(07-03-2019, 08:58 AM)Herrax Wrote: Well, English isn't my mother tongue, it's my second language and I'd say its about as good as my Dutch, which is my mother tongue.
Learning a new language isn't hard, it's just time consuming and most people don't feel like it's worth it.
As someone from a small country I am forced to learn other languages since nobody in the world would be like "Ah lets learn Dutch!". Luckily our languages is a mixture of English, French, German and some Spanish. I can pretty much understand conversations in all those languages making it easier to pick them up more proficiently.
I would say it's never to late but I can image people not willing to spend the extra time if your mother tongue is English since everybody speaks it.
Dutch, English, German are in the same language family - and even more related to each other than Swedish or Norwegian. Nonetheless, from what I've heard of German, it's impossible to pick up anything - me speaking American English. Anyway, how similar is Dutch to English you think? I'm sure Dutch would be incomprehensible like German to me.
Also, how close is Afrikaans to Dutch? I've heard conversations can go on - but it's very different.
(06-19-2019, 02:26 PM)Ash Wrote: If there's one thing I never managed to get the hang of, it's another language. I spent quite a few years at school learning French but I can barely say anything now. Bonjour and a few other key phrases are as far as I can go with it. Do you guys speak any other languages? And if not, are you looking to learn another language?
Immersion seems to be the key. You should be in the country or using an immersion course - or both.
