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No, no babelfish, that was a pure guess.

Now that you say, also in german Erdapfel means potato, but quite an oldish expression, I suppose...

This is actually pretty interesting, so don't stop if you think no one is paying attention. I am!

I would love to pick up a new language (been a while since I have), but I unfortunately have my choice of what to focus on limited at the moment by my work. I need to learn French, and doubt I could learn French and another language at the same time.

I doubt anyone here is terribly interested , but if I can try to add anything about pronunciation in English, let me know. (was a language major once-upon-a-time... remember some of it)

I find languages also interesting

I would love to learn some Spanish and Finnish is also interesting. Spanish would also make sense to learn, Finnish not that much, still if I had so much spare time, I would invest in them.

Funny enough, I speak much better English than German, although I have never spent more than a week in a row in native English environment and I live in Germany for almost 4 years now. The difference is that I have learned English in schools, and I just picked up German (or at least what I know in German). That base what studying gives is missing and so I am pretty unsure and slow when it comes to German speaking.

*laugh* Spanish is the last language I "studied". It was a loooooong time ago, but I've kept a little bit of it to keep up with my sister who is fluent.

Yeah, so far the VERY small amount of French I know I've picked up as sheer survival mechanisms. (reading menus when you're allergic to some things becomes very important)

It's always interesting to learn new languages so you're not the only one interested LadyEyes!

I never had german in school but while I was working in a shop in Amsterdam a few years ago I found out that it might come in handy if I learned how to speak it. (A lot of Germans don't speak english too well in my experience...) So I'm kinda self taught. I've also been thinking about learning some other languages like spanish and maybe even chinese.

If someone would like to learn some dutch than just say so!

Chinese must be also interesting, although I'm afraid it is too difficult .

I have learned Russian too (I had no other choice unfortunately), there you also have to learn reading and writing first and then you start with the rest. I think with chinese it must be different, in a 'light' version you learn only speaking first and then comes to reading/writing.