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Originally Posted by phoenix
absolutely. If I had actively learned all the languages I was given opportunity to learn throughout my childhood/adolesence, I could theoretically be speaking fluently in english, indonesian, arabic, japanese, chinese-mandarin, spanish, and french. Instead, because I've never HAD to learn, it's all just tid bits.
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ouch that's bad. i would like to get better at spanish, the only lessons i had were one-hour classes once a week for two years... it's not a hard language to learn and you quickly understand it, but actively using it is another thing.
i learnt most of my english just from using it and talking to people. got fed up with english in school when we skipped the chapters on shakespeare sonnets and a clockwork orange in order to get the chapters on supermarkets and kangaroos finished. (the average age of the students was 18 at that time)
i would start threads in flemish but barely anyone here speaks it i'm afraid :P