Best thing I've found, EVER!

[rjensen11]

It might even be better than school! Seeing that people can go at their own pace, it's great!

http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,2547,00.html

It teaches you how to learn German by giving you many .pdf files and as many mp3 files to go with them

 

[SaleenASL]

cool. if i were to learn a 3rd language (i already took spanish as a 2nd) it would either be german or japanese. i bet japanese is extremely hard to learn, though.

 

[rjensen11]

I already took Spanish 1(2 years ago), Latin 1(last year), and German 1(last year). I only had room for 1 language, though, so I chose German 2 over Latin 2. Guess I chose poorly:-(

 

[viperguy]

I'm taking German in school. I'll probably forget it all the second I'm done.

 

[rjensen11]

Viperguy, you could always listen to German news. I don't know what the hell they're saying on there, other than it's 2 in the morning there when it's 8 in the night here, but it's worth a shot

 

[Klostrophobic]

Just go to Germany for 6 months. You'll have the language down easily. It shouldn't be too hard considering English is primarily derived from German.

 

[rjensen11]

My sister spent 11 months in Austria, and she's practically fluent. English is a Germanic language, byt >70% of the words are based off of Latin words. Go figure...

 

[MazKid]

I'm taking Spanish. Took Spanish 1 last year, spanish 2 this year.

I'd love to take Japanese so that I could effortlessly navagate through all of the Japanese Mazda sites, but Japanese is hard. Spanish is fairly easy. I've heard that Latin is the easyest, but there's no use for it...with Spanish being the 2nd most spoken laguage in the US, I think that it might marginally come in handy sometime.

 

[1X83Z]

There is too use for Latin!

If you want to live in the Vatican with the Pope.

 

[SaleenASL]

Originally posted by M5Power
There is too use for Latin!

If you want to live in the Vatican with the Pope.

or talk to dead people

 

[MazKid]

lol...well, I don't live in the Vatican, and I'm Jewish(I took off school yesterday and went for a long bike ride with a freind...gotta love skipping school with an excused absence!)so I have no need to meet the Pope.

And a lot of words in Spanish are similar to words in English:
English---------Spanish
Intelegent-------intelegente
sophisticated-----sophisticado

Eh you get the idea.

 

[oosacker]

Help with Japanese, anyone? <=Japanese/English speaker/writer/reader.

 

[made in holland]

I had German classes in high school for 4 years.
I don't speak it fluent, but i can read and hear it very well.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Im going to do this whole course on the net and report back to you guys of how well it works. So far I am a couple lessons in and allready I am starting to know some words and comprehend some stuff. Ill keep all of you posted as to whether it is worth your time or not.

 

[Sk8rKiD]

Leave it to Mazkid to link the language with Mazda..Im taking spanish 1 this term and spanish 2 next term...I might take french next year as another language buts thats a while away...

 

[Klostrophobic]

How is Latin the easiest? You have to memorize all the declensions and conjugations. I hated declining nouns in Latin last year.

And Latin is useful in learning English words because, as rjensen stated about 70 percent of words in the English language are based on Latin.

 

[Joey D]

I'm taking German 5 at school so I'm pretty fluent in it. I could use this site to kinda brush up before I go into German 6 next term.

The best way I learned German was when I went to Germany and had to buy train tickets, order food, and get hotel rooms.

 

[rjensen11]

Taking Latin as a language in class is nothing like Latin spoken by the Church. There's two types of Latin:

Classical Latin: Spoken by the Roman dudes, and what scientists use to name "new" things
Medieval Latin/Church Latin: Latin spoken by the Church.

When my sister was in Austria, she said that originally, the tickets were really quick and easy to get. But since they have everything digitalized and stuff now, and with the Euro, it takes longer. She also said that getting train tickets were pretty easy(once you got use to the system). Did you find that true?

 

[Joey D]

Well once I got it down how to work those automatic ticket things it was a lot easier. Plus when there are 100 Germans pushing and shoving to get tickets its a little harder.

I found that it was easy to get around once I got used there crazy system of U-Bahns. (I'm not used to Subways)

 

[supra229]

i'm learning german and latin and french but the french language is crap!

 

[Klostrophobic]

High five!

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Originally posted by supra229
i'm learning german and latin and french but the french language is crap!

bon'er moni'mee suckie' de' wee-wee? j/k..... I have no clue what I just said

The only people I dislike more than the French are French/Canadians 👍 Hey, I live in Michigan, can ya blame me?

 

[supra229]

you didn't say anything in french except 'bon' means 'good' e.g. bonjour means good day. also yes is spelt oui which is pronounced we

you probably don't care about all that **** but just in case you were interested

 

[Red Eye Racer]

you got the joke I think 👍 no offence of course

 

[supra229]

 

[GilesGuthrie]

The 'classical' languages Latin and Greek have value if you're interested in the etymology of words.

Did you know, for example, that the first 'o' in 'homosexual' is short (as in 'comma') rather than long (as in 'home')? This is because the word is derived from the Greek meaning 'like', not the Latin, meaning 'man'. This is further evidenced by the fact that in Greek, the opposite of 'homo' (like) is 'hetero' (different).

They do also help with learning modern languages, because nearly all modern languages are derived from a combination of Greek and Latin.

 

[-Fred-]

Originally posted by Red Eye Racer


The only people I dislike more than the French are French/Canadians 👍 Hey, I live in Michigan, can ya blame me?

Hey, go to hell!

 

[supra229]

hey giles i thought homo meant the same not like as the words have very slight differences in them.

can anyone geuss what was named after the greek island 'lesbos'
clue it has something to do with what giles was talking about

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
The 'classical' languages Latin and Greek have value if you're interested in the etymology of words.

Did you know, for example, that the first 'o' in 'homosexual' is short (as in 'comma') rather than long (as in 'home')? This is because the word is derived from the Greek meaning 'like', not the Latin, meaning 'man'. This is further evidenced by the fact that in Greek, the opposite of 'homo' (like) is 'hetero' (different).

They do also help with learning modern languages, because nearly all modern languages are derived from a combination of Greek and Latin.

Did you just get done watching "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"?

 

[askia47]

i didn't like that movie