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[Dr Strum]

Languages I know: German, English, French (not so well yet)
Studying: French

[Dr Strum]

I've lost almost all my french vocabulary since last year. :|

My mom is trying to teach me Cantonese.
I'm working on pronouncing the five elements (gold, wood, water, fire, earth), sun (day) , moon (month), up, down, and 1-10

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This post has been edited by DustyHaru: Jul 23 2008, 11:35 PM

[Dr Strum]

Languages I know: German, English, French (not so well yet)

Ho ho ho. You shall then help me practice more than just German, soon.

[Dr Strum]

I know: English, Cantonese (My Canto is quite bad though)
I'm learning: French

Damn I'm pathetic =(

[Dr Strum]

Nope, you are not.

I only know English and Spanish.

[Dr Strum]

I know English and French, and once the school year starts up again I'll be taking my second course of French.

I don't know why, but I enjoy French slightly more than I enjoy English, but I find English much more practical since it's native to me.

[Dr Strum]

Я думаю что я очень люблю русский. Я не знаю почему, а я всегда говорить по–русски, но не по–немецки или по–японски...
でも、僕は日本語で書くのが大好きです。分かりますか。とてもきれいだよ。

I'm planning on writing a book that uses several different languages - not in the same way as House of Leaves, but, well, I don't want to give it away. Needless to say, it will be near unreadable to most.

[Dr Strum]

Wow, everyone knows so many languages...!

I've been thinking about immersion once i'm old enough, but I feel like I won't know enough of the language to go there. I also worry about cost )':. (It's French btw.)

Also, any suggestions for learning French over the summer?

! and.. I know English and I can speak/understand Cantonese. Can't read or write it though. )':

[Dr Strum]

I know English, a bare minimum of Japanese (there was that fluency period back at age three, but then I learned English... :/ ), and some French.

I'm taking another French class when school starts, but I'm really tired of French. I wish I could take Latin instead. Or German. :/

[Dr Strum]

Also, any suggestions for learning French over the summer?

If you know some already - Google News. I have Google news in Russian, German and Japanese in my RSS feeds. I also regularly raid bookstores and libraries for foreign language books.

I wish I could take Latin instead.

Latin is a dead language. Ignore it.

[Dr Strum]

I have decided to vote for Obama largely based on the fact that he wants everyone in America to be bilingual or even trilingual.
And I can't believe anyone has used that against him.

[Dr Strum]

Sturm, you might find this useful,

http://caminobrowser.org/download/releases/1.6.3-MultiLang/

I'll assume that means you can change the text so that it comes out as the language you've selected.

You can also change things like that on OS X/Leopard, but I think you already know how to do that.

[Dr Strum]

I can speak Vietnamese, can't read or write it though >_>

[Dr Strum]

I know English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and the um... that Fujian-Chinese dialect. Ugh I wish my family would stick to ONE dialect of Chinese rather than having some parts of the family speak Mandarin, some Cantonese, and then others Fujian. My ability to read/write Chinese isn't wonderful, though.

My Fujian is really choppy though. My Spanish isn't that great either, but I can carry a conversation.

[Dr Strum]

I can't speak Fuking at all. Apparently my grandmother and I communicated with gestures. I always thought she understood Cantonese.