My Past-times....

[Prayingmantisqueen]

Here is one of my past-times...

Language learning.

I speak English (obviously) and am currently learning, Hindi, German, and a little Spanish and French (not my main ones..)

Here is a pic of my "Hindi writing" today.... It says:

'Main tumse pyar kartha hoon'

Which means,

'I love you' 

It is the male version tho... I haven't found how to write the female version yet. I use Duolingo to learn.

 

[hysteresis]

That's very cool, @Prayingmantisqueen.

Being multilingual is a great asset, both personally and professionally. 

Plus, it's just plain interesting to learn about cultures and their languages.

Very cool!  

 

[ohaple]

Looks cool! I was always terrible at foreign languages. They never clicked in my head. Now my job requires technical English writing so my foreign language learning has slipped even further.

A friendly correction as part of your language learning: A "pastime" is something you enjoy doing. "Past-time" usually refers to something old-fashioned. "Past time" refers to being late.

Knowing there are so many subtleties in English makes me even more impressed by people that are bilingual+. Keep it up!

If you are working on writing foreign languages, one of the ways to make it more fun is to get a fountain pen with a flex nib or stub nib. It will make your writing look like art without much effort, plus there are nearly infinite colors of ink to choose from. Happy to make suggestions for cheap pens and ink.

 

[Prayingmantisqueen]

"pastime" is something you enjoy doing.

Yeah I surely enjoy it.

The pen idea is a good thought!

 

[MantisGirl13]

Very cool! I am learning spanish and ASL, but ASL is hard because I don't have a real teacher other than the internet! 

- MantisGirl13

 

[Prayingmantisqueen]

Oh wow. I dont ever practice spanish or French just mostly German and I guess Hindi or Hebrew.

 

[agent A]

the only foreign language words i know are vulgar

 

[Graceface]

the only foreign language words i know are vulgar

Those are the most fun ones!

 

[Mantis Lady]

the only foreign language words i know are vulgar

hehehee

I speak only dutch and english. (foreign) Never thought to learn another one.

 

[hysteresis]

English and spanish.

Only a tiny bit of french I remember from school. 

 

[Prayingmantisqueen]

speak only dutch and english. (foreign) Never thought to learn another one.

Nice! Dutch was on my list a couple of times.

English and spanish.

Only a tiny bit of french I remember from school. 

Even those ones make you bilingual tho! Better than I am at this point.

 

[Prayingmantisqueen]

speak only dutch and english. (foreign) Never thought to learn another one.

I always wondered since you were from the Netherlands if you spoke another language and English, very cool!!!

 

[Mantis Lady]

I always wondered since you were from the Netherlands if you spoke another language and English, very cool!!!

I got German and French at school too, but never learend it actively like english, I can understand German a bit, but can't speak it.

 

[hysteresis]

I got German and French at school too, but never learend it actively like english, I can understand German a bit, but can't speak it.

All the Europeans I know speak at least two languages. Commonly, they say they only speak a bit, but truth is they speak the other languages extremely well. 

 

[Prayingmantisqueen]

I got German and French at school too, but never learend it actively like english, I can understand German a bit, but can't speak it.

German and dutch are similar

 

[Cole 78]

English (duh), can speak and sorta read and write Urdu, can read Arabic very fluently, am still learning to speak it. I am also learning Spanish. I have a special skill-set when it comes to words you shouldn’t say. I would make a sailor blush.

 

[Mantis Lady]

German and dutch are similar

Moah, there is a lot of difference beween the 2 languages. Maybe it sounds similar.

All the Europeans I know speak at least two languages.

Think that is for most Europeans, i think. But some of the Frence don't speak any word english. Then it is hard to communicate. But the young there speak at least a bit english. And that is a good.

 

[Prayingmantisqueen]

Dutch to German...

Jonge or Junge

Melk or milch

Some words are similar.... Others too I just cannot remember spellings right now. 

German...

Guten abend, wie gehts? Ich bin sehr gut! 

 

[Prayingmantisqueen]

can read Arabic very fluently, 

Lucky you! Where did you learn it/where are you from?