Studying a New Language.
By @n.J
@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
April 28, 2018 2:44am CST
Hello guys!
It’s Saturday afternoon here at my end. I chose to stay home, together with my daughter, instead of tagging along with my husband who is going to meet his childhood friend this afternoon. I have mentioned in my recent post that I am trying to learn to speak Korean, to read Hangul and to write Hangul. Sometimes,I want to give up. Learning new things, especially a new language, is quite a challenge when you’re already an adult . Do you agree?
My mother tongue is Tagalog because I am Filipino. English is the second language in my country so almost all people are fluent in speaking English. Ilonggo is the dialect that I learned by ears because my mom communicates in this dialect whenever she speaks with her amigas and relatives. Eventually, I became conversant in Ilonggo. Hanguel is the most difficult to learn. Why?It is written in a different wasy. I have to memorize this characters along with their phonetic values. Before I could read them I should memorize the Korean characters first .There are 24letters in the Korean alphabet: 14 consonants and 10 vowels. The letters are combined together into syllable blocks.
I believe that if I know how to read it will be easier for me tobuild my vocabulary then eventually I will be fluent in speaking Korean.
Did you have to learn a new language? How many months did it take you to be fluent?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
29 Apr 18
no, but i know a little of the Arabic language that is why i and my sister converse in Arabic if we want the person we are talking about to not comprehend what we are saying.
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@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
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29 Apr 18
That's cool! Not many people know how to speak Arabic. Did you study that language?
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@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
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1 May 18
@ridingbet That is interesting. Do you use to work in Kuwait?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
1 May 18
@Iam_jauntyjen we had a crash course for 4 months when i was in Kuwait.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
28 Apr 18
@Iam_jauntyjen I speak Italian (mother language), French (I lived 30 years in France), Spanish and German that I learnt in school.
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@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
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28 Apr 18
@LadyDuck cool! Among those four languages, I think Spanish would be the easiest for me . Filipino language has a lot of borrowed words from Spanish.
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@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
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28 Apr 18
Can you speak other language aside from English?
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
5 May 18
I don't envy you but you will have a great accomplishment under your belt when you learn to speak and read the language! Good luck to you.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
5 May 18
@Iam_jauntyjen I am sure it will put you to a great advantage when you are able to haggle with vendors for products and such as well at the markets.
@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
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5 May 18
Thanks for that positive remark. Yes, I should keep in my that this is going to be another accomplishment. It makes learning the Hanguel exciting.
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@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
1 May 18
It is going to take me a long time to learn the language I am studying.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
30 Apr 18
I don't think I could ever learn a new language at this point in my life, hell I can't remember what I went down the hall for half the time so learning a new language would be a challenge. Good luck with it, I am sure you will be able to pick it up. I have Filipina friends and they have tried to teach me their language, they sit and laugh and laugh, I just give up. lol
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@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
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30 Apr 18
oh dear,im also sooo forgetful.You know i had 4 surgeries already. But I have no choice I have to memorize again and again and forget again
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
28 Apr 18
I have studied Mandarin but was not able to be fluent since I have no one to converse with. My Chinese friends are more into Fookien. My dad wants me to learn it for business purposes. Will go back to study it again.
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@mlgen1037 (29882)
• Manila, Philippines
28 Apr 18
@Iam_jauntyjen Mandarin, NJ :)
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@sprite1950 (30461)
• Corsham, England
29 Apr 18
I'm not good at learning languages. I went to a french evening class once and although I picked up a little I am nowhere near fluent. I think people who can learn new languages are really gifted 
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
30 Apr 18
I only speak, read and write in English - good luck with the learning
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@caopaopao (12395)
• China
28 Apr 18
It's not easy to learn a new language. Because we need much time to practice and practice.
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@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
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28 Apr 18
I am in Korea now.Married to my Korean husband. We had stayed in the Philippines for eight years before we decided to live here for good. @rakski
@anikoonline (3250)
• Hungary
2 May 18
Good luck! It depends on how much time you spend with studying the language daily. It is hard when you are adult and if you have a lot of tasks and only a few hours per week to learn.
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@Iam_jauntyjen (5452)
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2 May 18
That's true.I can only study when I have free time.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
28 Apr 18
I tried to learn Urdu language before but it's not easy... I want to learn Korean language also
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
28 Apr 18
@Iam_jauntyjen I am not sure, it's Pakistani language
@stringer321 (5682)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
5 May 18
When I started learning English at school, I didn't know much, maybe some writing and reading.
It took me about 7 years to learn and pass the final test that included some talking.
This is way too slow, I want to learn Russian and Hindi, amharic...I hope I will be able to hear and understand conversations, some writing and reading.
If I start learning from now, let's see how long it will take.
@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
8 May 18
@Iam_jauntyjen
I can say for me also learning a new language is very hard. I learned some of Hebrew when I was growing up but not the way they speak Hebrew here so had to practically learn all over again here. It took awhile but then one day opened my mouth and words came tumbling out and no longer feared all the mistakes. It is a hard language to learn.
