So..
How many languages do you speak?
and what languages are they?
extra questions:
why did you learn them?
and where?
for how long?
and obviously.....:
Italian: my mother language
a bit of Romanian...easily understendable reading....way more difficult in listening and/or pronounciating
(i'm scared of finnish, i tried to understand some rule but....shivers)
Schwyzerteutsch, nativ oesteralps dialekt
Hochdeutsch, fluent.
English, proficient.
Francais, decent.
Danski, decent.
Italiano, basic.
Russ, cursing... :D
That's it.
You guys are incredible.
Proficient: English and Singlish (heh)
Okay: Chinese (Mandarin)
Beginner: Chinese (Hokkien)
Drama-watcher/fan standard: Japanese and Korean (thrilled to occasionally understand a few words. Can rote-memorise song lyrics and phrases without understanding of grammar etc.)
Pidgin standard: Few words here and there of Bahasa Melayu
Yeah. I suck. I only added the last two in to make my list seem longer. Did you guys have to work hard at learning the new languages or are you'all naturals? Just memorising a few words is very difficult for me; am struggling with picking up new languages.
>>99
What's your mother tongue?
English: Mother language
German: Second langauge, 90% fluent
Spanish: 2 years in school, I can say basic phrases
Japanese: I can recognise some kanji and speak a few words
Aiming for speaking at least 10+ languages which include:
Romanian, (better) Japanese, Manarin Chinese, Italian, Norweign, Icelandic, Greek, Sign Language, French, Russian and a few others.
Mandarin Chinese: First language
English: Second language, fluent
Spanish: Learning it in school, I can read more than I can write, and I can understand more than I can say.
To-Learn List
French and Japanese
extra questions:
why did you learn them?
and where?
for how long?
Finnish: Mother language
English: Second language
I also know little bit of Swedish and German.
School system made sure that I get a hint of these three foreign languages, though I would've learned English anyway.
Had 3 years of Swedish, ~1 year of German and the best result I had in a Swedish pizzeria was:
Haben sie milch?
English:Mother Tounge
Italian:Learning
I just graduated middle school heh... But do all you guys want to learn languages for career? I just want to to communicate with natives and for fun... Oh yeah, and I want to learn Icelandic and Romanian, and maybe Finnish, but definitly Russian!
Lithuanian - Native.
French - 1st foreign language in school, fluent, 10 years of learning.
German - 2nd foreign language in school, fluent or at least very close to it, 8 years of learning.
Swedish - 3rd foreign language in school, somewhere in between intermediate to advanced level.
Russian - Fluent, I come from the Soviet Union, M'kay?
English - Self-studied, fluent.
Japanese - Self-study, pre-Intermediate level.
Chinese - Self-study, intermediate level.
Latin - Self-study, pre-intermediate level.
Greek - Self-study, Basic level.
Yeah, I have a lot of free time.
Just English, sadly.
Let's see...
English - Mother tongue
Japanese - Second language: advanced (I'm not confident enough to say fluent, heh >_<)
Mandarin - Beginner/intermediate
Samoan - Beginner
Maori - can understand basic sentences & words
Cantonese - I know a few words and basic sentences
Korean - very basic sentences & a few words
French - again, basic sentences & words
Italian - same as French
Spanish - same as above
May seem like quite a few languages, but I'm pretty much a beginner or even lower than that in most of them :S
What can I say, I like languages lol.
English - Native
French - Native
Spanish - fluent through schooling
Japanese - self-study, JLPT 4 level
I think I'm done for languages.
Danish/Dansk - (Mother tongue)Can't write Danish very well, but understand it perfect.
Norwegian/Norsk - (Fluent) I can write perfect Norwegian.
Swedish/Svenska - (Advanced) Swedish is a lot like Norwegian, They can understand eachother with almost no problems.
English (Advanced) I can write perfect English.
Serbian/Srpski (Little more than basic) Can write as much as I can say, because you write it exactly how you pronounce it.
French/Francais (Basic) Had it for about a year. Understand more than I can write.
