I’m trying to work on myself and would like to learn a new language. I would also like to be fluent in Somali; currently my Somali is good but I want it to be similar to how our parents speak. I was thinking of maybe learning Italian or Spanish and was wondering if there are other fonts who can speak other languages apart from English and Somali?
Is there anyone on here who is fluent in other languages?
- Thread starter Siren95
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I speak Turkish and Arabic in addition to EN and Somali... Somali is my first lang and I speak with a PL Mudug accent. Currently learning French but planning to give up on it and focus on Italian.. Italian is super easy and forward.. could learn the basics in couple months and master it in 2-3 years given the necessary circumstances..
Odious Delirium
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I can speak/read/write:
Somali, Arabic, English, Urdu/gujrati, a bit of French and Dutch. I'm not trying to learn anymore I hate learning languages it's hard and boring.
Somali, Arabic, English, Urdu/gujrati, a bit of French and Dutch. I'm not trying to learn anymore I hate learning languages it's hard and boring.
Wow mashallah, how did you learn Turkish and Arabic? I studied French in school but found it difficult and couldn’t grasp the accent and I didn’t do well on it. I think you will enjoy Italian it’s a beautiful language and much easier than French
How did you end up learning five languages?
I live in Turkey so I took a Turkish course and socialised with the locals, Turkish is one of the easiest langs to learn for people of all kinds of backgrounds.. my Arabic was always good but being in an Arabic speaking environment helped me improve my Arabic.. and for the EN, I've always been exposed to it.. I was born and raised in Somalia so as expected I speak good Somali. You'll find it hard for the first few months of learning any lang but you eventually pick up on it and I agree with you French accent is weird with its nasal things.
Italian or Spanish are worth learning!! Italian for the amount of history they wrote about us so that we can read it avoiding the loss of meaning in translation and Spanish for how widespread it is.
Odious Delirium
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Somali English is kind of self explanatory. As for Arabic my father grew up in the uae and my mother also grew up partially in the arab world so the only channels we would watch was arabic ones so I picked it up like that and later on I learnt nahwa/Sarf/balagah etc.
While I was learning arabic in depth I learnt urdu alongside it and gujrati is basically urdu but easier basically a different dialect I don't know how to read or write gujrati tho. As for a little bit of Dutch I was born in the Netherlands and French from French class in school I didn't learn much. This is all over 10+ years it wasn't a consistent effort or anything like that.
I never sat down and tried to learn any of them it just happened which is why I don't know French or Dutch with the others I didn't really have a choice lol.
How?
Odious Delirium
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A lot of Islamic books especially on the hanafi mathbab are in urdu/farsi so if I wanted to go through them I had to pick up the language along the way. (I'm not hanafi)
plus many good quality and insightful commentaries are in the urdu language and I got a lot of gujrati friends basically Indian Muslim friends and they where able to learn urdu because its similar to gujrati so I kind of picked it up since it's not very different it's kind of like the difference between the northern and southern somali dialects (I know both)
Can u tell me how u actually did it cos I'm tryna learn other languages aswell but its difficult,
Like step by step what u did and how long did it takeu
Odious Delirium
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I'm not the guy to go to for advice on languages despite the amount that I know and I don't want to divulge to much personal info on the net since I didn't exactly follow a method rather it was a on going process over years which will require me to go into my life story so sorry can't help on that front.
Ok was it by reading alot or by speaking with people or by listening to the language?
Odious Delirium
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All of them. Listening to things in that languages and trying to understand it helps me the most
did u have subtitles?
Odious Delirium
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No
No otherwise there is no point you need to basically figure it out on your own and look for things you don't understand. Understanding the sentence structure come like that to me and over time you pick up more and more vocabulary
Thats difficult though isnt it, how do u even understand what they are saying then
Odious Delirium
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The very best way is to live in a different country and you pick it up through convos subtitles don't help they make you lazy and you never learn. Those things you don't understand you can ask and the more you add to your memory the more you can pick up on the languages then it becomes a matter of just learning new words when you come across them.
Yh you don't understand them at first but think about it like this how did you understand your first language?
You just heard your parents/siblings talking in it without understanding it. All language are like that you pick up through context and gestures and expressions.
How?
