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Old May 15, 2018, 07:46 AM
ArcheM ArcheM is offline
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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose View Post
So today I was playing around with Duolingo, besides going back through the German course for a second time to help with memorization. I was also going through the first few lessons in Dutch and Spansish. Dutch is pretty easy now that I have a base in German, plus Dutch shares a couple words with English, "water" being one, and "man" being another. And some words aren't too different from German either, maybe different spellings but similar pronunciations. So I kind of like Dutch as a language.

Spanish on the other hand was a little difficult, I don't remember much of anything, butbwas able tonfugure out the phrases and words pretty okay, not very well though. I wish I remembered my Spanish, Hell I wish Inwould have payed more attention in school in my Spanish classes, I took two years, Inshould have remembered something, but alas I didn't. I do have a facebook friend whonspeaks Spanish who is willing to help if and when I decide to learn Spamishbagain, except it will be a different dialect from Mexican Spanish as he is from Venezuela, but it shouldn't be too much of a difference or problem, it's still Spanish.

I will say say languages are interesting, I've felt that way for a few years now, having originally listened to songs in Finnish, but Inswitiched to German for my music (though I still have a couple songs in Finnish in my playlist on Spotify) there is also a song by Bon Jovi his song "I'll Be there for You" has a Spanish version and it is a lot better than the English version, Inhave the Spanish version on my mp3 player, and the only way I understand it is because I memorized the English version.

If it wasn't for a Facebook post about not judging a person who speaks broken English, I would have never decided to learn another language at all (though I did start thinking about it in the beginning of 2017, just lost motivation, but now I'm motivated).
I'll take you at your word, but to me it sounds instead that you're kind of bored with German, which is why you're looking at other languages. I'm not criticizing, though, it just kind of feels like things don't match up.

And I wouldn't be so quick to lump Venezuelan and Mexican Spanish together. Well, they're going to have serious differences in pronunciation - that's for sure. But they may also differ in pronouns. Although I haven't looked at Venezuela, I know for example that in the Argentinian dialect there's a pronoun that doesn't exist either in Spain or Mexico... And then you're going to encounter idioms, misuse of which, as I understand, leads to comical misunderstandings more often than not, because Spanish-speaking countries are strangely fond of applying formerly innocent words to obscene activities, regionally, while in other countries those words remain "clean".
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