Anyone here a polyglot

[GrindtooFilthy]

After seeing laoshu going ham i started contemplating picking up at least 3-4 languages I know might really come handy for me

for reference this is laoshu



So far I know 2 languages and not even that proficient in the other one as I would like to be

I want to pick up Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and maybe 1 out of these 4 (mandarin, Portuguese, French, or Korean)

Starting of with Japanese and Spanish best/most effective way to learn. is there a solid app or web based program?

also for Spanish where can I learn Latin American Spanish, that vosotros and nosotros thing is throwing me off they don't say that shyt up here

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

 

[BigMan]

my whole mom's side is
unfortunately i am not

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

my whole mom's side is
unfortunately i am not

why she aint bother to teach you, that's an underrated lifeskill

 

[Gold]

my whole mom's side is
unfortunately i am not

With all due respec to ya moms... you need to run that fade

 

[mbewane]

My mother-tongue is french, english is quite good thanks to having lived in the US a couple years as a kid and then following hip-hop, the nba, and general american culture. Picked up italian when I lived there. Those are the 3 languages I'm quite comfortable in.

Then I learned some spanish in school, some dutch later on (I'm half-Belgian), I can read and hold a basic conversation in both languages, with a lot of errors of course. Dutch was my moms mother-tongue but since we didn't grow up in Belgium she didn't pass it on to us I'm interested in portuguese too, followed a course, I can read some texts but can't speak it at all (yet?).

Unfortunately my pops didn't pass us his languages from Central African Republic (gbaya and sango), I understand a little bit of sango though

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

My mother-tongue is french, english is quite good thanks to having lived in the US a couple years as a kid and then following hip-hop, the nba, and general american culture. Picked up italian when I lived there. Those are the 3 languages I'm quite comfortable in.

Then I learned some spanish in school, some dutch later on (I'm half-Belgian), I can read and hold a basic conversation in both languages, with a lot of errors of course. Dutch was my moms mother-tongue but since we didn't grow up in Belgium she didn't pass it on to us I'm interested in portuguese too, followed a course, I can read some texts but can't speak it at all (yet?).

Unfortunately my pops didn't pass us his languages from Central African Republic (gbaya and sango), I understand a little bit of sango though

I always feel a type of way when parents don't pass on their cultural language to their kids, luckily I can speak Igbo just not as fluent as I would like

 

[Free]

整個迷

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

整個迷

google translate?

help a breh out

 

[mbewane]

I always feel a type of way when parents don't pass on their cultural language to their kids, luckily I can speak Igbo just not as fluent as I would like

Aint gonna lie, it's something I still resent my parents for. I know I should let it go but it is what it is. My mom's passed away so I cant really adress it with her, but I can kind of understand because she left Belgium when she was in her late 20s and never lived there afterwards. She spoke french with my pops, I didn't even realize dutch was her mother-tongue until I was in my teen years lol. And with Dutch I still got to study it, take courses and whatnot when I was in Brussels. I'm nowhere near a native speaker, but I'm alright. It's harder with my father because I actually lived in CAR for 8 years but I went to the french school and everyone spoke french to me, I didn't even realize I didnt speak sango until I got to France. And it's not a language you can follow a course on, I would need to go spend some time there. Not speaking it a big part of me kind of drifting away from that community, I kind of feel ashamed. And people are quick to point it out, as in "You're not a real Centralafrican", even more so that I'm mixed. C'est la vie

 

[peppe]

3 languages working 2 more

 

[humminbird]

yes

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Aint gonna lie, it's something I still resent my parents for. I know I should let it go but it is what it is. My mom's passed away so I cant really adress it with her, but I can kind of understand because she left Belgium when she was in her late 20s and never lived there afterwards. She spoke french with my pops, I didn't even realize dutch was her mother-tongue until I was in my teen years lol. And with Dutch I still got to study it, take courses and whatnot when I was in Brussels. I'm nowhere near a native speaker, but I'm alright. It's harder with my father because I actually lived in CAR for 8 years but I went to the french school and everyone spoke french to me, I didn't even realize I didnt speak sango until I got to France. And it's not a language you can follow a course on, I would need to go spend some time there. Not speaking it a big part of me kind of drifting away from that community, I kind of feel ashamed. And people are quick to point it out, as in "You're not a real Centralafrican", even more so that I'm mixed. C'est la vie

hmm I feel you on that last part, I haven't gone back to seen any of family since 2009

yes

3 languages working 2 more

which ones?

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

I am not, but my brother is. He speaks both Spanish and French fluently as second languages. Currently lives in Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico, teaching as an elementary school teacher.