I speak english and I am learning latin. Yeah I know, latin....not really the language everyone wants to speak. Me neither xD
But I just love to speak english. A good way to learn a foreign language if you dont have the chance to learn it in the respective country is having a mail friend or chat to people from the country the language is spoken. Thats how I keep improving my english and its working pretty well I guess =D
My Spanish teacher told me about this program that you go to a school to study the language you want, and you can not use English whatsoever. You are there for a few months and you take classes on the language, and all you can do is speak that language. While the program is intensive, it's really successful (apparently).
I speak spanish and english, learning german, and know a tiny bit of french. I definitely agree that immersing yourself in a country where you don't know the language, helps - it's the same thing if you're just surrounded by people who primarily speak the language you want to learn.As a kid, I remember learning spanish from my mom. We lived in spanish harlem in the city, and it was mostly all I heard, and that's how I learned spanish. You just have to practice speaking to get it. Good luck!
I learnt Japanese from grade 4 to grade 12. You think after all that time I'd be pretty good but uh... yeah my conversational skills are also pretty bad. I want to learn so many languages! But mostly French, Italian, Latin (I don't care if it's dead!) and more Japanese. :)
oh! and you should definitely talk to your brother in french/japanese whenever you can. Even if it feels dumb and foolish, you should just refuse to talk to him in english whenever you can haha.
I'm studying abroad in Spain right now, and I have to say, it's no lie what they say about picking things up when you're dumped into an authentic foreign speaking atmosphere. You kind of have no choice but to become a sponge around everything you hear. So I wouldn't worry too much about anything since you haven't even studied in a foreign country yet--when you go to japan (or france) it'll all just fall into place over time!
@isnoggedharry sorry for late reply but yeah I don't think it works outside of the UK I don't think but other country's versions like Germany's RTL player do..
in my school in year 9 we have got to take both french and spanish my tips for learning them is to keep ur head down and ......not pay attention.....its safe to say that i am failing these subjects
I speak Dutch and Italian... I learnt Italian since I was 4, and my Oma teaches me Dutch. I guess just try to practise it at home, that's how I got better.
If I could learn one foreign language right now it'd be Hawaiian! That'd probably be useless, but it seems like the most fun. XD That, or Māori. I don't care about practicality!
@IsnoggedHarry German and french. I don't know about french and spanish, but german something like BBC iPlayer, which I'm guessing you know is online Television. Which is really helpful. But yeah, TV, newspapers but the best is becoming immersed. Going to germany for a week helped a lot. Also I'm fine talking to other people who are english and know the language conversationally, but I always get shy speaking to natives! :(
Hi samantha!! Come on!! If you come to Japan, you can make many Japanese friends!! And I'm learning English!! so, I wanna talk English and Japanese with you!! I have skype account!!^^
@CrayolaaWonderr Languages are hard! Just keep working at it. Japanese is getting really hard for me (probably because I forgot most of the hiragana (Japanese "alphabet") right after the exams...
@loversandliarssmile I have no idea what that is, but I'm sorry you can't converse in it after 4 years of study. Story of my life. Also, I'd like to take Latin, and I have no idea what Greek even sounds like!
Ja, ich spreche Englisch und Deutsch! :) Ich lerne Deutsch in meiner Schule... lol actually, i'm just like you. i can do german in school on quizzes and things, but in a real conversation... yeah, you get the picture.
@theCULLENcovEn Haha yeah, for sure. I don't know any German, but the 13-year old girl I babysit is learning it and she likes to tell me how to say things. It's cute :)
Since I'm from Sweden English is a foreign language for me, my best tip and the way that I learn the best is to watch movies and read books in the language you're trying to learn. I didn't learn anything in English class, but watching all of the Harry Potter movies without subtitles was great cause you kind of get every word and such in a context which makes it easier to understand.
I know Spanish, English, French, Italian and of course German (cause I'm german ;) What really helped me was watching movies and reading books in foreign languages. And I've been participating in a lot of international camps with teenagers from all over the world which is not only a great opportunity to learn a language but also to make new friends from other countries :)
For building *reading* fluency in a language, try books in that language on a subject you already know well, or foreign news sites that report worldwide news where you can find the equivalent stories in English. In these cases I've learned by "bootstrapping": If you know all but a few words in a sentence, then you can deduce what those words mean because you already know what the news story is supposed to say. Then when you encounter those words later, you can bootstrap further.
Quiero estudiar en un país hispañola cuando voy a universidad. Estudiaba español desde mi infancia y ¡me encanta! Pero hablando con fluencia... no puedo. Es muy triste.
I studied Spanish I-IV in college... then moved to Israel and studied Hebrew... 3 yrs later I left Israel with No Spanish, aweful Hebrew, and worse English...
ahha so my mom speaks yugoslavian/english and my dad speaks french/english - yet I only speak english...Although I tried desperately to pick up fluid french through school and my dad I failed ....yugoslav I epicly failed ....although somehow I did manage to retain only the " bad words" from both other languages so when I'm upset in public I'll speak out in yugoslav only in the bad words - it works like a charm nobody knows what I'm singing off about because I doubt I'm even pronouncing right.
