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Me too, I've never heard of Nuclear being pronounced like Nukular, but I really have no problem if people speak the way they want as long as they are understood. I don't nukular would be understood as nuclear though.

Good question whnuien, I guess the answer is that people got used to saying it like that. We had a reform in Portuguese recently and most of the silent words were removed, so maybe that will happen with English in the future?

Samon doesn't look good though! 

Learning a language through an how-to book seems tricky, I don't even know what you mean by that. If it is a language book sure, why not? Considering you have some sort of audio support because without audio it's impossible to learn how to speak unless you are in the country.

I recall when I was learning English that my teacher gave me this one that always gave me problems!

She sells seashells by the seashore.

The shells she sells are surely seashells.

So if she sells shells on the seashore,

I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

I don't agree with that dorann, for me it's a fairly easy language. I don't know if the fact that we are exposed to it since we are born helps, but I think the grammar and the structures are fairly simple.

It's really a matter of motivation. What are you learning for, what is your goal? Keep that in mind and keep a track of your progress, seeing how we progress is really the best motivator there is.

O rato roeu a rolha da garrafa do rei da Russia. (Portuguese Portugal)

Hard one for kids!

Que si? Yo no me hago la diferencia entre lo español de mexico y lo de españa por ejemplo. Que diferencias principales existen?

Hola Isaac, bienvenido al forum! Porque estás estudiando tres lenguas al mismo tiempo? No piensas que sera demás? Como consigues hacerlo?

Actually I've never seen no one writing registeration and it seems a rather obvious mistake even for me that am not a native, but on the other hand it's spelled that way so that is most likely the cause of people writing it.

I think that it a great idea, but we have a section on the forum exactly for that, to find people that will help us practice the languages you know. If you can help some other language of that person, better.

That's true, we have to develop an ear for listening and it's not easy, but at the same time I think that speaking is way harder because it's not something merely passive, you need to be active and articulate your thoughts.

Ah, good opening sentence, Spanish should not be learned, but lived, I agree with you!

Now I see your intro is more or less like an ad, even so I suppose you're in the right place to do it...

Welcome!

Interesting thread, but I am really not familiar with feel-good books, but I guess I can answer with another question, do spiritual books make you feel any more spiritual? I think it depends on what you invest on the book, if it's your thing or not.

LOL, I guess your friends LIKE to annoy you and that they have been SHARING that with everyone you know...  Either cases, I think the best you have to do is to disconnect and accept it, it's here to stay...

I guess that a visual dictionary might be helpful if we are studying a language, but for translations for example nothing like using an online dictionary, it can cut down the time of looking for a specific word lots of times and we do the job way faster.

Free online tutorials are pretty neat to start with and to get some notions of the language or just pick up some words or sentences, but they don't take us the whole way. A paid online tutorial might to that job, but it would had to be a really complete one.

I am feeling like an English master now, 100% correct lol, but in fact it was pretty easy and it's hard to make mistakes there. Sure, for a beginner is a good test though like you say g2narat.

I think that if you are doing it intensively and on your own, one language is more than enough, but if we are in a school we can perfectly take three or four languages at the same time because we have other sort of support.

Yeah, I can totally relate with with what you say trenchant, I was in Tokyo for one month and it drove me nuts to see everything in Japanese, I was wishing I had studied it before...

I think that with today's technology we have our job made easy because we can record out stuff in mp3 and listen during the day, it's a good technique.

I am in Portugal and I've met two Moldavian guys here that also learned the language super fast, I can't precise how long it took them, but they need to know it in order to get paid...

LOL! When you are trying to speak one language, but in the middle of that language words in another language pop-up.

Sure that where we are (learning French in France for example) makes a difference regarding the language we are learning, but do you think that is only the speaking part that is made easier or the reading and writing as well?

For me it's definitely speaking. I'm a kind of person who learns grammar of a foreign language quickly as well as writing, but when it comes to speaking, everything gets so mixed up in my head and I can hardly speak.

Yeah, I think that speaking is the hardest too, but just imagine you're learning French and you're in France, I think that speaking would be easier than writing maybe.