Learning a new language
Posted: Sep 28th, '20, 01:14
Hello everyone, I've been thinking for a long time that I'd really like to learn several languages. Here in Canada they teach kids French starting very early and is mandatory until they reach high school. Then it's their choice if they want to continue. I always really hated French classes because I didn't like the way I was tested, and the method of teaching the language always felt so long and drawn out. So I never retained anything.
Now that I'm older I've started to pick French back up on my own time. I'm picking it up surprisingly fast! I'm really enjoying it. But since I travel a lot, many of the countries I've visited speak Spanish. So I figure once I'm comfortable with French I'll try my hand at Spanish. I've largely only used DuoLingo as an introductory way of getting back into French. But I've since started to investigate other apps, and more in depth ways of learning languages.
Anyways, I've always been drawn to learning languages, and I have a list of several that I'd like to learn. These things take time, but I think now that I'm older I can appreciate it. I'm finally willing to take the time to learn them, I fully expect to put in a years worth of time and more, and expect that it's a never ending process of learning. I'd like to reach fluency in French, and perhaps intermediate to advanced Spanish. The other languages I'm interested in would not be easily applied to my daily life right now, so I'd have to put considerable work into learning them. So right now my focus is on French and then later transitioning to Spanish.
And finally, after reading up a bit there's some words used for multiple language speakers. By definition taken off Google:
- Multilingual: A person who speaks more than two languages, but used often for four languages or more (3% of world population speak more than 4 languages)
- Polyglot: Someone with a high degree of proficiency in several languages (less than 1‰ of world population speak 5 languages fluently)
Anyways, I just think this stuff is really cool.
Have you ever wanted to learn a language?
How many do you speak?
Ever heard of a polyglot?
Anything else?
Now that I'm older I've started to pick French back up on my own time. I'm picking it up surprisingly fast! I'm really enjoying it. But since I travel a lot, many of the countries I've visited speak Spanish. So I figure once I'm comfortable with French I'll try my hand at Spanish. I've largely only used DuoLingo as an introductory way of getting back into French. But I've since started to investigate other apps, and more in depth ways of learning languages.
Anyways, I've always been drawn to learning languages, and I have a list of several that I'd like to learn. These things take time, but I think now that I'm older I can appreciate it. I'm finally willing to take the time to learn them, I fully expect to put in a years worth of time and more, and expect that it's a never ending process of learning. I'd like to reach fluency in French, and perhaps intermediate to advanced Spanish. The other languages I'm interested in would not be easily applied to my daily life right now, so I'd have to put considerable work into learning them. So right now my focus is on French and then later transitioning to Spanish.
And finally, after reading up a bit there's some words used for multiple language speakers. By definition taken off Google:
- Multilingual: A person who speaks more than two languages, but used often for four languages or more (3% of world population speak more than 4 languages)
- Polyglot: Someone with a high degree of proficiency in several languages (less than 1‰ of world population speak 5 languages fluently)
Anyways, I just think this stuff is really cool.
Have you ever wanted to learn a language?
How many do you speak?
Ever heard of a polyglot?
Anything else?