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  1. I think if everyone spoke one language the world itself would be better communication wise. I also think if everyone spoke one language there would be less diversity in the world. The world needs diversity, and originality to strive.

    I agree with you on both counts. But you can't exactly squash other people's cultures out though, and their native tongues, so perhaps if there was one main language taught as a secondary tongue to everyone things would maybe work out better? Then people could still speak freely in their own language as well as the common one...

  2. If you learn Russian, but have no one to talk to it will be harder. What's your motivation to learn it?  :pirate:

    Right..

    Hm, I'm not even sure why I want to learn it. I think it just sounds lovely, and in the summertime where I live there are a lot of people from Russia and other Slavic-speaking countries. I'm not even sure if I would talk to them, but I think it would be beneficial to know a language that could facilitate learning other similar tongues, you know?

  3. I don't really have anybody to speak Russian with, or even a good reason to be learning it. I can inflict Spanish, Dutch, German, French, Esperanto, Japanese & Italian on other people I already know, but I only know one or two Russians from the internet and I don't have much contact with them. It's an interesting language to be sure, but Spanish is probably the most important/relevant to me.

    Same here, so I'm struggling with whether or not I'd like to learn Russian or a different language in addition to Spanish.

  4. Correct grammar requires both opening and closing question and admiration marks.

    As noted by thekernel, it's incorrect leave them out, but they are often omitted due to a simple and plain reason; most keyboards do not have these punctuation marks nor the "ñ" unless you have a Spanish keyword and have set Spanish as your operating system language.

    However you can get these characters by using your ALT key and a number combination regardless the kind of keyboard you have or your default OS language setting, http://www.ascii-code.com/

    In addition, this guide shows you how to switch in Windows from a US-keyboard setting to a Spanish version, http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/spanish/acentos.html

    Thanks for the info! I have my keyboard set to international and that has been extremely helpful to me, but I didn't know that these special punctuation marks were available there as well!

  5. I'm learning Russian because they are Slavs, like me.

    Russian sounds much softer than my native Polish language.

    My mum speaks Russian and taught me alphabet but she doesn't like the language so she didn't teach me all.

    So I'm starting here :)

    How did she teach you the alphabet, if you don't mind my asking? Just as children who are native English speakers learn the alphabet?

  6. I would say Russian and of coarse English if you don't already speak it.

    I'm kind of glad you mentioned Russian, because I think I'd like to learn it. English is my native tongue so I'm looking to improve my English grammar and vocabulary and also to learn a few other languages. What is your reasoning for Russian being an important language to learn?

    Many people are saying Mandarin Chinese, and I've kind of thought about it, but learning Hindu or similar languages hadn't really crossed my mind--I'll have to look into it!

  7. I think it would be a great base language to learn because it definitely will easily help you understand the other Slavic languages. My dad can understand most of what Russian or Polish people say and other Slavic people can pretty easily understand the other Slavic languages, as well. It really opens a door with being able to communicate with people from any Slavic region.

    That's kind of what I'm hoping for; I would maybe like to learn Polish sometime in the future. Thanks for the inspirational thought :)

  8. You can use them invariably when you want to express ownership over something, weather real property or circumstantial ownership used in colloquial tone.

    So for what reason would you decide to use stressed ownership over regular? I'm sorry, I'm just struggling a bit over this about the difference between regular words used for ownership and stressed form...

  9. My girlfriend's family is Russian so I decided to start learning it. I am very beginner but I think I'm getting used to it. I am also just interested in this language overall :). It sounds pretty cool once you can speak it fluently.

    That's neat, I dated a guy in high school whose family spoke mostly Polish, and that was a source of motivation for me to maybe learn someday. We're not together any longer, but I think I still might be interested in the language. Have you mastered the alphabet yet? How long have you been trying to learn?

  10. Hola!  Que clase de español deseas aprender?  Ya que hay muchas variaciones dependiendo del pais de habla hispana, asi que debes decidirte :)  Especialmente porque en un pais de habla hispana una palabra puede significar una cosa totalmente diferente a lo que significa en otro pais... un ejemplo de esto es la palabra''concha''.  En mexico esta palabra se refiere a un pan dulce muy rico, pero en argentina es una cosa totalmente diferente ;)

    Quiero aprender español de mexico o españa, pero cualquier dialecto es bien!

  11. I actually wanted to learn Russian when I was younger, I wanted to learn as many languages as possible and I thought russian was a really beautiful language :)  I never got to learn it tho, I learn a couple of words, but that's it.  As I got older my life changed, so did my priorities.  Learning a new language is no longer a hobby, right now I'm doing it out of need.  I need to learn Dutch really bad because I might be moving there soon. I'm in a rush right now :P

    See, that's where I'm at right now. I have many languages I'd like to learn, but not all of them are practical for me because some of them might not be spoken by others around me. How will I practice? What good use will I put this knowledge to? Russian does sound beautiful though, I agree, and I'm interested because I know there are many Slavic languages that are similar that might be easier for me to learn after I nail Russian such as Polish.

  12. Thanks for the reply. I don't know what Rosetta Stone is. I'll google it, or is it something completely different?

    Rosetta Stone is a program that uses pictures that you match with vocabulary words and phrases so that the language clicks more quickly in your mind. Some people are visual learners, and this helps them very much when it comes to learning a language relatively quickly.

  13. Depends on the contest you are using these words

    Por can be translated either as "by" or "for" but look at this example sentences:

    Written by a popular author = Escrito por un popular author

    I will do it for you = Lo haré por ti.

    While "para" can also be translate as "for" or "to"

    This party is for you = Esta fiesta es para ti

    That person was sent to your office = Esa persona fue enviada para tu oficina

    Grammatically explained you can find the differences and how to use these words straight right here,

    http://www.spanishdict.com/topics/show/10

    http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/porpara.htm

    Thanks for the links! It would appear that really the only easy way to learn these would be to memorize the proper differences and uses for each word...

  14. Well I can contribute this to the Topic. There was this language learning children's cartoon series called Muzzy (You can find it on YouTube if you want now). Well anyway I watched the German version with my younger brother and what I can say about it is this, It will not make you child fluent in the language, however, to this day I can still count to 10 in German and say Good morning and goodnight. My theory is that because I was younger, my mind was more elastic and more open to learning new things so everything I learnt from the show was stored in my mind, even if I didn't learn very much.

    My parents bought Muzzy too! It was for the Spanish version though, and I think being exposed to the pronunciations and certain words really helped me in high school when Spanish or French were required courses, and my pronunciation and learning speed were both higher than average. I went on to college with Spanish as my major. Since then I have had to stop schooling for financial reasons, but I'm trying to keep me level of fluency the same and learn even more these days. I have a two month old son that I would love to teach Spanish as he is growing, so I plan on exposing him to the sounds of the language now while he is little and teaching him words, phrases, etc. Worst comes to worst, he will still know the basics, as you do in German! :)

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