5 ms·
As an American who speaks multiple languages, the thing for me was learning the first. When you learn another language you get a true understand of your own lan
by mtjl79 14y ago
As an American who speaks multiple languages, the thing for me was learning the first. When you learn another language you get a true understand of your own language that other people don't understand who are not bilingual.
After you learn a second language, others get much much easier and the learning curve is much shorter.
- brucejaywallace 14y agoI also noticed this....it also gets easier depending on the language.... I'm learning Spanish right now, and for example, Portuguese and Italian can at times be very similar
- pavel_lishin 14y agoI learned a fair bit of Spanish in high school, already knowing English and Russian. A lot of the language constructs were similar to Russian, so they just clicked easily in my mind. Lost most of it by now, of course. I can call a guy an asshole, and I can buy him a beer, but the bit in the middle where I apologize - that, I can't do :P