Are you learning a new language? If so, what language are you learning and why? I'm currently learning Norwegian because my ancestor is from Norway and became interested with their culture and their language.
I admit I haven't been trying nearly as much as I should be, but I've been slowly learning ASL - American Sign Language. I've always been really intrigued by signing and deaf culture in general. It's such a beautiful language, and it's like... a whole new thing. A whole new way to learn a language, when you can speak English and ASL simultaneously. I also just love how intuitive it is. Half the time you learn a new word you're like "oh, yeah, that totally makes sense." Even when you can't logically pinpoint why it makes sense, it just sort of feels natural and right.
I do. Started two weeks ago. I'm learning Spanish. I do it for fun, I like language. Why Spanish? I wanted to learn a language that is wide spread so that I can get to know different cultures, also I wanted something not too difficult with its literature written in Roman alphabet and with vocabulary that I can link to other languages I already know. French would have been great, too for my criteria. Maybe after I mastered the basics of Spanish.
I'm from Germany. I heard from Trinidad and Tobago in 2006 when the national football team qualified for the world championship in Germany. Spanish makes a lot of sense to you because than you can travel to Latin america and talk to people. I can travel to Spain and other small islands nearby, but I find central/ south America more interesting.
Oh cool It makes me happy to see you taking on ASL! I'm quite fluent with ASL and been signing for a long long long time. There's a name for it, it's called SimCom or Simultaneous communication!
I may eventually learn Spanish in the future, but I have quite a few in queue . German is one of them!
What did you do to become fluent? Did you take classes? Casually learn on your own? I think I'd like to take a class, so I can actually sign with people in conversation.
I can speak English,Hindi & Urdu. I can write English & Hindi. I can read Araebic fluently and understand partially.
My sister is deaf so I would take classes and have her teach me often. I would casually learn on my own too. You should take a class! I recommend it!
I'm learning amharic, the language spoken in Ethiopia. I was born and raised in Toronto but my background is Ethiopian. I do want to be more connected with my roots. It's embarrassing that I've actually lived there for 3 years and still can't speak the language fluently. I know most of the words it's just my accent is different I guess.. It sucks when your speaking with someone in their language (to improve) and they respond to you in English lol whenever I went to Québec, Montreal the people over there would always respond to me in English whenever I spoke in French. -.-
Imbibing Spanish as time allows. I have a litany of reasons to learn. After thirty something years, I am getting a mite bored with English and have elected to break free from my self-imposed unilinguist chains.