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hiccupthehuman said:
CourageTCD said:

Quel est le plus difficile à ton avis: Français, Espagnol ou Vietnamese?

Le vietnamien, et de loin.

Le français j'ai appris comme une langue maternelle, et l'espagnol est très similaire au français du point de vue de grammaire. Aussi, beaucoup de mots se ressemblent entre le français et l'espagnol. J'utilise Duolingo pour les deux langues, et regarde des vidéos/Netflix des fois en espagnol.

Le vietnamien est difficile car beaucoup de mots sont écrits de la même manière (avec les mêmes lettres), avec seulement quelques accents de différents, donc il faut beaucoup de mémorisation et c'est facile de confondre des mots.

Un exemple de plusieurs mots vietnamiens écrits de la même manière avec juste des accents de différents.

Qu'est-ce qui t'as attiré à apprendre le français et le portugais?

Je suis brésilien, alors portugais est ma langue maternelle. Je te suggère d'apprendre le portugais plus tard. Portugais est très similaire à l'espagnol. Je veux apprendre le français pour me souvenir des difficultés rencontrées lors de l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère.



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TallSilhouette said:

I took four years of Spanish in high school and got to a conversational level for a while, but even living in areas with large Spanish speaking communities I still basically never used it and forgot most of it over the years. Sadly I think that would probably happen with any other language as well unless I deliberately made time not just to learn the language, but immerse myself in the culture and stay in it, too. This kinda rules out a number of languages I wouldn't mind learning as I have less interest in the immersion components. Still, I love watching videos from polyglots like Xiaomanyc and seeing people light up at being able to converse in their native tongue with a stranger. Maybe I'll find the motivation some day.

That's so true. You gotta keep practicing after finishing your studies, otherwise you'll eventually forget most of the things you learned. It's not like learning how to ride a bycicle. That's why I intend to follow some French youtube channels and watch them in a regular basis, and also interect with the comment section



Bofferbrauer2 said:

I'm fluent in Luxembourgish, English, French and German (C2 level for each of them), plus some Tagalog, Russian, Schwiizerdütsch, Spanish and Yenish.

Currently I'm not studying a foreign language, but actually my mother tongue. You see, Luxembourgish didn't get fully standardized until shortly before I went to school, and as such there were no teachers yet to teach the written form of our language, so that's what I'm doing now.

Also on the checklist is deeper understanding on Spanish and Tagalog due to my mother moving to Spain and my wife being Filipina.

I had no idea Luxembourghish didn't get fully standardized until recently. Kinda nuts to think of a native speaker learning their own language because of that



Aside occasionally trying to learn bit of Japanese, I haven't learned languages since school when I had Swedish, bit of German and a small introductory course of French (aside English), but those have gotten very rusty by now.



Nah I suck at language. I only know my own language, which is Dutch, and English, which I only know because every foreign game, movie and tv-series was in English when I was a child. Nowadays that isn’t necessarily true anymore and it shows, but anyway. I suppose though I can decently read and understand German as well. Better than Frisian at least, even though it’s the second language in my country, it’s like Chinese to me.

It would be nice though to know some languages a little better, but because it has never been my strong suit I don’t have the motivation now.



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Finnish.



CourageTCD said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

I'm fluent in Luxembourgish, English, French and German (C2 level for each of them), plus some Tagalog, Russian, Schwiizerdütsch, Spanish and Yenish.

Currently I'm not studying a foreign language, but actually my mother tongue. You see, Luxembourgish didn't get fully standardized until shortly before I went to school, and as such there were no teachers yet to teach the written form of our language, so that's what I'm doing now.

Also on the checklist is deeper understanding on Spanish and Tagalog due to my mother moving to Spain and my wife being Filipina.

I had no idea Luxembourghish didn't get fully standardized until recently. Kinda nuts to think of a native speaker learning their own language because of that

A result of this very late standardisation is that despite the country being very small, we still have several regional dialects: Staater (Spoken in Luxembourg city and the standard on which the written form is based upon), Minetter (South of the country), Miseler (Along the Moselle river), Eeslécker (In the north of the country), Islécker (Similar to Eeslécker, in the northeast of the country), Lakerschmus (A variant of Yenish spoken in a suburb of Luxembourg city), Aareler (In the now Belgian city of Arlon and due to this almost extinct now), and I'm sure I forgot some more...

Also I never ever learned Luxembourgish at school apart a bit of Lakerschmus, only German, French and English, in that order.



TallSilhouette said:

I took four years of Spanish in high school and got to a conversational level for a while, but even living in areas with large Spanish speaking communities I still basically never used it and forgot most of it over the years. Sadly I think that would probably happen with any other language as well unless I deliberately made time not just to learn the language, but immerse myself in the culture and stay in it, too. This kinda rules out a number of languages I wouldn't mind learning as I have less interest in the immersion components. Still, I love watching videos from polyglots like Xiaomanyc and seeing people light up at being able to converse in their native tongue with a stranger. Maybe I'll find the motivation some day.

This is probably the story of most Finns. Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish, and everyone has to study the other official language as well. Most of Finland is, unsurprisingly, exclusively Finnish-speaking in practice, so for most Finns, the 'other language' is Swedish. I think currently everyone has to study it for at least four years and probably even years more in practice, and most people probably mostly forget it soon after studies because they don't need it. I know I did. It's definitely much easier to learn it again than learning it from scratch, but even studying for longer than the four years you mentioned isn't enough if you're not actually using the language.