>>6343

Machine translation is shit, you're better off using a dictionary.

I'm in the same boat, guy. English is my first language, Spanish is my second and I haven't taking my proficiency test yet but I'm confident I would be Intermediate-High to Advanced-Low. I've recently started learning Portuguese with Rosetta Stone and some online videos and it's harder than Spanish but I'm picking it up quickly because the grammar is very similar to Spanish and patterns are much easier to see now that I know 2 languages (I also studied Swedish for nearly a year so that helped me to spot linguistic patterns).

There are never defined times for how long it takes to reach a certain level of proficiency. I know this isn't a definitive answer whatsoever but I'll tell you right now you'll never get one. It depends on how often and how hard you work at it as well as your exposure to the language. Know any Brazilians or Portuguese people? If you're a student I would recommend seeing if your campus has conversation tables for the language. Also there are plenty of online resources; there is a channel on youtube called something like "Professor Jason" and he teaches basic Spanish and Portuguese very well and has great pronunciation.

>>6325

Official EU interpreter jobs start around 4,000 euros pcm (net of tax), but these are possibly the most competitive jobs in the EU. You have to have previous experience of translating and a complete knowledge of political terms in both your target languages.

I'm very sure that being a translator of texts would be MUCH easier than being an interpreter in real-time.

Being an interpreter seems a lot scarier because it seems like it would be very easy to make errors.

The only thing you can do is practice by listening to native speakers and trying to imitate them and learn their speech patterns. I too have a strong interest in this particular accent and will be visiting Spain this summer to study at La Universidad de Salamanca.

At any rate. You can't expect to be very good at speaking and listening when you've only been studying for a year unless you have been rigorously working for more than an hour a day on it.

It's extremely hard and unless you have a really big motivation like a job in the military or being Muslim you'll probably give up.

Start with the alphabet. Get a workbook that's just the letters. Do that first.

depends what you want to do... if you just want to be conversational i would recommend a tutor for the Egyptian dialect, it is the most widely understood of all Arabic dialects. all Rosetta Stone and other programs will teach you is MSA (modern standard Arabic) which is next to useless when spoken to a native speaker, It is mainly used for official documents and pan-Arabic media. I've been learning for a few months now and it isn't as hard as some would have you believe... reading/writing right to left is troublesome though.

>>6301
To my understanding, MSA is basically the language of the Qu'ran. It's hard to understand among uneducated people, but educated people can understand even if they don't like it.
An Egyptian I know compared it to Shakespeare. No one talks like that on the street, but educated people can understand it just fine.

I don't speak Arabic myself though.

>>5865
It is in Arabic bro however i just know how to read it but not understand since my language has the same letters!

Um.... I think that's the shahada.

>>6193

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWwWHPK7Rx4

For great justice (not sure what Chinese language it is).

>>6199
It's perfect!






No but seriously... halp.

If you don't know any songs, maybe at least some good artists? The only Chinese singers I know of are Jay Chou and Lee Hom, and Teresa Teng. I have already used 2 Teresa Teng songs (yue liang dai biao wo de xin, and tian mi mi) and I'm considering a duet from both jay and lee hom.

No clue if you already did it but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKHx3i9diw

я тoжe нe знaю...

hmm. a test indeed.