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Post by Jean-Luc Picard on Sept 23, 2016 14:41:42 GMT
Mandarin as main, studying English since kindergarten, French since high school. Still trying to get rid of Chinese accent(my father says it would be a shame for me if I still don't have a perfect American accent after years of studying in US). Mandarin+English is a great combo to have for anything from EFC to the Business World |
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Post by Jean-Luc Picard on Sept 23, 2016 14:43:55 GMT
I have lived in the USA my whole life, so i don't have the experience of being fully emerged into an unfamiliar culture. Did you have prior knowledge of the English language before moving here? Or did you just adapt? I mean i don't really know how much knowledge one person can have of another language being in the 5th grade, which is still young. Practically no knowledge. 30 words, maybe. The Israeli system for teaching English is awful at the High School level, so what would you expect at the Elementary school level? By virtue of Hebrew, I also speak about 1% of Arabic and 30% of Yiddish |
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Post by Tito on Sept 23, 2016 14:46:01 GMT
Swiss? That's not a language? It's either Swiss German, or Swiss French or Swiss Italian or Romansh.  I believe Austrian isn't a language too, more of a dialect of sorts. German Austrian and Swiss say its diffeent laguanges but its bassicly german with diffent dialects acents etc its bassicly bosnian croat and serbian its bassicly the same laguange or english american and irish |
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 23, 2016 14:49:03 GMT
Bismarck Jr, Napoleon Bonaparte I can speak English, but it's with a heavy accent. I prefer to not use it. Besides, the hearing people speaks the oral languages so badly without awareness of how difficult it is to properly lip-read them. So... the simple obvious solution for me is to stick to a written form of communication between me and those people. Unless he know ASL, then I would speak to him in that language verbally. Is it harder to lip-read people with foreign accents? Just curious In general yes. But it's more so than just that. Even as I grew up in the Midwest, it's really hard to lip-read anyone who doesn't speak in the Midwestern accent because the whole process of lip-reading is so terribly inaccurate. And even if you weren't from California, Northeast, Texas, or the South, even if you were also from Ohio, a proficient lip-reader would still need to know exactly what you plan to say with clear and precise topic choice in the conversation. In other words, with such an unreliable process, would you want to depend on it as your sole avenue of communication? That's why I prefer a pen and paper. |
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Post by NetherFreek on Sept 23, 2016 14:51:38 GMT
Mandarin as main, studying English since kindergarten, French since high school. Still trying to get rid of Chinese accent(my father says it would be a shame for me if I still don't have a perfect American accent after years of studying in US). Mandarin+English is a great combo to have for anything from EFC to the Business World Yep, china is the most powerfull economic power in the world and home to the biggest economy in the world. Which makes mandarin great for business purposes. English is the most influental language in the world. Who doesnt speak english? There is a reason why we speak english (or engrish) on the forum. The us is the second (or third if you count the eu) biggest economy in the world. The uk is number 5. Canada 11, australia 12 and so on. Take in account that in all countries in the EU, 2th in total, people can speak english fluently. |
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Sept 23, 2016 14:52:18 GMT
Swiss? That's not a language? It's either Swiss German, or Swiss French or Swiss Italian or Romansh. I believe Austrian isn't a language too, more of a dialect of sorts. need backup. |
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Sept 23, 2016 14:54:34 GMT
Mandarin+English is a great combo to have for anything from EFC to the Business World Yep, china is the most powerfull economic power in the world and home to the biggest economy in the world. Which makes mandarin great for business purposes. English is the most influental language in the world. Who doesnt speak english? There is a reason why we speak english (or engrish) on the forum. The us is the second (or third if you count the eu) biggest economy in the world. The uk is number 5. Canada 11, australia 12 and so on. Take in account that in all countries in the EU, 2th in total, people can speak english fluently. I really want to learn Chinese, but I've heard it has 3000+ characters, is it true Erich von Manstein ? |
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Post by NetherFreek on Sept 23, 2016 14:56:24 GMT
Fun fact: in the netherlands there are more people who speak english than dutch
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Post by Erich von Manstein on Sept 23, 2016 15:47:35 GMT
Yep, china is the most powerfull economic power in the world and home to the biggest economy in the world. Which makes mandarin great for business purposes. English is the most influental language in the world. Who doesnt speak english? There is a reason why we speak english (or engrish) on the forum. The us is the second (or third if you count the eu) biggest economy in the world. The uk is number 5. Canada 11, australia 12 and so on. Take in account that in all countries in the EU, 2th in total, people can speak english fluently. I really want to learn Chinese, but I've heard it has 3000+ characters, is it true Erich von Manstein ? Only that? It should be almost 100000. |
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Sept 23, 2016 16:12:10 GMT
I really want to learn Chinese, but I've heard it has 3000+ characters, is it true Erich von Manstein ? Only that? It should be almost 100000. all plans cancelled for learning Chinese  |
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Post by Tito on Sept 23, 2016 16:27:05 GMT
Only that? It should be almost 100000. all plans cancelled for learning Chinese Why dont you learn slavic, its fun and silly when yiu misspronounce words |
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Post by Jean-Luc Picard on Sept 23, 2016 16:33:00 GMT
English German Swiss Austrian kidna Russian Bosnian Croatian Serbian Bulgar Romanian Slovenian, I am from Bosnia if you know onr slavic laguange you bassicly know all of them because thry are almost thr same 1) Swiss is not a language or a dialect. There is Swiss German, Swiss French, and Swiss Italian 2) Austrian is not a language. Austrians speak a dialect that is close to Bavarian German 3) I doubt you're fluent in 10 languages, even if most belong to the same family. |
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Post by Erich von Manstein on Sept 23, 2016 16:35:35 GMT
Only that? It should be almost 100000. all plans cancelled for learning Chinese Yeah, that many, but, 3000 should be able to cover 99+% of the things you talk about normally, the rest 97000 are really not that widely used. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Picard on Sept 23, 2016 16:47:13 GMT
all plans cancelled for learning Chinese Why dont you learn slavic, its fun and silly when yiu misspronounce words Not really as helpful in the world of Business, which is where Multilingualism is helpful. Biggest GDP's go to English, Mandarin, Japanese, German, and Spanish. Nearest Slavic language is Russia, at half the GDP associated with Spanish. Slavic tongues are a family, so knowing one doesn't mean knowing all at a usable level anyway. |
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Post by Tito on Sept 23, 2016 16:57:18 GMT
English German Swiss Austrian kidna Russian Bosnian Croatian Serbian Bulgar Romanian Slovenian, I am from Bosnia if you know onr slavic laguange you bassicly know all of them because thry are almost thr same 1) Swiss is not a language or a dialect. There is Swiss German, Swiss French, and Swiss Italian 2) Austrian is not a language. Austrians speak a dialect that is close to Bavarian German 3) I doubt you're fluent in 10 languages, even if most belong to the same family. I was just jocking about the swiss austtian serb etc |
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