I know German, but I studied it for 4 years. I love it. I plan to major in foreign languages when I go off to uni, and I want to learn 9 more languages. Yeah, intense. I just like being able to converse with people.
@ISnoggedHarry I actually e-mailed the guy who invented the language for the movie. He said that he hopes to expand the language beyond what was heard in the movie!
I'm Swedish, and this is how I became quite fluent in English.
I started learning it in school, seeing as it's obligatory. So from the age of 7 to the age of 13, pretty much all my English came from what I was taught in school.
But one of the first things I did for myself to learn better, was watching an English movie, but instead of Swedish subtitles, I switched to English.
I guess it might be difficult to watch a French movie with subtitles in French, but maybe you could try English ones?
YouTube was also a great help in learning English. Thank God for the vlogbrothers and their inability to speak slowly!
Another tip - try finding children's books in the language, if a more adult novel is too difficult. Because reading anything in the language helps a lot.
@RaeTheFail Someone actually suggested that, and I think it's BRILLIANT. I am absolutely going to try it on some classic French films and then some Miyazaki films (most likely My Neighbor Totoro... or how I so expertly call it now, Tonari No Totoro :P)
I went to Belgium for a year as an exchange student and learned French. Now I'm fluent. Never took a class in my life :) It's difficult but good luck! :)
Since i was 5 I've had to learn Irish which is really pointless because its basically a dead language I've also learn't french since i was 11 and Italian since i was 13
I'm in grade 11 right now and i've done french since grade one and that's the only other language i can speak. The only tip i have is don't just learn words, write sentences and read things in the language because that'll help more, you can also listen to videos of people speaking it because if you don't have the accent it'll be a lot harder for people whose first language that is to understand you. I wish i could speak latin and kling-on. Mermish=mermaid, Gobbledegook=goblins
Have a friend who also knows/is studying the same foreign language! The only time I ever held conversation in Spanish (outside of class) was when my friend was also taking it and we'd translate everything anyone said into Spanish. :) It makes it a lot more fun!
And I wish I could know Latin, because then I could understand tons of other languages. :D
I may have just yelled "Mermish!" at my computer. Sorry my Harry Potter knowledge seems to over ride my sense of decency on occasion.
Despite my taking two and a half years of spanish and growing up surrounded by people speaking Spanish I have very little knowledge of the language. To honest I think learning foreign languages is like math. Some people are great with it, and some people just don't get it. Unfortunately I get neither foreign language or math.
@MalfoyIsOurKing Hahaha that's amazing. I appreciate the enthusiasm as well.
Hmm very interesting. I am also awful at math and foreign languages. Unfortunately, I actually care about the latter. The former has no purpose in my life (even basic math) haha.
I dont speak any really well, but at work I have to communicate with a lot of people who only speak spanish, so i've picked up enough to talk my way through a patient interview.... but thats about it. I cant write it or anything.. I just know enough to ask basic medical questions. and I usually get laughed at because I cant roll my R's. lol
@everydayandrew88 Haha I can roll my R's for fun and randomly, but I can't when I speak Spanish. I'm totally with you on that one. As long as you can get by!
Right now I'm in France for a week and on the first you are just forced to learn "Pardon" "S'il vous plait" And "Exscusemoi" Just because everyone says it to you and you have to say it back. I do learn french though.
I'm so jealous of people in other countries because they know their own language PLUS English in most cases.
I'm like you. I do well in my foreign language classes cause I study and work hard. Then my teacher would always call on me to do "practice conversations" because I was doing well in the class. I never quite impressed her with those.
I want to learn Spanish, French, and German (ha, yeah right...).
@KissMeNDaRainxx3 I guess because English is such a global language these days, they don't have much of a choice in some cases. It would be cool to be bilingual, though, for sure.
Yes, I dread the moment in each class when the professor says "grab a partner and..." yada yada.
Well, you have manymanymany years left to learn all those languages. But- yeah, we'll see :P
English is a foregin language for me, and I do pretty well :D I live in Denmark. I tried to learn to speak german for three years, but that just.... I gave up. Although my teacher told me to keep going, because I was one of the best in class. That didn't happen.
@NoWehDude The problem with my experience with Italian is that I added the class late and missed the first week and a half. In that week and a half, I apparently missed an entire chapter and could never quite catch up, and I had to drop it. SO, in the future, you tell me :P I never had a proper shot at it.
I'm taking my Spanish 1 class for highschool this year. I had to choose between that or French, but I chose Spanish because I figured it'd be more practical.
