Do you know when to capitalize?

Question

Many here don't, but for those who are native English speakers and are learning another language:
Do you often find yourself capitalizing as in English?
For example, days of the week, language names, the pronoun for first person singular...
Is it odd for you to use lower case letters in those cases?
Is it easy for you to remember it?

Answer 1

When I first started learning French, it was a tad challenging, but now I'm just used to both languages having different rules. I never actually found myself capitalizing when I wasn't supposed to, but I did have to think about it before writing as opposed to English where I can just write. So, I guess it can take some getting used to after English, but all languages have their differences and this is just another one like any other.

Answer 2

Actually the opposite happens with me. I always find capitalising days, months, genitive adjectives in Spanish. Sometimes, structures get confusing, you know, because your mind follows the least effort principle and the first thing that surfacing in my mind is the easiest structure to represent the meaning I want to convey so I've found myself saying incoherent things in Spanish and, when I was younger, in English. Probably, some of this I'm saying isn't written in a very good English too. ;)

Answer 3

im learning english french german italian n portuguish at the same time n all by my self i agree with gabriel garcia marquez who is a colombian literatur nobel prize who sais orthograph most disapear i try to lern it but dont worry much bout it i hope u understand my terrible english and no capitalizin 5 lenguages is a hard work hug from the ecuador line.

Answer 4

I speak Japanese. You can't capitalize when you're working in the characters (kanji) or the syllabaries (hiragana and katakana) but I sometimes find myself capitalizing as I would in English when I use the English alphabet (Romaji).

Maggie

Answer 5

It depends. When I'm writing in Polish, I capitalize too much. When I'm writing in German, sometimes I forget to capitalize as often as I should (because ALL German nouns are capitalized).