I can cuss in:
Norwegian 1
Danish 2
Swedish 3
English 4
Spanish 5
French 6
Portuguese 7
Sami 8
Faroese 9
Serbian 10
Albanian 11
Kurdish 12
Arabic 13
Russian 14
Polish 15
Japanese 16
Persian 17
Finnish 18
Somalian 19
German 20
Danish/Dansk - (Mother tongue)Can't write Danish very well, but understand it perfect.
Norwegian/Norsk - (Fluent) I can write perfect Norwegian.
Swedish/Svenska - (Advanced) Swedish is a lot like Norwegian, They can understand eachother with almost no problems.
English (Advanced) I can write perfect English.
Serbian/Srpski (Little more than basic) Can write as much as I can say, because you write it exactly how you pronounce it.
French/Francais (Basic) Had it for about a year. Understand more than I can write.
I can cuss in:
Norwegian 1
Danish 2
Swedish 3
English 4
Spanish 5
French 6
Portuguese 7
Sami 8
Faroese 9
Serbian 10
Albanian 11
Kurdish 12
Arabic 13
Russian 14
Polish 15
Japanese 16
Persian 17
Finnish 18
Somalian 19
German 20
russian - native
english - fluent
spanish - fluent
french - begginer
japanese - for now self study, soon ill start attendin jap courses:)
to learn list >> korean and german:)
im 17
>How many languages do you speak?
>and what languages are they?
A few.
English - Fluent
Japanese - Fluent
Dansk - A bit
Suomi - A little bit :p
>why did you learn them?
I was raised in a Japanese/American family :/ One of my newly acquired friends is Danish and I REALLY want to learn Danish <3
>and where?
At home...
>for how long?
Approx. 16 years...
0 = not at all
10 = like a native
English - 10
Japanese - 8
German - 6
English, my most fluent language
Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin, so-so since that's my background.
Japanese, self taught and still learning.
French, Beginner level.
Italian, can hold a day-to-day conversation I guess.
Turkish: Native (Turkish parents),
Dutch: Fluent (Born and raised in Holland),
English: Fluent,
Japanese: Just started learning.
Spanish - Native
English - Pretty much flawless. I've been studying English since the age of 3 and, while my formal studies ended at the age of 16, I still read/write in English on a daily basis (Thank you, Internet!)
Italian - Studied two years and had to quit due to awful time restraints, forgot pretty much everything but re-reading my notebooks in half an hour would likely make all the stuff come back to me.
Japanese - Self-learning dummy. Can make out basic sentences and whatnot, but that's about it.
To-do:
-Latin: Formal studies will begin somewhere this year.
-Japanese: Go somewhere where I can actually begin formal studies before I end up mastering the language out of Rosetta Stone.
-Reinforce my bare knowledge of modern latin languages.
-Hungarian: Why not?
-Russian: Why not?
The beauty of having a language such as Spanish as your mother tongue is that you can "understand" languages such as Portuguese, French, and Italian because they are all latin derivants (Of course, you can't reply back because you don't know a word, but at least you can know how to get into the hotel restrooms without having to crap your pants in the lobby)
No, seriously, I only know two for good...
1 - English - Mother Language
2 - Cantonese (Dialect of Chinese, spoken in Hong Kong) - Second language I know
I used to know Spanish, but nah, ever since I finished that class... nah, discontinue it >.>
English -- native
Japanese -- four years of high school study, though I probably need to start over again at an entry level course
Turkish -- a year 9so far) in college. Thought it might be a fun language to learn - needless to say, it's been interesting
And I really want to learn Finnish. Such a beautiful language to listen to.
My mother language is English (British). I don't know any other languages, but I can recognise and correctly identify several foreign languages, and I'm learning Swedish (I know some words and some basic grammar).
My mother tongue is Spanish, but I speak English (I'm studying to become a translator). I am just starting learning Japanese.
I found a web site which your multi linguistic ability works greatly. http://shiroube.com/
Do you know any other reccomendation?