English, learned by schools and then watching TV and videos. Also, it's pretty easy (I write better english than my native language). I tried some japanese, did ok until I couldn't keep studying anymore because of work and stuff.. Also, I think it's pretty different to learn as an adult than as a child.. It's easier (unlike what most people assume), but more boring.
@pete275 Ooh interesting - easier, but more boring. A lot of people have been saying they lose interest or run out of time to keep up with studying a language - maybe that has something to do with it too.
@thetriowrocks I don't know how many times I've seen it either! I know all the words to all the songs. I LOVE IT. I love meeting people who share the love for that movie. Not many people I know have even heard of it.
i know french, and by know french i mean took it for three years in high school and am now taking it in college. i loooove it. it's one of the only classes i'm actually good at, haha. i really want to study abroad in europe so i have an incentive to learn it, lol.
i don't know the best way to learn to speak a language. i've always been good at writing it and not so good at speaking, but in my class now it's full immersion, so hopefully i will learn faster since i'll be forced to speak.
@heytherecleo DEFINITELY study abroad. It's my biggest regret about transferring to different schools every year - I didn't stay in one school long enough to take advantage of a study abroad program!
I know Greek because when I was young girl and barely knew how to speak English I was dumped into Greek school. Greek school involves drilling the fracking language into your head, so that when you quit at age 13 it stays with you the rest of your life D: really I have no tips. I have absolutely no idea how I passed Spanish.
I hear that if you have taken a bunch of foreign language courses in school that when you actually get to the country and get immersed in it, you pick it up incredibly quickly. So you are already much more knowledgeable than you realize. Certainly if you spend a year in Japan or France and have some background in the language, you'll do great.
今 は 日本語 を べんきょします。でも 私 の 日本語 は わるい です ね！That was my attempt at saying I'm studying Japanese right now, but my Japanese is bad. You would think I would be better since I'm in Japanese 3...
@ChuryBee I can say it with the English alphabet if that counts for anything, but I think I'm saying it as it what my major is. I don't know. It's only been 3 weeks, haha.
Watashi no senkou wa nihon-go desu. I could be wrong.
I have noooo idea how to find those characters online to type here anyway :P
i heard that its easier to learn a different language when your a younger like a young kid idk just what i heard id like to be able to speak italian i tried to learn it but learning a foreign language now is kind of hard
@xlnknpkx No, that's absolutely true. That's why parents like to have their children become bilingual from the very beginning. It's definitely hard to learn a language when you're so strongly accustomed to your own.
I took one year of French and I'm currently taking Latin, because in my mind that'll make it easier to learn every other language ... ever (we both have really high goals).
Yeah, I said on another comment that I think learning Latin would be awesome for that reason, as well as building English, even though I'm kind of awesome at it :P
@ISnoggedHarry i should know at least one of those coz i'm koreannn:D i can understand it pretty well.. it takes a little while to speak it though hehe chinese gives me a headacheee soo hard:( but the asian ones are pretty fun to learn!
@mewpie85 Cheater! Haha totally just kidding. I hear Chinese is difficult. I've looked at Kanji out of curiosity, and sometimes my Japanese professor will write one, and I'm just like... WHAT.
@road2happiness Haha IRL. I should've said that in my video, haha.
Aaaand yeah, maybe you should learn Spanish! :P Also, I definitely agree with that - maintaining the will to keep up with learning the language = obstacle.
@thetriowrocks That's cool! I know a very very limited amount of Hebrew... aka the first few words in the prayer from Hanukkah...or Passover... or both. I don't remember. I haven't celebrated either in years. Also, the words to the songs in Prince of Egypt (best movie everrrr) that are in Hebrew. I dont know what they all mean though.
si vous pouvez lire cela sans l'aide de votre frère que vous faites parfaitement bien! あなたの兄弟の助けを借りずにはまだこのメッセージを再び読むことができるなら、あなたは良いです大声でそれを言うことができる
wowzum12345 10 months ago
I speak english and I am learning latin. Yeah I know, latin....not really the language everyone wants to speak. Me neither xD
But I just love to speak english. A good way to learn a foreign language if you dont have the chance to learn it in the respective country is having a mail friend or chat to people from the country the language is spoken. Thats how I keep improving my english and its working pretty well I guess =D
P.S Awsome shirt, I love it!! =D
Musicforever182 1 year ago
My Spanish teacher told me about this program that you go to a school to study the language you want, and you can not use English whatsoever. You are there for a few months and you take classes on the language, and all you can do is speak that language. While the program is intensive, it's really successful (apparently).
