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My most demanding teacher was a private Russian teacher that came to my house and made me suffer saying the dates in Russian over and over again... For example 1985 - тысяч девятьсот восемьдесят пять, can you say that again? :cry:

It's true, Brazilian Portuguese seems like a song to us Portuguese, it's just their thing, and also many words are different. If anyone wants to practice some Portuguese, let me know.

I agree that speaking is the hardest, it's just much more complex, unless you are in the country or surrounded by speakers of that language, otherwise it is just impossible to pick up just from a book.

Übersetzungsprogramm? :grin: Ich have einige bucher in Amazon gekauft und ich habe gelernt allein. Ich war in Deutschland drei mal und das war also gut. Ich habe ein freund da und wir habe viele mal an telephon gesprochen. Viele fehler dieses mal oder?

Danke. Bist du auch Deutscher @linguaholic oder warum hast du Deutsch gelernt? Was meinst du @Jellyfish "Wie hast Du das gemacht?", ich verstehe nicht.

69000 languages it's an impressive number. I think it should be hard to determine they exact number because as you say a lot of dialects are spoken worldwide.

Alguém fala português ou está a aprender?

Du bist ein deutscher Jellyfish, ich glaube ich kann dein deutch nicht verbessern. Vielleicht kanst du mein deutch korrigieren bitte? :grin:

As this forum is in English, I don't know if this thread is adequate... Even so, many users as me might not be native speakers, so I hope some kind English native speaker soul could give us a hand here?

Hoy es Viernes trece y fue un dia para esquece, muchos problemas, y yo ni soi supersticioso! A ver se mañana es mejor... :beaten:

I think that the more you listen to a language the better you pick up its sounds and structure. I think this happens a lot here in Portugal with English in television because we have many programs in English, so I suppose the same effect does apply to music as well.

I have studied many languages and my MO was always the same, I started by browsing the net for free contents. After that I bought my stuff on Amazon and did self-study, but self-study can take you only up to a point. So it really depends on how far you want to take your studies.

I have started learning Japanese because I was working for a publishing house that wanted to publish a book in Japan and its contents were sensible, so I tried to grasp the basics of the language to be able to review the book. I was able to do it with the help of a professional translator here in Portugal.

I took me a while to understand these Chinese words... They are Fa Kin Su Pah!

I have studied Mandarin for about one and a half year by myself with books and audiotapes I bought in Amazon. I progressed nicely and I think the grammar (or it's almost absence) is fairly simple, but I got lost with the characters. After a while, I took a few lessons on Missão de Macau here in Lisbon and I realized I wasn't making a correct pronunciation, so learning it alone was probably not the best option... :nerd:

It would be difficult to give you the basics of a language in a single post. I think there are a few free online basic courses that might help you a lot, here is a link for one that seems pretty good: http://lp.babbel.com/d/ENG_index.html?ch=SEM&l2=SPA&slc=AW16-ENGSPA&utm_campaign=ENGSPA_AW-16&utm_source=GoogleAdWords_Search&utm_term=%2Bbasic%20%2Bspanish&matchtype=b&placement=&placementcategory=&adposition=1t1&utm_content=22280108805&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CKHhkY7HwbkCFcfJtAodjAEAEg (I have tried to post this link using the Insert Hyperlink button, but somehow I didn't manage, can someone please help?)

Here in Portugal we start learning English when primary school begins that is, at age seven and we keep on learning it until the 9th grade, so it's nine years of learning English! Apart from that a lot of contents on TV are in English, so that is also a good help.

I have learned English and French at school and Russian and German alone at home with books I bought at Amazon. When I started progressing I got a Russian teacher that gave me private lessons and with the German I spoke with a friend on the phone and I visited Germany a few times. Spanish is pretty similar to Portuguese, so funny enough I learned it by reading books.

Hello fellow language learners! My name is André and I am in Portugal. I have studied quite a few languages and I can speak fluently English, Spanish beside Portuguese. Hope to be able to help someone and to practice languages I don't have many chances to speak, like German or Russian.