Learning Foreign Languages: Is it a hobby or a must?

[Harry Smith]

[quote=alihandra;189050]

Originally Posted by But one thing isn't clear to me. Do they ever learn German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese etc. as hard as we do? Or maybe they don't even think about other languages. Any ideas?




--Actually People in the world speak English because of the britsh occupation to lots of countries in the old time.

you can notice also that lots of the African countries speak french because of the occupation in the old time.

So this is why the language[English and French

spread in a large way..

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--Actually alot of people in the world doesn`t learn languages even if English is not their mother tongue.

Are Arabic, English and French first languages for you?

[alihandra]

Originally Posted by Harry Smith

Are Arabic, English and French first languages for you?

it is

-the Occupation `s affects in the old time

and what people must have to get a job Sir

[Harry Smith]

Originally Posted by alihandra

it is

-the Occupation `s affects in the old time

and what people must have to get a job Sir

I just want to say we all have one first language. It's our mother tongue or the language we mostly speak. Which one do you use more than the others?

[alihandra]

I speak Englsh from 9:30 Am until 4:00 pm
,Arabic from 4:30 pm until 11:00 pm
French once a week

[blouen]

Originally Posted by Harry Smith

Anyway, let's go back and start the thread again. Is learning foreign languages a hobby or a must? Why do some people think that one language is enough to communicate? When I say some people I mean people living in Russia, Germany, France and the whole English speaking world.

*Here in the Philippines where good English speakers look GREAT (intelligent, rich, competent) in the eyes of people, we seem to feel that it really is necessary/a must to learn English. I used to think this way before till I found out that learning English as a hobby is a better way of doing it.

[Harry Smith]

Originally Posted by alihandra

I speak Englsh from 9:30 Am until 4:00 pm
,Arabic from 4:30 pm until 11:00 pm
French once a week

So which language do speak better?

[Harry Smith]

Originally Posted by blouen

*Here in the Philippines where good English speakers look GREAT (intelligent, rich, competent) in the eyes of people, we seem to feel that it really is necessary/a must to learn English. I used to think this way before till I found out that learning English as a hobby is a better way of doing it.

When you learn English as a hobby you enjoy it, don't you?

[blouen]

Originally Posted by alihandra

I speak Englsh from 9:30 Am until 4:00 pm
,Arabic from 4:30 pm until 11:00 pm
French once a week

Wow! Nice schedule you have here. I somewhat do the same.

I speak English at work from 5 am - 2 pm.
Back to Tagalog and Ilonggo afterwards.
Tagalog is the standard language of Filipinos while Ilonggo is my Province's dialect. I stay in Manila now where people speak tagalog so I need to do so as well but when getting home, just that I dislike it, my friends keep talking in Ilonggo.

[blouen]

Originally Posted by Harry Smith

When you learn English as a hobby you enjoy it, don't you?

I surely do! Learning English isn't as hard as it was anymore.

[alihandra]

Arabic 100%
English 85%
French 60%