LoveAudraLove 1 year ago
I speak spanish and english, learning german, and know a tiny bit of french. I definitely agree that immersing yourself in a country where you don't know the language, helps - it's the same thing if you're just surrounded by people who primarily speak the language you want to learn.As a kid, I remember learning spanish from my mom. We lived in spanish harlem in the city, and it was mostly all I heard, and that's how I learned spanish. You just have to practice speaking to get it. Good luck!
xbellaxbrutalityx 1 year ago
Had to do that when I was a kid and I was thrown into Brazil. It helps in French class an awful lot.
meranichan13 1 year ago
I learnt Japanese from grade 4 to grade 12. You think after all that time I'd be pretty good but uh... yeah my conversational skills are also pretty bad. I want to learn so many languages! But mostly French, Italian, Latin (I don't care if it's dead!) and more Japanese. :)
dracoIicious 1 year ago
j'adore parler francais.
jessicajnsm 1 year ago
ohhh wow i really reallly love ur shirt can i have it? i want it! where did you get it?
spazpiggy 1 year ago
oh! and you should definitely talk to your brother in french/japanese whenever you can. Even if it feels dumb and foolish, you should just refuse to talk to him in english whenever you can haha.
oqueso11 1 year ago
I'm studying abroad in Spain right now, and I have to say, it's no lie what they say about picking things up when you're dumped into an authentic foreign speaking atmosphere. You kind of have no choice but to become a sponge around everything you hear. So I wouldn't worry too much about anything since you haven't even studied in a foreign country yet--when you go to japan (or france) it'll all just fall into place over time!
oqueso11 1 year ago
@isnoggedharry sorry for late reply but yeah I don't think it works outside of the UK I don't think but other country's versions like Germany's RTL player do..
ceresevakmoon 1 year ago
my main language is portuguese cuz i live in brazil in brazil we don´t speak spanish cuz brazil was colony of portugal.
and i also speak english cuz if i want tohave a nice job in brazil i have to speak a foreign languge.
i learn english at english schools, n i lived in usa for one year that makes the difference in my accent.
sometimes i study german i want to learn german by my own.
lincolnakamura 1 year ago
I speak, English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portugees and I would love to learn Japanese right now.
And you can also learn by watching alot of foreign films! Or youtube.. (: I learned a couple of Japanese words by watching lots of anime.
Joyaya07 1 year ago
in my school in year 9 we have got to take both french and spanish my tips for learning them is to keep ur head down and ......not pay attention.....its safe to say that i am failing these subjects
thecheesecakegirl 1 year ago
surprise surprise... i stade!!!!! :p
csplayermurtaza25 1 year ago
JAPANESE IS AMAZING!
huge anime fann :D
anyway what i do to help with japanese is listen to a shit load of japanese songs and watch sooooooooooooooooooooo much anime.
it really does help :)
rockangel4586 1 year ago
I know farsi and english and a little spanish. :-)
sarahz913 1 year ago
I know Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French, Spanish, English.
And I know a few words in Finnish, Romanian & Latin.
Ego sum deus - Vereor mihi!
TheAnnoyingSwede 1 year ago
@TheAnnoyingSwede Ah, & some Dutch also!
TheAnnoyingSwede 1 year ago
i do know korean and spanish (: heehee
bethwuzthere 1 year ago
I speak Dutch and Italian... I learnt Italian since I was 4, and my Oma teaches me Dutch. I guess just try to practise it at home, that's how I got better.
Sofyeah 1 year ago
If I could learn one foreign language right now it'd be Hawaiian! That'd probably be useless, but it seems like the most fun. XD That, or Māori. I don't care about practicality!
sugarandspice9x 1 year ago
@Minkusia Always worth a shot!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@TBow009 True, but I want to embark on some serious international travel, so it works for me.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I am currently taking French and it's really fun! J'aime moi prof et elle j'adore les cookies. <3
HistoryStartsNowx3 1 year ago
@HistoryStartsNowx3 French is pretty!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@IsnoggedHarry German and french. I don't know about french and spanish, but german something like BBC iPlayer, which I'm guessing you know is online Television. Which is really helpful. But yeah, TV, newspapers but the best is becoming immersed. Going to germany for a week helped a lot. Also I'm fine talking to other people who are english and know the language conversationally, but I always get shy speaking to natives! :(
ceresevakmoon 1 year ago
@ceresevakmoon I'd never heard of BBC IPlayer! Interestinggg.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
i would like to learn sign language! XD
i took a class in high school and it was amazing to me.
Susiefullness 1 year ago
@Susiefullness That would be so cool. Seriously.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Hi samantha!! Come on!! If you come to Japan, you can make many Japanese friends!! And I'm learning English!! so, I wanna talk English and Japanese with you!! I have skype account!!^^
kaokaojp 1 year ago
@kaokaojp I would love to come to Japan! I might be going for a year in 2011 - are you still going to Canada?
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry When you come to Japan, tell me!^^ Yeah!! I'm going to Canada 2 weeks later!!XD Soon!!
kaokaojp 1 year ago
@kaokaojp I will :) Exciting! Have fun in Canada!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I took Spanish for 4 years and I'm currently taking Latin. Yepp, it's hard and I'm horrible at it.
