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By: pahfahAccerma

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By: rags

rags — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:37:11 +0000

good luck on your learning. I am trying to learn Spanish. It apparently is over-writing on my stupidity.

By: Mwangi - the Displaced African

Mwangi - the Displaced African — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:12:42 +0000

Perhaps once u r a German linguistic master you can write a short post on wat the elements of gr8 language learning are. I ask this because what I most feared finally happened…I can’t understand Kikuyu at all. Anytime I hear Kikuyu it’s like I’m listening to a language I could once get. Apparently there is a Kikuyu school somewhere in Kenya and I have full intention of going there and becoming a Kikuyu literary genius. Here’s a little article I stumbled upon a while back, hope it’s of some use to you: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/11/07/how-to-learn-but-not-master-any-language-in-1-hour-plus-a-favor/

By: Mo Ma

Mo Ma — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:54:52 +0000

My Somali is being overwritten by Malay! Whats with this overwriting stuff!? And another thing, I dont know if its the same for Kenyans everywhere but I never find it hard to speak words from other languages in their original accents. I know only a few phrases from the following languages but Ive been told I have excellent Finnish and Burmese accents and as for Malay, Ive been told I have a better accent than some locals!

But dont even get me started on Cantonese. I sound like I’m caterwauling when I attempt it…but, in all fairness, that’s what fluent speakers sound like too to my ears.

By: prou

prou — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:40:53 +0000

Bonne chance with German.
Free education that is wonderful; I wonder how the Swiss pay for it?

merci. with zero corruption, I suppose taxes are used for what they are intended for. Kenya is a few light years away. Perhaps one day we will get there. And don’t get me started on free primary education in Kenya, Ialready know about that one.

By: Half n Half

Half n Half — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:08:34 +0000

I studied german in school, but promptly forgot it the minute I left school, then in india i learnt hindu, which went out the minute i went to sudan and learnt arabic. But when i came to swiss and no one would speak english to me, i sort of remembered some words for as you say “kuomba maji” Good luck to you!

Wow, Arabic!! You probably haven’t forgotten per se. It is just somewhere in the back and would need alittle dusting up. Also, when you have no one to speak it with, it can ‘disappear’…

By: seinlife

seinlife — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:15:08 +0000

I took French for six year(2yrs in primary + 4 yrs of high school)…(yup 6) – got zilch out of it! If you left me in Paris today – am screwed big time! My sis on the other hand speaks fluent german, french + japanese….am thinking she got the special gene you all have……
I have recently started teaching myself spanish….but i think that segment of my brain is corrupted or something…

btw – when my hostile womb is ready to release some babies am coming to switz…..free education? swwweeeet

good luck with deutsche…

Ahem, am thinking of something nice to say to you. How about “Try harder” ? Thanks for your visits on mine. Will drop by your spot sometime…

By: mrembo

mrembo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:53:37 +0000

You asked if Danish is shaping up for me? Well it is. The spoken, reading and listening part is doing really well. I can watch the news and get the hang of it. If I concentrate really hard then I will understand it almost word for word (about 80%).

Writing danish is kicking my butt. I am actually redoing the basic grammar. I have been out of danish school for a year so my grammar has suffered terribly.. it is coming along slowly.. I have 3 work books that I have complete …..I’m now trying to fit it in between my homework, baby, housekeeping and all the stuff that comes with running a home.

PS. you are able to answer within the answer… that is not happening for me.. ebu let me look at wordpress again. These days I am always in a hurry when blogging.

That’s great! Keep up. I found that just actively listening to German helps. The interesting thing is that writing comes much easier for me. We were given a passage to read, then the teacher dictated for us to write it out, I got everything right. But i have a lot of work to do, especially on building my vocabularly. Whenever I am in the train or doing my hair, I have this little book of German- English words that I go cramming

By: 31337

31337 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:56:02 +0000

its all greek to me. i swear i studied french, no idea what overwrote it, probably it was located on a bad sector.

lol. Tell you what, you might be surprised to find that if you took lessons now, you will be much more receptive in learning a foreign language. It is possible you were focussed on other things that took priority then.

By: Mwananchi Mkenya

Mwananchi Mkenya — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:56:41 +0000

wow!
I”m in admiration. German sounds really hard to me.

I’ve read somewhere that if as a kid you learn more than one language it opens up the neuro-pathways so that you can learn more later. I do feel bad for Americans who only grow up with one language because it does make it very difficult for them to add another later. At least most Kenyans have two between English, Swa and the mothertongue.

Best of luck!

awesome blog by the way!!

Asante, and welcome to my little corner.

I also read that kids can learn and speak, as many as 9 languages! Some things are best planned well in advance