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That's cool! I started learning French because it was always stereotyped as a 'pretty' language. I later understood that it was very difficult to learn unless you are willing to devote a lot of time and effort to it - time and effort that I do not currently possess. Maybe I'll continue where I left off some time in the future.

I guess it will depend on the father of the child. The child's first language will most likely be English as that will be everybody's common language. Beyond that I'd like to teach them my mother tongue, Bengali. Then I guess it would be up to the other parent and me to decide whether we wanted them to learn four other languages.

Hi Osvaldo! I live in New Zealand. I was originally born in India, so I speak two Indian languages (Hindi & Bengali) and I speak English. I am currently learning French and Spanish - French online and Spanish at school.

I have tried out Duolinguo, but I did not find it useful to my needs. It was inefficient in teaching me all that I wanted to know. A better option would be to take a course IRL, or find another website - babble or memrise.

I disagree. I don't think listening to songs in a another language would help you to learn it. This is because with music there is just such a lot more to focus on, such as intro, vocals, rhythm, instrumental accompaniment, etc. It's really hard to learn a language by listening to songs. A better option would be if you decided to watch some movies a few times in that language, that way you can have subtitles in the same language and start to understand it a bit better.

Learning a language is not useless! It can be useful if you like to travel or if you like meeting new people. Languages open up a wide range of possibilities in your life. Also, if your looking for jobs, you'll have a lot more options if you are bi/trilingual.

Oh wow. Eight languages! That's a lot. I can speak 3 almost perfectly and am learning 2 more. I cannot imagine how anyone could be able to speak 8 languages, but apparently it is possible. I don't know anybody who can speak more languages than me.

I'm currently learning Spanish. What motivated me to learn this language was the fact that it's a really common language around the world. Also, I've learnt some Spanish earlier in my life, and I felt like I should go on learning it.

I have a French friend who lives in Belgium. She speaks French and very little English, and I am the opposite. I speak English and very little French. It is always difficult for us to communicate, but we try and it sort of works out. We write in both languages so we can both practice our parts.

I prefer to study on my own usually, because it means that I can take things at my own pace and teach myself the way I know I'll learn best. There are courses online that I like to use which help me remember things and learn more.

I began learning it because I thought it was a "pretty" language too! I now learn it because I enjoy learning another language, it's fun, a productive thing to do. One day I'd like to travel, so knowing more languages is a good thing.

Some good tips are watching a lot of French telly, because that will help to get you confident in understanding and communicating. For learning more vocabulary, try some online courses, such as memrise, babble and so forth.

Because it is hard to read for a lot of people. I understand that it is easier to type that way, but imagine if everything was written like that, novels, legal documents... To me that would be like mayhem.

I find the pronunciation factor and the grammar factor very difficult to understand in online tutorials. It's practically impossible to be corrected correctly (excuse me) while taking part in an online tutorial!

By the time I was five years old, I could speak three languages fluently. It all depends on how you are going to teach your child - because if you live in a country which teaches two languages as part of its curriculum, then you can rest easy knowing that they will learn at school.

In our country, New Zealand, we are using words such as swag, double denim, yolo, and such - most of which have barely any meaning. Words like twerk are now being added to the dictionary...

Well, it's an hour, because when you say hour, the h is silent. It sounds like our, which means 'an' must be used. I agree it is confusing, it's like the word historical. You don't know which is more correct, a historical, or an historical.

I think the best way to memorise the vocabulary you need it by using a site called memrise.com. It's useful, and it's specific purpose is to help you out with remembering things.

I reckon while sometimes German speakers can come off as a little bit rough, I do not find them aggressive. Their language is just like that, you know. It's okay.

I have a New Zealand English accent. But when I speak my mother-tongue, which is Bengali, I immediately transfer to an Indian accent. Perhaps this is what makes it so easy for me to learn a new accent for a new language, such as Spanish.

My hardest languages were:

French - pronunciation is very difficult, nothing sounds as it seems!

Hindi - I knew this language, but lost touch. I cannot seem to learn it again because it isn't offered as commonly, and everything is in script.

In the language I'm currently learning, I'm a slow reader. I pronounce each word in my head before registering the meaning, moving on to the next word and seeing the sentence as a whole.

It's true, spelling is becoming one of the things people are ignorant about. I think the main reason is spellcheck. Now that we have spellcheck, people don't care to learn how to spell a difficult word, they just wait for their spellcheck to fix it.

I learn in a class with many other students. This for all but memorising vocab. For memorising vocab, I use a site called memrise.com which is specifically for that purpose. It helps me to learn and remember things that I may or may not have previously known.

Currently, my favourite books would have to be Agatha Christie's novels. They are so well written and complex! I would recommend them to any crime lover. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to read, as long as you've known English for a couple of years.