What languages do you speak?

[KiKiweaky]

Language is something I'm pretty terrible at, was in australia over the summer met loads of people from europe who could speak 2 or 3 languages fluently. They almost made me feel ashamed of the fact I'm Irish and cant even speak it, let alone understand it.

I'd be slightly better at it than your average tourist and thats about it.

Whats kinda sad though is I used to love it when I was a child, parent teacher meetings in primary school my teachers would always make remarks on how good I was at it. Then secondary school came around, uninspiring teachers coupled with my own laziness made me sorta forget about it :'(

 

[MrTub]

I speak Swedish and English and a little bit of Spanish.

 

[Lopsided Weener]

Fluent:
English
Russian

Conversational:
German

Basic:
French

I'm kind of sick of learning languages, but they come in useful. Definitely better than just having the one.

 

[Hader]

I can speak English, Dutch (my first language), German and I can make myself understood in French. Oh, and a teensy bit of Japanese. I can read those (except Japanese) and a bit of Latin, ancient Greek and Italian (and Sindarin and Quenya, being a good nerd). I love studying language.

Linguamne Latinam loqueris?

 

[JRCB]

I know English and am learning French right now, but I would love to learn Gaelic. It's just so awesome.

 

[Naheal]

Fluent:

English

Basic:

French
Japanese

On the list to learn (in no particular order):

German
Mandarin
Korean
Arabic
Cantonese
Norwegian
Russian
Swedish
Spanish
Latin
Greek
Italian

I'm pretty sure that I'll run across a few more to add to the list eventually.

 

[Naheal]

I can speak English, Dutch (my first language), German and I can make myself understood in French. Oh, and a teensy bit of Japanese. I can read those (except Japanese) and a bit of Latin, ancient Greek and Italian (and Sindarin and Quenya, being a good nerd). I love studying language.

Linguamne Latinam loqueris?

^This is why I want to learn Latin. Not only does it sound awesome, but it sounds relatively familiar.

OH, I forgot Italian... better add it to the list.

 

[silv]

I'm fluent in English and Romanian.

 

[Hader]

German
Mandarin
Korean
Arabic
Cantonese
Norwegian
Russian
Swedish
Spanish
Latin
Greek
Italian

I'm pretty sure that I'll run across a few more to add to the list eventually.

I know most of those aren't romance languages, but I would try Greek/Latin first, just to help ease into any romance language you may learn later. I learned Spanish before Latin, and although I experienced no trouble with that transition, a few months of taking Latin and I could easily see the similarities and where things were changed.

^This is why I want to learn Latin. Not only does it sound awesome, but it sounds relatively familiar.

OH, I forgot Italian... better add it to the list.

I hardly know enough to speak fluently off the top of my head, but enough to keep a simple conversation going for a short time. Latin is a very complex language...but I agree, it's so fun to speak out loud

 

[Macgyvercas]

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I can speak that as well as I speak English, which is quite sad.

 

[kakaomasse]

i speak hungarian as my native tongue...english is what i speak second best...my danish is kinda ok, my spanish is rusty trying to get into icelandic but its hard to get a grasp to anything...even friggin movies T.T

 

[Naheal]

German
Mandarin
Korean
Arabic
Cantonese
Norwegian
Russian
Swedish
Spanish
Latin
Greek
Italian

I'm pretty sure that I'll run across a few more to add to the list eventually.

I know most of those aren't romance languages, but I would try Greek/Latin first, just to help ease into any romance language you may learn later. I learned Spanish before Latin, and although I experienced no trouble with that transition, a few months of taking Latin and I could easily see the similarities and where things were changed.

^This is why I want to learn Latin. Not only does it sound awesome, but it sounds relatively familiar.

OH, I forgot Italian... better add it to the list.

I hardly know enough to speak fluently off the top of my head, but enough to keep a simple conversation going for a short time. Latin is a very complex language...but I agree, it's so fun to speak out loud

At least learning Germanic languages should be simple by comparison. I'm preferring to start with a base language of each "family" and going on to learn different languages from that family (Learning Japanese first, going to finish learning French, then going on to learn Arabic, then moving on from there, dependent upon where my interests lie at the time).

 

[Hader]

At least learning Germanic languages should be simple by comparison. I'm preferring to start with a base language of each "family" and going on to learn different languages from that family (Learning Japanese first, going to finish learning French, then going on to learn Arabic, then moving on from there, dependent upon where my interests lie at the time).

I'm just sticking with what I know right now, getting Latin/Italian out of the way. The only thing I have planned to mix it up is Arabic, then Navajo. Arabic would definitely be more useful, and Navajo is just something that's interested me since I first heard it.

 

[Naheal]

At least learning Germanic languages should be simple by comparison. I'm preferring to start with a base language of each "family" and going on to learn different languages from that family (Learning Japanese first, going to finish learning French, then going on to learn Arabic, then moving on from there, dependent upon where my interests lie at the time).

I'm just sticking with what I know right now, getting Latin/Italian out of the way. The only thing I have planned to mix it up is Arabic, then Navajo. Arabic would definitely be more useful, and Navajo is just something that's interested me since I first heard it.

I'm a linguist. Learning and speaking languages is just what I do. Having more languages makes me far more effective at my job.

 

[Hader]

I'm a linguist. Learning and speaking languages is just what I do. Having more languages makes me far more effective at my job.

And I just do it as a hobby

But I love it, slow as I am at learning it. I enjoy the challenge, and the reward.

Latine dictum, sit altum videtur.

 

[Kuroneko97]

I know Spanish, as I'm Dominican, and am currently teaching myself Japanese.

Sadly, as I don't speak Spanish as often as in Dominican Republic, my Spanish has gotten a little worse. But I still now how to communicate well with my sis-in-law and others.

And as for Japanese, I have a Rosetta Stone, but I haven't used it lately. In the past year. Watashi wa baka desu nee.

 

[Braonan]

English/French/Irish/Welsh/Ukrainian/Spanish/Scottish Gaelic/Old English/Middle English/North American/Canadian/Working on my Latin.