Multilingual!!!

[Coolness Bears]

I can only speak English! I have learnt Spanish and French in the passed but i barely scrapped through the oral exams so i could not string a sentance together now!

I want to learn Japanese, i'm learning basic stuff at the moment but hopefully i'll progress. :D

How many languages can you speak?

What can you speak?

Do you want to learn other language? Why?

[Slaggis]

I tried. I failed. The end.

Nah, I did both French and German for 3 years at school, and I'm damned if I can remember anything more than I knew before I started learning it. How I managed to make it through without failing I don't know.

I'd love to learn french, but until they sort the grammar out (It's all the wrong way round!), I'm damned if I'm trying again.

[Roostophe]

I'd like to learn another language for the sake of learning another language.

I wouldn't mind speaking Japanese, but to learn Kanji and Hiragana and all that? I really can't be arsed. :shakehead

[Iun]

I speak: English, French, German, Italian and Chinese. I can read Spanish and Dutch.

[Jonnas]

Eu falo Português!
I speak English!
Yo hablo Español!
Je parle un petit peu de Français!


I wouldn't mind learning Japanese or Italian.

Japanese, because I'm in contact with that language more than I should.

Italian, because it looks fun. I can understand enough of it, but it's the only Latin language I have yet to speak (that, and...Latin :heh:)

[Supergrunch]

I have learnt Japanese to the level where I can just about read some books, and hold some conversations. Am always studying it and trying to improve.

Other than that, I've learnt French and Spanish to GCSE level, and can just about read things in French, mostly because it's so similar to English. I also know some Latin and German.

In the future, I would like to study ancient Greek, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Hebrew, [insert more langauges]. I would like to be able to understand as many writing systems as possible.

I want to change to linguistics next year. :heh:

[Daniel]

awesome barney avatar jonnas :)

id love to know a different language to understand other cultures more but i cant for the life of me :(

[Jonnas]

French, mostly because it's so similar to English.

Seriously? I find French to be closer to Spanish and Portuguese, while English is the most different.

Maybe French is an easy language, regardless of mother tongue?

EDIT: @Daniel: Well, Barney is awesome, and I wanted my avatar to be legen.......wait for it.........dary.

[bluey]

i'm learning spoken japanese and katakana (for starters) because of my new job :grin: but duuh.. y'all know what already...
i'd like to learn sign language! i knew a little when i was in primary school, made friends with a deaf girl and learnt a bit from her... but it's all gone from my head now....

for all the budding japanese speakers: try japanesepod101 (google it for their website or download the podcasts from itunes) and this flashcard site (http://www.realkana.com/) is great for katakana and hiragana practice.

[Shino]

I obviously am... aside from English I can say I know Spanish like every Portuguese person. I also had a year of French and I could tell it wouldn't be hard at all to learn it. I would like to try a more "exotic" language like Chinese, Japanese or Arabic.

Seriously? I find French to be closer to Spanish and Portuguese, while English is the most different.

Maybe French is an easy language, regardless of mother tongue?

I think 1/3 of the English language derives from French, its probably the language that's more similar to them.

Also, Romanian is also a Latin language so, there's one more for you.

[Mikey]

I'm learning Spanish soon. Can't wait!

[Jonnas]

I obviously am... aside from English I can say I know Spanish like every Portuguese person. I also had a year of French and I could tell it wouldn't be hard at all to learn it. I would like to try a more "exotic" language like Chinese, Japanese or Arabic.



I think 1/3 of the English language derives from French, its probably the language that's more similar to them.

Also, Romanian is also a Latin language so, there's one more for you.

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting Romanian.

I'm going to check written Romanian to see how well I understand it.

[Supergrunch]

Seriously? I find French to be closer to Spanish and Portuguese, while English is the most different.

Maybe French is an easy language, regardless of mother tongue?
Well, this is in comparison to say, Japanese. I pick up a book in French and can use my knowledge of derivatives and English words to work out a large amount of it.
i'm learning spoken japanese and katakana (for starters) because of my new job :grin: but duuh.. y'all know what already...
i'd like to learn sign language! i knew a little when i was in primary school, made friends with a deaf girl and learnt a bit from her... but it's all gone from my head now....

for all the budding japanese speakers: try japanesepod101 (google it for their website or download the podcasts from itunes) and this flashcard site is great for katakana and hiragana practice.
My mum can speak semi-fluently in sign language, because she teaches deaf children. However, the vast majority of deaf children don't actually use sign langauge, and she doesn't use it all that much.

