Hello all, any language enthusiasts out there ? Who feel there are more languages out there than our typical 3-language boundary and that need to be leaned to understand the world better ?
Then join here and find your kins to practice, discuss and to share and obtain guidance for your linguistic skills ! I personally learned Mandarin for 2 years, but forgot a lot of it because of not using it. Also, I know a little Japanese (got interested by watching those anime and listening to JPop songs ). So, if anyone out there want to keep on practicing, sharing or even want to start learning ..... please step forward and introduce yourself !!
About my knowledge and interests:
Bengali (Mother tongue !!)
English (From school ! )
Hindi (Picked up from TV: can speak/ read, but to write, give me a news paper plix ! )
Mandarin (need practice, forgetting .....)
Japanese (trying to learn)
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I am hoping interested people will find their guide or pupil with this. I will be happy to provide support with whatever little knowledge I have, but I do want to find a guide too.
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I will be using following legend to identify users, if anyone wants on/off the list or a particular legend, please let me know. Bold -> Wants to teach / guide; Italics -> Wants to Learn; Normal -> User
Arabic
chintan786,Liverpool_fan Assamese
Sam,JojoTheDragon Bengali
krishnandu.sarkar,freshseasons,Sam,icebags,Krow Bhojpuri
nims11,Kola2842,dashing.sujay Creole Sam French clmlbx,krishnandu.sarkar,freshseasons,chintan786,Sam,dashing.sujay German
freshseasons,Charan,esumitkumar,dashing.sujay Gujarati
nims11,clmlbx,freshseasons,chintan786,Krow Haryanvi
chintan786, Hindi
nims11,clmlbx,krishnandu.sarkar,freshseasons,chint an786,Charan,abhidev,Sam,esumitkumar,icebags,Krow, axes2t2,Kola2842,ajai5777,Liverpool_fan,JojoTheDra gon,dashing.sujay Italian freshseasons,JojoTheDragon Japanese nims11,freshseasons,icebags,JojoTheDragon Kannada
Charan, Konkani
Charan,abhidev,Krow Korean rhitwick Maithili
Krow Magahi
dashing.sujay Malayalam
ajai5777 Mandarin (Chinese official language) clmlbx,krishnandu.sarkar,freshseasons,Charan,icebags, Marathi
freshseasons,Charan,abhidev,Krow,axes2t2, Nepali
abhidev, Persian
freshseasons, Punjabi
chintan786, Pushtu
chintan786 Sanskrit
nims11,Kola2842,dashing.sujay Spanish krishnandu.sarkar,freshseasons Tamil krishnandu.sarkar,Charan,Krow,ajai5777 Telugu
Charan,rhitwick Oriya
krishnandu.sarkar,Liverpool_fan Urdu krishnandu.sarkar,esumitkumar,
Language learner's starting / reading materials:
I will post here whatever useful materials are posted in this thread. Please suggest them upon someone expresses interest to learn it. Practicing 3 times a week with 2 hrs session each should build up some good base in you in a few months. Please don't hesitate to post here if need answer to any query, just find users from the above list and direct your question toward them.
gujarati
hindi
english
sanskrit (from school)
bhojpuri
very little japanese (from anime) (would love to learn more to avoid looking at the subs most of the time in animes and to play some JRPGs)
and if it counts few programming languages
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Bengali
Hindi
English
and Oriya (Can only understand, actually my dad was posted there and my schooling started at Orissa only, so I used to know this language very well, but after coming to Bengal and lack of practice and all I forgot writing / speaking)
The art to learning the new language is waiting there just till you complete the lessons.It seems pointless at a point especially after few lessons but suddenly trust me it all starts making sense.
Known languages. 1)Bengali
2)Hindi
3)Marathi
4)Gujrati
5)French
6)Mandarin
7)German
8)A Very small amount of Persian enough to make basic conversation but nothing beyond.
Would love to learn
1)Italian
2)Spanish
3)Japanese
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Thanks all, for showing such interests, you have given me inspiration to create the name base and study material base. I hope it will be now easier for anyone to find a partner or reading materials this way.
@nims11,freshseason
Very interested huh ? lets learn together then ? I am following the above mentioned link, its very nice, easy and elaborated - even though Japanese gets very difficult when it comes to advancement in writing. However, speaking part is not that difficult. You will basically have to learn few pages of basic grammar and sentence structure and build up you vocabs through any materials you find. Japanese Pops, animes, mangas are quite popular, so this should not be much of a problem.
