Learn to speak Mandarin in 3 days!!!!!! (Learning a Foreign Language)

Name: Maliska1

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Product:	Learning a Foreign Language
Date:	18/03/08 (75 review reads)
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Advantages: Languages are good

Disadvantages: It takes time to master a foreign language

I speak few foreign languages to a different degree of fluency. My mother tongue is Romanian, I was born there.

I learnt Russian at school since at that time we were part of the Eastern Block. Many of my school mates did not like Russian since it is a Slavic language and we have a Latin language, but I was different and always thought that learning a different language would make me richer as a person (not financially, purely on a personal level)

Later I moved to UK and learnt English in London, on my own, listening to music and reading the lyrics and also talking to people and learning grammar on the books. I had a boyfriend from Cardiff, and this helped me a lot to improve!

I later took up Spanish, again, with music and the help of (another) boyfriend from Mallorca, Spain. I lived for a while in Palma de Mallorca, later in Barcelona and then went traveling in Mexico for 1 month and by the time I came back I was extremely fluent.

I have tried German, but not knowing anyone who speaks the language has not helped me a lot. I also learnt French with flatmates I lived with.

Today my Russian is helping me in my job since I work with Russian clients and I am happy I studied it in the old days. Nobody at that time could think that there would be so much business with Russia, and, guess what, today the reality is that if you speak Russian, you have many opportunities in the city.

The takeaway is that in my case, I learnt languages with a combination of traditional teaching and relationship with people.

Summary: Anybody for Russian?