Are you learning a secondary language? What is it?

China
April 5, 2011 4:52am CST
I'm curious of whether some other persons are learning secondary languages as me or not.For instance,Chinese is a kind of language that many guys are learning. Have you consider learning Chinese?
6 responses
@yallit (3677)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
I've been studying the Japanese language. I already took up 3 classes (levels) in order to learn Japanese. I still need 5 more levels though in order to be fluent with the language.
@vannyt (343)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
Where do you take your Japanese classes? How long will it take to finish one class? I wanted to learn this language too.
@yallit (3677)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
I stopped for the meantime because I can't find a perfect schedule for me since I'm working as well. The school I went to was Nihongo Center Foundation in Makati.
@yallit (3677)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
It's an approximate 60 hours per level. There are different class schedules you can enroll at. You can go for a 3-hour class every Saturday or you can take a 3-hour MWF class or 2-hour TTH class.
@skydancer (2101)
• United States
6 Apr 11
I have not considered learning Chinese (I think my cousin is studying it though), but I had four years of French in high school and college and am now trying to learn German in my spare time. It is pretty difficult to study a foreign language using only online sources, although I think I am getting the hang of it. I would like to eventually take some proper classes though.
@dreamy1 (3811)
• United States
5 Apr 11
I used to live in Taiwan and I learned a little Mandarin when I was there but I got lazy and stopped studying. I would love to be fluent but I get lazy. Every now and then I check out Mandarin cds and books from the library to brush up on it. I took about four years of Spanish in school but I'm not fluent but my Spanish is better than my Chinese.
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
I studied Spanish two semester ago. It was actually the third language that I learned. The degree program that I'm taking requires 6 units of foreign language. I enjoyed the classes and the teacher was somewhat funny. I think learning the Chinese language is interesting. If you really want to do it, you would do it.:)
@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
5 Apr 11
Yes actually. I have a friend and she's been teaching me some of Mandarin. It's tough but I'm trying. Pronunciation and remembering vocabularies are my weakest points.
@vannyt (343)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
I tried it a few years back but I realize that the interest is not really there add the fact that it's really difficult. Although this is a good language to learn especially if you're looking for opportunities abroad since China's economy is growing rapidly. I prefer to learn Japanese though. :)