CrayolaaWonderr 1 year ago
@CrayolaaWonderr Languages are hard! Just keep working at it. Japanese is getting really hard for me (probably because I forgot most of the hiragana (Japanese "alphabet") right after the exams...
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I took 4 years of Ojibwe but can't converse with it to save my soul! fail. I also took some french, latin and Greek.
loversandliarssmile 1 year ago
@loversandliarssmile I have no idea what that is, but I'm sorry you can't converse in it after 4 years of study. Story of my life. Also, I'd like to take Latin, and I have no idea what Greek even sounds like!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Ja, ich spreche Englisch und Deutsch! :) Ich lerne Deutsch in meiner Schule... lol actually, i'm just like you. i can do german in school on quizzes and things, but in a real conversation... yeah, you get the picture.
theCULLENcovEn 1 year ago
@theCULLENcovEn Haha yeah, for sure. I don't know any German, but the 13-year old girl I babysit is learning it and she likes to tell me how to say things. It's cute :)
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
i want to speak russian : P
rawwrxlizz 1 year ago
@rawwrxlizz Do it!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
The secret is to think of the foreign word as a synonym of the english word instead of a translation. Like bathroom=restroom= lavatory=baño
MickScarborough 1 year ago
@MickScarborough Ooh interesting viewpoint!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Wow you're still making videos, holy mackeral :P
themightythor1212 1 year ago
@themightythor1212 Yeah! Hi!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Since I'm from Sweden English is a foreign language for me, my best tip and the way that I learn the best is to watch movies and read books in the language you're trying to learn. I didn't learn anything in English class, but watching all of the Harry Potter movies without subtitles was great cause you kind of get every word and such in a context which makes it easier to understand.
everydaynerdiness 1 year ago
@everydaynerdiness OOH I want to watching Harry Potter in French. That would be cool :D
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I know Spanish, English, French, Italian and of course German (cause I'm german ;) What really helped me was watching movies and reading books in foreign languages. And I've been participating in a lot of international camps with teenagers from all over the world which is not only a great opportunity to learn a language but also to make new friends from other countries :)
Nrana9 1 year ago
@Nrana9 International camps! That sounds really interesting. :)
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
For building *reading* fluency in a language, try books in that language on a subject you already know well, or foreign news sites that report worldwide news where you can find the equivalent stories in English. In these cases I've learned by "bootstrapping": If you know all but a few words in a sentence, then you can deduce what those words mean because you already know what the news story is supposed to say. Then when you encounter those words later, you can bootstrap further.
base753 1 year ago
I only know English sorry.
DaleMurph 1 year ago
@DaleMurph You are forgiven.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Quiero estudiar en un país hispañola cuando voy a universidad. Estudiaba español desde mi infancia y ¡me encanta! Pero hablando con fluencia... no puedo. Es muy triste.
wrockingawesome 1 year ago
@wrockingawesome I can't either, don't feel too bad.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I've done French for like 7 years and German for 2. But I can't really speak any of them. Unless you use them I personally think it's impossible.
I just got to the part where you said dumped into a country, I think this is true.
I want to know as much as possible. But I think I'd like to be fluent in French first.
eibbore 1 year ago
@eibbore Yeah definitely - and I would like to be fluent in French as well. Let's go to France.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry Oui!!
eibbore 1 year ago
I studied Spanish I-IV in college... then moved to Israel and studied Hebrew... 3 yrs later I left Israel with No Spanish, aweful Hebrew, and worse English...
PsychSyke 1 year ago
@PsychSyke Definitely got the worse end of the stick for that one - as long as you can communicate, WHATEVA.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
i know spanish:D and english and french and japanese HIGHFIVE
Animandrea 1 year ago
@Animandrea Daaang NICE.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
ahha so my mom speaks yugoslavian/english and my dad speaks french/english - yet I only speak english...Although I tried desperately to pick up fluid french through school and my dad I failed ....yugoslav I epicly failed ....although somehow I did manage to retain only the " bad words" from both other languages so when I'm upset in public I'll speak out in yugoslav only in the bad words - it works like a charm nobody knows what I'm singing off about because I doubt I'm even pronouncing right.
Ashleyluvsdan 1 year ago
@Ashleyluvsdan Hahaha so at least you got something out of the bilingual parents! :P
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@canadianleprechaun13 Well, you gotta learn somehow, eh? :)
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I know German, but I studied it for 4 years. I love it. I plan to major in foreign languages when I go off to uni, and I want to learn 9 more languages. Yeah, intense. I just like being able to converse with people.
RandomLari 1 year ago
@RandomLari No, that's seriously really cool. I'd love to be able to do that.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I've never been able to grasp foreign languages. I really want to learn Na'vi, though.
SpindipRob 1 year ago
@SpindipRob You're the second person to express interest in Na'vi :P
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry I actually e-mailed the guy who invented the language for the movie. He said that he hopes to expand the language beyond what was heard in the movie!
