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Adsolution wrote:My freaking word, how did you manage to get so many languages under your belt?

Welcome!

Interest. The main reason why I learn them is because I really enjoy it to talk with people in their own language and the feeling which it gives them that you really try to understand them in this way. And it's very interesting to see the relationship between them, they also become easier to learn once you know a related language (Spanish is much easier with knowledge of French). Like I said, being interested is the most important thing in learning so many. Another good method to learn them is using them a lot. Listening and learning words are very good ways. I post in the French-language forum too by the way, so that will help me to improve my French too.

Adsolution wrote:My freaking word, how did you manage to get so many languages under your belt?

Welcome!

Are you French by the way? Since your location looks like it's in French.

Welcome to RaymanPC, Lum.

However, please use the edit button next time you have something to add, rather than double posting.

Hoodcom wrote:Welcome to RaymanPC, Lum.

However, please use the edit button next time you have something to add, rather than double posting.

I just found the edit button xD So I 'll do next time. Thanks for the welcome.

Hey, welcome Lum! Man you sure know a lot of languages. I only know English and French Fluently, with French being my native tongue.

Eyy Lum! Another Dutchman in the crowd. We should revive the Dutch thread sometime. Welcome!

ZeptoRay wrote:Hey, welcome Lum! Man you sure know a lot of languages. I only know English and French Fluently, with French being my native tongue.

Salut ZeptoRay! Merci pour le bienvenue. Il y a des mots en Néerlandais qui sont aussi d'origine francais, puis il m'aide aussi avec le francais. Par exemple, nous utilisons le mot: helaas. C'est 'hélas' en francais. Le vocabulaire ne me donne pas beaucoup de problèmes, mais parfois la grammaire est tant différente que je ne sais pas comment m'exprimer. Mais en général je peux dire tout en francais, et le plus important est qu'on peut communiquer.

In English for people who don't understand French:

Hello ZeptorRay! Thanks for the welcome. There are words in Dutch which are originally French, so that helps in learning French. We use for instance the word: helaas. It's hélas in French. The vocabulary isn't that much of a big problem, but sometimes the grammar is different and this makes it hard to know how to say certain things. But generally I can say everything in French, and the most important thing is to make yourself comprehensible.

You're welcome.

It took me a minute to know what "hélas" was since I never used that word before, oops, but I didn't know what. I would rather use English than French though, after typing in English for four years on the internet and learning it by myself I kinda forgot how to write in French properly and it takes me so much longer to type in it. Its awkward when I slip an English word when I speak with my parents because I forgot what the French word was.

ZeptoRay wrote:You're welcome.

It took me a minute to know what "hélas" was since I never used that word before, oops, but I didn't know what. I would rather use English than French though, after typing in English for four years on the internet and learning it by myself I kinda forgot how to write in French properly and it takes me so much longer to type in it. Its awkward when I slip an English word when I speak with my parents because I forgot what the French word was.

I see, there is no problem with English! Yes, I know the phenomena. Once you use English a lot on the internet you easily forget certain words in your native langue. I also have certain words in Dutch which I can't get in my mind immediately, but I know the English word in an instant. It has to do with how often you use certain words and phrases and in which language.

Lum wrote:Hello there! My name is lum (not real name of course ) and I 'm 21 and I 'm from the Netherlands. I played Rayman as a kid and I started with it again at this age and I still enjoy it xD
One of the reasons why I especially like it is because of the amazing 3D worlds in Rayman 2, but unfortunately when I replay it it was actually very easy in comparison to all those years ago that I did it....

To tell you something about myself, I like philosophy and arts and I speak about 7 languages, so if you are German or French, you can chat with me in your own language. I speak Dutch, German, English, French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Welcome to RPC Lum
I have to say I am impressed by how many languages you know. How did you learn so many with only being 21?

OldClassicGamer wrote:

Lum wrote:Hello there! My name is lum (not real name of course ) and I 'm 21 and I 'm from the Netherlands. I played Rayman as a kid and I started with it again at this age and I still enjoy it xD
One of the reasons why I especially like it is because of the amazing 3D worlds in Rayman 2, but unfortunately when I replay it it was actually very easy in comparison to all those years ago that I did it....

To tell you something about myself, I like philosophy and arts and I speak about 7 languages, so if you are German or French, you can chat with me in your own language. I speak Dutch, German, English, French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Welcome to RPC Lum
I have to say I am impressed by how many languages you know. How did you learn so many with only being 21?

Well, in school in this country we already learn about 3 languages (English, French and German). But I couldn't speak them very well there. When I started watching tv though in those languages, I was rapidly making progress and I could speak those languages in like, 2 months! Compare that to 2 years of school and only knowing how to say: hello, I 'm. Now I could suddenly say anything I want. xD

I taught myself Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Spanish wasn't very difficult since it's a lot like French, but with an easier grammar. Swedish is similar to my first language, Dutch, so it isn't very hard too, although I have to work on my grammar. Turkish is very different from European languages, but once you know how to use it, it is a very logical language.

I learned German in school, watched German cartoons in TV and it didn't help me. You probably have talent for languages while I don't or I simply haven't tried hard enough. I know only like 10-20% of German maybe.
I agree what you said about Turkish, my mother speaks it along with few other ones.

Lum wrote:Are you French by the way? Since your location looks like it's in French.

Nay, that's simply a signification of my membership to the hidden Jlfksjlfl club on the French forums. However, being a Canadian, we are taught French in school, so I can read French fluently. My writing and speaking of it could use considerable work though, as I never practice it, but I can utter enough to make coherent conversation (and my French accent apparently sounds passably authentic), despite it usually being riddled with grammatical errors. My first language is actually German, though since I haven't lived in a German-speaking country/community for twelve years now, my understanding of the language has remained that of a five-year-old's.

Ugh I hate languages. Why can't it be just one single single language world wide: english?! It would be so much easier for everybody!

Yeah, because every country should just throw away their language and culture...
Of course not! It should however be a must for every person to know English at the end of school and they shouldn't get Diploma without it.

Welcome to PC, Lum!

OldClassicGamer wrote:Yeah, because every country should just throw away their language and culture...
Of course not!

Hell yeah, we should instead fight to preserve every language and culture.

Meh, English is popular, but I wouldn't enforce languages on other people, I got a D in French in High School, my prospects in learning other languages don't bode well considering that.

And why should English be the universal language anyway? I mean I can understand why you'd say that, I guess, but I think at least the people of the Earth should have a say in a universal language, if such an idea were to ever come about being.

English is nice, but we could go back to Latin!

I hated Latin as a subject during school years.
But Language itself is nice.