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Mobile - How do you pronounce it and which do you think is correct?

Every time I hear an American pronounce "mobile" I always wonder if I'm wrong in my pronunciation.
Click the links to hear different pronunciations:
1. mō-bī-əl (how I pronounce it)
2. mō-bəl (how most Americans pronounce it)
3. mō-bēl (how the French pronounce it)
How do you pronounce mobile and which do you think is correct in the context of wireless phones?

mo-bill ftw!
yes i'm american

I'm British and, at the risk of getting my arse kicked by my "American cousins", it is definitely pronounced "mo-bi-al".....Americans are often lazy in their use of the English language, so they will silence letters to reduce the number of syllables in a word....
Just to prove my point, if it's pronounced "mo-bill", is an old person "se-nill" or is war "few-till" or will it be ready in a little "will"
That's my opinion - and I know I (can) speak English properly
Mark.

WOW
Mark, that was really funny, but really true at the same time! I like it! Nice job clearing things up!

Somehow I think one should defer to the British when asked what is the right way to speak English
Surur

Mark Crouch said:
I'm British and, at the risk of getting my arse kicked by my "American cousins", it is definitely pronounced "mo-bi-al".....Americans are often lazy in their use of the English language, so they will silence letters to reduce the number of syllables in a word....
Just to prove my point, if it's pronounced "mo-bill", is an old person "se-nill" or is war "few-till" or will it be ready in a little "will"
That's my opinion - and I know I (can) speak English properly
Mark.
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Yea, your examples do make sense. However, at the risk of throwing a wrench in your theory, American, British and Canadian all pronounce "automobile" as in example #3

we don't even call it a Mobile but fartelefon

gullum said:
we don't even call it a Mobile but fartelefon
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Thanks for sharing gulum, that is way too close to Fart Telethon for comfort

uh, dude, it's a CELL phone.

i say moe-bile
in my nativ language it's mo-bil

I use the second one. Though in my language it is "Mo Bill" ("o" in "mo" like in "Colt")

borealcool said:
Yea, your examples do make sense. However, at the risk of throwing a wrench in your theory, American, British and Canadian all pronounce "automobile" as in example #3
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Err british (myslef at the least) prononce automobile as au-to-mo-beale not au-to-mo-bill

Midget_1990 said:
Err british (myslef at the least) prononce automobile as au-to-mo-beale not au-to-mo-bill
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That's right, as in example #3 of my original post.
As for Americans, they don't pronounce mobile as in mo-bill, mo-bial or mo-beale. They completely silence the "i" as in marble or noble.

Yeah, typically an American would say moe-bull.

Yes, this phonetic feature is called "ellision" and can be found often in AE.
BTW: correct spelling in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for the received pronounciation would be "ai" rather than "ia" concerning the vowel in the last syllable -"
Nope, I'm not even a native speaker of the English language So I'm pretty objective when it comes to things like these.

E_Shinobi said:
Yes, this phonetic feature is called "ellision" and can be found often in AE.
BTW: correct spelling in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for the received pronounciation would be "ai" rather than "ia" concerning the vowel in the last syllable -"
Nope, I'm not even a native speaker of the English language So I'm pretty objective when it comes to things like these.
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Élision is a French grammatical rule which consists in silencing the final vowel of a word if it precedes another word beginning with a vowel or silent h. For instance you would say l'article and not la article. Germans have another grammatical rule for ae, oe and ue.
why Americans silence the i in mobile is probably a question of dialect influenced by pop culture. For example an icon of American industry is Exxon-Mobil pronounced mo-ble.

One spanner.....back at ya!!!
borealcool said:
Yea, your examples do make sense. However, at the risk of throwing a wrench in your theory, American, British and Canadian all pronounce "automobile" as in example #3
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Ah yes, that is true.....however (throws spanner back across the pond), the example you gave has a preceding syllable (or two ) - pronounced "or-toe", not "or-doe" as the Americans would have it
The same soft-pronunciation is true for words like "snowmobile" and "Oldsmobile" - both of which are American-originated words...guess us Limeys just copied the mis-pronunciation (having given up any hope of getting Americans to speak the language properly) and it's stuck....
This debate will undoubtedly run for many centuries to come - I for one will shortly be donning my disguise and emigrating to Outer Mongolia, lest an irate American should come looking for me
Mark.
PS. One final question.....I sometimes hear (in films....uhh..movies) the phrase "he's/she's/it's been 86'ed"....can anyone offer a) a translation into English, b) an explanation of the origin of that phrase.....please....

