What languages would you like to learn?

[jio]

Seriously I would love to be able to speak English with a proper British accent instead of the Greek accent I got

[Crazy4Brit]

I once talked with some British guys in English and they asked me if i was from Canada.

As i'm not even a native English-speaker that made me think of how good the Canadian accent must be

[Mike_54]

Seriously I would love to be able to speak English with a proper British accent instead of the Greek accent I got

this!!! I hate my searbian accent when I speak English..

next year I'm moving to UK, so I hoope it will go away with time, and that I'll be able to speak with proper British accent...

[summer]

Seriously I would love to be able to speak English with a proper British accent instead of the Greek accent I got

When I went to Uni the first time British pronounciation was obligatory. So I sound close to British English when I don't hurry.)))

[jio]

Seriously I would love to be able to speak English with a proper British accent instead of the Greek accent I got

this!!! I hate my searbian accent when I speak English..

next year I'm moving to UK, so I hoope it will go away with time, and that I'll be able to speak with proper British accent...

I was in London for one year but I made all the wrong choices accent-wise for people I hanged out with. After a year in the UK, my accent in English went from Greek to Greek with a slight touch of Indian

[summer]

I was in London for one year but I made all the wrong choices accent-wise for people I hanged out with. After a year in the UK, my accent in English went from Greek to Greek with a slight touch of Indian

At least you can understand it I'll be like whaat?

[NoAngels]

Seriously I would love to be able to speak English with a proper British accent instead of the Greek accent I got

You should learn the British Phonetics, that helped me a lot, it's what I majored in at university. It's actually the study of the articulatory and acoustic properties of the sounds of human language.

[summer]

Seriously I would love to be able to speak English with a proper British accent instead of the Greek accent I got

You should learn the British Phonetics, that helped me a lot, it's what I majored in at university. It's actually the study of the articulatory and acoustic properties of the sounds of human language.

What's your main speciality? Translation?

[hotMCfan]

I'd probably be impressed if a person learns tagalog. It's the hardest language ever according to some. My spanish teacher said he became a tagalog teacher and gave up 3 months later bec. he'd rather teach french, mandarin, and spanish.

You can derive like 8+ words from a root word and some of the words when pronounced differently has a different meaning.

For example:

kain (eat) <---root word
kumain (to eat)
pagkain (food)
pakain (feed people)
pakainin (feed a person or a group of people)
kinain (some ate it)
kainin (eat it)
kai-nan (place where to eat)
ka-inan (an "event" where people eat)
nangangain (creatures that eat another creature)

etc. etc.

[NoAngels]

Seriously I would love to be able to speak English with a proper British accent instead of the Greek accent I got

You should learn the British Phonetics, that helped me a lot, it's what I majored in at university. It's actually the study of the articulatory and acoustic properties of the sounds of human language.

What's your main speciality? Translation?

My major is "Phonetics and Phonology", it's a very interesting major.

Initially I was going to major in translation and then later grammar but changed my mind

[Rihab95]

My mother tongue is German, I'm fluent in French and have been learning English for around 10 and Latin for 6 years now.

I understand Norwegian and think I could speak it too if I wanted or needed to but most of the time I don't, I'm just too uneasy for that.

Oh yeah and I remember that when I was younger I always wanted to learn Australian, but no chance!
I think Spanish or Japanese would be really cool whereas Spanish should be way easier, no? Maybe especially if you've learned Latin for such a long time (that has to be good for something, so much wasted time!!!)?

[jpguy]

I'm sorry but what is "Australian"? U mean, Australian English right?

LOL @ all those random Tagalog words, that is soooooo similar yet soooo different!!!

[Virgostar]

I'm sorry but what is "Australian"? U mean, Australian English right?

It really isn't that different to any other English, except for the accents and our tendencies to (a) use a lot of slang and (b) shorten words (e.g. we commonly refer to McDonalds as Maccas and every other word that can be shortened will be shortened).

[lemsey]

I speak Aussie, British and American Who doesn't know American English srsly? French and I understand some Welsh cause I used to watch S4C as a baby with my granny Just spoken though, nothing major.

[stteezy]

So I am South african but I am a mixture of everything, I am of greek italian descent so I speak both fluently, but I have stayed in Zimbabwe for a long time so I can speak what's called Shona (its almost hardlike tologa or something), and because I am South African I have to learn Afrikaans which is sooo similar to dutch (that's where it originates from) so I can hear dutch people and have a conversation with them but when we write it down its all different, German too and Belgian Flemish (the closest to Afrikaans by far).

Surprisingly when I speak english despite all these languages I have a clear English accent that we call the Queens english here and it doesn't make sense to most people. I think its because I stayed in Zimbabwe a long time and the accent there kinda strongly resembles RP English.

[Plym]

I'm intensively teaching myself French and the hardest part is trying to remember something you've just learned.
Everytime I learn something new, something old gets erased, it's so frustrating! It's even harder trying to learn by yourself through podcasts and books, I'm moving back there on Saturday though so hopefully I can talk to French people and pick it up alot faster.

[biscuits]

Yeah, it's always better if you can practice speaking.

[Haribo]

Portuguese and Spanish!

@Plym: bonne chance !

[samra]

Wanna learn Hindi.

[Frederic]

I'd love for me to speak fluent Italian.

[Plym]

I'd love for me to speak fluent Italian.

Frederic, what is your first language?

[Frederic]

I'd love for me to speak fluent Italian.

Frederic, what is your first language?

Dutch!

[Serby]

I became languages obssesed recently, and tehy're something I'd like to learn above all other things.

I would LOVE to learn:
- English completely (probably happening at some point of life)
- German (hopefully I will study abroad so I will have to learn it yay)
- Spanish (I think 2-3 month of living there would be enough for me to learn it totally cuz I can understand lot of Spanish)
- French (don't know a thing, but I've feeling I'll be able to speak it one day)
- Italian (sound really lovely)

I would LIKE to learn:
- Portuguese (cuz it's cool)
- Dutch (it's sounds funny, but in positive way haha)
- Slovenian (it's similar to Serbian and it wouldn't take that much to learn it)

+ some others
But, all in all, English, French, German and Spanish are my faves

[Virgostar]

I've recently decided that if I were to have a superpower, it'd be to have fluency in every language of the world. I think it'd be more fascinating than the usual wishes of mind-reading & teleportation etc.