How did I become multilingual?
2007-02-15 04:05:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
My native language is U.S. English. I learned Esperanto from a book, "Teach Yourself Esperanto", in about 18 months. (I went very slowly to try to learn it in depth). I was conversational in 3-4 months, fluent inside of 2 years.
After learning Esperanto, I went through a three year Spanish Curriculum in a little more than one year, then spent a year and a half on a German course, but didn't complete it.
At the end of that, I knew Esperanto much better than either of the other two languages. I'm fluent in Esperanto, but barely conversational in Spanish, and not really conversational in German.
2007-02-15 04:12:05 · answer #1 · answered by rbwtexan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I taught myself at the age of 15 with a lot of determintaion and then dropped out of school at 16 to get marrried and moved to mexico. Seriously true story. I lived there for 2 years and then have been speaking it ever since. Now I am teaching myself Hindi and hope to learn all the street forms of arabic which will take a while. But frist I want to learn hindi. I also want to learn my native tongue which is Polish. My great great grandpa came here as a refugee during the war.
2007-02-15 06:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by O man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started my hobby with learning English and German. Then I went to the university where I studied Dutch. In the meantime I also learned Italian, French and Spanish and Portuguese. After graduating from the university I learned Norwegian, Swedish, some Swahili. Now I'm learning Russian. (I'm listening to the news now) I'm a native speaker of Polish. In the future I'm gonna learn Turkish and Finnish. It's great fun. I used different methods of learning. Reading newspapers and books, listening to radio news, watching TV programs, talking to people. Now I'm learning Russian with audio MP3 and e-books. I also use TV.
2007-02-15 04:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by turbo speak engine ver. 12 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EAsy living in a different countryl I became tri-lingual. Now I am learning on my own Hebrew. Cause I alway been fascinated by the languages. And with the help from the internet this is just possible to do it on your own.
2007-02-15 04:12:29 · answer #4 · answered by angelikabertrand64 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned spanish by watching novelas or soap operas and I also studied some at school. I learned English by coming to this country 11 years ago. I learned Russian because I was born there lol.
2007-02-15 13:28:01 · answer #5 · answered by justagirl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've lived in dif countries
Argentina
Mexico
Grmany
England
Italy
& Swiss
2007-02-15 05:39:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
with the computer, you can learn any major language in the world for free. try this site out http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr... or this one http://www.freelang.net . these two programs are free and will allow you to write anything to anyone in any major language for ... free
2007-02-15 04:15:01 · answer #7 · answered by soccertom1026 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