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Where can I learn/speak Portuguese on a college student budget in Atlanta?

July 14, 2010 - 7:54 am 1 Comment

I need to learn and speak the language with people & I need to do it cheaply.

Find a Portuguese or Brazilian girl/boyfriend.
That’s the quickest way to learn.

LEARN TO SPEAK SHONA -HOW TO SAY “WHAT’S UP ” IN SHONA // ZIMBABWE KID

July 12, 2010 - 10:58 pm 4 Comments

LEARN TO SPEAK SHONA -HOW TO SAY “WHAT’S UP ” IN SHONA // ZIMBABWE KID

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I would like to know the best way to learn spoken Colloquial Arabic,pls suggest?

July 11, 2010 - 9:39 am 1 Comment

If there is a website that I can learn from , I watch English movies with Arabic subtitles, does that help?
How to say in Slang Arabic 1) My name is Faisal but my friends call me Faisoo

i use arabicpod.net, it’s really good

Is it realistic for a college student to learn to speak Arabic or Hebrew reasonably well?

July 8, 2010 - 12:11 pm 6 Comments

I speak English fluently as a native speaker and know some Spanish (studying and developing my fluency in it), but in college I want to try and learn a Middle Eastern language such as Farsi or Hebrew or Arabic. I know I’ll never learn to speak it fluently, or understand it in the way a native would, but is it reasonable to learn to be able to communicate and understand the language effectively?

That’s reasonable and quite useful if you know another language, no matter how native-like you’ll become at the end of the day. For learning a foreign language, the first goal that you would have is being able to express yourself and being understood (accent? no matter at all!). The next stage would be working on your speed and grammar. Never assume that you need be native-like so that the native speakers understand you, or accept you.
However, there are two points here: 1) What is your REAL goal (call it "motivation") for learning a, say, Middle Eastern language? I see that you haven’t even decided on which language exactly you like to learn. Do you like to travel there (quite different countries are there: Iran is geographically and historically the most fascinating country in that region, Arab states are trying to modernise their outside appearance, and Israel is already a modern country scientifically). Do you like to read their literature? Do you like to work there? Are you interested in their cultures? … If you don’t have a strong motivation, you will not succeed to learn that language in the long run.
2) how much learning stuff do you have at hand? Do you have any software, book, film, etc? And, how much exposure do you have to the native speakers of those languages? No exposure means no real learning environment, and that means no real learning.
Finally, I repeat my words, it is very useful to learn another language (at least you won’t lose anything), but it is motivation and amount of exposure that count.
Good luck with it! :)

Edit:
Just to correct a few things Rumaitha said,
1) Farsi (Persian) is an Indo-European language not Semitic. It has many words and word roots in common with European languages.
2) Letters are out of question here, because the writing systems used in those languages are different to the Latin writing system used in English.
3)Talking about "sounds", Arabic has six vowels, and 28 consonants (9 of which don’t exist in English, but lack 4 English sounds), while Persian has 6 vowels and 21 consonants, only 2 of which are absent in English, and the 2 "th" sounds of English are not present in Persian. Unfortunately I’m not informative enough about Hebrew.
4) English is among the few languages which don’t have verb conjugations regarding "person" (except for third person singular). On the other hand, most of other languages, from Latin languages, Germanic, Iranian, Semitic to African languages have complex conjugations for every person.
5) Farsi has no grammatical distinction for gender.
6) The Grammar Structure given by her is correct only for Arabic, not Farsi (and most probably Hebrew).

How to talk like a pirate

July 8, 2010 - 7:13 am 25 Comments

Just in time for Talk like a Pirate Day.

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How do I learn to speak with a British accent?

July 5, 2010 - 9:43 pm 9 Comments

I want to learn to speak with a British accent to help broaden the types of acting roles I can get. How can I learn to speak like that well? Nothing exaggerated or "cockneyed"… just everyday speech?

Watch refined British actors in interviews and movies. Watch documentaries of the Queen of England and her speeches. Watch Tony Blair and the speakers in Parliament. You can also buy audio tapes that go through vocal exercises. Although if you haven’t had phonetics book that comes with the tapes might be a little confusing for you.

Learn to Speak Hebrew – Lesson 7 Meals and Food

July 4, 2010 - 4:22 am 25 Comments

Example lesson. Please visit http://hebrewpodcasts.com for more lessons. In this lesson we’ll speak with Noa about her meals and what she likes to eat for breakfast, lunch, and supper. The dialog introduces vocabulary related to meals, food and drinks. We’ll also learn how to say usually and sometimes.

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What is the fastest and easiest way to learn to speak spanish?

July 3, 2010 - 1:58 am 4 Comments

I know some basic spanish words, and I would like to be able to speak spanish within the next 3 months. Does anybody know how I can learn to speak spanish fluently within 3 months? Thanks so much!

total immersion

How can I learn to speak French and German fluently?

June 30, 2010 - 5:46 am 5 Comments

I love French and German and I spend nearly every minute of my spare time trying to learn the languages. At school I have 3 hours of language lessons a week, but this is not enough. I don’t want to meet anybody to talk to or have to pay for lessons. I just want a way that I can speak the languages with more ease. Thanks.

This is an interesting question, this is the same question that i make to myself! and my teacher says me that i only have to practice infront of the mirror, or the best way is listening and singing the music that you like, in frech and german ofcourse. Other way is watch movies in these languages. it could be very funny!.
Well, have a nice day.

Learn Chinese – Speak Mandarin – BCTV – Name & Nationality

June 29, 2010 - 4:21 am 25 Comments

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