ChatterBank0 min ago
Bad Language Skills
67 Answers
It must be wonderful to be able to converse fluently in another language.
To those ABers that can - How did you achieve it?
I have tried,maybe not hard enough,but lack the confidence and the"Mindset"to carry it further than"Basic understanding".
Should the UK Government now be thinking of putting more money into training/education in Language Skills,now that the UK has to make its own way in the World re Trade Deals.
To those ABers that can - How did you achieve it?
I have tried,maybe not hard enough,but lack the confidence and the"Mindset"to carry it further than"Basic understanding".
Should the UK Government now be thinking of putting more money into training/education in Language Skills,now that the UK has to make its own way in the World re Trade Deals.
Answers
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by kawanabe. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
I attended night school courses in Dutch and German, some years ago, and I could - eventually - conduct an easy conversation in either language. I'm a bit rusty now, but I can read both languages quite well. Maybe it's helped that I'm interested in my own language: words; grammar; spelling; and so on. I would recommend a course that has a teacher, rather than learning alone, with a tape or a disc.
You go to language school at night
and then visit the country
choose an easy language - Italian and not something like Korean or Vietnamese - or Hungarian
The UK govt I can state with certainty has never invested in languages in schools - you are usually lucky if you can do two at school ( French Spanish and German and virtually nothing else )
Holland they routinely do four ( English French Nederlands and German )
and then visit the country
choose an easy language - Italian and not something like Korean or Vietnamese - or Hungarian
The UK govt I can state with certainty has never invested in languages in schools - you are usually lucky if you can do two at school ( French Spanish and German and virtually nothing else )
Holland they routinely do four ( English French Nederlands and German )
Uk merchants had no issue prior to us being put into the Common Market, I see no reason they will when we've escaped.
Thank Gawd they didn't force more language lessons onto pupils in my day. It's a subject that needs good memory skills since it plays only lip service to logic and an ability to work things out. Had I been forced to take and fail a load of language exams/courses it would have surely messed up my start on the career path.
Thank Gawd they didn't force more language lessons onto pupils in my day. It's a subject that needs good memory skills since it plays only lip service to logic and an ability to work things out. Had I been forced to take and fail a load of language exams/courses it would have surely messed up my start on the career path.
When I was at school I had a gift for languages, to the detriment of other subjects. I speak god French and Russian, though my Russian is a bit rusty now as I have not really used it in 40 years.
Incidentally, until the 1960s, irrespective of your subject, you would not be allowed entrance to Oxford or Cambridge without an O Level in Latin.
Incidentally, until the 1960s, irrespective of your subject, you would not be allowed entrance to Oxford or Cambridge without an O Level in Latin.
I actually think there is something inherent in the British genes that makes learning another language very hard. After all nearly all of us did French at school (didn't we) and very few can speak it and our pronunciation is generally awful. I did A level in French and German and can just get by but think you have to live there to really pick it up fluently.
-- answer removed --
-- answer removed --