Mark Crouch said:
Ah yes, that is true.....however (throws spanner back across the pond), the example you gave has a preceding syllable (or two ) - pronounced "or-toe", not "or-doe" as the Americans would have it
The same soft-pronunciation is true for words like "snowmobile" and "Oldsmobile" - both of which are American-originated words...guess us Limeys just copied the mis-pronunciation (having given up any hope of getting Americans to speak the language properly) and it's stuck....
This debate will undoubtedly run for many centuries to come - I for one will shortly be donning my disguise and emigrating to Outer Mongolia, lest an irate American should come looking for me
Mark.
PS. One final question.....I sometimes hear (in films....uhh..movies) the phrase "he's/she's/it's been 86'ed"....can anyone offer a) a translation into English, b) an explanation of the origin of that phrase.....please....
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I'm glad this thread is taking a humour u-turn, I sort of had second thoughts after posting it
86ed is straight out of American pop culture and look no further than the Urban Dictionary for an answer

borealcool said:
I'm glad this thread is taking a humour u-turn, I sort of had second thoughts after posting it
86ed is straight out of American pop culture and look no further than the Urban Dictionary for an answer
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Thanks for that - it made for some interesting reading I've bookmarked that site in case I ever need anything else explained to me....
Oh, and don't worry about posting threads like this - it's good to have some off-topic light humour once in a while. It makes a nice change from all the ranting and stupid questions that the main forums are littered with
OK, it's 1am UK time.....I'm beat....."time for bed", said Zebedee (explained here)
Mark.

Mark Crouch said:
Thanks for that - it made for some interesting reading I've bookmarked that site in case I ever need anything else explained to me....
Oh, and don't worry about posting threads like this - it's good to have some off-topic light humour once in a while. It makes a nice change from all the ranting and stupid questions that the main forums are littered with
OK, it's 1am UK time.....I'm beat....."time for bed", said Zebedee (explained here)
Mark.
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Ok good night Zebedee, but you're not getting off that easily. When you're back, I want to know why the British pronounce words containing "aw", "au" and many words ending with an "a" as "AR". Don't send your "laryer" after me

I've always been impressed/jealous...

of people who dont speak english naturally, yet have the patience to learn such a difficult language. im always impressed and flattered by foreigners who speak incredible english with great grammar and sentence structure, especially when people like me who have trouble getting the rules straight when we already should know them. what makes learning english even more incredible is that there are over 1,000,000 words in the english language (most arent used anymore but they still can be). german comes in at a very distant second place with just over 300,000 words. and most english words have at least five other words that mean the exact same thing. random english words fact: there is no single word in english for "the back of the knee". anyways, its great to hear people speak english as their second language. so, kudos (slang for "congrats") to all you non english speaking people who have the incredible patience to learn something that does not come naturally to you. i do hope to learn german one day, because i have family in germany; and maybe even learn russian too. again, thanks to all aspiring linguists around the globe.
p.s. sorry if i use words that are big/fancy. i have a bad habit of doing that.

Thank you, I feel flattered as a foreigner and I think my decent english is due to watching a lot of television. Like talk shows and movies. Actually imo english is easier to learn than dutch or french etc. because most foreigners grow up with hearing english stuff around them. This almost never the case in England nor America. It's just the universal language, so there's less need to learn extra languages.
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I´ve learned as a second language due to my mother is teacher/translator English/French.
Remember when I was a kid watching the movies in English, even if I did not understood a single word.
I consider I speak quite well (much better than my writing skills)

shoemeistah said:
Thank you, I feel flattered as a foreigner and I think my decent english is due to watching a lot of television. Like talk shows and movies. Actually imo english is easier to learn than dutch or french etc. because most foreigners grow up with hearing english stuff around them. This almost never the case in England nor America. It's just the universal language, so there's less need to learn extra languages.
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Dude, there are absolutely no errors in your English. God I wish I was that linguistically skilled. English is that common in other countries? I never would have guessed that. By the way, I absolutely love Europeans. I think they are the most pleasant people to be around (at least I think they are). I've only been to Europe once, but my dream is to visit every country in Europe. There is just something so wonderful about Europe. Anyways, you Europeans keep being awesome!!!

