Well … for those who have me on msn will probably know I LOVE foreign languages and find them highly 1 – Educational 2 – Interesting and 3 – Useful. Currently I also use them as I talk to people all over the world from Japan to Chile, Norway to Austria, So I find it polite to use their language to make it easier for them. Currently at school I learn Spanish which I would say i’m rather good at. I do however teach myself languages and a few years ago was successful enough to teach myself fluent French but i’ve now forgotten it. so other than Spanish I currently teach myself Czech, Korean, Polish, Latvian, Russian and Norwegian and eventually want to move on to the other EU languages such as German, Italian, Portuguese and re-new my French.
Anyone else?
By: heslop01 - 21st April 2007 at 14:56
GCSEs are getting a bit tougher.
By: megalith - 10th April 2007 at 14:22
When talking about children of today leaving school who have not mastered The Three Rs, we need to remember there have always been school leavers who are functionally illiterate. As such this is not a modern phenomena.
Really we should be comparing standards attained today against those of say ten, twenty, thirty years ago. If we do this the children of today come out very well. For instance according to Dfes figures 73% of fourteen year olds obtained level 5 for English in 2006, up around 20% since 1997. The recent slight falling off in these figures is probably due to increased immigration from Eastern Europe.
The big problem with measuring changes in attainment levels, is that before the current SATS testing regime figures are less than relliable.
Steve.
By: Ren Frew - 9th April 2007 at 14:16
Some kids are leaving school, who haven’t mastered the three R’s, is anything being done about this ?
Until we stop referring to Artitmetic as beginning with an ‘R’ what chance have the little tikes got ? ๐
By: rumcajs - 9th April 2007 at 13:31
Some Czech words
Czech is only one European language has a lot of words without vocals maybe.
Try to say this sentence: “Strฤ prst skrz krk.” ๐ it means: Push your finger through the neck :)))
for example further
vlk-wolf
krk-neck
smrk-spruce
blb-idiot
srp-sickle
Srb-Serbian
prd-fart
skrz-through
smrt-death
prst-finger
etc…
By: heslop01 - 5th April 2007 at 18:53
Started Chinese, It’s quite hard.
By: Martti Kujansuu - 30th March 2007 at 19:43
That seems to be a good mix ๐
Well, maybe so. Finnish, English and Swedish because I have to and German for reading German manuals. :rolleyes:
By: heslop01 - 30th March 2007 at 17:11
That seems to be a good mix ๐
By: Martti Kujansuu - 29th March 2007 at 19:05
— Fluent —
Finnish (repeat after me: Piilevรคt piilevรคt piileviรค piileviรค piilevissรค piilevissรค)
English
— Good —
Swedish
— Passable —
German
By: heslop01 - 29th March 2007 at 18:52
Do you find VietNamese hard?? especially with all those syllables and italics?
I find it very hard, but I like a challenge. ๐
By: Barbarian - 29th March 2007 at 01:44
i very much like to learn Japanese .
Currently
–Good–
English
Finnish
Russian
Persian
Pashto
— not fluent —
Urdu – Hindi ( was fluent when i was a kid but forgot almost nowadays )
Arabic
Deutsch ( used to work on ebay germany )
— Want to Learn —
Japanese and maybe French ( romantic language )
By: Canpark - 28th March 2007 at 18:43
Started teaching English to people in non-UK countries and some in return are teaching me their native languages so that’s Turkish, Korean, Vietnamese and Polish
Do you find VietNamese hard?? especially with all those syllables and italics?
By: heslop01 - 28th March 2007 at 18:35
Spanish is quite easy to grasp once you learn all the rules.
Started teaching English to people in non-UK countries and some in return are teaching me their native languages so that’s Turkish, Korean, Vietnamese and Polish
By: Merlock - 27th March 2007 at 19:55
Wow! I just read your records, guys, and I really feel dumb with my poor grasp on the english language, my even poorer grasp on german, and my beginner’s basics in Spanish… nothing more. ๐ฎ
But, hey, properly teaching foreign languages doesn’t seem to be a priority in the French shooling system!! ๐ก
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Ultimate fighters
By: PLA-MKII - 27th March 2007 at 18:38
I speak the following fluently:
Bengali (mother tongue)
English
Hindi/Urdu
I understand Punjabi, I can make out what people are generally saying in Pushto, I knew a good deal of French but recon I forgot a good deal ๐ That’s another problem with my Pushto and Punjabi.
I can speak a bit of Chinese and am currently teaching myself Mandarin.
Oh and I can read arabic and know a hand full of words and phrases.
I’m really looking to learn Manadarin as fast as I can as I’m going on a trip to China this summer!
By: heslop01 - 23rd March 2007 at 17:16
For all your languages needs
By: heslop01 - 17th March 2007 at 17:50
I find Russian very simple, once you master the cylliric alphabet then it’s easy work from there
By: keltic - 17th March 2007 at 09:35
Appart from Spanish of course. Galician (local regional language) 90% similar to Portuguese, English, German, Italian and a little French. I need refreshing them all, and starting new things. I started Russian but found it too hard.
By: pesho - 16th March 2007 at 10:48
Flex,just a question.Have you ever been in Bulgaria?Lot of people from Poland,Slovakia and Czech republic come spend their holidays here,and boy this summer will be hot!
By: philgatwick05 - 14th March 2007 at 18:22
On this topic, did a mock German AS Oral today on “Germany and the European Union”…
Got an A!!!!!:D:D:D
Einfach Wunderschรถn!
By: tomfellows - 13th March 2007 at 17:59
Languages are so important to learn, I believe, so I’m glad the UK goverment is making them compulsory for Primary School pupils. I still think they should make at least one MFL compulsory to GCSE level, though.
I’m studying German A-Level at the moment, like philgatwick05, and did French to GCSE. Both achieved at A* level. Regrettably I haven’t used my French since then so I guess my knowledge of it has started to fade, but German is fab!
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