Multilingual NS Members

[dela]

Anyone learn from Rosetta Stone? If so, is it a realistic way to learn a language even if you don't have several hours a day to devote to it?

 

[ZeMagnificentKev]

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[cydwhit]

Cool to see so many multilingual skiers, I was pretty solid in latin (yeah I know, dead language) in high school but lost most of it. I can pick out lots of bits and pieces in romance languages because of the latin but that's all I've got for now. Really wish I had learned more when I was younger.

 

[yangumane]

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[sivercartel4ever]

English natively, Tagalog Is my second language. I lived in the Philippines for two years and learned out of necessity. I also can get around in Ilocano and compangpangan two dialects of the Philippines.

 

[FuckAllOfYou]

Is it hard to live in quebec without knowing french?

 

[milk_man]

Que tal hermosa?

 

[raymondcabral]

I speak some terrible spanish

 

[jibbpeter]

French general...

 

[theabortionator]

On this subject if I ever have kids I'm going to hire a Spanish speaking housekeeper.

Not to actually clean the house. I would feel weird if somebody cleaned my house for me. I just want one to talk to the kids in fluent spanish so they absorb both languages. If they get good enough at that maybe do the same with another language while they're still young.

Never had the chance to learn a language till highschool. They didn't let us take a language till 6th grade and even then it was a train wreck. Took french 2 days a week then the school switched to spanish. Did online spanish classes which I can't fucking learn from. Only really learned anything in my 3 years in highschool and even that was a struggle.

I can speak spanish well enough to get around but I'm far from fluent and know I sound like an idiot.

/tldr

 

[bakedpow]

i speak english and norwegian. i lived in norway twice so i was forced to learn

 

[~bagelz~]

Murican(first language)Italian(lived there for 6 years), and various southern italian dialects.

some french and some latin from school

 

[Malcolm]

I understand french perfectly and speak it fine. I have french friend's and everything, I just speak with a shitty accent. It's definitely possible to live in Montreal without knowing french. It would definitely be harder anywhere else in Quebec though.

 

[nutz.]

I live in Montreal without knowing any french (besides the basic food stuff); it sucks sometimes, but it's doable. I'd really love to learn the language though.

 

[yangumane]

I went to Montreal a few years ago only knowing English, and I had no problem. Most signs have English and French on them, and most of the people that live there speak excellent English.

 

[TheSteezyKoala]