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I started learning German at high school, then left it for years until about last October when I picked up where I left off. I am nowhere near fluent in it still, but I can figure out the gist of sentances and communicate my general intentions with what I have so far. I bought one of those Michel Thomas audio courses which really helped me pick up what I'd done at school - if I ever need to learn a different language in the future I will definately get one of his courses.
I've found that it doesn't help that my short-term memory is not very good though - especially when learning vocabulary. I have to build and write down sentances using each verb form, etc, and go over each a few times to get it to stick past a few hours which is really time consuming. Is this normal?
Still, I am always improving and it has definately been worthwhile. Now I can understand most of the less-complex Rammstein songs I've been listening to for years.
Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen
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Cool! I think I've got to learn at least 2 European languages before my language-leaning brain-portions get stale, and French and German are the two most obvious choices.
At one time, I believe it was fashionable to use French in English literature, not sure of German though.
Nish
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Learning Korean
Great fun and pretty easy
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