had already studied German and they are close. Spoken Danish sounds like drunken German. OK, I'll get drunk and learn Danish! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 28248129 United States 11/23/2012 12:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My French is nearly conversational. Already up to level 2 in German. Spanish is pretty easy. Danish is pointlessly hard. Russian is crazy HARD (!!!!!). Turkish is probably hard... will try it soon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28248129 How do Russians' heads not explode when talking that gibberish :P Next up are Japanese and Chinese. Iste mundness vry undess Que? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27401179 United States 11/23/2012 12:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My French is nearly conversational. Already up to level 2 in German. Spanish is pretty easy. Danish is pointlessly hard. Russian is crazy HARD (!!!!!). Turkish is probably hard... will try it soon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28248129 How do Russians' heads not explode when talking that gibberish :P Next up are Japanese and Chinese. Should be easy to learn "Do you want fries with that"? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27869031 United States 11/23/2012 12:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If we use Gladwell’s of 10,000-hour rule, here’s how long it would take to achieve “expert ability” in a foreign language: Scenario #1 – Adult education classes – 416 courses of 24 hours per course. If you did 2 courses per year, you’d need 208 years to become fluent. Scenario #2 – Foreign language studies at school – 96 hours of classes per year = 104 years to achieve fluency. Scenario #3 – Dedicated self-study – An hour a day, every single day of the year = 365 hours per year = 27 years Scenario #4 – Total immersion – Approximately 2 years [link to drsaraheaton.wordpress.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 21061993 Ireland 11/23/2012 12:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My French is nearly conversational. Already up to level 2 in German. Spanish is pretty easy. Danish is pointlessly hard. Russian is crazy HARD (!!!!!). Turkish is probably hard... will try it soon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28248129 How do Russians' heads not explode when talking that gibberish :P Next up are Japanese and Chinese. privet, kak dela ? kak rabota? |