Im currently learning Portuguese online. Since im 1/4 Brazilian, have family in Brazil, and want to go there one day, I figured I better learn the language..plus itd be pretty cool if i could speak another language fluently.

It is quite similar to spanish in how the words are spelled, numbers are used, and alphabet looks(so far from what ive done) but the sounds are quite different. Initially, it seems a bit harder than Spanish, and im just gettin my feet wet.

Anyone else feel free to use this thread to talk about broadening your language horizons, or any other languages you already know

1/20/2008 10:10:43 PM

first: Turkish
second: Farsi
third: English
3.5: Spanish

1/20/2008 10:11:25 PM

With Turkish and Farsi up there, I would have guessed you know Kurdish too?

[Edited on January 20, 2008 at 10:15 PM. Reason : tense?]

1/20/2008 10:13:08 PM

^^what are you engin atsur or something?

1/20/2008 10:13:47 PM

naw, unfortunately.

it's actually not Turkey Turkish i know, but Azerbaijani Turkish.

1/20/2008 10:14:23 PM

I've always said I wanted to speak five languages fluently before I die. I got a little sidetracked though, but I'm still holding strong with my English skills.


Here's the ones I wanted to speak:
English
French
Spanish
Russian

and I forget the last one...Italian maybe.

1/20/2008 10:16:11 PM

how many turkish languages are there?

1/20/2008 10:16:32 PM

i love russian last names.

i can't stand listening to the french language though.

Quote :

"how many turkish languages are there?"

well, it's not really a different language, just a different dialect.

[Edited on January 20, 2008 at 10:17 PM. Reason : ]

1/20/2008 10:16:54 PM

i want to learn far too many languages

1/20/2008 10:18:28 PM

after i learn portuguese, ill pretty much know like half spanish i guess...but the next language i want to learn is either dutch, german, or something completely stupid and useless like zulu

1/20/2008 10:19:59 PM

how different is the language between portugal and brazil?

1/20/2008 10:21:11 PM

i started zulu


it was strange

1/20/2008 10:21:26 PM

I'm alright with Spanish, not fluent but can understand maybe 50% of Univision

would like to learn Arabic

1/20/2008 10:21:58 PM

fairly different from what I've been told.

Quote :

"We couldn't post an ad that said no purtugese, but... no portugese"

1/20/2008 10:22:34 PM

^^

reminded me of this

1/20/2008 10:22:49 PM

im not sure of the difference, but im learning the brazilian dialect, of course

1/20/2008 10:24:16 PM

i know:

English, French, Latin. I want to learn Italian (Calabrese dialect), Spanish, Russian, and German. I've also started teaching myself Ancient Greek.

1/20/2008 10:24:49 PM

naturally.

1/20/2008 10:24:50 PM

haha what are you going to do with ancient greek? and how do you go about learning it?

1/20/2008 10:25:53 PM

my Latin vocabulary:

CUM LAUDE

POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC

and i think i know like one more but can't remember

1/20/2008 10:26:05 PM

you might know e pluribus unum

1/20/2008 10:27:41 PM

why ancient greek? why latin?

I love the Classics. That, and someday I hope to translate the Bible.

how do I do it?





a grammar and lexicon is all you need.

[Edited on January 20, 2008 at 10:31 PM. Reason : my copy of the grammar i bought off ebay. 1st edition, tho, so it's from 1895.]

1/20/2008 10:29:19 PM

ah, remembered.

ceteris paribus

1/20/2008 10:46:42 PM

fornix

1/20/2008 10:51:34 PM

Reticulum Luporum

1/20/2008 10:55:17 PM

vesicouterine excavation

1/20/2008 10:56:16 PM

You learned the Portuguese language in 20 minutes?

Not all of it.

1/20/2008 10:57:16 PM

I'd like to learn Basque

1/20/2008 11:06:51 PM

basque is really strange. i knew a foreign exchange student in high school from that region and she showed us some of their written and spoken language. it's weird.

1/20/2008 11:17:27 PM

it's older than just about everything else in Europe

1/20/2008 11:18:00 PM

I need to study more French
I'm hoping to pick up some Serbian soon too... I've got a Serb and Croat phrase book

1/20/2008 11:19:22 PM

gotta add Norwegian to my list.

1/20/2008 11:20:02 PM

this just reminds me of the rosetta stone commercials.

i took french...a lot of it. i still feel like i suck at it. that is the main language i want to learn. i would love to work in an international field and that is a really useful language. but spanish is (obviously) up there too. italian would be cool but i feel not very useful. and it would be hard as shit to learn like japanese but pretty awesome.

1/20/2008 11:23:55 PM

I think it would be cool to learn a really obscure language like Papiamentu - it's only spoken in the Dutch Antilles islands

http://www.narin.com/papiamentu/index.html

1/20/2008 11:38:54 PM

i am learning hungarian

slowly

1/20/2008 11:47:10 PM

screw useful languages...learn a language you want to learn, not what is useful... i am taking brazilian portuguese.



[Edited on January 20, 2008 at 11:49 PM. Reason : english is a useful language.]

1/20/2008 11:47:54 PM

Greek and Arabic are really flexible, I hear

and Spanish is supposedly the best language to swear with

1/20/2008 11:49:44 PM

actually what would be REALLY cool is to learn some african language that is still primarily oral. i don't even know how people do that. just immerse yourself in the culture i guess.

1/20/2008 11:50:01 PM