SpindipRob 1 year ago
Japanese so that I could read Manga and play Japanese video games when they launch rather than having to wait for the American localization.
CatchFlipsidE 1 year ago
@CatchFlipsidE Very good reasons!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I wish I knew Japanese ):
kadirie 1 year ago
@kadirie You and me both.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
um parseltongue.
BlehBridget 1 year ago
@BlehBridget NICE.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
mermish
tuck9011 1 year ago
@tuck9011 Got it already.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
pig latin
tuck9011 1 year ago
@tuck9011 Quality.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I'm Swedish, and this is how I became quite fluent in English.
I started learning it in school, seeing as it's obligatory. So from the age of 7 to the age of 13, pretty much all my English came from what I was taught in school.
But one of the first things I did for myself to learn better, was watching an English movie, but instead of Swedish subtitles, I switched to English.
I guess it might be difficult to watch a French movie with subtitles in French, but maybe you could try English ones?
RaeTheFail 1 year ago
YouTube was also a great help in learning English. Thank God for the vlogbrothers and their inability to speak slowly!
Another tip - try finding children's books in the language, if a more adult novel is too difficult. Because reading anything in the language helps a lot.
RaeTheFail 1 year ago
@RaeTheFail YouTube! I should definitely check some foreigners out.
Also - totally going to search for some children's books in both French and Japanese. Thanks!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@RaeTheFail Someone actually suggested that, and I think it's BRILLIANT. I am absolutely going to try it on some classic French films and then some Miyazaki films (most likely My Neighbor Totoro... or how I so expertly call it now, Tonari No Totoro :P)
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
You make me laugh.
:)
I want to learn German...
Well Cause my man is stationed here.. :|
MissMickieMilkshake 1 year ago
@MissMickieMilkshake Aww, well give it a shot!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I went to Belgium for a year as an exchange student and learned French. Now I'm fluent. Never took a class in my life :) It's difficult but good luck! :)
slm2398393 1 year ago
@slm2398393 Ah that's awesome! Jealous.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Since i was 5 I've had to learn Irish which is really pointless because its basically a dead language I've also learn't french since i was 11 and Italian since i was 13
sineadsmithh 1 year ago
@sineadsmithh Three great languages!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I'm in grade 11 right now and i've done french since grade one and that's the only other language i can speak. The only tip i have is don't just learn words, write sentences and read things in the language because that'll help more, you can also listen to videos of people speaking it because if you don't have the accent it'll be a lot harder for people whose first language that is to understand you. I wish i could speak latin and kling-on. Mermish=mermaid, Gobbledegook=goblins
WaterEngel4 1 year ago
@WaterEngel4 Klingon. You win points for that! Haha.
I'll definitely try watching videos of people speaking the language. :)
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
You should watch the crabstickz2 Japanese tutorials, they are very good.
Sporkah 1 year ago
@Sporkah I'll check it out!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Have a friend who also knows/is studying the same foreign language! The only time I ever held conversation in Spanish (outside of class) was when my friend was also taking it and we'd translate everything anyone said into Spanish. :) It makes it a lot more fun!
And I wish I could know Latin, because then I could understand tons of other languages. :D
xGreenSea 1 year ago
@xGreenSea I can see how that would be fun!
That's my feeling on Latin - I would love to learn it or at least study it for a semester and get some kind of introduction to it.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
You kinda look like kate winslet. I'd love to learn french
TJSDonovan 1 year ago
@TJSDonovan I'm in love with Kate Winslet - she is much more beautiful than I am. But thanks!
So learn it!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I may have just yelled "Mermish!" at my computer. Sorry my Harry Potter knowledge seems to over ride my sense of decency on occasion.
Despite my taking two and a half years of spanish and growing up surrounded by people speaking Spanish I have very little knowledge of the language. To honest I think learning foreign languages is like math. Some people are great with it, and some people just don't get it. Unfortunately I get neither foreign language or math.
MalfoyIsOurKing 1 year ago
@MalfoyIsOurKing Hahaha that's amazing. I appreciate the enthusiasm as well.
Hmm very interesting. I am also awful at math and foreign languages. Unfortunately, I actually care about the latter. The former has no purpose in my life (even basic math) haha.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
FRENCH!
=3
KreativeKingo 1 year ago
@KreativeKingo Heck yeah!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Lol 1:33 "not to mention the pincers"
They call it Mermish. Just sayin..
I'm learning German but not very successfully. :(
BTW, I need that t-shirt. o.O ITS AWESOME.
Iwalkalonleyroad 1 year ago
@Iwalkalonleyroad OMG FINALLY. I was waiting for someone to notice that!!! :D
I got the Mermish thing down. And - keep working at German. Hopefully it gets easier.
