Does anyone know a second language?

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I am trying to learn Hebrew over the internet. I have learned the alphabet, I can read it and write it but I don't know any grammar rules or any words. I don't think I will ever learn it fluently because I think that would take too much hard work.

Anyone else interested in other languages?

At present I only know english.

Je suis essaye d'apprendre le francais. For those that know french... yes, I realise that that probably isn't totally correct. I am just starting.

For some reason I am losing interest in my previous obsession. One which I've has since I was a wee tacker. This is being replaced by an interst in french history. Especially migration patterns and evolving culture/customs are my current interests. As part of this I am attempting to "teach myself" French. And by that I mean read french. Not necassarily speak or write it myself. I figure the best source of information about France and french history would be written in french so...

At the moment it consists of reading childrens books with a french english dictionary. Just moving up to "adolescent" type litterature at the moment. The above sentence was largely just a dictionary construct so any grammar nazis... please be gentle. Merci

La souris est sous la table. Merci Eddie Izzard

Et le chat la guette.
De rien!

Be my guest

Attempting to learn Japanese at the moment, not that easy.

I think English is my second language. My native language is Finnish. Now that I think about it, I am more comfortable using English. By that, I don't mean the language per se. I think the reason that I have been more comfortable speaking with foreigners and using English, is that then many misunderstandings are forgiven due the differences of culture and language. When using my own language, there is a lot of misunderstandings, and the reason for them seems to be in other people's opinion that I am rude or odd. I have studied Swedish, German and Greek, too.

english and spanish

Hebrew is my native language
English is my second and i learned it really fast because like many AS I'm into science fiction and very few SF books where available in Hebrew when i was a child
I was so fascinated by the first book i attempted reading,Dune,that by the time i got to the second one i could read English fluently
I also enjoyed very much the process of "decoding" the language while reading it
It was like a game to me
So perhaps the trick is to find the right incentive

I want to learn Arabic and i know some from daily use and in many aspects it is quite close to Hebrew
They teach Arabic as a second language in school here but i hated school as a kid

any way the best and fastest way to learn a language is to pass some time in the country were it is spoken
if u stay in Israel for a couple of months i believe i get the language
it is not a hard language to get

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how different are hebrew and arabic?

the only ones i know are the greetings, and theire very similar
shalom aleichem
salam aleikum

well in arabic i of course know some of those chants and mannerisms they do, but those are unavoidable if you got tv
im very observative (duh! ) and ive actually "learned" to pick out the "inchallah" from arabic speech, since they say it so often i notice when they do

English is my second, then Swedish, and that's it for now. I get Danish and Norse allright but can't speak it. I'm trying to learn Portugese now. Korean would be fun to know too.

oh and the weird clicky language!

WHY do you know swedish? :I

og hvorfor kan du forstå norsk?? :I

from university

we actually had a few lectures fully in Norse one term, it was pretty easy to understand. but people from the north I will never understand :p

I can understand French although I'm not so fluent in speaking it. My abilities may be put to the test soon as I'm due to visit Belgium for a few days.

I think I function fairly well with a combination grunt and point, and broken ASL.

you actually went to LEARN scandinavian?

who DOES that? :D:D

i know one other, chick, who wants to dedicate herself to learning nordic languages, WHY?
do you want to order salmon specifically from norway, or insist on doing the IKEA purchase in swedish to impress them?

cool tho. like getting a total rush to learn lithuanian and latvian, in case i need to flaunt my baltic

^^the simple answer to that question is: I did Scandinavian Studies because it was the only course I got into with my sh***y high-school marks!