Also, Japanesepod101 is indeed good.

Additonally: would also like to learn Arabic.

[Jonnas]

Well, this is in comparison to say, Japanese. I pick up a book in French and can use my knowledge of derivatives and English words to work out a large amount of it.


Oh, I get it. From an English speaker perspective, French is indeed the closer.

[Hellfire]

Portuguese, English, some Spanish (just because its similar to portuguese), I scratch at French and will start learning Japanese soon, have a rosetta stone program, will see if it's any good. I suppose I can somewhat understand Latin languages.

[Sooj]

I can speak English(native speaker), Punjabi, Hindi & Urdu(only cause its similar to Hindi).

I didn't care much for French in school so didn't bother learning it but still, I can understand basically the jist of most french conversations and, really, in todays world all you really need to know is English lol :P

Saying that though, I'd like to learn sign language, I think its quite awesome.

I doubt that I will have any trouble when it comes to communication in any country (I can also draw however badly).

[Shorty]

にほんごをべんきょうします。
nihongo o benkyou shimasu

(I study Japanese :3)

I really got on with German in year 7 but when I moved schools at the beginning of year 8, the German department was awful. I think I could've pulled an A or higher at GCSE at my original school. So I've always thought of a second language - decided to take Japanese alongside my Languages degree at Uni :D

[Supergrunch]

にほんごをべんきょうします。
でも漢字がまだ勉強しませんみたいｗｗｗｗｗ

*stops acting like a 2chan user*

[Shino]

I'm also learning Japanese, I made this letter to Nintendo using just a dictionary.

Kawaii Nippon

Watashi wa ketsubou ato nendai no shakuhou.
Watashi wa kirai temae.

[Sanchez]

I speak english and spanish. I can also understand (read: get the basic gist of) italian and portugese if they're written, fairly similar. I also understand a lot of Catalan so I can psuedo read french as well, never speak these languages of course.

Also I'm learning java and python. :v:

[killthenet]

Well I'd love to learn French, German, Polish & Japanese but alas I am lazy so haven't got around to it yet. I do have the Linguaphone Speak French thing, but it seems like a lot of work to learn very little.

I'll probably just get myself a girlfriend of each nationality and get them to teach me. But that's probably more difficult than learning them all by myself.

[ReZourceman]

BILINGUAL BLOOD FEST! :yay:

[Mundi]

I can write and speak Icelandic and English.
and I can get by in Danish but mostly just written, the same thing with French.
I can read a little Swedish and Norwegian but that´s just because it´s similar to Danish and Icelandic

[Stefkov]

でも漢字がまだ勉強しませんみたいwwwww

*stops acting like a 2chan user*
So you know the wwwww aswell.

I know English obviously. Learnt French until Year 9. From Year 8 I was learning Spanish so I took that on to GCSE. Our High school it wasn't an option to not choose a language. Also studied Italian after school but gave up on that.

I know a fair bit of Ukrainian and a have miniscule knowledge of Japanese.
моя iм'я є стефан.

[King_V]

Ah, as well as English I speak an ancient Nubian language called Nobiin.

I'm at a stage where I want to learn a language but can't really decide. Like I aim to learn one (Japanese), then change because I think I wouldn't really need to use it so whats the point? Its logical to learn the top 5 languages, i'm leaning towards French or Arabic.

[Razz]

I'm bilingual in english and italian. I can also speak french but not at the same level. Can read spansih.

[EchoDesiato]

でも漢字がまだ勉強しませんみたいｗｗｗｗｗ

*stops acting like a 2chan user*

そうだね。ショーチーは漢字が分からなければ頑張ったほうがいいだと思うよ。

それから、「ｗｗｗｗｗｗ」は何だ。

I know Dutch, English, French (though I'm not that good at it), a tiny bit of German, and now I'm studying Japanese. It's very likely I made some mistakes in the above Japanese sentence.

[Jordan]

I can only read and speak English... Well, kinda English. Its more like Yorkshire shite, but i try my best.

[stev2604]

Speak English obviously, and I can speak a fair bit of French and Irish. Doing both of them at the moment in school.


моя iм'я є стефан.

I tried to find a translator for that, but it said their not Ukranian? So I chanced Russian(don't ask me why), and it came out:

my i o. º Stefan

I'm guessing you're saying your name.:heh:

[will']

At the moment I only speak English. I have GCSE's in French and Spanish but I can't remember a word of them. I'm currently doing a bit of self taught Japanese and will also start some courses through work in it when they start back up. Hopefully that will lead to a few interesting work opportunities at some point down the line.

