Hedonologist

Well I am young and have a lot of friend who are very familiar with internet slang. When we speak offline we still use the internet dialect. I think this is becoming more and more prevalent as well.

Foreigners often say that I have such a stereotypical British accent, that I must be faking it. I personally don't think my accent is that strong, but I've never met anyone who couldn't immediately guess my accent.

If you have a specific language you are learning for a specific purpose, then I would suggest focusing all of your energy into this, but if you are doing both for leisure or other non essential and urgent reasons then its perfectly reasonable to learn 2 languages, or even more, simultaneously.

Either by association (there was a program that allowed you to memorise 200 words a day using this method), Or simply traditional rote. I often learn vocabulary lists by rote and then read a passage contain the words to improve fluency and to cement the knowledge into my memory.

Would you say Japanese has a good reputation for English speakers? I've heard a few people give negative reactions when you tell them you study Japanese, and others seem very intrigued. It seems that Japanese has this kind of bad reputation that other languages, even Chinese doesn't.

Is it possible to take GCSE Hindi? I know there are many other languages available fore exotic Indian languages like Urdu, but is it possible to take Hindi? I ask because Hindi is even more widely spoken that Urdu but I've never seen a Hindi GCSE Textbook before.

when you confidently speak using sentances that you haven't even used before. That means your brain has grasped the concepts of word order and grammar. When you are improvising, that's a sign of fluency. There are many sentences that we will say that we have never said before, but because we are fluent we can make them up on the spot.

"When Michael was having a X-Ray for chest pain, the Doctor noticed a fracture that have previously gone unoticed". For example you have probably never said that specific sentence before. But we can easily construct it because we are fluent in English. When you can do that in other languages that's a sign that you have nailed it.

frequent practise, on a variety of topics. Of course there are some things that you will almost never forget, because they are the things you have practised the most. The more you practise, the less you have to worry about maintaining a language. If you have spoken a language fluently for 15 years, then even after 5 years of not using it you will find it very easy to pick back up.

I've never carried a dictionary on me at all times, but these days with smartphones it's simple to have an app that works as a dictionary in your pocket. I used to have one of those little translator mini computers but I found them to be far to slow and clunky.

Probably the first ever teacher we had from ages 5-7. She was not a bad teacher but the strictest we had ever had. Generally though the teachers I've had were not strict at all and had very little discipline, which certainly wasn't good in the long run.

I've not heard of any, and doing a simple search I can't find many, but I'm sure in the app store there are vocabulary apps. There are some generic language apps that allow you to drill vocabulary in many different languages, but I'm not aware of anything Latin specific.

My boyfriend likes that kind of songs   He used to send me a long songs when we were starting to get to know each other   They were so beautiful, but I often told him I had no idea what they were saying!  Sadly we weren't very lucky finding the lyrics of most of the songs he sent me.  Hopefully one day I will learn dutch so well I will understand all those songs

Is your boyfriend Dutch? Because that will be the easiest way of learning. Seriously. I hope you get to learn the meaning of this and other songs. Learning lyrics are another fun and good way of learning.

Oh absolutely, only amongst small groups of friends though. I think having these in-group terms is very common, if not near universal. There are even phenomenons where twins have their own kind of sub language. My average sociolect has been 50-200 terms and I think that's about average.

I would say 6,000. If we are counting Scots and English as separate languages for example. I'm not sure how many very distinct languages I would say there are, probably still more than 1,000.

My grandmother, whilst not deaf herself taught me some British Sign Language (BSL). I still rememebr some of it, and was considering learning more, but never really stuck with it. I've forgotten some of waht I was taught but still remember most of it.

I've never read a graphic novel actually. I mean I've flicked through one for a few seconds but I've never actually fully read it, nor do I know anyone who does. I often wonder where the readership is because they are widely available and these companies must make a profit.

Even as an English speaker I find that it doesn't take a lot to be able to read German, to a level of understanding the basics of what is being spoken about. So many similarities and when you learn suffixes and prefixes so much just comes naturally due to cognates.

Cases, then pronunciation then I suppose Cyrillic third. The pronunciation is difficult but it's not impossible to be understood, but hard to get to a professional level. While you can learn Cyrillic in a day, it does take a bit of getting used to in a way of remembering to read C as 's' rather than C.

One of my friends said this was how he first learned English. Not to a near native level but how he really got a good grasp. Sometimes learning the grammar and so forth can seem a chore but if you are doing something you enjoy then It'll come a lot easier.

I do love Irish folk music, but have learned any Irish from it. When intentionally studying German and Dutch though I've learned quite a bit through songs. Newspapers are best for written immersion, and songs for audio.

A simple quick immersion. I'll just flick through a newspaper quickly then maybe jot down any unknown words. Having said that this rarely happens as I've usually got a lot of time to study when I need to, do don't have to rush.

Yeah, I was even considering danish and Swedish once. I had started Swedish but then had a need to learn danish and I planned to keep them both up, but it just didn't work out. Not that learning Swedish didn't assist my danish, but not both at once.

Around the age of 11. I have always had a very inquisitive mind, and always loved learning. So upon seeing foreign languages that I didn't understand I was driven to learn to be able to comprehend them, and it went on from there really.

Funny, when I was planning to learn Ancient Greek, I got a copy of Plato in the native tongue, and a few others actually. It certainly feels better reading in the original as a lot of context and meaning is lost, despite the best efforts of translators.

At first I didn't know whether you meant foreign holidays, or time off work holidays. But both apply to me. I will be traveling to Iceland later this year so that will give me a chance to use what I have learned so far. as well as getting my first real life practice.