Studying another foreign language..
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Originally posted by trendz:
If I wanna study another foreign language, which language(s) would be useful?
- Japanese
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Portugese
etc.Does anyone know where I could go and take up such language course?
And how much would that be?
Only available in full-time/part-time?
Will the cert be recognised by companies?Thanks. cheers (:
I will want to learn French... personal take...
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Originally posted by Stimulatedfib:
Somemore if want get Japanese GF/ wife, especially from mainland Japan, all the more Lawlie's choice is great. XD
yesh! that's why i want ^^
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Originally posted by trendz:
oh. confusing as in?
and from what i know, if you wanna study japanese, you’ve gotta study it for a few years just so you would be able to progress from elementary to intermediate, even long from intermediate to advance. yes, no?
yea, it takes ages. but i think its fun!
wouldn't say the 3 alphabet systems are a cinch to get tho.. took me ages to memorise the hiragana and katakana.. even now im not too good at reading them ^^
kanji's pretty easy, cos it's traditional chinese. buts, the but is, the same characters thats shared by kanji and mandarin may have different meanings..
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Originally posted by L.lawliett79:
yesh! that's why i want ^^
Knew it... ulterior motives exposed. =P
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Originally posted by Forbiddensinner:
French would be the most useful on that list unless you are an 'otaku'. In that case, Japanese would be more useful than anything else.
If you really want to learn these languages, I am pretty sure that there are a lot of courses being offered for them locally; if you would just search online for the related education groups/companies.
There are definitely both part-time and full-time courses, and it is up to your own personal preference and time limitations to take up which one.
On the otherhand, these kind of certs will not really help you out if you are not taking up a language/communication/teaching related job.
why would French being the most useful foreign language?
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To answer TS question on which foreign language to learn depend on which region you want to work in.
if you learn Japanese and not working in Japan than the language you learned u forget easily.
I personnally find Spanish is probably more useful for 1 reason.
It is true that there are 350 million spanish speaker but unfortunately economically they are not considered that the top.
But Spanish language allow you to branch off to Portugese and Italian because of its common root.
think about it.
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
To answer TS question on which foreign language to learn depend on which region you want to work in.
if you learn Japanese and not working in Japan than the language you learned u forget easily.
I personnally find Spanish is probably more useful for 1 reason.
It is true that there are 350 million spanish speaker but unfortunately economically they are not considered that the top.
But Spanish language allow you to branch off to Portugese and Italian because of its common root.
think about it.
same logic
learning Hindi allow you to branch off to Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Bihari, Maithili, Nepali, and even Oriya, Bengali, Assamese and even the Dardic languages
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Originally posted by Bangulzai:
same logic
learning Hindi allow you to branch off to Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Bihari, Maithili, Nepali, and even Oriya, Bengali, Assamese and even the Dardic languages
Does the language allow you to use it across the geographical region? from southern europe to Central and Latin America and to some part of africa?
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
Does the language allow you to use it across the geographical region? from southern europe to Central and Latin America and to some part of africa?
geographical, India is lose to Spanish
population wise, India is beating China
learn now, as a backup when Hindi becomes one of the world's language in the near future, much like people learning Chinese and English now
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Is it true that once you learn spanish, it wil be easy to master French too?
Are they somewhat similar in terms of speech and such?
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Originally posted by trendz:
If I wanna study another foreign language, which language(s) would be useful?
- Japanese
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Portugese
etc.Does anyone know where I could go and take up such language course?
And how much would that be?
Only available in full-time/part-time?
Will the cert be recognised by companies?Thanks. cheers (:
japanese
cos you'll get to say yamete yamete yamete in a sexy voice
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what does yamete means?
Sounds very familar
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Originally posted by motoway:
Is it true that once you learn spanish, it wil be easy to master French too?
Are they somewhat similar in terms of speech and such?
Cuz they are both romance languages....... together with Italian, Portuguese. To some extent in similarity, etc. grammar.
Pronounciation wise not really so ba. I find French difficult to pronounce. And different from Spanish. -
Originally posted by Lorry`:
Cuz they are both romance languages....... together with Italian, Portuguese. To some extent in similarity, etc. grammar.
Pronounciation wise not really so ba. I find French difficult to pronounce. And different from Spanish.correct!
i posted similar stuffs on the Romance Language family before in response to another thread:
http://www.sgforums.com/forums/3260/topics/346250#post_8881918
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Originally posted by motoway:
what does yamete means?
Sounds very familar
You go to bed then you'd know. =P
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Originally posted by Bangulzai:
correct!
i posted similar stuffs on the Romance Language family before in response to another thread:
http://www.sgforums.com/forums/3260/topics/346250#post_8881918
wow.. got forum somemore..
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Originally posted by Bangulzai:
geographical, India is lose to Spanish
population wise, India is beating China
learn now, as a backup when Hindi becomes one of the world's language in the near future, much like people learning Chinese and English now
nobody is going to write in sand script.....Spanish, italian, portugese will continue to use roman to write. These are interchangeable language.
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
nobody is going to write in sand script.....Spanish, italian, portugese will continue to use roman to write. These are interchangeable language.
He wants to balik India dats why.
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Originally posted by motoway:
what does yamete means?
Sounds very familar
not sure, i have not learn japanese yet -
Originally posted by PedoBear:
not sure, i have not learn japanese yet
ah! ah!!! yemente!!! ah!!! -
Originally posted by Arapahoe:
why would French being the most useful foreign language?
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
Scroll down, read the bottom lines.
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Originally posted by Forbiddensinner:
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
Scroll down, read the bottom lines.
wow in your link there, everywhere shows the importance of Arabic
wonder how come nobody other than me sees the rising importance of Arabic and Hindi
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Originally posted by Forbiddensinner:
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
Scroll down, read the bottom lines.
the report are probably more politically correct to highlight the numbers. But if you look at the similarity of the language between spanish and portuguese it shows slight marginal differences in spelling and pronunication.Let me take a superficial example:
French would be the most useful -- English
Francês seria o mais útil - PortugueseFrancés sería el más útil - SpanishFrançais seraient les plus utiles - FrenchFrancese sarebbe più utile - ItalianInfact if you don;t take nationalities into consideration you can combine Portugese and Spanish together people can probably filter 50% of each other language without learning. -
Originally posted by Bangulzai:
wow in your link there, everywhere shows the importance of Arabic
wonder how come nobody other than me sees the rising importance of Arabic and Hindi
we are already moving towards renewable energy so in future Arabic is just another language in the Sand.
hopefully fossile fuel will be the days of the past.
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
we are already moving towards renewable energy so in future Arabic is just another language in the Sand.
hopefully fossile fuel will be the days of the past.
Arabs speak good English when they sell their oil.