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hi there, I've always been very fond of languages, that's why I tried to learn as many as possible, so would like to join
U-number <./>U230913</.>
WLTL: Gaelic, Welsh
WLTP: Spanish, French
WLTT: Spanish, French, English, German
Anything else:whatever is offered

I have a friend who, while being obsessed with his Irish heritage, has learned Gaelig pronunciations... He had a list of names, one of which was about ten letters long and phonetically amounted to "Ian".

Good luck with that one

*promises to get round to this later this evening*

JoeC

Est bene!

You are all now on the list

JoeC

WLTP: Hebrew
WLTL: Spanish

Ok, now what?

Ahh, you find your thread and talk, I think... I dunno, I've been here like a month but for most of that I was away. I can't even find a Mandarin thread, does anyone know if we have one? Does anyone who isn't me wanna create one?

Cat

It's been a bit quiet recently.

If you want to join one of the other threads under the main page, feel free. If the language you want to speak isn't there, start a new thread (preferably with the title 'LANGUAGE thread' [insert the language name]) and post a few basics of the language - most of us are very eager to learn

JoeC

U-number: U561951
WLTL: I'm not sure yet.
WLTP: I'm not sure yet.
WLTT: Last but not least, I'm not sure yet.
Anything else: By the way, sorry for not specifying anything there, but it's late here and I am not really in the mood to think and my friend told me to join this.

Have a look through the threads we've got, and see if any take your fancy; when you've decided what languages you'd like to have a go at, let me know, and I'll put you on the list

JoeC

where do I find those? I think I posted in the French one but it kinda disappeared.

At the bottom of the main page is the list of threads; if the one you want has gone off the list, click 'More Conversations' or the link with words to that effect, and it'll display the full list

we seriosuly need a WLTT Mandarin person here I mean, I can teach them up to 2 years of learning it, and it will be more as the year goes on, but I mean, do they really want to learn animals and the family structure and stuff? No? Actually, if I just teach them some basics and then we can have conversations where you just emit the word you don't know and put it in in English

Well, at least doing this I can remember my Chinese so I can do my homework...

HOw can you possibly teach Chinese without the voice?

Canicula is right, isnt chinese a vocal language?

Yep. If you read the mandarin thread, most of it is me ranting about pronunciation... But there's also pinyin, which is romanised chinese, so I can write it on the PC, I just need tone marks, and I don't know which alt + numbers combinations they are. Like how you get Ÿ from alt + 0159 and œ alt + 0156 and stuff, I don't know where the vowels with tone marks are...

Cat

If you flick through the Character Map, and select one of the characters you want, it should show the shortcut code somewhere in the window...

Where's this character map?

U-number: U170094
WLTL: French & Spanish
WLTP: French & Spanish
WLTT: French & Spanish
Anything else: Currently operating at basic (get-by) level in both languages