O.K. I really wnat to learn French ,and Japanese ,but I know how handy Spanish is and how many people know it.Also people say to learn spanish before other languages if your english. Why? Wouldn't that just make it longer until I learn French and Japanese. The languages I really want to learn. I want to learn french because I want to volunteer in French speaking countries (Africa).I am part Japanese and I hear my grandma speaking it all the time, unfortunately she hates me( really) so she never taught me, but I have picked up and the pronunciation comes easily to me, where as French is pretty differant.Anyways I want to learn French first but if learning spanish first would help than I'll do it.I want to know all three anyways, but French and Japanese take priority.Please ,your professional advice or personal experience is welcome.Sorry for all the I and ME stuff ,but I want to learn to help people, and go to differant worlds.
THX Reader mama.I don't know if I can handle three languages at once however, my head would explode.
I want to learn those languages too!
Are you in school? Well if you are, I suggest learning Spanish first. Spanish is extremely useful in the United States, and you would do better with it if your doing work for people, such as a social worker or a doctor. If you can, take a French class, or if you know someone who is fluent in French, ask for help. For me it's the other way around–I'm taking French and then getting help for Spanish.
Really, they aren't all the harder from each other, but I think French is a little harder because you don't normal see things French in the United States. If your taking Spanish, read anything Spanish you can find–a newspaper, a Spanish translation of your favorite books, watch Telemundo, anything to help you absorb the language a little quickly and get the pronounciation down to pat.
Now Japanese is a whole different thing. Japanese is SO different from Spanish and French, which are both Latin-based. It involves a whole different system of writing and even different sentence formation. In Japanese a sentence goes Subject-object-verb, as opposed to Subject-verb-object in English. For that, I encourage taking classes. Or ask for help from your grandmother. I'm sure she doesn't hate you that much, and it won't hurt to try. Pick up the book from the bookstore, Japanese the Manga Way, though I am not sure the author, it really helped me, like, A LOT. It also won't hurt to visit some of countries speaking these languages, like Mexico and Canada and Japan, of course. And the best thing is to KEEP PRACTICING and NEVER GIVE UP. It takes a lot of effort to learn a whole different language, and, trust me, it will be worth it when you finally master all three.
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because spanish is probrally the easiest as well as the most handy. i basically taught meself spanish through .tv and music and spending hours translating songs. i dont know about japanese or french, sorry.
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I don't know what to tell you, except that I've found it hard personally to learn French and Spanish, mainly because the pronounciation rules are so different. Spanish, you pronounce all vowels very distinctly; French, there are lots of silent letters. I found it easy to learn French…but then I started learning Spanish simultaneously and I can't speak French at all now. My advice to you is to go in any order you like…and definitely learn Japanese. It is a cool language, and not related to Latin, so it will be a nice challenge.
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i think u should learn conversational spanish, since its a universal language and by learning spanish u could relate simmilar words in italian, portugese and french. now, the grammatical spanish its very hard to learn, unless u want to read in spanish, i recommend u skip it.
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I want to learn those languages too!
Are you in school? Well if you are, I suggest learning Spanish first. Spanish is extremely useful in the United States, and you would do better with it if your doing work for people, such as a social worker or a doctor. If you can, take a French class, or if you know someone who is fluent in French, ask for help. For me it's the other way around–I'm taking French and then getting help for Spanish.
Really, they aren't all the harder from each other, but I think French is a little harder because you don't normal see things French in the United States. If your taking Spanish, read anything Spanish you can find–a newspaper, a Spanish translation of your favorite books, watch Telemundo, anything to help you absorb the language a little quickly and get the pronounciation down to pat.
Now Japanese is a whole different thing. Japanese is SO different from Spanish and French, which are both Latin-based. It involves a whole different system of writing and even different sentence formation. In Japanese a sentence goes Subject-object-verb, as opposed to Subject-verb-object in English. For that, I encourage taking classes. Or ask for help from your grandmother. I'm sure she doesn't hate you that much, and it won't hurt to try. Pick up the book from the bookstore, Japanese the Manga Way, though I am not sure the author, it really helped me, like, A LOT. It also won't hurt to visit some of countries speaking these languages, like Mexico and Canada and Japan, of course. And the best thing is to KEEP PRACTICING and NEVER GIVE UP. It takes a lot of effort to learn a whole different language, and, trust me, it will be worth it when you finally master all three.
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Learning French, Spanish, and Japanese
Learn French or Spanish first. Since they are both Latin based languages, once you learn one, it will be quite easy to learn the other (I know from personal experience). Not Japanese…save that for last. It has ZERO connection to the other two, so it will be hardest. I guess you can attempt to learn the three simultaneously, but it may end up causing more confusion. Also, not that it takes 6-8 years to become functionally fluent in a language. I've been learning French for five and I'm just now getting comfy around native speakers. I've only been learning Spanish for three and since I learned French first, I've picked it up fairly quickly. I suggest going to Amazon.com and finding some elementary level textbooks. When you get basic syntax and whatnot down, then start buying French or Spanish language magazines, children's books, etc. and watching television shows in the language. One thing that helps me is listening to French music.
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Comptez-vous travailler au Senegal ou Maroc? Vous devez visiter en France! C'est tres belle et je sais que vous la adorerez!
Speaker of French, Spanish, and English. Learner of Italian.