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>>6541

>lots of years of spanish + 1 year of the others will make you reasonably proficient in all them

This is completely false. It's better to learn latin before any of them so you don't confuse the shit out of yourself.

>>6545

Spanish and Italian in particular, their phonologies are incredibly similar. French and Portguese are less similar in terms of phonology, so French and Spanish might be a good compromise.

>>6546
Yeah, do this. I wish I realised that before I took Italian, although I like it more than I do Spanish now.

Right, thanks for the tips guys

just cuz this interests me so, I think I'll learn just because

I may be learning, reading, writing new languages till I'm old even if it doesn't make me any money

Good idea to start with Spanish. don't get a university degree in languages whatever you do, complete waste of money and not worth any more than a normal exam. Also you learn slower in university and they impart you with this damn smugness that will make everyone you meet hate you.

Here are just some of the gazillons of free resources for learning Spanish:

Dictionaries:

http://www.rae.es/rae.html - Official Dictionary of the Royal Academy of Spanish
http://www.wordreference.com/es/ - All purpose dictionary
http://etimologias.dechile.net/ - Etymology Dictionary
http://www.languagerealm.com/spanish/spanishslang.php - Slang Dictionary
http://www.linguee.com/ - view words and phrases in context with side by side professional translation

Learning sites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/

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>>6529
Actually my family is from the Czech Republic and I speak it pretty decently.

Enjoy never being a slav.

>>6530
I don't care what you speak, you're ignorant about Slavic languages, especially if you think Slovio is intelligible with Slavic speakers any more than Esperanto is with Romance speakers.
Also Slovio doesn't exist anymore, Slavboy.

>>6531
What the hell are you talking about, I never said I think Slovio is mutually intelligible with all slavic speakers. I don't even like Slovio (I said it was for slavic fetishists >>6528).

Get off your damn internet high-horse and chill the fuck out, bro.

> no real native speakers
> has no social meaning
> is a worthless language

>>6529

I speak 2 slavic languages actually. YOU'RE a ziltch.

>be american
>never have to worry about this

well i guess monolingualism has one advantage...

I made the mistake of studying spanish and italian at the same time and I do this a lot.

>>6539
Are there no stores (i.e. walmart) that have bilingual signs where you live?

>>6535

I still find it pretty tricky, but not so much anymore, especially regarding moving from L1 to L2. Going back is so-so.

>Languages like German and French are obsolete, German, most speakers know English already, and French is not widely spoken outside of France than you think.

I hope you're not a native English speaker.

>>6513

>Languages like German and French are obsolete
>French is obsolete

I agree completely. I deteste french. However, I live in Canada. Everything in the country is in English and French. The house of commons frequently switches languages after every other sentence. The grammar doesn't translate well for English speakers. It's a running joke that the Bank of Montreal, one of the big Canadian Banks, which is shortened to BMO means "Bank Montreal Of " instead of "Bank of Montreal Organization" because it's a play on the way the French throw "de" in their phrases and reverse the syntax of english. "Bean Pole" literally would say "a Pole of Beans" in french.

I did it from Kindergarten through Grade 11. I hate it so much, but it's useful and since I've already devoted over a decade of my life to it I figured why waste my knowledge of the language?

>>6527

>OP here

well I don't like french veeeeery much and I don't want to learn it, and I agree about the fact that french is spoken in few places (france and canada mainly) and I'm not planning to travel to these countries (unlike germany)

>>6527
hahahaha bank montreal of. i love that

>>6527
its only a couple of years before some francophobe republican wants to change the name of the statue of liberty to the liberty statue to eradicate all traces of french influence

>>6498

http://www.nederlandsalstweedetaal.nl/

Dutch is grammatically similar to German (SVO and SOV word order), but lacks German's grammatical cases. The pronounciation is fairly straightforward, but people who speak standard American and English dialects of English may find the /x/, /ç/ and /ɣ/ phonemes difficult to pronounce, as these aren't present in English (except Scottish English and Scots, which I speak).

