what languages can you speak ?

[magdaisasheep]

I can speak fluent Polish and English, a little bit of French and I'm teaching myself some German now! It's a bit like Polish with the grammar I suppose... Anyway, LOVE LOVE LOVE German!

[thfan]

Hi guys

Ive started trying to teach myself German. I am also possibly going to try French and Spanish. I`ll see how I do with German and decide.

Other than that I only speak English.

I did learn German at school but I wasnt very interested so I didnt do so well with that. I didnt even sit it as a Standard Grade (Scottish exams - just incase there are people on this forum who dont know), I just did it at Access 3 level. It was easy that way. I was in a very small class, not even 15 people inc. me.

But thanks to my luv of TH now I wish to at least try and develop better German. I already know the basic rules so that should help.

If anyone has any tips on how to learn to speak a language plz let me know.

thfan

xxx

[NaomiOfC]

my birthdays in a few months and i've asked my brother for something to help me with my french and german ;D

[Amiee♥TH]

Oooh good idea Nom ;D

[Sophie (:]

I can speak English... ;O
A little French,
And a little German.

[hannahxkaulitz]

English xD obviously
and I've done German at GCSE, doing it at AS level, want to do it at A level and Degree
I have so much passion for it thanks to Tokio Hotel <3 without them I wouldn't know what to do with my life :/

[blackpearl]

I can speak German (mother tongue), English and a bit French.

[Amiee♥TH]

I wish I spoke more German xD

[bohnaheen]

I'm going to teach myself German in the break between exams and college, and maybe a bit of Russian or Estonian then in my second year of college I'm going to take night classes to learn Japanese !
At the minute I only know English though, and some vulgar phrases in German!

Does anyone have any tips on the best way to start off learning a language?

[hannahxkaulitz]

LOL, I know alot of vulgar phrases in German ^^
When I went on the exchange trip in March I got my partner's friend to teach me loads of rude abusive stuff xD and he did, it was hilarious :')
and at the beginning of AS level my teacher gave us a sheet of rude phrases ahaha ^^

a good way to start is to go online and practise. I downloaded a Japanese language learning course free online, it's only basic but it teaches you the basics such as My name is..., animals, foods etc useful stuff
I think it was this website I used :
www.byki.com/
I'm pretty sure it was that, but I haven't been able to use it recently and I forgot the name coz my laptops broke D:
another tip - practise, practise, practise reading through vocab every night is a great way to learn it's what I do and it's paying off ALOT
and another good one is translating foreign songs, such as TH xD I do that and it's crazy how much it's helped my german especially my translation skills, my german teacher wants me to become a translator now -_- but I'm not 100% sure yet
good luck

[bohnaheen]

Thank you very much
I'll have a look at the website and do some vocab at night ^^
then maybe one day I can join all you linguistic people!!

[jessicaholmes]

ja mir auch, ich sprechen deutsch, wie immer! von tokio hotel ich habe die liebe fur es..ich bin nur jahre neun jetzt aber jeder tag und nacht ich bin mit ein deutscher buch (; viele liebe fur deutschland ich denke leute xxx

[jessicaholmes]

I have to add^ i love love love the sound of german i dont like to think it sounds harsh i just say it sounds intence and passionate hahaha, i pernats might be paying for me to do my german GCSE this year and im in year 9, so happy :$ :L i wish i knew more french though? :/

[bohnaheen]

I wish I took german at gcse... silly me! instead i took dance, what a stupid STUPID idea!
german? dance? german? dance? GERMAN!!!!!
god, i am such an idiot

[melloni88]

I speak English and Spanish fluently (am half Peruvian) and got an A for French at GCSE and a B in German. I probably could have got a higher mark in German but I didn't really work very hard at school...I'm quite naturally good at anguages (my Mum's a linguist) but I found German word order almost impossible to learn, I remember the writing part of my German GCSE being so difficult. Plus, having three genders for words. I mean I was used to mascuine and feminine but never knew when to use neutral lol sorry if this post is getting a bit technical, it's all coming back to me now!

I also lived in Berlin for two years on and off so my German should really be better than it is :S