Also - Forever 21 :)
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I can speak a tiny bit of Indonesian.
stampsme 1 year ago
@stampsme Neat!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I dont speak any really well, but at work I have to communicate with a lot of people who only speak spanish, so i've picked up enough to talk my way through a patient interview.... but thats about it. I cant write it or anything.. I just know enough to ask basic medical questions. and I usually get laughed at because I cant roll my R's. lol
everydayandrew88 1 year ago
@everydayandrew88 Haha I can roll my R's for fun and randomly, but I can't when I speak Spanish. I'm totally with you on that one. As long as you can get by!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Right now I'm in France for a week and on the first you are just forced to learn "Pardon" "S'il vous plait" And "Exscusemoi" Just because everyone says it to you and you have to say it back. I do learn french though.
MikhaelaFifaela 1 year ago
@MikhaelaFifaela AHH I'm so jealous. I want to be in France right now. Those are good starter phrases to have.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I'm so jealous of people in other countries because they know their own language PLUS English in most cases.
I'm like you. I do well in my foreign language classes cause I study and work hard. Then my teacher would always call on me to do "practice conversations" because I was doing well in the class. I never quite impressed her with those.
I want to learn Spanish, French, and German (ha, yeah right...).
KissMeNDaRainxx3 1 year ago
@KissMeNDaRainxx3 I guess because English is such a global language these days, they don't have much of a choice in some cases. It would be cool to be bilingual, though, for sure.
Yes, I dread the moment in each class when the professor says "grab a partner and..." yada yada.
Well, you have manymanymany years left to learn all those languages. But- yeah, we'll see :P
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Well I live in Norway,so english is my foregin language.I really want to learn french!
PsykoDay 1 year ago
@PsykoDay That's awesome, though. And you should!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry Well sorry! :P
sofaleaver1 1 year ago
@sofaleaver1 Haha :D
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
English is a foregin language for me, and I do pretty well :D I live in Denmark. I tried to learn to speak german for three years, but that just.... I gave up. Although my teacher told me to keep going, because I was one of the best in class. That didn't happen.
Linnnecookie 1 year ago
@Linnnecookie Well, your written English is perfect, so you must be good! Eh, you can live without German :P
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry Thank you! Yeah, that's my opinion as well :D
Linnnecookie 1 year ago
It was mermish.
AnAbundanceOfKathryn 1 year ago
@AnAbundanceOfKathryn Yeah, I remembered before I posted the video. I should've put up an annotation but I am laaaaaazy.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I JUST vlogged about how scared I am to take Italian! Is Italian hard? Any tips?
NoWehDude 1 year ago
@NoWehDude The problem with my experience with Italian is that I added the class late and missed the first week and a half. In that week and a half, I apparently missed an entire chapter and could never quite catch up, and I had to drop it. SO, in the future, you tell me :P I never had a proper shot at it.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Its called mermish if i remember correctly
neosin89 1 year ago
@neosin89 It is :)
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
Eh, I took 3 years of Spanish in High School... Don't remember any of it lol
R4wR0ckK1lls 1 year ago
@R4wR0ckK1lls I hear ya :P
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I'm taking my Spanish 1 class for highschool this year. I had to choose between that or French, but I chose Spanish because I figured it'd be more practical.
muggle394 1 year ago
@muggle394 I guess it depends on where you live. I started out with Spanish and studied it for yearssss. Don't remember too much though.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
mermish. i'm sure someone's already said it though.
burythecastle 1 year ago
@burythecastle Yup, they have, but I appreciate it anyway!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry haha awesome. thanks for the response!! (:
burythecastle 1 year ago
English, learned by schools and then watching TV and videos. Also, it's pretty easy (I write better english than my native language). I tried some japanese, did ok until I couldn't keep studying anymore because of work and stuff.. Also, I think it's pretty different to learn as an adult than as a child.. It's easier (unlike what most people assume), but more boring.
pete275 1 year ago
@pete275 Ooh interesting - easier, but more boring. A lot of people have been saying they lose interest or run out of time to keep up with studying a language - maybe that has something to do with it too.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@thetriowrocks I don't know how many times I've seen it either! I know all the words to all the songs. I LOVE IT. I love meeting people who share the love for that movie. Not many people I know have even heard of it.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry Aaaah I absolutely LOVE the Prince of Egypt! Watch it every Passover, waddup!
sportynspunky78 1 year ago
I'm learning Spanish right now. I love it. =)
thevikingguy 1 year ago
@thevikingguy That's awesome! Especially that you love it, haha. Learning a language when you hate the class would be absolutely awful.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
why don't you pick up Chinese? then you can speak to me!
anw, i knows how to speak english because i watch your video everyday =D(Secret tip)
YaoFromChina 1 year ago
@YaoFromChina Haha, I would love to one day!!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I'd learn Japanese right now so I could watch anime in it's original (as in not english dubbed form) without subtitles.
