Different languages…

    I know it's been a while since I have blogged, to be sincere this summer has me pretty busy, between swim team, karate, and other various things. I guess you can just imagine. Back to the point, I was recently talking to someone about learning English, this immediately made me think about learning other languages. I have taught a few people to speak English what I learned was that if you make myself listen to the language your learning it helps. For example my cousin came from Peru, she wanted to learn English and took some classes sadly the classes, after a few weeks, did nothing for her, so we then suggested that she listen to radio and watch movies in English, she ended up learning in a few month almost perfect English. She now speaks Spanish, English and French. So my thought is if a person really wants to learn to speak English them why not forget the novellas and watch soap operas forget peliculas and watch movies, same with radio English songs make it easier to learn the language. Now if you are thinking it only work for English you are mistaken the other side of my family are all American with Latin/native descendants.  Most of my cousins don't speak Spanish, after one of my male cousins got married he decided he had to learn to speak Spanish, so he made himself watch and get into an actual novella, now he speak Spanish well not perfect but well enough to understand and answer. So I don't really understand why people say it is difficult to learn, I am making the effort to learn a new language this summer and also at the same time brushing up on my French. The thing I am learning which is possibly the most confusing about these languages is that in Italian there is a mixture of French, English and Spanish. So I'm guessing you are thinking that it may end up being easier for me since I know those languages. Well I got news for you!! IT"S NOT! It just occurred to me the other day while I was studying Italian, that it was going to be confusing, then I tried using what I learned to answer my father what came out of my mouth was Italian/French... I thought this was hilarious, then I started thinking about other languages German, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese, so on and so forth. I thought those must me  hard to learn specially the ones with the harsh tones. Then I was thinking what about the Native American languages the ones that are not being taught that much anymore, for example my family as you know is Peruvian so the Native (Incas) language there is Quechua (there are various forms of course), this language for I know for sure is not being taught nor learned very much anymore it is on its way to being a dead language. Me, of course, want to learn Quechua very badly but I can not find a book or tapes, you tube has some videos but not very helpful, so what I do is try to pick my grandmother's brain about Quechua, so far I know a few sentences but I get confused on which is what ... haha     But it is a start!!! So to all those out there who say they cannot learn this is not true anyone can learn anything with the right push and confidence in yourself.  Till the next blog... A Presto! Hasta la Proxima! Jusqu'à le prochain!