Being able to speak more than one language

[dennis roadman]

All my thoughts are bound by the English language

this thought plagued me my whole life until i started mastering a foreign language. it's excellent internal motivation, you should be happy you feel that way

I speak an African language, I was born and raised in America so everything is in English all I do is relate the African words to English counterparts in order to figure things out and form sentences or carry conversations. That's really all your learning when it comes to a foreign language you just need to figure out what word is the English equivalent and how to form coherent sentences.

this is true up to an extent, next level shyt, i.e. near native fluency breaks this barrier tho. it's when people start forgetting their native language that you know they're getting to where they wanna be in the target language

Portuguese and Spanish are not that different except for a couple vowel differences. My Portuguese best friend can pick up Spanish very well.

depends on the spanish and depends on the portuguese. there are arguable dialects just within brazil, and if they don't clear the "dialect" benchmark, the pronunciation, grammar, and vocab changes are ridiculous. listening to some from the northeast and then listening to someone from the south is wild different. i know respective speakers of both languages, some can understand both unconsciously, others have no idea what's going on.
also depends on the person, of course. some people are good with tones and the waves of speech, others aren't. its a natural ability for most, others can learn it, and others are near hopeless without intensive training tbh

also, brazilian portuguese breaks a lot of grammar "rules" that spanish does not, despite being carried from the same continent to another same continent. and the consonants differ a lot more in south america, although in europe they match up pretty well

fam, whats the best dialect/accent of Spanish to learn? certain types of Spanish i can't understand at all (Chilean Spanish etc. while some sound very clear to me ie Mexican Spanish)

Caribbean, Castilian, South American?

depends where you wanna go breh. chileans sound like they're speaking spanish chewing on medium rare beef cubes, like they never close their mouth when they talk.

if you get good enough at one tho, you can quickly overcome differences. i wouldn't focus too much on this in the beginning, just pick one and run with it, and be aware of the future challenges.

good thread foreign language acquisition, that's my shyt

 

[BigMan]

I have an ambitious project of learning all the main European languages of North and South America: Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Dutch. I'm also going to learn German because I lived there as a child.

but yeah i want to learn all the main North American languages (English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole), I figure if i learn Spanish (i can learn Papiamento and Portuguese and French to Kreyol). i can understand basically all the English Patoises of the Caribbean

The Duloingo app helped improve my French a bit. I plan on being conversational in hopefully a few years.

just d/led that

this thought plagued me my whole life until i started mastering a foreign language. it's excellent internal motivation, you should be happy you feel that way


this is true up to an extent, next level shyt, i.e. near native fluency breaks this barrier tho. it's when people start forgetting their native language that you know they're getting to where they wanna be in the target language


depends on the spanish and depends on the portuguese. there are arguable dialects just within brazil, and if they don't clear the "dialect" benchmark, the pronunciation, grammar, and vocab changes are ridiculous. listening to some from the northeast and then listening to someone from the south is wild different. i know respective speakers of both languages, some can understand both unconsciously, others have no idea what's going on.
also depends on the person, of course. some people are good with tones and the waves of speech, others aren't. its a natural ability for most, others can learn it, and others are near hopeless without intensive training tbh

also, brazilian portuguese breaks a lot of grammar "rules" that spanish does not, despite being carried from the same continent to another same continent. and the consonants differ a lot more in south america, although in europe they match up pretty well

depends where you wanna go breh. chileans sound like they're speaking spanish chewing on medium rare beef cubes, like they never close their mouth when they talk.

if you get good enough at one tho, you can quickly overcome differences. i wouldn't focus too much on this in the beginning, just pick one and run with it, and be aware of the future challenges.

good thread foreign language acquisition, that's my shyt

i'm most interested in N. America

 

[Nino Brown]

I think Portuguese is the natural language of bedwenches

If you look at Portuguese colonies, they have large mixed populations, from Brazil to Mozambique

I hate that I only speak English which makes me a real life talking c00n

I wanna learn some hakuna matata

 

[Claudex]

Drop those gems on how to do it bruh, I wanna learn an African language in this lifetime

Maybe finding an African chick is the way to do it, A/S/L? @ biscuitsnbangers

Wait what?
@biscuitsnbangers you're African?