overwatch Posted April 24, 2016 Report Share Posted April 24, 2016 I am from Kolkata, India. India is such a country where you become more or less fluent in at least 4 languages [ Mother tongue, Hindi(National Language), English] by the time you reach the end of high school and Bollywood songs teach us Urdu everyday. I always had an affinity towards Muslim culture, so learnt Urdu (reading/writing) and continuing Arabic whenever I get time. Learnt Italian - the only one easiest language of Europe because of its clear Phonetics. Italian led me to Spanish eventually - the most popular foreign language of the World. I became fluent in Italian and somewhat fluent in Spanish from the constant exposure of the news application in my Phone which helps me read news from every part of the World. Changing the Display Language of my Computer also helped the daily exposure to the languages I learn. Duolingo website also helped me in reaching my goals quickly. Russian is my recent endeavour - always liked those hard to pronounce words Bengali has an unique alphabet which accomodates sounds combining Branches of Latin, German, Asian. Let's see the examples. 1. Latin Branch languages such as Spanish Italian Portuguese lack the hard T or D sound - Bengali includes it. 2. German Branch languages such as German Dutch Norwegian does not have the soft T or D of Latin Branch - Bengali includes it. 3. Nasal sounds of French Urdu and Chinese are available in Bengali. I believe Bengali people can learn any language on the Planet. ------- BOOKS ------ Complete (Urdu | Italian | Spanish) Mastering Arabic The New Penguin Russian Course - Nicholas J. Brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 On 24.4.2016 at 9:22 AM, overwatch said: I am from Kolkata, India. India is such a country where you become more or less fluent in at least 4 languages [ Mother tongue, Hindi(National Language), English] by the time you reach the end of high school and Bollywood songs teach us Urdu everyday. I always had an affinity towards Muslim culture, so learnt Urdu (reading/writing) and continuing Arabic whenever I get time. Learnt Italian - the only one easiest language of Europe because of its clear Phonetics. Italian led me to Spanish eventually - the most popular foreign language of the World. I became fluent in Italian and somewhat fluent is Spanish from the constant exposure of the news application in my Phone which helps me read news from every part of the World. Changing the Display Language of my Computer also helped the daily exposure to the languages I learn. Duolingo website also helped me in reaching my goals quickly. Russian is my recent endeavour - always liked those hard to pronounce words Bengali has an unique alphabet which accomodates sounds combining Branches of Latin, German, Asian. Let's see the examples. 1. Latin Branch languages such as Spanish Italian Portuguese lack the hard T or D sound - Bengali includes it. 2. German Branch languages such as German Dutch Norwegian does not have the soft T or D of Latin Branch - Bengali includes it. 3. Nasal sounds of French Urdu and Chinese are available in Bengali. I believe Bengali people can learn any language on the Planet. ------- BOOKS ------ Complete (Urdu | Italian | Spanish) Mastering Arabic The New Penguin Russian Course - Nicholas J. Brown Welcome to Linguaholic, overwatch. Thank you for providing this interesting introduction about yourself. It looks like we got another linguaholic on here and therefore it seems you came to the right place! See you in the threads L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reverserewind Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Wow! You're trying to master 3 languages at the same time. That's pretty hard job to do, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mameha Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Ciao e benvenuto! è sempre bello vedere gente straniera conoscere bene l'italiano Anche io sto cercando di imparare il cinese..con molta calma ma spero di riuscirci Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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