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LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE
The traditional way to learn a language is growing up in a community of people who speak the language. However today, more and more people are choosing to learn a new language.
REASONS TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE
- To enable you to talk to a friend, distant family member, or loved one who speaks another language.
- To enable you to meet new friends who speak another language, or broaden your horizons and delve into other cultures through language.
- To diversify your job prospects. Speaking another language could put you ahead of another job seeker or ahead of the competition in a promotion as an extra skill that could have direct benefits.
- It's fun. Many people just love the fun of learning a new language and the opportunities it can bring
HOW TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE
Some of the best ways to learn a new language include:
- Find a friend, acquaintance or someone you know who speaks the language and discuss learning the language with them, most times they will be more than happy to share their language with you and sometimes you can reciprocate with the finer points of your language.
- Attend cultural centres or centres where people of certain nationalities meet and look into making friends or seeing if they offer language meetings or classes.
- Look into formal learning centres that offer language course or language classes either by attending or via distance learning methods.
- There are many many learning languages book available to buy or to simply borrow from your library.
- Language kits, there are thousands of language kits available to buy on the Internet or from your local bookstores on every language there is to learn. These language kits come in the form for language DVDs, video, tapes or CDs.
- Find people online, via chat rooms, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, MSN messenger that speak the language you want to learn. Even if you cannot learn it here it will provide ample opportunity to practice your chosen language.
LEARN FRENCH
| How to say Hello in French : Salut / allo, bonjour |
The French language has long been one of the most sought after second languages.
French is often referred to as the language of love and is currently spoken by over 120 million in France and the world over.
French language can be difficult to learn because of some of the challenging sounds like the 'r' and the 'u' and also because of the grammar. Its a very precise language with definite rules such as gender.
LEARN SPANISH
| How to say Hello in Spanish language: Hola |
Many people love to visit Spain and thus love to learn the native language of Spanish and engage in their wonderful culture.
There are currently over 390 million Spanish speaking people in the world today.
LEARN JAPANESE
| How to say Hello in Japanese : Ohayoou (Good morning) |
Japanese is an interesting language as their alphabet and way of writing differs vastly to ours (English) using Kanji (ideographs from Chinese characters), Kana (a pair of syllabaries consisting of Hiragana [used for native Japanese words] and Katakana [used for foreign words])
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Difficult to master, Japanese is spoken by more than
123 million people in japan and around the world.
Finally you can read those electronics instruction manuals :)
You will notice that when writing in Japanese that the text runs vertically instead of across the page as you may be used to.
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LEARN CHINESE
| How to say Hello in Chinese : Ni hao (~nee how [Mandarin]) |
Chinese (or the Sinitic languages) are the language of China.
Boasting over 1.3 billion people, you should never be short of finding a friend in which to practice Chinese languages with.
In
mandarin alone there are over 1025 million speakers of the language (all varieties 1200 million).
LEARN ITALIAN
| How to say Hello in Italian : Ciao (~chow) / buon giorno |
Almost everyone knows someone who knows some Italian. It makes you think of pizzas and pastas and all things Italy. It is a very worthwhile language to learn should you take the plunge and visit Italy to see family of just for the love of it.
As much as Italian may be seen as a language of the arts and fine foods its a reasonably easy language to learn.
It shouldn't be hard to find someone to talk Italian with as there is over
55 million Italian speaking people in the world right now.. will you join them? :)
LEARN RUSSIAN
| How to say Hello in Russian : Privet (~pree-vyet) |
You may not see yourself going to Russia anytime soon, but.. Russia itself is becoming more worldly and this means that Russia may very well be coming to you.
You may notice that as Russia becomes more diversified and commercial that more and more Russians are coming online on the Internet and bringing their Russian language with them.
Many of them will speak some level of English but if you can talk with a Russian in the Russian language you open up a world of new possibilities and opportunities. With 250 million Russian speakers and growing all the time its a language to be reckoned with.
LEARN DUTCH
| How to say Hello in Dutch : Hoi |
Dutch is the native language of the Netherlands and is spoken by over 33 million people today.
As The Netherlands / Holland is getting overcrowded there are more and more Dutch speaking people migrating to other parts of the world. Many people may already know someone who speaks Dutch.
Dutch can be relatively easy to learn and even shared some minor similarities to the English language.
LEARN GERMAN
| How to say Hello in German : Guten Tag |
When you think of Germany you might think of world class German car brands or fine engineering or even the German food and beverage culture.
With over
118 million people speaking German today there are a lot of German cultural establishments popping up all over the word.
German can provide some difficulties in learning as the grammar is different to English as well as genders for nouns and references to case in the language.
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LEARN ENGLISH
Of course if you want to learn English you wont be alone with over 328 million people now speaking English in the world you will always find someone to talk with :)
English can prove to be tricky for people of other languages as there are numerous words with similar meaning or spellings and the language rules are varying and sometimes flexible making it very hard to come to terms with when you come from a more strictly ruled language.
I wish you good luck in learning a new language and I know it will open doors of new possibilities and opportunities for you :)
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