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 Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:25 am
So tell me guys. Do you like English? How have you learnt it? If you have studied the language at school, for how long? Do you speak any other language?
English-speaking people (if there are any), I'm asking the very same questions ... about French! ;D
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:46 pm
I learnt English at school (from secondary school to high school), like most of French. I came to England in family four or five times. I re-discover English in 2nd year of university, but an English specialized in History of Art...and so kind boring (as lesson of French vocabulary of architecture...).
I don't speak very well English. People understand me quite well, but I have a deep lack of grammar and construction.
However, I understand very well English, I read some books in English (all the Harry Potter (never try the French version >_<), the Lord of the Rings,...) and I prefer to see movie in original version (in every langage).
I like English very much, and I feel ashamed to speak it so badly (it bothers me a lot when i want to answer on gaia, I can't tell exactly what is on my mind è_é). I'll take English lessons someday, for sure è_é
The other language I speak : a little bit of Japanese (but I understand it quite well). I don't speak anymore Spanish, I've forgotten almost all I learnt...
I was used to understand very well latin (very useful XD) and I learnt sanskrit too.
I love languages, I should not neglect them anymore v_v
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:35 pm
I fell in love with English around high school ♥ I love everything about it; I love how it got so many words (three times more than French!), I love how pretty it sounds: each sound on its own, words separately, and the accentuation and musicality of sentences and speach ♥
I also love how supple and meaningful it is; one can often picture or hear what a word means, and the syntax is easy and practical. In English you can say a lot very precisely in just one sentence, when you need a whole paragraph in French. When I first started to read in english, this amazed me *-*
Another funny thing is that there's so much in common between English and French (for obvisous historical reasons). A lot of expresssions, pictures and way of saying are very close, or simply the same :3
I'm fluent in reading English, I can write, but I'm not so good at oral understanding, and ... I can't speak >.< That really annoys me, but I haven't really ever get the chance to pratice, so ... I hope one day I'll get to speak english in my daily life =)
Apart from English, I learnt German and Spanish at school, but I've forgotten most of the little I knew xD"
I had 10 years of German (10 years! I *should* be fluent by now and I know almost nothing D<), 10 years of English and 3 years of Spanish.
But I think french ways of teaching languages really suck ~~
And hum, I know like 30 japanese words x"D
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:13 am
I live in America, so I was taught English as a child.
(They tried to teach us Spanish in elementary school, but we never got past numbers, colours, and telling time.)
I've had two French classes over the past two years, and I'm taking two more this coming school year; I hope to take advanced French next year.
My teacher this past year was horrible; I can't remember anything I learned except those stupid songs to help us learn body parts and possessive adjectives and things. >>; (Touchez les yeux, touchez les yeux, vous avez deux, touchez les yeux.) We watched a lot of music videos in that class.
I'm better at reading and writing French than speaking it, but I get the masculine and feminine words mixed up a lot.
I really want to learn to speak Italian, but our school doesn't offer it as a class -- only French, Spanish, German, and Latin.ankles all the way.
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:47 pm
x supernaturalist x I can't remember anything I learned except those stupid songs to help us learn body parts and possessive adjectives and things. >>; (Touchez les yeux, touchez les yeux, vous avez deux, touchez les yeux.) It sounds horrible. I'd be curious to hear them !
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:38 pm
danger, dangerI think the guy that sang most of them used the name Alain du Lait -- he's Canadian, I know that much.
(It messed us up a few times with the vocabulary; we learned French-French, not Canadian-French.)high voltage
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:55 am
I LOVE English! And I always loved it.
Like you I learnt in school, so I'm not fluent ^^" (yeah Maddy, French School sucks in languages!) Plus it's been 2years since my last english lesson, I forgot so many things, that's a shame. I know I'll study english again next year, but only very basic english (as you said supernaturalist, numbers, colors and so on -_-") and medical vocabulary.
It's very frustrating understanding most of what people say or write and being ashamed answering because of an accent, a lack of vocabulary or a wrong gramatical construction. Especially on Gaia sweatdrop But I can at least watch movies or TVshows in the original version, that sometimes saves me from the french on...
I went to 2english-speaking countries: Scotland and Mauritius. Well in Mauritius I didn't speak english at all 'cause I was with my parents (plus most of Mauritians speak French), but I did in Edimburg, as it was a school trip. I met amazing people (Scotts are mad, but in the right way XDD), that was very fun. And the more you dare, the more it comes easily!
I also talked with a Indian frien of my dad's. I love indian accent, it's very easy to understand heart
I'm fluent in Arabic. My mother is Moroccan and I was born in Morocco so I learnt it at home AND at school. I'm not really good in reading anymore 'cause it's been soooo long (reading veeeeery slowly and misunderstanding somee words as classic arabic si quit different from moroccan arabic), but I still can talk with my mother's family.
And after 5years of Spanish, I almost forgot it all ^^"
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:49 am
Well I use to speak english very often during summer with tourists and all, and its always a great pleasure when english people congrats you for your good english and accent... An english man ask me last week if I use to live in the united states because I have an american accent ^^
That's fun because i've never put a foot in an english speaking country xd
Thanks to all those stupid tv shows I watch in english!
I also speak a bit of german, japanese and italian, but as a beginner...
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:55 am
Lol well, I learned english in my school too, but I also learned a lot from tv, computer/xbox games, and music. I love other languages than my own XD it's strange, but I actually hate the danish language at some times ><
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:30 am
Why do you hate it? Is it about how it sounds? (note that I don't know Danish ... maybe I heard it before from movies ...)
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:22 am
I learned English as my second language as a kid. First was Español <3
Anyways I learend mostly playing Nintendo and watching TV. BEst teachers ever.
French... I had 5 years of french in school, because I mastered English there xD
Sadly, we dont speak French at all here. So im really out of practise.
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