When it come to writing/reading, there are 3 kinds of scripts - hiragana, katakana & kanji. Hiragana is like plain English, but has more characters, you can write most Japanese words with this I think. Katakana is same as hiragana, but used to write foreign words, that are not native to Japanese. Kanji is Chinese characters, where one character represent a whole word. i.e. if you know 3,000 different words, then you have to learn 3,000 different kanjis to rite them. It's interesting and difficult, isn't it ? so learn it after you mastered hiragana.
so lets start with these convos :
o hajimete kudasai ! kore hanashiga o mite !
[hajimete - start; kudasai - requesting; kore - these; hanashi - talks; mite - see ]
watashi wa icebags desu ! yoroshiku onegaishimasu. [watashi - I; wa - subject indicator; desu = Hai in hindi, yoroshiku - regard me well, onegaishimasu - please].
wathashi wa salaryman desu.
Go figure the meaning yourselves.
To celebrate the start you may see this inuyasha song ^.^
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Also : Looking for some one skilled in Japanse to learn from, please introduce yourself if you are such person.
@clmlbx,krishnandu.sarkar,freshseasons,Charan
I have added some starting Chinese studymats, see if you like to advance !
@esumitkumar
i like some Rammstein songs too, "Ohne dich" is one of my favourite.
I can speak and understand Marathi, Tamil, Hindi and English. I can understand Bengali (learning to speak it) and a bit of Gujarati and Maithili. Want to learn Konkani.
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It's very similar to Marathi. Some of our words are actually pronounced similar to those in Marathi.
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oK guys we all met here and said what we know and what we wish to learn but does any one has started learning something or know a way to do it.. (online, books) any resources are good. So pls mention what you guys started with and what is best or not, means con and pros of learning in a way you learned..
Frankly speaking I have no Idea where to start learning mandarin and french.. I would much more prefer a book or online way other then language classes.
Frankly speaking I have no Idea where to start learning mandarin and french.. I would much more prefer a book or online way other then language classes.
Rosetta Stone seems to have many favourable reviews. It costs a bomb though.
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Thanks @icebags
Learning Chinese together would be a good idea.
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Frankly speaking I have no Idea where to start learning mandarin and french.. I would much more prefer a book or online way other then language classes.
Hi, krishnandu & clmlbx, i have provided some links to start with, see if you like. Chinese is straight forward language, but not easy to learn.. you will have to memorize a lot of characters and then they speak using tone and a bit in a fast pace, so you will have to work about it a lot.
If you find time to practice 3 times a week with 2 hrs session each, try to sit with a copybook and pencil . This way I hope it will take you to a certain position after 1 year, where Chinese writing will start to look a bit much familiar. You may ask me when you have questions, I will try to answer with whatever little knowledge I have.
@freshseasons
So, you know mandarin right ? would you like to guide interested people in here ?
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Originally Posted by Kola2842
hey i want to learn one (foreign) , Please suggest me with importance...
Prioritize your requirement, what you need it for, job/culture/literature/art ?
@nims11,freshseason
Very interested huh ? lets learn together then ? I am following the above mentioned link, its very nice, easy and elaborated - even though Japanese gets very difficult when it comes to advancement in writing. However, speaking part is not that difficult. You will basically have to learn few pages of basic grammar and sentence structure and build up you vocabs through any materials you find. Japanese Pops, animes, mangas are quite popular, so this should not be much of a problem.
When it come to writing/reading, there are 3 kinds of scripts - hiragana, katakana & kanji. Hiragana is like plain English, but has more characters, you can write most Japanese words with this I think. Katakana is same as hiragana, but used to write foreign words, that are not native to Japanese. Kanji is Chinese characters, where one character represent a whole word. i.e. if you know 3,000 different words, then you have to learn 3,000 different kanjis to rite them. It's interesting and difficult, isn't it ? so learn it after you mastered hiragana.
so lets start with these convos :
o hajimete kudasai ! kore hanashiga o mite !
[hajimete - start; kudasai - requesting; kore - these; hanashi - talks; mite - see ]
watashi wa icebags desu ! yoroshiku onegaishimasu. [watashi - I; wa - subject indicator; desu = Hai in hindi, yoroshiku - regard me well, onegaishimasu - please].
wathashi wa salaryman desu.
Go figure the meaning yourselves.
To celebrate the start you may see this inuyasha song ^.^
Spoiler:
Also : Looking for some one skilled in Japanse to learn from, please introduce yourself if you are such person.
arigato icebags-san.
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