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~~Sansa Stark~~ · 03-17-2013, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by misspoptart

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Another option (which also works wonders) is to fall in love with a spanish speaker. Even if brief, your emotional attachment to the language will be heightened, and learning it will become more imperative. Think about the reasons we have a language. Is not the most important one to express ourselves? Aaaaand...do you not feel an uncanny need to express yourself when you're in love? The two things CLEARLY go together. Again, good luck. And you made the right choice with Spanish. It's WAY more useful than German.

Ugh I can't imagine whispering sweet nothings in German, German sounds terrible over all and it always sounds angry

Burning Down · 03-17-2013, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Hermione

Ugh I can't imagine whispering sweet nothings in German, German sounds terrible over all and it always sounds angry

No kidding! One of my friends briefly dated a German guy three years ago who used to whisper things to her in German while trying to get into her pants

I can speak French pretty fluently - I did most of my elementary education in French and then continued it throughout high school. I'm always eager to practice French with people, because the only chance I got to speak it everyday was when I was in school. I never got to take the class in university - it always filled up and there were only 40 spots. And I don't live in Quebec (where the French language police are out in full force right now

), so it's hard to maintain the spoken aspects of the language. Reading and writing is fine for me, though.

In high school we also had a choice to take an extra language course - either Spanish, German, or Latin. I took German for one term but only because there was a guy in the class who I had the biggest fucking crush on

. In hindsight I wish I took Latin. It was always more interesting to me anyways.

I know some things in Italian due to all my musical training, and bits and pieces of Serbian because of my boyfriend (it's his native language). I teach him to say things in French and he'll teach me things in Serbian. Currently working on Serbian, would like to be able to string together a coherent sentence someday, haha.