For example my mother moved to the US from the Czech Republic in the 80's, she grew up around many other languages and now speaks 9 (I cant name em all if i tried). And All 3 of her children (myself included) speak English to her, English for her is a second language but we speak to each other easily and she even thinks in multiple languages now. I have a lot of respect for her

It's not just in Europe and the US where English is the 'universal' language! Don't forget us down under (eg. Australia and New Zealand). I never realised how hard English would have been to learn until I did French in Year 12, especially given that English technically my equal first language. I speak Cantonese at home, for those who are interested. It's a real shame that, in Australia, another language isn't something that it required to graduate from high school (college in British and American English?) though. It's amazing how some people can speak so many languages. I wish I had that ability... And or patience.

winmofreak said:
kudos (slang for "congrats") to all you non english speaking people who have the incredible patience to learn something that does not come naturally to you.
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Thank you. It's not so hard if you're using it for some 30+ years...
And you must remember that main language used in computers is english... so anyway I had to learn it better when I selected my profession... which originally was computer programming.

For me English in my 3. language. We have our own language in the Faroe Islands that is only spoken by some 60-70.000 people in the whole world. Our 2. language is Danish. But TV is the main reason that mostly everyone in the Faroe Islands speaks English quite good. My son is 3 years old now and has already started learning some English. All the cartoons he gets to watch are in English.

M_T_M said:
I had to learn English fast 'cause saying "Yo quiero job" only took me so far in this country
Thanks for the motivation and kind words anyway
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I'm not even going to touch that issue... BIG hot button issue... But yeah, you've got a good point, when you need to learn something in order to survive, you're going to learn it fast.

I was forced to learn Engrish, at gun point.

there is a good place to learn english

i think i will learn more english than phone knowledge.
my mobile is meizu m9 and i cant find much of it.

reading books and novels taught me good English

The best thing I know to do is to start asking questions and never stop.
Sadly, too many of us here in the U.S. don't care and don't take pride in being able to write properly.
I know I'm new here (in fact I'm *brand new* as of today) but if you have questions, I'm certain there's others on here like me who can help.
Remember: we learn by doing.

I learned English at a strip joint.

Assuming you're in China, get a girlfriend who can't speak Chinese.
Join more activities with people from different countries.

I'm not a proponent of the "immersive" approach to language education, tbh. I don't believe it really works all that well, and I do believe it is an extremely resource-intensive, inefficient approach.
But then again, that's just me talking.

I just got rosetta stone for arabic. The pronunciation is killing me. Can't vouch for it though, just started it.

Cable television helped a lot with my english, back when I was in school (20 years ago)

boborone said:
I just got rosetta stone for arabic. The pronunciation is killing me. Can't vouch for it though, just started it.
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need help?, I am a native
@clown, yup movies, movies and more movies without reading subtitles

husam666 said:
need help?, I am a native
@clown, yup movies, movies and more movies without reading subtitles
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I'll keep that in mind, thanks. I'm saving up for a backpacking trip to the Middle East. That is is some beautiful land and culture yall have out there. Just so much untouched land. I've backpacked around America, but never been outside the US.
EDIT There is one thing that you can help me with. Besides Al Jazerra, what other news sites would be good to watch/read to learn more. Also, do you know of a good way to learn the alphabet and writing? Thanks.

boborone said:
I'll keep that in mind, thanks. I'm saving up for a backpacking trip to the Middle East. That is is some beautiful land and culture yall have out there. Just so much untouched land. I've backpacked around America, but never been outside the US.
EDIT There is one thing that you can help me with. Besides Al Jazerra, what other news sites would be good to watch/read to learn more. Also, do you know of a good way to learn the alphabet and writing? Thanks.
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here's one http://www.alarabiya.net/
with the alphabets, sry idk.

husam666 said:
here's one http://www.alarabiya.net/
with the alphabets, sry idk.
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Thanks man

best advice is to hang out with people who speak the language you want to learn, Then ,read out load every day that language (gets your mouth used to saying the words). That was the biggest help for me

SciFiSurfer said:
I'm not a proponent of the "immersive" approach to language education, tbh. I don't believe it really works all that well, and I do believe it is an extremely resource-intensive, inefficient approach.
But then again, that's just me talking.
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Immersion is pretty well proven to be the fastest way to learn a language actually. I studied Spanish for 5 years in high school and college and learned more Japanese in the first six months I lived in Japan without studying for one minute than I learned in 5 years of Spanish classes.