>>6500
thank you!!!! over the past few days i've been practicing the basics.
dutch is way more fun than i expected, actually

>>6534

Graag gedaan!

>>6441
Нe увeрeн, чтo мoжнo тaк нaзвaть - в пoслeднee врeмя бывaю тaм oчeнь рeдкo, в oснoвнoм ридoнли.

Бaмп

(basic level here)

я гoвoрю тoлькo русски
я тoлькo гoвoрю русски

>are both sentences correct?

>>4467
Both are incorrect.
Right ones:

>Я гoвoрю тoлькo пo-русски. ("I don't know any language except russian")
>Я тoлькo гoвoрю пo-русски. ("I'm able only to speak russian."- I can't write it by hand.)

"русски" isn't a word.
Here you have "whom? Я how? тoлькo do/does what? гoвoрю how? пo-русски."
If here is a language name in sentence, which answers the question how?, it's "пo-language_name".

>>6523
hhahahahaha!!! I'd lol, I totally forgot "пo-" hahahaha XD

thanks for it bro

>>6503

日本語のポニごありますか？

Anybody got some Japanese ponies?

>>6506

Or Turkish or Vietnamese.

Both of those definitely welcome as well?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RM8To5mjU

>>6428

Learn Kanji, you'll be able to navigate signs and shit fairly well if you get a grasp on the MEANING of lots of Kanji.

This guide is fairly useful if you actually take the time to read and learn everything in it: https://rapidshare.com/files/2060768662/Japanese_Grammar_Guide.pdf

My favourites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGBvU3_FO0M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAKYgJ3EZh4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6GYI41tLo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOS38Mq1k0s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqZ9uBBGiM

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNGmjzlTk8I
They're from Andalucia

Check out Ana Tijoux. She is from Chile and has 2 albums and a mixtape out that are all pretty damn good in my opinion. I am learning Spanish and its helped me pick out a lot of vocabulary. she has a very clear voice and her beats are amazing.

>>6251

Orishas Cuban hip hop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUyJ8Zvt74&feature=fvst

i'm not learning spanish or anything nor can i speak it but cafe quijana is my favourite spanish band

>>6438

that picture is really fucking dumb, russian is not the mother of the other languages, they are all children of a common language

>>6454
Are you blind?

I found the pronunciation of Russian and what little I've learnt of other slavic languages quite easy, at least compared to French (2 years of studying... all the silent letters fuck me up).
Obviously there's more to learning it then pronouncing it though, like some have already said learning it is more of a journey; it take's a long time.

>>6454
>>6458 some people don't actually look at pictures; they just throw out impulses.

>>6468
>>6453
I've decided to go with Russian due to it's complexity. Thanks for the answers.

>>6424
This is the point.

>>6363

I should say, it hasn't been removed from the language ~entirely~.

It's fallen out of general, obviously. But that's what the thread's about; bringing it back.

Someone shared an interesting literary reference. Apparently I have a kindred soul in the 19th century.


"Like it? It is more sweet to me than I can tell. Say `thou',
also, and I shall say your language is almost as beautiful as mine."

"Isn't `thou' a little sentimental?" asked Jo, privately thinking
it a lovely monosyllable.

"Sentimental? Yes. Thank Gott, we Germans believe in sentiment,
and keep ourselves young mit it. Your English `you' is so cold, say
`thou', heart's dearest, it means so much to me," pleaded Mr. Bhaer,
more like a romantic student than a grave professor.

-Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

>>6364
well im american and ive never heard it (but we dont get many north englanders round here)

im not gonna try to stop you from saying it, im just pointing out that it futile

but i feel that this thread was created more for discussion than seriously changing a language and its been interesting

>>6318
what about yinz. Make it global

>>6430

Thou thinks it is futile, but we shall see.

Btw, I think just generally using third-person singular verb conjugations with "thou" works pretty well; it's already been done for at least 50-odd years now in Lancashire so I figure it'd be much easier than trying to bring back specific "thou" conjugations. "Thou art" is probably an exception, because "thou is" is cacophonous.