Language

What I mean about learning is learning in general. If you think it happens in different ages please specify exactly what they learn most at that age.

I think Ideal Stage for learning in general is learn what you like and what you interesting to know more about it if you see any thing in life and say i want to know more about it that’s very good begin for learning, the most famous scientist start with question what is that and why it do that or how it work i want to know more then they get to the stage they do a theory in the thing they like and ready to know more and more about it every day

GOA is the smallest state in india,Panjim is the capital.
Area: 5,207 sq km (1.69 % of the state)

Adjoining districts: North: Ratnagiri; east: Kolhapur; south: Goa; west: Arabian Sea

Major urban centres: Sawantwadi, Vengurla, Malvan, Kudal

Population: 861,672

Density of population (persons/sq km): 165

Men: 414,900

Women: 446,772

Total rural population: 779,287
Total urban population: 82,385

language spoken:-goani/portugal

I’m planning to get my TESL certificate soon because my dream is work abroad in Latin America and teach English. I’ve only been to Mexico many times and I absolutely love it there, right now it is my first choice. However, which other countiees would you recommend? I know intermmediate
Spanish which is I prefer to work in a spanish speaking country. Thanks !

Latin America is a very diverse continent, with different cuisine, architecture, culture, and landscapes. You will enjoy a very tropical experience in places like Costa Rica or Mexico, and bare with the cold during the winter in Argentina or Chile. Wages are similar in every country. You can visit www.freetefljobplacement.com for more information.

How many languages do you speak? What is the maximum number of languages you personally know a person speak? What is the record for the most languages spoken by a single person?
SO CURIOUS: I speak three languages somewhat fluently and a little of two more.

- Francisco Valdomiro Lorenz born 1872, dead 1944, spoke 189 languages.
- Carlos Amaral, claims to speak 170 languages.
- Ziad Fazah born June 10, 1954, claims to speak 58 languages.
- Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774-1849), Italian ecclesiast, is reported to have spoken thirty-eight languages and fifty dialects fluently.
- Emil Krebs German sinologist (1867-1930). Spoke 68 languages fluently, and understood more than 50 further languages.
- Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val, was said to speak up to 63 languages and dialects.
- Kenneth Hale (1934-2001), MIT linguistics professor (over 50 languages)
- Rolf Theil Endresen, Norwegian linguistics professor (over 50 languages)
- Georg Sauerwein(1831-1904), German linguist (over 50 languages)
- The German Francis Sommer, who died in 1978, was said to be fluent in 94 languages.
- Carlos do Amaral Freire has mastered more than a hundred languages, published translations from 60 languages, but is a fluent speaker of 90. He still studies one or two new languages every two years.
- Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807-1874) reportedly was fluent in eighty languages.
- Uku Masing (1909-1985), an Estonian linguist, theologian, ethnologist, and poet who was fluent in approximately 65 languages and translated from 20.
- Istvan Dabi, Hungarian translator, translated from 103 languages
- Sir William Jones (1746-1794), British philologist – reported to speak forty-one languages.
- Robert Stiller – Polish, speaks about 60 languages
- Harold Williams, New Zealand journalist and linguist, spoke over 58 languages.
- Andrzej Gawroski (1885 – 1927) – Polish linguist, professor of Jagiellonian University and Lviv University, could speak and write in 40 languages, understood and could read in about 100.

i’m fluent in greek and it took me about 2 to 3 years to learn english. i love foreign languages and im really good at learning them. i just started learning spanish. i love it! im the first one in my class. how long would it take for me to learn to speak it and understand it perfectly?

2 or 3 years in Greece. 4 or 5 months if you move to Spain.
The good thing for a Greek speaker is that the phonetic systems in Greek and Spanish are very similar so that a Greek might pass as a Spaniard and the other way round if they learn well and if they’re good with languages, as you told it is your case.

I really want to learn french by myself by some sort of computer/cd/book course does anyone know a successful way i know you can buy these packages but do they work and are they worth their money. I am a beginner (can speak basic that you would learn in year
try first this free website: http://freefrench.frenchspanishonline.com with mp3 files

I want to learn french as my language for school, but I want to know some words before I do take it. I can’t find a web site that has it written and has it audibly said. If you can find something that could help me that would be great! Thanks!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french

This will give loads of help with videos and text, and it’s free.

My girlfriend has played classical violin for years, and recently expressed interest in learning some Irish Fiddle type music. What’s the best way for her to learn this new style and some songs? Is there a recommended book/CD? Or should she just try and learn some songs by ear?

Thanks.
My girlfriend has played classical violin for years, and recently expressed interest in learning how to play Irish Fiddle. Can anyone recommend a good book/CD combo for this?

A) your girlfriend rocks for wanting to experiment B) this book is phenomenal: "The Contemporary Violinist" by Julie Lyonn Lieberman (you can find it on Amazon for appx. $25). The book addresses a number of fiddling styles (ex. traditional American fiddling, Celtic/Irish fiddling, bluegrass, etc.), how to create their unique sounds, and provides a fully notated example of each (which is hard to find in the fiddling realm). It also includes interviews with famous artists within each genre, additional resources for research/learning (web addresses and whatnot), as well as a CD containing all of the fiddling peaces in the book performed live (because being able to hear any sort of fiddling peace is incredibly valuable)

Hope this helps and good luck!

I live near a big Chassidic/Hasidic Jewish community in New York and they always speak Yiddish. I’m interested in learning about their teachings and maybe becoming Hasidic. But how can I learn how to speak Yiddish to communicate like they do together? What is the best way to learn to speak it? I’m a secular Jew interested in becoming more religious.

one way is to take classes at a college or through something like the 92nd street Y, or through a private tutor. the other way is immersion. live amongst them and pick it up as you go along. i think that learning yiddish, though, is separate from any interest in increasing religious observance.

I need to learn german in a year so I can go to Germany with a foreign exchanged student we have this year. I want to stay for a year but I have no clue how to say ANYTHING in German… Any ideas?

Take a class, practice with the foreign exchange student, but don’t expect to be great at German before you get there–you’ll have the chance to improve when you’re there!