Btros said:
Immersion is pretty well proven to be the fastest way to learn a language actually. I studied Spanish for 5 years in high school and college and learned more Japanese in the first six months I lived in Japan without studying for one minute than I learned in 5 years of Spanish classes.
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Here's my question on that point: Do you attribute immersion itself, or that by living in Japan you had a credible "need to know" as opposed to a merely arbitrary academic requirement and/or interest when you were still in school?

SciFiSurfer said:
Here's my question on that point: Do you attribute immersion itself, or that by living in Japan you had a credible "need to know" as opposed to a merely arbitrary academic requirement and/or interest when you were still in school?
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What's the difference? Not sure what point you're trying to make. Please explain.

Btros said:
Immersion is pretty well proven to be the fastest way to learn a language actually. I studied Spanish for 5 years in high school and college and learned more Japanese in the first six months I lived in Japan without studying for one minute than I learned in 5 years of Spanish classes.
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Can't agree more, they taught us hebrew in my school and I can barely understand that language
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SciFiSurfer said:
Here's my question on that point: Do you attribute immersion itself, or that by living in Japan you had a credible "need to know" as opposed to a merely arbitrary academic requirement and/or interest when you were still in school?
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*the bold
What's the difference? Not sure what point you're trying to make. Please explain.
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I agree, I think that is the point of immersion - that you are forced to find ways to communicate in the native language. The best advice I ever got about learning Japanese in Japan was from a fellow American - he saw me keep looking in my English to Japanese dictionary and told me to throw that thing away and get a Japanese to English one. Instead of looking up words in English and then trying to say the Japanese word I saw there, I would listen to the Japanese speaker telling me something, look up the word IN JAPANESE and then find the meaning on my own in English.
Using the words I learned in an authentic context day after day was the only way I learned to use them naturally.

boborone said:
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What's the difference? Not sure what point you're trying to make. Please explain.
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Well, just like Btros said, he took Hebrew in school and can't function at all in it. The difference is that when you take a language in school, unless you actually have a personal passion for learning another language, or that language in particular, you don't really have a need-to-know and so you don't really learn it.
Btros said:
I agree, I think that is the point of immersion - that you are forced to find ways to communicate in the native language.
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I suppose one could stumble through this sort of process, but it just seems like a very painful one. For one, how can you look up words in a language you don't know? I mean, if I were listening to a Japanese speaker, I'd have enough of a time trying to hear the individual words, let alone ever attempting to reconstruct their spelling and, from there, look up the meaning of the word.
Without at least some formal instruction, how can someone actually know what they're listening to? It's not like any of us native speakers speak. like. this. when. talking. to. other. people. in. the. real. world. and yet, without conversations being had in that manner. we native speakers speaklikethiswhentalkingtootherpeopleintherealworld and that is basically impossible, aurally, to pick apart when you don't have vocabulary.

SciFiSurfer said:
Well, just like Btros said, he took Hebrew in school and can't function at all in it. The difference is that when you take a language in school, unless you actually have a personal passion for learning another language, or that language in particular, you don't really have a need-to-know and so you don't really learn it.
I suppose one could stumble through this sort of process, but it just seems like a very painful one. For one, how can you look up words in a language you don't know? I mean, if I were listening to a Japanese speaker, I'd have enough of a time trying to hear the individual words, let alone ever attempting to reconstruct their spelling and, from there, look up the meaning of the word.
Without at least some formal instruction, how can someone actually know what they're listening to? It's not like any of us native speakers speak. like. this. when. talking. to. other. people. in. the. real. world. and yet, without conversations being had in that manner. we native speakers speaklikethiswhentalkingtootherpeopleintherealworld and that is basically impossible, aurally, to pick apart when you don't have vocabulary.
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you should work in politics or better yet, samsung pr
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Want to help out?

