Bilingual/ Multi-lingual

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my mums german so im fluent in it but im british, i hope to go to south america next year so am starting to learn spanish

Learn Spanish in just one year? You must be double-timing it. I'm having small problems with the class I'm in now, although it could just be my teacher. She keeps trying to explain to me what adjectives go where, and where exactly modifiers are placed, etc, in small words (which just confuses me, as small words are not, in general, known for being descriptive or precise), as if I'm stupid or something. She just doesn't explain it properly, and apparently expects us to get it on our own, as we start writing sentences, although we are all completely new to this. But whatever, I have the internet to look it up on.

i hate the grammar aspect to learning a language, its so fustratingim gonna take a quick course in spanish to learn the basics, but to really learn a language you really need to get stuck in the deep end and go to the country ure learning the language of, in my opinion

Well, so far, Spanish has some pretty easy-to-follow rules... But I agree with you, the best way to learn and know a language is to speak (and hear) a language, the way the native people speak it.

yeh, teachers just dont have a fucking clue

I wouldn't apply that to all teachers. I have two very amazing teachers. But my Spanish teacher is not one of them.

I live in an area with a Spanish-speaking majority, but my Spanish teacher was an American who did not have very good pronunciation.

That's awesome. Actually my first language that I was taught when born was french creole since my mom was born in haiti even though I was born in NYC. And then I had learned a little of spanish while young because part of my family is cuban. But German is an interesting language. It kind of sounds like your hacking up something lol

i know, you would hardly describe german to be a romantic language..its just straightforward, i dont really like german to be honest though.

In reply to: Learn Spanish in just one year? The biggest problems with learning another language are finding the time to study, being disciplined enough to study alone and having a situation in which you can regularly practice what you're learning.If you can make the time (frequently the hardest part for most people in the modern world) and are able to study and use the language in this way, almost any spoken language can be picked up in just a few months, although there's no doubt that some people seem to find it much easier than others. 3 months is regularly quoted by the major language learning systems and many people genuinely do achieve this.But this applies only to speaking and understanding the spoken language. When it comes to reading and writing, most people would agree that 1 year is the real minimum. For languages like Chinese and Japanese, the average person (even if they're Chinese or Japanese ) takes at least 10 years to learn the language well enough to be able to pick up and read almost anything or to write almost any sentence (other than the most basic) perfectly. Obviously there are exceptions to this - when MIT did a big language study in 1985 they found an elderly Jewish woman in New York who could read and write Chinese as well as any of the Chinese researchers who were involved in the study and yet she had only been studying the language for about 4 years. Further tests confirmed that she has a genuinely photographic memory, so this obviously helps.