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I have a full-time job but I like learning new things in my spare time.

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At the moment I’m studying Spanish, I’m enjoying it but I’m finding it quite difficult.

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Today we are asking people about learning new things.


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I’m learning to speak another language actually.

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I’m learning French, I’m also learning to drive.


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I’m learning to play golf at the moment.

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My husband and my son play golf and when we go on holiday I feel like I want to be able to play with them.

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I’m learning to speak Spanish.

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I am learning Arabic.

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Well, I’ve been learning to play the guitar for about fifty years now, and it’s a constant process, so still learning bits, yes.

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I’m learning yoga at the moment and I find it quite hard.

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The courses I’m taking are training courses for leadership, negotiation, evaluation.

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I’m learning Swahili.

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At the moment I’m learning to paint and draw in evening classes for adults.

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I’m studying part-time after work.

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I’ve just learnt how to do a lot of kayaking.

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I’m learning how to design a website at the moment.

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I’m in a choir, so singing I guess, is pretty much the only thing I’m doing at the moment.

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At the moment I’m taking up a new instrument,

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it’s a traditional instrument from Zimbabwe and it’s called the ‘Mbira’, let me show you…

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What’s the most difficult thing you’ve ever learnt?

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Patience, I think.

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Arabic.

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Courage.

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Learning a language is particularly difficult for myself, so probably learning the Spanish.

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The most difficult thing I’ve ever learnt is Mandarin Chinese.

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I did it in evening classes a few years ago and I found it really really difficult.

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Probably ‘Capoeira’ which is a Brazilian dance martial art, fight thing,

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it’s a combination of all of these things and yes that was very difficult

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because there was a lot of unusual body movements to learn.

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Learning to drive was the most difficult thing.

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Well, I learnt some Sanskrit and that’s got 9 cases two more than Latin,

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it’s quite difficult by most standards.

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I think I found French very hard at school.

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I learnt to play the trumpet at school, that was pretty difficult, and maybe

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learning to drive. I hated learning to drive.