Hi all, I wanted to come out to see if I could get some of your support. A few people in my school (including me) want to petition to see if we can get C++ too count as a foreign language credit. If you want to help out please sign the petition. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/Cplusplus1/

Very good idea! They should do it in the UK.

Coding language is not a foreign language, you are still using english words to code. Making that count as a foreign language would only be detrimental to your own knowledge and show how lazy people really are. We learn foreign languages to help communicate with others, not to get easy credits in school.
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Come on twitch... Vote Its still a language... Which to you (the persons) is foreign
twitch153 said:
Coding language is not a foreign language, you are still using english words to code. Making that count as a foreign language would only be detrimental to your own knowledge and show how lazy people really are. We learn foreign languages to help communicate with others, not to get easy credits in school.
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Never!
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I shall vote twice then haha
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Never!
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Im confused lol
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Thanks for your support guys ....and twitch, arguably a programming language is more useful than Swahili for example ...which they do teach here for a credit
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techdude54 said:
Thanks for your support guys ....and twitch, arguably a programming language is more useful than Swahili for example ...which they do teach here for a credit
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I'm not arguing about usefulness I know programming languages are EXTREMELY useful
But my argument is that it shouldn't be counted as a foreign language because the only thing foreign about it is that fact that we are taking the current language that we have now and making it able to be read by a program that interprets the coding
I just believe that it shouldn't be considered a foreign language because like I said, it stands on the basis of the English language, nothing is changed, and every word still holds its original meaning, making it not foreign to us....unless of course English is not a language you are familiar with, in that case English should be considered a foreign language, not the programming that it is involved in.
Although don't let my view stop you from trying to get the petition signed, I just love a good debate

Why not Java as C++ is used in iPhone programming? LOLjk.

I'm sticking with twitch here. A language is medium of communication and literature, and since C++ doesn't have such qualities...
I'll elaborate further: As a medium of communication, it is very much derived from the most basic of programming languages, which is machine code. And since machine code itself is a means of instructing machines on how to perform certain tasks, it is disqualified as a means of communication, as it is a method oo conveying instruction instead. Additionally, since the machine is not sentient (last I checked, skynet is NOT self-aware, despite this article), therefore there is no communication, per se.
Additionally, you would be hard-pressed to find some form of literary achievement in terms using the language as a form of art, despite what programmers would like to say.
As much as I would like to encourage the uptake of knowledge in education systems, learning another language which you can really communicate with another human being is very important.
Besides, this is what I learned from linguistic school:
What do you call someone who can speak two languages?
Bilingual
What do you call someone who can speak three languages?
Trilingual
What do you call someone who can speak many languages?
Multilingual
What do you call someone who can speak one language?
American
And what do you call someone who is good at using his tongue?
A cunning linguist.

Crap, I just wrote a whole damn essay about this topic, and I pressed return by accident. But I agree with twitch.
Ok, so main points from what I wrote. stuff from wiki:
A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine, to express algorithms precisely, or as a mode of human communication.
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'Cat' in spanish is 'gato', but in C++ you won't say 'cat' is 'cout<<"cat"<<endl;".
Learn a real language it'll help you in life some day.
I take C++, yes it's hard, but it's just English phrases put together to run as an algorithm that a computer can read.
Any questions, ask.

I can see where all of you are coming from....I speak Latin Spanish German Italian and Japanese, so trust me, I know the importance of real languages...just want more credits
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techdude54 said:
I can see where all of you are coming from....I speak Latin Spanish German Italian and Japanese, so trust me, I know the importance of real languages...just want more credits
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How about this:
Work for it. Making effort should be easy.

I was thinking of learning a third language, what do you think it should be?

I am not sure what to learn. I started learning French a while back, it was quite hard. Haven't officially given up but I've not studied it for over a year now... I still can understand very simple texts, but can hardly speak it, and man the dictation is a pain in the a$$! I'm not sure to continue French or start a new one, like German, or Italian?
What do you think?

