Lingua Franca

I don't know if your brain would outright reject a language, but you might have some difficulty with it. If the language is very distant from your native language or any language that you might know it could be more difficult to learn.

All the time, I think there are people that don't give real value to a good translation and just as long as it's translated it's fine. I have seen places that clearly used a service like google translator to do their translation. The result was a real eye sore.

This very true, context is everything. When people are playing sports it's not uncommon for them to wind each other up, but if it was anywhere else that wouldn't work out well.

If you don't find people to talk to, it can be very difficult to keep it at a high level. There is only one thing that can maintain a language that you have learnt and that is practice, practice and more practice. If you are the only one speaking it, this can be extremely difficult to do.

I think we find the language that best can show our feelings. It's the language that is deep down inside of us and probably the one that we feel can really express our feelings.

Yes it does provided you don't get too engrossed into the movie and forget to listen out to the language you want to learn. It's probably one of the best ways to get a good grasp of the language.

I haven't given up on any of the languages I set out to learn. I have put one off though, it was at time that I had very little time and I knew that if I tried to learn it I wouldn't do a good job. So I only picked it up again when I had more free time.

It just human nature, we always think that people are saying something bad about us if we don't understand the language. I do think if everyone in the group understands a language the people in that group should use it. It's the best way to avoid confusion.

I think you are right, I doubt they say that in order to offend you. I think the best way to deal with this is just tell them how much time it took you to learn it and what you did to learn it.

I think that's exactly what is still holding google back. The fact that it can't translate large paragraphs correctly has saved a lot of jobs. I personally hope it never gets there.

I really don't think it works with anyone. No one likes to be forced into doing something. That's how come students should have this sentiment, there are subjects that we might like more then others but if you don't feel forced into doing something you might still get something out of it.

i have noticed that but do you find that it's a time saver or isn't it worth while and it's better to just translate the text from scratch.

As soon as that would happen there would automatically be regionalisms. It's just not in our nature to be completely uniform and the language would change either by a natural process or forced to do so.

That's what happened to me, I forgot most of my maths. It's just difficult to use it on a daily bases, the only thing that you might do is simple arithmetic, and that is just a corner stone of maths. It's much easier to keep the languages that you have learned fresh. All you have to do is see some tv shows or a movie from the country the language is form.

Now that I come to think about it, I do like having a warm tea before I have to learn or write something. I can't really explain it but it helps me focus a little bit more. Coffee doesn't seem to have the same effect.

This is true, unless you really want to learn it and not forced to learn it, all languages have their difficulty. Not only that even if you plan to learn a different language that is similar to your mother tongue, doesn't mean that it will simply come to you, you still have to study it.

Thank you for your responses, it is true that google has become much better then it was in the past but fortunately it still is far off from delivering professional results.

This is why a lot of people don't end up remembering what they learn when a language is obligatory. If you really like the language you will learn it in no time at all.

I remember wanting to learn German after meeting some very friendly neighbors and wanting to communicate with them. i also saw some German shows that were dubbed and i felt that I was missing out on the real meaning of them. There were certain things in the shows that just didn't make sense.

Very nice set of sites. I gave simplewriter a go, who would have guessed that writing in a simple form would be so difficult, but it is fun though.

Unfortunately we aren't always selective when it comes to remembering things. It would be great if we could only remember things that would help us, but we remember both the good and the bad.

I don't know whether it's better, I think it's just another way of learning a language. It doesn't on the other hand impede someone from using the other methods and they can easily use it in conjunction with it. It's good to see that there are more and more resources that people can use to learn other languages.

This is very true it's impossible to translate a sentiment that might not exist in another language. languages by their very nature are different to one another so there will always be some sort of loss.

I have, and I did feel a bit bad a bit bad about it. After talking to a friend about it he simply turn to me and said that I shouldn't be worried about it, I had a whole new world opened up to me while they only knew how to speak that language. That really put things into perspective.

I think the best way to keep in practice e is to read. Now days it's much easier then it was in the past since all you need is internet connection and a smartphone and you can read anywhere.