have a second language?

[micky]

My first language is Russian. Knowledge of which is quickly disintegrating, at least in regards to more complex written stuff - Russian grammar is a ***** compared to something as easy as English or Spanish.

Second language, naturally, English.

And I could speak French and Spanish a few years ago, but that mostly deteriorated into nothing by now. Might try to re-learn French this summer =/

I've tried to pronounce a few Russian words, but they are VERY hard to say for me. I can only say "Goodbye" and "Thank you."

As someone with a very authentic Russian first name and surname, I'm extremely familiar with that problem...

The more I grow up, the more I actually appreciate Russian language. With all the complicated tenses and word endings, and strange letters in the alphabet that have no sound. It's nothing short of awesome.

ъ or ь, for example.

so its there for fun? awesome

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

There was a shopkeeper in Andorra who was clearly trilingual at least - she spoke French to a customer, turned to her friend and spoke in French, swapped to Spanish halfway through her sentence ( I have no idea why - her friend clearly understood both languages) and then turned to me and spoke fluent English. She was so good at all 3 languages I have no idea which one was her first, if any of them were.


Moi, personnellement, je parle un peu de Francais.

 

[Julianking93]

I'm actually working on my 3rd language now.

 

[Zacharine]

Let's see:
My first language and native one: Finnish.
In order of proficiency:
Second Language: English
Third language: Swedish
Fourth language: German
Fifth Language: Spanish
Sixt Language: Russian
Seventh Language: Japanese

Although, in all honesty, fifth-seventh I'm so poor at at that I know primarily a few sentences and most common words. Ie. I can ask for directions to the nearest bar or hotel or grocery store, and buy stuff/rent a room at said places. And in Japanese it's only katakana that I can write and read to any degree.

Funny fact: I dislike learning languages, and never did like them. This has all just basically accumulated over my schooling and 20+ years of life. And in school and uni, I've always focused on history, various natural sciences (chemistry, physics and biology mostly) and economics.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

Well, English is my second language, but since there are several languages absolutely the same as my first one, I could say that I speak four.

 

[Pyotr Romanov]

Well, my native one is Dutch.
Then I picked up English from gaming and watching movies.
And now at school I´m forced to learn: German, French, (ancient) Greek, and Latin.

BWEURGH...

 

[Sougo]

I'm American so knowing or even wanting to learn a new language is rare. I'm currently learning Japanese and am actually posting this on my last day visiting Japan.

How do you find Japan? Friendly? awesome? hostile? indifferent?
Always wondered how Japs treat foreigners, and have always wanted to visit japan

 

[BIGB0SS]

my second language is english
but I'm learning german too

 

[ThreeWords]

English is my spoken language, but I also know French, German and Spanish

 

[Rakkana]

I gave french a go... because the school forced me into it. They then tricked me into taking it as a GCSE, I'm not even nearly kidding their they literally tricked me.

I can hardly remember any of it.

Now I'm learning Japanese which I consider my true second language.

 

[wax88]

Mandarin(AKA Chinese) as a second language and Japanese module in University.

yes, and i SEE THAT

almost all schools at least teach Spanish but ive seen latin, so what second language do you know? i dont have one but i can speak army phonetics. seirra echo echo tango hotel alpha tango. guess what i just said.

 

[Kavachi]

Holland is a small country, so we need to learn as many langauges as possible. Personally I speak: Dutch, German, English, French, Ancient Latin, Ancient Greek and Spanish.

 

[TheMidst]

I go to an international school in Switzerland, and everyone around me speaks English as well as French or German or all three. There's also english/arabic, swedish/english/french and a few others I think. And that's just my class. I feel a bit ashamed to speak english and only intermediate french. I wish that Canada (I'm Canadian) would make more of an effort to teach the French and English sides the other language. When I came to Switzerland I had to practically start from scratch in the French language after almost six years of learning it in Canada because of the terrible teaching. It's really a pity, I have to say.

 

[Sirenskye]

I'm a native English speaker, second language is Japanese, third is incredibly rusty German.

Although, every time I start a sentence in German it invariably ends up finishing itself in Japanese. It is mildly annoying.

 

[Cakes]

I'm bilingual with English and French, which is fairly common in Canada.

 

[Quid Plura]

I'm Dutch, so I've had Dutch, English, French and German in school. In university, I learned Medieval Latin, some Japanese and some Arab. But the only languages I can conversate in are Dutch, English, German and French.

 

[natster43]

I can speak Spanish kinda. I have took three years of it.

 

[thats it exclamation]

meself iv just got english, irish, french and... thats about it really