French

[Leaway2]

*smug git alert* I can more than get by in French, and can manage very well indeed in Spanish. Can also 'do' similar languages well (Catalan, Gallego, Portuguese, plus Italian).

So that why you post so many double entendres.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

So that why you post so many double entendres.

He does like to slip one in.

 

[compo]

When I joined the French Foreign Legion I couldn't speak a word of French (and I wasn't alone). Amazing what push ups and other assorted humiliations can do to assist your learning, plus being virtually banned from speaking anything but French right from day one. I also gained a good smattering of German as well.

 

[Melonfish]

mein luftkissenfahrzeug ist volle aale!

tbh i'm terrible at languages, but i did get further with German then any other.

 

[stephec]

Get a french boy/girlfriend! Its the best way, although your current one may object.

Just tell the current one it's for, 'educational,' reasons only.

 

[vickster]

I have a degree but it was a very loooong time ago. Can happily read, but speaking and understanding less easy

German too, which is (and always was) much better!

 

[marinyork]

Try one of the many exchange sites on the internet? There are loads. The internet is rammed full of people wanting to learn English or improve their spoken (often for jobs, college, uni).

I'm learning Italian and text/video chat with some Italians a few times a week. I started learning Italian a year and a half ago but wish I'd done the video aspect of it earlier. I learn quite a lot of words through reading and studying, but it's a bit like eating cat biscuits - they go in and a lot of them tumble back out again. With spoken I've found the retention rate goes up quite substantially. There are the other obvious benefits too.

 

[sazzaa]

Try one of the many exchange sites on the internet? There are loads. The internet is rammed full of people wanting to learn English or improve their spoken (often for jobs, college, uni).

I'm learning Italian and text/video chat with some Italians a few times a week. I started learning Italian a year and a half ago but wish I'd done the video aspect of it earlier. I learn quite a lot of words through reading and studying, but it's a bit like eating cat biscuits - they go in and a lot of them tumble back out again. With spoken I've found the retention rate goes up quite substantially. There are the other obvious benefits too.

I'm not sure why but the whole idea of speaking to foreigners online doesn't appeal to me. I don't even like skyping my other half when he's been away for weeks... It feels alien to me. Which is annoying in many, many ways.

 

[Brandane]

Watch the news in French.
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View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t_RjTBQMYE
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Ooooh la la; Melissa, je t'aime!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Try one of the many exchange sites on the internet? There are loads. The internet is rammed full of people wanting to learn English or improve their spoken (often for jobs, college, uni).

I'm learning Italian and text/video chat with some Italians a few times a week. I started learning Italian a year and a half ago but wish I'd done the video aspect of it earlier. I learn quite a lot of words through reading and studying, but it's a bit like eating cat biscuits - they go in and a lot of them tumble back out again. With spoken I've found the retention rate goes up quite substantially. There are the other obvious benefits too.

All good advice, 8 out of 10 people would probably agree with you.

 

[slowmotion]

Ooooh la la; Melissa, je t'aime!

I told you that your French would improve rapidly! Full marks.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2850557, member: 259"]More than a Feline? Bloody Foreigners.[/quote]

Foreigner? I thought More than a Feline was by Boston.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Selon trois vélos McGinty

TVMcG does have a certain je ne sais quoi about it.

 

[vernon]

Ooooh la la; Melissa, je t'aime!

Je l'aime plus que vous.

 

[vernon]

ooooh, obtenez vous

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