i had thought about learning spanish or greek since i've always liked it.. i love hearing ppl talk in these two languages.. X) and oh.. who could forget about italian.. love their food.. but anyway.. my frd decided to give it a whack one semester and enrolled himself in a spanish class.. keep in mind he has no experience in spanish... next thing you know.. the prof speaks in spanish the majority of time.. hands out a stack of vocab and announces that a vocab quiz is scheduled next week... all this happened on the first day of class.. so he bailed out of that class the next day...
i don't know about others.. but this kind of teaching method discourages me from taking other language courses..=\ i don't believe that you can actually learn in such an uptight environment.. nevertheless i've heard great things about taking DE for language.. you are just required to do some translations and weekly readings...so i guess that could be an option?
I'm learning Spanish right now, it's easy. A lot of the words are kinda similar to English. I think that as long as you can create an environment in that language, you'll be fluent in no time.
I'm learning Spanish right now, it's easy. A lot of the words are kinda similar to English. I think that as long as you can create an environment in that language, you'll be fluent in no time.
hmm.. that's going to be hard for me.. i'm an asian.. =( hard to find an environment like that to mingle with.. i know next to nothing about spanish besides the fact i like how the sounds just roll out of your mouth.. =) but just out of curiousity.. do you have a spanish background?
hmm.. that's going to be hard for me.. i'm an asian.. =( hard to find an environment like that to mingle with.. i know next to nothing about spanish besides the fact i like how the sounds just roll out of your mouth.. =) but just out of curiousity.. do you have a spanish background?
I'm Chinese, I speak a little Spanish because I have familiy friends from Venezuela and I used to hang out with them a lot, so I picked up a little along the way. Right now I'm taking Spanish at school because I want to be fluent.
Starting to study a new language is never a bad idea. Two is ambitious.
It all depends on the languages themselves. If they have a similar structure (e.g. Italic languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish (among others); or Germanic languages such as German or Dutch (among others)), it may actually be advantageous to study two similarly structured languages while you're still young.
It also depends on your linguistic background: do you already speak another language and is it similar to the one which you will study?
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I guess it's ok. Unless its one of those asian languages with characters.
I'm learning mandarin right now at SFU.
Pretty easy... but I can't imagine learning another asian language. I would mix up the characters so bad.
Personally I would suggest learning one at a time. Two at once will make it more stressful for you than it needs to be!
i don't know about others.. but this kind of teaching method discourages me from taking other language courses..=\ i don't believe that you can actually learn in such an uptight environment.. nevertheless i've heard great things about taking DE for language.. you are just required to do some translations and weekly readings...so i guess that could be an option?
It all depends on the languages themselves. If they have a similar structure (e.g. Italic languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish (among others); or Germanic languages such as German or Dutch (among others)), it may actually be advantageous to study two similarly structured languages while you're still young.
It also depends on your linguistic background: do you already speak another language and is it similar to the one which you will study?
Regardless, good luck with your ambitious quest.