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    I speak Estonian (my native language), English (6th year of English in school) and Russian a bit (3rd year).
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    My native language is Serbian, But i've learned English, as you can see.
    lu lu lu I've got some apples lu lu lu You've got some too lu lu lu Let's make some applesauce Take off our clothes and lu lu lu

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    Does anyone speak Russian?
    Yeah... about 280 million people...
    I am sure I will never get right is the der/die/das (word genders) almost everyone I have spoken to about it says you learn the common ones but to get it right almost all the time you have to be a native speaker.
    It depends... Then you go from using 6 tenses to just four - It's no so complex...
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    There are no genders in Estonian.
    Last edited by maxorator; 11-14-2006 at 06:36 AM.
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    Ok-ok, I also know about thing that can be found in German but has no equivalent in russian... (I mean 3 past times)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark_Phoenix
    Yeah, I have always heard that English is a very difficult language to learn for people not born in America.
    Yeah, those Brits have a really hard time with English

    Of course, we don't exacly speak English either...
    That's the thing, of course. English isn't any easier for you - you just don't bother
    All the buzzt!
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    I didn't have any problems with learning English. I'd not consider it an hard language to learn. It sure helps one is bombarded by it from everywhere, from TV to magazines and books and the internet. But when I was studying it in school, there wasn't that much exposure to the english language as there is nowadays. And yet, the learning process still wasn't that hard.

    Now, French? That's an hard language to speak correctly. At least for me.

    Currently I'm seriously considering learning Japanese. That, for some reason I can't explain, was always my dream language. Always wanted to learn it. I simply love the way it sounds. There's a school nearby where I can learn it. Price is fair and they promise all the way to level 5.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    I speak English. Yeah.
    I failed German when I was in school and never had the chance to learn French (not that I want too, but I guess I may need to some day)
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    Yeah, I have always heard that English is a very difficult language to learn for people not born in America.
    Actually that's not true. I'd say it was quite easy for me.
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    I know english. Ma fran&#231;ais est tr&#232;s terrible.
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    off topic:GO MANUTD!!! they will surely win the premiership!
    on topic: i studied french for 2 years... je m'appelle &#167;&#225;&#223;&#248;†&#230;™. Thats the only thing that i can remember T_T. French is really confusin coz they have feminin and masculin nouns or w/e. u speak spanish? cool...what does "tontos" mean? some guy in desperado the game says that word a lot...

    o dam i didn know that page 2-4 existed...
    Quote Originally Posted by g4j31a5
    I can speak the national language, Indonesia, and English. Also a little Japanese. I had passed Noryoku Shiken (like a TOEFL for Japanese) level 4 (the lowest level) with a little over the passing boundary (67%) a few years ago. Forgot most of 'em now.
    can u speak indonesian language fluently? i can speak it a bit...apa kabar?
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    FWIW: I found spanish to be much easier to learn than Japanese. Japanese is nice because the rules are so well defined and there are very few deviations (in "proper" japanese anyway). Spanish is nice and easy because of the similarities to english.

    I studied japanese for a year in uni, but I haven't kept up with it in the past few years. I've been learning Spanish for a year or so now and I can carry on basic conversations and understand most of what i hear from native speakers. I have a great resource (as in living people) to help me with spanish so that might be why i found it easier to learn.

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    Yes, I don't think it will be easy considering I will have very few people to talk to in Japanese. However, I can for sure practice the writting on japanese based newsgroups and forums.

    Spanish doesn't interest me as I can mostly understand it all (Portuguese and Spanish are sister languages).
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    You should learn spanish so that u can flirt with latino chicks...the ones who dont speak english anyway...

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