Traveling to learn languages

@maximax8 (31053)
United Kingdom
August 14, 2012 9:10am CST
Today I read about an Irish man aged 30 years old. He loves to travel to different countries and learn new languages. He graduated in 2003 and then went to Spain to do an internship. He gathered that it would fantastic to visit many other countries. He funded his travels by working in different jobs. Now he funds his life of traveling through his website. On his website he teaches a language in 3 months. Right now he is traveling through Taiwan and China learning Mandarin. Do you know any foreign languages? Has visiting your first country made you keen to visit other countries? How easy do you find it to learn a foreign language? Are some languages easier than others to learn?
5 responses
pals101
@pals101 (2010)
• Philippines
17 Aug 12
Wow!!. Traveling and learning new languages from different countries is fun. I would love to try it. Hopefully someday, i can travel and find some time studying those languages. I would love to learn spanish,chinse-mandarin,japanese, korean, italian, russian, indian, arabic..etc.. oops there are so much to learn.. :)
pals101
@pals101 (2010)
• Philippines
29 Aug 12
hahah..hopefully my friend. it's great to learn everyday.. :)
marianne
@ckciasigurl (2081)
• Italy
20 Aug 12
hi pals! wow you love different languages huh! that's great i hope you can learn that i salute and admire you :)
k sridharprasad
@yugasini (12836)
• Anantapur, India
14 Aug 12
maximax, yes this is any way to learn different languages by travelling different places of the world, i too have read in a news paper some 6 months , an illiterate boy known sixteen foreign languages, he is vendor at some place, where most of the travellers are coming regularly, then he learned one by one other languages, recently one visitor know this and put this in you tube video,but i have not remember that boys name,you can try it from you tube video
maximax8
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
15 Aug 12
Hi Yugasini. I am glad that you read a newspaper article on the illiterate boy that knows 16 different languages. Wow! You Tube videos can be very interesting when it comes to stories like that. Have a lovely day my friend.
k sridharprasad
@yugasini (12836)
• Anantapur, India
15 Aug 12
hi maximax, thanks for the response, there are lot of languages in India to learn for me that is Tamil,Kannada,Malayali,Oriya,Marthi,Bengali,Konkani,Punjabi,Assamee,Manipuri Gujarathi,Rajsthani ete etc and lot of other languages in India, so my entire life will end to learn all these langauges, in early age itself i have to learn all these languages,now it is not possible
mytravelaroundglobe
@sanjay91422 (2725)
• India
21 Aug 12
Hi, This is an interesting information and I would love to do that but I know only Hindi, English and my local Himachal languages. I know some other languages but not good enough. If I find someone who will teach me their language I will tech them mine. I can do that for fun, no money needed. Sometimes I chat the people from different countries just to learn some words of their language. It is fun.
marianne
@ckciasigurl (2081)
• Italy
20 Aug 12
hi maximax! i stayed in italy for a year because my family is there and honestly i learned Italian i visited different place also like Rome, and Vienna for me it is easier for me to learn because of my sister she teaches me how to speak and also to pronounce it correct,
alllll
@alllll (83)
• India
15 Aug 12
After making a ture in puri,I was trying to learn Odisha language.I bought a book about learning Odisha.After few months,I stoped it,I feel it is not for me.
maximax8
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
15 Aug 12
It was lovely that when you wished to learn the Odisha language so bought a book about learning it. It is not for you so I see you have moved on from that interest now.