plainoutofthisworld 1 year ago
@plainoutofthisworld That would be awesome! I hope I can do that one day with Miyazaki films.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I wanna know french... or spanish... =)
middlekid95 1 year ago
@middlekid95 Go for it!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
i know french, and by know french i mean took it for three years in high school and am now taking it in college. i loooove it. it's one of the only classes i'm actually good at, haha. i really want to study abroad in europe so i have an incentive to learn it, lol.
i don't know the best way to learn to speak a language. i've always been good at writing it and not so good at speaking, but in my class now it's full immersion, so hopefully i will learn faster since i'll be forced to speak.
heytherecleo 1 year ago
@heytherecleo DEFINITELY study abroad. It's my biggest regret about transferring to different schools every year - I didn't stay in one school long enough to take advantage of a study abroad program!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I CAN TELL BY THIS VIDEO THAT YOU'RE OK AT ENGLISH
FattyPaste 1 year ago
@FattyPaste True.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
YOUR ROOM HAS BEEN THE SAME COLOR FOREVER WHERE IS YOUR SLIPKNOT/KORN POSTERS?
FattyPaste 1 year ago
@FattyPaste I just got it painted a few months ago!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I know Greek because when I was young girl and barely knew how to speak English I was dumped into Greek school. Greek school involves drilling the fracking language into your head, so that when you quit at age 13 it stays with you the rest of your life D: really I have no tips. I have absolutely no idea how I passed Spanish.
jibberjabbers123 1 year ago
@jibberjabbers123 Jeeeez. That's cool, though!!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
I hear that if you have taken a bunch of foreign language courses in school that when you actually get to the country and get immersed in it, you pick it up incredibly quickly. So you are already much more knowledgeable than you realize. Certainly if you spend a year in Japan or France and have some background in the language, you'll do great.
studentdotcom 1 year ago
@studentdotcom That's what I'm hoping for!! :D Hi, Jeff!
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry Hi, Sam! Have fun in DC with Cade and then down in VA with walllofweird. Slumber party sounds fun.
studentdotcom 1 year ago
@studentdotcom Thanks! It should be good times.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
今 は 日本語 を べんきょします。でも 私 の 日本語 は わるい です ね！That was my attempt at saying I'm studying Japanese right now, but my Japanese is bad. You would think I would be better since I'm in Japanese 3...
ChuryBee 1 year ago
@ChuryBee I can say it with the English alphabet if that counts for anything, but I think I'm saying it as it what my major is. I don't know. It's only been 3 weeks, haha.
Watashi no senkou wa nihon-go desu. I could be wrong.
I have noooo idea how to find those characters online to type here anyway :P
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
i heard that its easier to learn a different language when your a younger like a young kid idk just what i heard id like to be able to speak italian i tried to learn it but learning a foreign language now is kind of hard
xlnknpkx 1 year ago
@xlnknpkx No, that's absolutely true. That's why parents like to have their children become bilingual from the very beginning. It's definitely hard to learn a language when you're so strongly accustomed to your own.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
They called it Mermish, I think.
I took one year of French and I'm currently taking Latin, because in my mind that'll make it easier to learn every other language ... ever (we both have really high goals).
11, by the way. :D
abstractskyline 1 year ago
@abstractskyline Definitely Mermish :)
Yeah, I said on another comment that I think learning Latin would be awesome for that reason, as well as building English, even though I'm kind of awesome at it :P
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
i know a little hebrew and im in arabic now...and ofcorse my lifelong fail at english
peace01072 1 year ago
@peace01072 I think those would be two awesome languages to learn.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
i can spweak engrish, korean, japanese, chinese and french:D i want to learn german and possibly greek.. would be intriguing.
mewpie85 1 year ago
@mewpie85 Oh, Greek would be intriguing, for sure! You definitely have some Eastern languages down - pretty jealous.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry i should know at least one of those coz i'm koreannn:D i can understand it pretty well.. it takes a little while to speak it though hehe chinese gives me a headacheee soo hard:( but the asian ones are pretty fun to learn!
mewpie85 1 year ago
@mewpie85 Cheater! Haha totally just kidding. I hear Chinese is difficult. I've looked at Kanji out of curiosity, and sometimes my Japanese professor will write one, and I'm just like... WHAT.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@ISnoggedHarry kanji isn't too bad... think of it as drawing art and it makes it easier :D it just takes getting used to:D
mewpie85 1 year ago
@road2happiness Haha IRL. I should've said that in my video, haha.
Aaaand yeah, maybe you should learn Spanish! :P Also, I definitely agree with that - maintaining the will to keep up with learning the language = obstacle.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago
@thetriowrocks That's cool! I know a very very limited amount of Hebrew... aka the first few words in the prayer from Hanukkah...or Passover... or both. I don't remember. I haven't celebrated either in years. Also, the words to the songs in Prince of Egypt (best movie everrrr) that are in Hebrew. I dont know what they all mean though.
ISnoggedHarry 1 year ago