Question:
Since a few days I am trying to learn Hebrew, because it is an interesting
language. Although I hate the Israeli politics in the Middle-East because of
the suppression of the Palestinian people, I am interested in the Jewish
culture, language and languages like Yiddish and Ladino.
I note that I am more sensitive to foreign languages than I was when I was a
child. Normally I read that you must be very young to be sensitive, but I
think that it is not true for me. I was 7 when I tried to learn German, but
German is pretty close to Dutch. English was more difficult, but I speak
English better than German, and Esperanto better than English. When I was
about 15 years old, I was not very interested in English and German
especially. Now it is easier to learn language, partly because it is my free
will and not a matter of being forced to learn.
I know a few words:
sefer = book
bayit = house
mishpakha = family
lomed = to learn
ledaber = to speak
ivrit = Hebrew
bet-sefer = school
Jisra'el = Israel
Medinat-Jisra'el = the State of Israel
yehudi = Jewish
be- = in (a)
ha- = the
ba = in the
ani = I
at(a) = you
lo = not
kheder = room
khalon = window
delet = door
yom = day
Autistics, how are your experiences with learning foreign languages (I am
able to use English, German and Esperanto fluently).
Answer:
was in part time French immersion (school all in french for English
speaking children) when I was 5-8. By the end of that time, I could speak
French fluently, but my written language was not that great (as8 yr olds
tend not to be in any language). Since then I have lost (forgotten) most of
my French, but my accent is still good, supposedly because I learned it so
young.
We started learning French again in short classes (nothing like immersion)
when I was 10, which continued until one year before I left school. But that
was fairly useless because they started from the beginning and I already
knew far more than that.
I never had another opportunity to learn a foreign language in school. I
tried to teach myself Latin once, but I didn't get very far.
I am relatively good at working out other languages I have had little or no
exposure to. I am considering learning German because Ian's mum is German
and Ian knows quite a bit, so then maybe we could go on a holiday to a
German speaking country. I have never even been to a place where people
didn't speak English except for a very brief trip through Quebec (a province
in Canada where French is the main language) as a child.
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