Foreign language

[songofsixpence]

learning to say Chinese isn't too bad, the pronunciation isn't too hard (of course I've only been exposed to large amounts of Taiwan, Beijing, and Nanjing dialects)

learning to speak Chinese is another matter, so many varied levels of shading, so many ways to allude to stuff without saying it. it's definitely not a language you can learn to speak well unless you're gifted or started young.

[TheNewGuy]

in swedish, the words themselves are not that bad, many of the are related to english, but our grammar is a joke. it IS the worst in the world.

[Dizz]

Took three years of spanish in High School' date=' so now I speak pidgeon spanish. Some sort of english/spanish hybrid I use without thinking now.[/quote']

It's called Spanglish.

I took 2 years of spanish in HS. I then went to Paraguay as an exchange student for the summer and then came back and took 1 more year. I got fairly good at it considering my vocabulary stunk, my pronounciation was good and my conjugation fair.

[Deykari]

Well' date=' I'm swedish, so I started studying english when I was like, 8 or 9 years old. All swedes does, because swedish is a small langauge so we need to. So, Dey, you would be fine with spanish in sweden, because you know english, too. [/quote']

Grrr. You're meant to keep the part about my being wrong, quiet.

Dey

[TheNewGuy]

you're only half wrong. you are right about the fact that spanish would be useless in sweden.