Learning languages

[Benjamin]

I'm trying to learn Māori and my head feels as if it is about to explode. It gets so much harder to learn a language the older you get, I remember Portuguese and sign language being hard but not this hard to digest and learn.

[Ammi]

Ka Pīrangi koe ki te kanikani tahi tāua..?...

[Jarrod]

I had to learn Welsh in one school term during Year 5 at Primary school, as i moved. Oh and i'm studying GCSE French right now. (I've got my final exam in June)

[Locke.]

I am fluent in French.

Done Spanish in school but was terrible at it.

[InOne]

I used to know quite a bit of Irish but lost most of it now.

I can still ask the way to the bar and know how to order a pint of Gunniess though, so if I'm ever back there I'll be fine.

But there's the different dialects and all of it sounds really different, depending where you're from.

[Niall]

Back when my Mum used to live in Italy I actually picked up a fair bit of Italian. I wasn't fluent, but I could have a very basic conversation (I was 7/8 I think). It's weird because I've forgotten it all now..

[MTVN]

Learned just enough French and Spanish to get B's in them at GCSE but I pretty much forgot everything the moment I stopped studying it. Too much of an ignorant Brit to care about knowing other languages really, only did two at gsce to get out of doing a DT subject

[Benjamin]

Ka Pīrangi koe ki te kanikani tahi tāua..?...

Haere atu!

[Ammi]

Haere atu!

Kī tōnu taku waka topaki i te tuna....

[Benjamin]

Kia Tūpato!

[AnnieK]

It's one of my biggest regrets not really learning another language, I did GCSE French and know a little bit of holiday Spanish but would love to be more Fluent. It's one thing I am going to really encourage my son to try and stick at....

[Ramsay]

Was never any good at irish...did german at school but i was crap at that too

[Ammi]

Kia Tūpato!

..LOL, yeah ok I will..they're a bit too much like snakes for my liking...good luck with it Ben..:love:

[LemonJam]

I started learning sign language last year only to realise I'd been learning it in American -.-

[Stu]

I was awful at Irish and still am. I was okay at French but I grew to love the language since leaving school and learned it. I'm pretty fluent in it now.

[Apple202]

I know some German and a bit of Mandarin, I don't find it that hard really

[Marcus.]

a little bit of french

[Marc]

I need to learn how to speak another language properly, it's just cool

[King Gizzard]

I did German for a year when I was 13-14, the year before GCSE

I'm trying to get back into it, have a couple of books, should have carried it on to GCSE

[Jessica.]

I studied German for five years, I completely ditched it after my last exams though, in 2009. I am definitely not fluent, because I have forgotten a lot of stuff, but I can understand a lot of German when reading or listening.

I have always been awful at Irish, never put much effort into it.

I plan to move to Portugal in the next year or two, I am hoping I will pick up the language rather quickly, I know immersing yourself in a language is the best way to pick it up.

[Z]

Studying German at uni, lived in Germany last year... my dad's fluent in Dutch and it's very similar to German anyway so I can pick up a lot of Dutch and Afrikaans. I studied French all the way through school and have retained some knowledge; and have some functioning knowledge of Italian, Spanish and Russian too...

[Me. I Am Salman]

I started learning sign language last year only to realise I'd been learning it in American -.-

:joker:

[rk3388]

Since elementary school, about a third of my courses are in french, so i am fluent in it

[Princess]

You have a language mechanism to accquire language when you're younger that disappears when you're about 10, hence why it's so much harder to learn a new language as an adult. I just about manage English.