What's use of learning a foreign language such as gaelic?
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there isnt really any point unless you plan on living in a place that speaks that language.\n\nits more usefull to learn a language of a place you plan on visiting or a secondary language that is common in your area.
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lol id kill to learn it. my boyfriend is romanian and starts talkin to me in roamnian just to be a pain cause i cant understand it...........i say that every language u learn is one step closser to success. things like that r good for getting jobs ^^ the more lingual u r the better off u r
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The best way to improve your foreign language learning is to be surrounded by people who speack only That language.I came to Canada when I was 13 and I didn't speack a word of english.It was hard.......first few month...after 2 month of watching The Simpsons...dahh...lol..I was able to understand some...and then I went to school with all candaian kids..and after 3 month I was able to speack english...well not perfect..but at least I understood pretty much everything their were saying...I hope this helps...be surrounded by people who speack that language...move to that country...if you want it bad...you'll get it.
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I'd say hang around people at school who speak that language. You can also take classes. Like Irish said, the older you are, the harder it is to learn.
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hmmmm, learn Latin. It's an ancient language that many other laguages that are used today have been derived from, including Italian. So, you would be opening yourself up to learn and understand other languages by just learning one. It will also help you with english. If you know some prefixes and suffixes in latin that are very common in the english language, you will find that you don't need your dictionary as much as you think you do, especially when dealing with health and scientific terms.
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I love to learn other languages. \n\nLanguages are the essence of culture and visa versa. One cannot exist without the other. This is mostly noticeable in languages which are still not effected by the onslaught of modern Western civilization. I speak several European languages where the mind-set and ideals are all basically the same. \n\nBut when you begin to learn languages that are not of the  European descent things start to change drastically. You find connections with nature and the world around you that have been lost or are lacking in the major European languages. Ways to express things in a whole different sense.\n\nI speak fluent Mandarin and have a BA in Mongolian language and literature, I am also learning Cherokee. All three of these languages do not fit into the European language category and are fascinating; but with that also comes the hard part, learning to understand and absorb the new ways of seeing things and different ways of expression. Each of these different languages has its own individual connection with people and the world around it. The Chinese language is very cut off from nature and sees humanity as the strong point in its expression. Whereas the Mongolian language is very much a part of the natural world in its strong and expressive vocabulary connected to nature.\n\nLanguages are fascinating! They provide us our thought process, our world-view and the way we perceive life in general. \n\nLanguages can be a hindrance or a mind-opening experience.
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It depends how much time you are willing to spend on one language. Language is a tool for communication. It will help you to understand a culture or others from a language. You could start it from watching french movies or listen french songs to gain your interesting. Once you enjoy the language that brings you exploring new experience , the learning process will not be hard at all.
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I am a native speaker of Chinese (I'm from Taiwain), and I am currently learning French.\n\nI think you can start with some language courses online. They often give you the basic survival phrases or words. Practice more on the tones, because people might get the wrong word if you pronounce the tones wrong. Also, pay special attention on the composition of the Chinese characters; it can help you remembering and writing it (either Traditional or Simplified). Furthermore, if you want to pick it up, read something in Chinese and listen to radio programs in Chinese would help a lot, even if you don't understand them. You can also try talking to yourself in the Chinese you know. You have to create a Chinese environment. You also need to practice writing the Chinese characters you have just learned again and again (I don't know about the pupils in China, but pupils in Taiwan repeat writing the same character more than 20 times and the same words 2 to 4 times, and that is how we remember how to write the characters). Finally, you need to keep practicing writing and using the new Chinese words you have learned.
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Knowing Spanish, it would be easy enough to learn any other Romance language...Italian, French, others. Portuguese is very similar to Spanish, and not sure, but there may be a third dialect that is used only in Spain...vosotros Spanish but maybe that is Portuguese. My guess is that pure aesthetics aside, though, (since all these languages have their own beauty) if you are faced with anything in a romance language and you already know one, you can figure out a lot of what you need to know in the others. IF your motive is purely to communicate with a wide variety of people.\n\nGerman doesn't seem all that hard and opens up another family of languages called the Germanic...which kind of stack on one another and learning one helps you learn another. German, Dutch, Yiddish, and the Scandanavian languages. \n\nIf you were traveling anywhere in W Europe, I would say that Spanish and German would help you a great deal.  \n\nBut if you really want to understand more about language, including English, learn LATIN. It will help you understand almost any language. It is what the romance languages are based on, if I'm not mistaken, and helps decipher the roots of many words.\n\nIf you are Catholic and want to understand the roots of your church better, learning Latin will be the key to that. And Latin in sacred music is absolutely beautiful.\n\nIf you want to study other languages that help you with Judeo Christian faith, try Greek, Hebrew, and again, Latin. If you are some other faith, study the language that was being used by the people who started that religion.\n\nFor pure fun, there are groups dedicated to studying Tolkien languages. Elvish and its dialects, Dwarvish, and I'm sure there are others. Tolkien was a linguistics professor. He created all the elements of Middle Earth, including the races, their histories, and their languages, LONG before the Lord of the Rings came out.
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I think there's nothing wrong with learning a little bit of many different languages like you are doing now.  If you feel the need to concentrate on one, I recommend that you consider which languages are most available to you for learning (such as which ones are most convenient for you to take classes in, for example) and which ones you feel will be most useful to you in the future (such as with future boyfriends/girlfriends or in your future profession).\n\nIn addition, why restrict yourself to focusing on just one?  After you work on one new language for a while and you feel that your communicative needs are met, why not learn more?  Knowing more languages is its own reward, IMHO.
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yes and no ...\n\nif u have some basics for thats languages sure it will help u....\n\nif not ..it will help u be used for the sound  of this language... and thats all ... but wont learn it ... \n\ni know 4 languages \n\ngood luck
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I am learning Chinese (Mandarin). I have already studied for five years, with about half of that time spent in Taiwan or China. I enjoy it a lot!
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Yes.\nRight now, while they're young enough I can still influence them, we are learning Irish.  I use Pimsleur for the kids, and then I am studying using a book and tape system.  It's working fairly well, however, this is nothing like learning French or Spanish.  There is no frame of reference within the English language for pronunciation of Irish Gaelic.\n\nThe reason we are learning Irish is because of our Irish heritage and the fact that there are only 50,000 speakers of this language left.  If I don't teach my children the lyrical tongue of their mothers, it will die.  It's also an extreme intellectual exercise for me, hopefully putting off Alzheimer's for a couple more years.  ;)\n\nWhen they reach high school age, they know they can pick whatever language they feel will serve them in the future.  But I wanted them to learn Irish first.  Anything else will be a piece of cake after that.
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I don't know what you currently know, therefore I wouldn't be able to answer.  But try a language that you don't know yet.  Take up an instrument or a sport/martial art.
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for learning?\n\ngo to language exchange.com
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I think when you want to learn a foreign language, you need to learn the basics with a private teacher who will have all the focus on you and then you should go to, you know, public classes so you will be able to communicate with others. The best thing is to be in a place (specially a city or country) where people speak that language. \nAnyways, if you don't want classes I recommend this CD that will work beautifully." Learn To Speak French" is the name. They have this CD for other languages too; such as English, Spanish , etc. It's really great. You can even take online courses and besides it's really beneficial since you can have conversations with characters in the program. Your reading, writing, speaking and listening will improve all together. \nGood luck! :)
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Immersion. It has no guideline, but it's the best way to learn any language, especially when it's getting out of the formal books and into the commonly-used slang.