Foreign languages

[Innle]

Bonjour!

I'm one of those people who is just fascinated by foreign languages and a love it when people give me insights in other languages and cultures. Me, I'm a keen french student who also did Japanese at primary school. I have correspondants all over the world who speak English as their secnd language, and they all try and teach me tit-bits of Finnish/german/french etc. (and Rilla is trying to teach me some Indonesian words) This is an interseting topic for me because I'm trying to find the most common LOTE language taught in schools.

Au revoir,

Innle the french speaking, french horn playing yodachick wanderer with wings!

[Wh|te Fyre]

I learn Chinese

[Innle]

I think it would be hard to learn a language with a totally different alphabetical system. Is it???

[Morag]

Last count I'd done four. One year japanese, three years italian, four years spanish and about four years french. And did an auslan course but that's not really foreign. I'd like to pick up french and japanese again but havent got round to it.

[Wh|te Fyre]

chinese doesn't really use a different alphabet with pinyin which is all they teach us year 8s

[avra]

My school taught us both french and german

[Kaylan-R]

we had to learn jap,and it sucked!!

I was good at the whole pronouncing thing,but I could never remember how to write the damm words or what the words actually were

[Elspeth]

I learnt French at school, although most people learnt Italian because I lived in an area with a high Italian population. When I was in Year Twelve, they introduced Japanese to the mix, which I think would have been fun to learn. At uni, I studied Indonesian for two years and a while ago, I dabbled in Irish although I wasn't disciplined enough to stick to it for long. Oh, and a little Swedish as well.

I find languages to be fascinating.

[Kaylan-R]

I was tought indoneasion in year six,i found it fun ;D
But i didn't enjoy jap because the teacher was a bi*ch!

[Shannyn]

i learnt japenese at school last year and im learning french this year. japenese was hard because i didn't start at that school till term 2 and had missed out on the really basic stuff

[brydie]

i did italian for seven and a half years in primary school, and i'm studying french now...i liked italian better because i actually had the right accent but french isn't too bad...at least i can count up to ten...

[Lix]

i did french from 7-12 and then 2 years after school at a community college still not that good

[Kaylan-R]

my brother learnt french in year ten,and then again in year 12.
He hated it,and I'm taking his word for it.
Boyd learned it in year fine and loved it.
Oh,what a world

[Innle]

French rulz!

Japanese is OK too!

But French is the best!

Go French!

Vive le francais!

[Gambit]

Snow-Walker said:

I was tought indoneasion in year six,i found it fun ;D
But i didn't enjoy jap because the teacher was a bi*ch!

are you sure we dont go to the same school?

[Maeve]

i learnt French in school (up to year 10) i did like it but it seems i must not have absorbed much because i've forgotten alot
next year i'm going to uni and part of the course is learning erm ancient greek, i like that because it's never spoken and so all you really haveto learn is the grammar and how to use a dictionary, though it is really hard, not only has it got a completely different alphabet but it's a dead language- modern greek is apparently very different.
i'd like to learn welsh as well.

[Lix]

maeve theres soemthing that really grabs me about ur sig, appart form the fact it has exit written in french. is there a whole picture or just that section?

ancient greek sounds cool. when i did ancient in yr 12 my favourite word was pentikosiomadinoi or soemthing like that. it was one of the classes i think... but i love saying it it just rolls of the toungue.

unlike reviendrons in french which is a real dog of the female persuasion to say!

[Ness]

japanese is a pain in the butt to learn. there is something about japanese teachers being nasty because wen i was leanring it in primary my teacher was aweful too...

currently mia materie perferita e` italiano (my favorite subject is italian ;D) and im studying it for ma HSC, the only downside is that the teacher loves lud damned roleplays

[HeartoftheDarkness]

I learned Indonesian for four years, Japanese for two, Indonesian for another year, then Italian for two years.

And when i go to Uni, I think I'll learn Arabic and Latin

[Lix]

wow italian is so close to french
in french what u wrote would be: ma matiere prefere est francais possibly with a le in front of the francais

[Maeve]

Lix said:

maeve theres soemthing that really grabs me about ur sig, appart form the fact it has exit written in french. is there a whole picture or just that section?

ancient greek sounds cool. when i did ancient in yr 12 my favourite word was pentikosiomadinoi or soemthing like that. it was one of the classes i think... but i love saying it it just rolls of the toungue.

my sig isn't the whole image, it's part of a photograph of the Palais-Royal metro station in Paris, it's by my fave photographer Brassai

hehe i like the greek word- what do you mean by classes? i thought it looked abit like a number, five thousand and something?

[Cat-Eyes]

I learn Chinese and I learnt Italian in primary school. (As well as in year 7 learning chinese all year, italian one semester and french one semester) But i put myself down as chinese.

I'M GOING TO CHINA IN SEPTEMBER!

Hanzi (harn- zer) which is the chinese characters are sorta hard to learn. some of them that you've been writing for years are really easy, and others you can't remember all of it. It's a lot easier to translate characters than it is to write them straight out. Which is why in our tests we get given the pinyin (romanised chinese. Like the word 'Hanzi' it tells you how to say chinese in the english alphabet. It also has tone marks, but I can't be bothered putting them in in here) and you have to write the english beneath and the characters above. And then part two of the test you have to translate something and answer questions about it. Which is good cause you can go see if you can find the character you want to write in the page you have to translate.

We're given the sentences before hand to memorise...

Cat

[Dark One]

I only learnt German at school. Didn't take much of it in though.

My school taught French & German, and then started teaching spanish in later years.

I can speak a little Czech and Spanish, but can't remember much of either

[MrLamppost]

I'm learning french at the moment... also used to learn Japanese. But it's so complicated... darn those Japanese people's alphabet!

[Lauren Hedgehog]

I did Jap from gr6-12, and I was pretty good, but now I can only remember how to say that my sister is stupid
(imooto wa atama ga warui desu). I'd like to go back to it someday - I really enjoyed doing Japanese