[Stefkov]

I tried to find a translator for that, but it said their not Ukranian? So I chanced Russian(don't ask me why), and it came out:
I'm guessing you're saying your name.:heh:
It is Ukrainian. 'My name is' .... it's saying. Russian and Ukrainian are alike, but there are some differences.

[Shino]

What's with the wwwww?

[Shorty]

it's like "lol" for the japanese, it's short for わらう (laugh). More Ws = more laughs. see it on BBS everywhere.

[stev2604]

It is Ukrainian. 'My name is' .... it's saying. Russian and Ukrainian are alike, but there are some differences.

Evidently.

I must have just used a crappy translator.

[McPhee]

I can manage basic French and German, just enough to get by on.

我是學講普通話 (I think that's right. Im learning to speak it, not write it ;) Did it make any sense Iun?)

[Shorty]

nah I'm pretty sure that's not French or German dude.

[Supergrunch]

I can manage basic French and German, just enough to get by on.

我是學講普通話 (I think that's right. Im learning to speak it, not write it :))
Hmm, must learn some Chinese some time, I fail to see how it works.

[welsh_gamer]

Welsh. Obviously.

[Konfucius]

My native language is german.
Then I can obviously speak, write and read English.
My French also used to be somewhat acceptable but I'm totally out of pratice.
I can also read Latin and say the most basic things in Italian.

[martinist]

I tryed to teach myself chinese by watching those wierd shows on the BBC learning zone at 3:00am. I failed, mostly because i was tired.

[Sparko]

I'm fluent in Irish and English, and have a basic understanding of German.

[Letty]

I can get by in french, and speak english and a tiny amount of swedish for some reason.
Also, Jordans dad speaks in arabic the whole time so I know a few words :D

[Stefkov]

What's with the wwwww?
I read it on Kotaku. Warau which like Shorty said is 'to laugh' in japanese.

[stev2604]

I'm fluent in Irish and English, and have a basic understanding of German.

Fair play for being able to become fluent in Irish.

[Chuck]

Im learning Italian

[ipaul]

I do Italian at college now as part of my course and I know some german. Thoguh I couldn't say much at all I might well recognise a few things :) I quite like languages though I am not much good at them. Got a C at GCSE in german, my worst result but what are you going to do.

[Beardy Man]

proficient with portuguese ( lol ), french ( since i've lived in switzerland for close to 10 years ) and english. Understand spanish and speak it a little. would like to learn japanese, german and spanish. reasons: Better job opportunities and because japanese is awesome :D

[chairdriver]

I do French and Latin at school.

Latin seems the funniest. Like pretending to be a pleb.

[ReZourceman]

french ( since i've lived in switzerland for close to 10 years )

Any reason you didn't learn Switzerlandish?

[stev2604]

Any reason you didn't learn Switzerlandish?

Uhh it's Swiss you idiot!

[Beardy Man]

Uhh it's Swiss you idiot!

it's none since they have 4 languages: french, italian, german and some other one I can't remember...pretty sure it not "swiss" but who knows.

[MoogleViper]

It's not swiss. I think he was joking though. If he wasn't then it's really ironic.

[Beardy Man]

until the "switzerlandish" obviously, he was joking...but from there I don't know :P
anyway, it's funny to pretend you don't know the names of some countries and their language :D

[Eenuh]

I know Dutch and English and I used to know French (I can still read most of it but speaking it and understanding the spoken language... that has kind of been forgotten after all those years). I also used to know Latin, which I enjoyed for some reason.

Would still love to learn Spanish and maybe Italian, but I know it'll never happen.

[Konfucius]

it's none since they have 4 languages: french, italian, german and some other one I can't remember...pretty sure it not "swiss" but who knows.

Rhaeto-Romanic should be the fourth one.

The thing is the Swiss (well the german part of Switzerland that is) speak somewhat of an older version of german - you could call it a dialect that is subdivided into more dialects. The matter of the fact is, that a German will hardly understand Swiss-german.

[stev2604]

it's none since they have 4 languages: french, italian, german and some other one I can't remember...pretty sure it not "swiss" but who knows.

That was a joke. I was just trying to continue ReZ's joke. :heh:

I'm not that stoopid.

[Beardy Man]

I forgot to mention that I can speak with animals too!!! true story! ask hellfire :D