Any practical reason, or just to challenge yourself?
In my case, living in southern California, USA, Spanish is almost a must. No other language would be of any use....well, maybe some Asian languages, but Spanish sound easier
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Well, you already have the advantage of being bilingual, so you could probably learn faster than someone like me. The little bit of Spanish I do know gets me by, but I'm just too embarrassed to speak it. I never feel like I'm saying it right.
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TheSkinnyDrummer said:
Any practical reason, or just to challenge yourself?
In my case, living in southern California, USA, Spanish is almost a must. No other language would be of any use....well, maybe some Asian languages, but Spanish sound easier
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Agreed, we have on our Country Spanish as 1st language and English 2nd. I've heard on other countries that spanish is a must, contrary to french.and Portuguese as 3 or 4 years ago.
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John McClane said:
Agreed, we have on our Country Spanish as 1st language and English 2nd. I've heard on other countries that spanish is a must, contrary to french.and Portuguese as 3 or 4 years ago.
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What is tricky for me though was being raised on the east coast. The Spanish they teach there is the Puerto Rico dialect. When I moved to California, I realized how different it is. So the 4 years I spent learning Spanish is almost of no use now. Ahh well.
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m1l4droid said:
Spanish is necessary for America but I don't see myself going there. I prefer Europe.
I'm thinking of these languages:
1. French, I know a little (very little, but still), It's a nice language, but quite hard.
2. German, I don't know why but I like it. Easier than French too.
3. Italian, I like it. Easier than French.
I'm not really into Spanish...
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My ancestry is German. I've been interested in learning it.
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French is a matter of getting the specifics down. It's kind of odd at first in that different endings on verbs are pronounced the same way, having to add consonance only if there's a vowel following certain words, using possessive adjectives that modify the thing they are possessing, not the owner. Just starting it but I love it.
I think Spanish will be my next language because I have a number of friends from South America. Going to learn German eventually because I must visit the home of the VW Audi Group someday.

I would ask to learn spanish.. or italian.. i love both of these languages..
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John McClane said:
Agreed, we have on our Country Spanish as 1st language and English 2nd.
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The US is on its way to that. Lol

As a native german, learn german but i think italia is a nicer land because of the wheather

m1l4droid said:
1. French, I know a little (very little, but still), It's a nice language, but quite hard.
2. German, I don't know why but I like it. Easier than French too.
3. Italian, I like it. Easier than French.
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I feel like you should probably finish French, once you know one language the second one that is similiar (like French and Italian) is much easier. I know a fair bit of French and could pick up basic Italian (enough to get by) within a few days.

85gallon said:
The US is on its way to that. Lol
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San Diego is leading the charge.
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French...
It isn't that difficult
For a challenge though, try arabic...
Typed on a small touchscreen

Try Irish but I doubt they teach that over in the US. And no matter what they say, ITS NOT GØD DAMN GAELIC!
Its quite easy to learn apart from the verbs, they may be difficult

You are all fools. Chinese, learn Chinese. You won't regret it in 20 years when the whole west is named "The United States Of China".
Also, it's a HUGE plus to have chinese as a second or third language when you want to find a highly paid tech job in Singapore or whatever.

LordManhattan said:
You are all fools. Chinese, learn Chinese. You won't regret it in 20 years when the whole west is named "The United States Of China".
Also, it's a HUGE plus to have chinese as a second or third language when you want to find a highly paid tech job in Singapore or whatever.
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Now that's a good point
But those tech geeks won't be staying in the East for much longa!
I bet they're gonna make a device to telaport em to the WEST!
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If you want some challenge, try Portuguese. Verbs in English have 3 possible ways, and most of them applies to all the pronouns. In Portuguese, you have AT LEAST 9 different verbs times and one for each pronoun ( Me, you, he/she, we, them and he/she ( plural))
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You teach me some more arabic and I'll teach you french

Felimenta97 said:
If you want some challenge, try Portuguese. Verbs in English have 3 possible ways, and most of them applies to all the pronouns. In Portuguese, you have AT LEAST 9 different verbs times and one for each pronoun ( Me, you, he/she, we, them and he/she ( plural))
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All I need to know is "Where are the whores?" for when I go to Brazil!!

85gallon said:
All I need to know is "Where are the whores?" for when I go to Brazil!!
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that's all the Secret Service cares about apparently