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Languages!

hmmm... My native language is romanian, I also know english and spanish quite well... my french is ok, but needs improovement, and I've started a few weeks ago to learn magyar (hungarian) and finnish ... also nahuatl (native mexican language -aztec-) :D
 
And I will learn French one day. Je parle a petit peu francais, and I wouldn't be surprised if even THAT were wrong!
:wtf:
 
German and Swedish..

Those are pretty rough for me to hear.

French I'm highly fascinated with though.

J'aime le fran?ais. il est un bon langage pour apprendre.

See? I have lots of french friends online too. For 3 years I've spoken to them in french with lots of mistakes but still good XD
 
Russian yes I know. Lived there too with a family in St Petersbug. I had to use visual techniques to learn effectively and only after speech. Also Spanish as I lived there 5 years. Funny now I discovered you can expand and learn lots of subjects and am currently doing electrics/electronics, mainly applied to marine yachts/boats.
 
I speak english (my native language) and i'm quite fluent in both french and german. I know a few words of spanish, italian, japanese, polish and latin. I find it extremely easy to pick up languages and they have always been an obsession of mine, I love to learn different languages, I'm concentrating on learning japanese at the moment, but just the phonetics as I'm useless with the characters lol!
 
My native language is portuguese, so I have no problem with spanish and italian. I can guess some french, and learned english by myself. I studied german also, but since I don't actually use it, I picked very few things so far. I tried unsuccessfully to learn russian and korean...
 
I speak a fairly acceptable level of English, but my native language would be Mandarin.

If I could be conversant in more languages, it would be a language where I'll get a larger market. That would be Spanish, Portuguese, or Hindi for me, since they're deemed to be the markets of the future.
 
I'm a native English speaker, studied Latin in high school, Italian in college, sign language right now, and my husband wants me to learn Spanish because his family is Hispanic. I've also gotten really interested in typography lately, it seems to be a new fixation for me and I'm very excited about it :)
 
While we're on the subject of learning language, how about being raised bi- or trilingual? Anyone had that?

In a way, I've been raised quadrilingual actually. 4 languages; being dutch, english, german and the local dialect, the the last one isn't an official language, so trilingual officially, quadrilingual unofficial.

Dutch obviously since I'm from The Netherlands, German since I live pretty much ON the German border. As such I watched a lot of german television as a kid and learned a lot from there; they have everything dubbed. The local dialect resembles german a bit, so that kinda helped me, since I speak that dialect with my parents (and pretty much everyone in my city speaks this with other people in the streets; if you're not from around here you'll often find locals who speak terrible dutch; and the older the generation the worse it clearly gets). And English... everything is subtitled here and my dad had a satellite dish, so my saturdaymorning cartoons was either subtitled cartoons or just english ones. My dad bought a fair share of english and german magazines which I read as well.

When I first had english classes in elementary (and weirdly enough no german) I excelled in them since I heard and read so much english already. German in high school pretty much the same.
 
Spanish has a lot of syllables as opposed to English. I worked that out years ago. Let's compare (1) La chica esta trabajando en la cocina with (2) The girl is working in the kichen. I counted about 14 for the Spanish as opposed to a mere 9 in English. When I was doinh Spanish and living in Spain I also used to commit the unpardonable sin and read fiction (but only to learn more Spanish words).
One obsession I had was to swat up on all the South American variants and I made these huge lists. Such as:
Coche (Spain (car)) = auto south america
Enchilotarse (mexico (get angry)), variant of enfadarse Spain
Camotear (mexico(walk)) andar in Spain
I used to like shocking local Spaniards with some weird, remote South American slang word from Peru or Cuba.

Cerulean said:
I'm a native English speaker, studied Latin in high school, Italian in college, sign language right now, and my husband wants me to learn Spanish because his family is Hispanic. I've also gotten really interested in typography lately, it seems to be a new fixation for me and I'm very excited about it :)
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I only speak english. I took 7 weeks of french in junior high and a semester of french in high school, probably would have been two years, but they took me out of it, to make me take other classes i failed. But I got a D in it anyway. I took a semester of Spanish in college, but I think I got a C or a D in it. I just have really hard time understanding what people say, often even in English, really hard time with accents. But I took a test to see how you learn and i scored lowest on the auditory, so that might have been part of why i did so poorly.
 
I speak Spanish (born in Puerto Rico) and English fluently. Learned Latin and German in school. I learned some Arabic in the middle east. Learned French and Italian on my own. I know a little bit of Japanese and Chinese; polite things in Russian, Bosnian, and Malayalam. I would like to learn Swahili (just know Mojambo and Sijambo), Korean, and Greek.
 
I know Italian very well, I can use English and Spanish enough to be understood.
I understand some Portuguese and Romanian, and written French.
There's nothing new I want to learn right now, I only wish to get better at what I already know, especially Spanish.

Oh well, I also studied Latin, but I don't keep it into consideration since it's a dead language.
 
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