Hey my name is Carlos Jr, my family is from Ecuador and Europe, the reason i only say Europe is because we are from all over and don't exactly know everywhere. the language i speak mainly is English but i understand Spanish as well. In high school i tried to learn Spanish and kind of did but didn't practice it so i barely used it. When I'm at home my father talks to me in Spanish and i can understand him. somehow i was able to pick up some words to the extent where i learned a lot. The language i use in school is the one i use everywhere. Like i said i understand Spanish but barely talk it.
The way i learn language or people learn language is just by picking up sounds and meanings. We all know words meanings changed over a course of years but we still use them today. To me Language "happens" just by feeling. One day someone will say a word having one meaning but to someone else it will mean a complete different thing. My hypothesis is that language happens to grow by dialects and slang. We all can learn a proper language but we also learn the slang. For example Spanish, Spaniards, people from Spain, speak proper Spanish like by the book, but people in South America like Ecuador speak a slang Spanish. Learning a second language is sort of difficult. I feel it is because for me i compare the words and compare the translation. It may not just be me, maybe others have this problem too but i have this issue. Only thing i wonder is how it forms? like what does a couple of letters put together make a word?
Hi Carlos I had the same problem when I was learning English. I would translate, I would think in Creole or French ans translate word for word in English. I'll think all of us around the world, who are trying to be bilingual does the same. I'll say if you don't start that way, you aren't in the right track yet.
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