Native Russian speaker, know English on an upper-intermediate level and now I'm learning Japanese myself. Moreover in the next term I have to choose the second language. I haven't made up my mind yet whether it should be German or Spanish.
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Anonymous2011-05-27 11:48
Native Icelandic speaker, I speak good English and decent danish. Currently learning Japanese and spanish.
>>10
Go for German. Outside of Germany, it's widely spoken in eastern Europe.
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Anonymous2011-05-31 20:41
I speaka da chinese
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Anonymous2011-06-02 12:35
know/learning: english(native), norwegian (decent), spanish(recently picked up again after 3 years so pretty meh atm)
plan to learn: finnish, dutch, german, french...as many as i can really until i either dont feel like learning any more or cant learn any more. lifes long so i figure i have time.
know/learning: english (native), japanese (2nd), spanish (3rd)
planning on: chinese, arabic, swedish
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Anonymous2011-06-09 2:11
know: english
learning: japanese (advanced reading level)
planning on: chinese, spanish, german
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Anonymous2011-06-09 9:46
Know: Russian(native), English(2nd)
Learning: Japanese
Planning: Korean. Maybe German next.
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Anonymous2011-06-15 0:03
NATIVE - Spanish
KNOW WELL - Portuguese, French
LEARNING - Russian
SOMEDAY I'LL LEARN - Scandinavian [dunno which dialect], Romanian
NEVER - Japanese [East Asian nigger equivalent], Turk [dogspeak].
Note, although I can write English, I don't list it because dunno how to pronounce.
>>18
Why don't you just learn how to pronounce English? It's very similar to French.
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truecocker2011-06-18 20:39
>>18
I bet it would sound very interesting if you tried to read aloud or speak English.
In fact, I'd like to request that you make a recording of yourself reading some English text, perhaps from a news site or this thread or wherever. I'm really interested in hearing how you sound.
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Anonymous2011-06-18 22:49
KNOW: English, German
LEARNING: Japanese (月世界語大好き！)
PLANNING: another East Asian language, maybe Chinese or Korean. I should add a Romantic language to my list, but I despise them for some reason.
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Anonymous2011-06-19 6:09
NATIVE: English
KNOW: French
LEARNING: Swahili, Icelandic
PLANNING TO LEARN OVER THE SUMMER: German, Russian
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Anonymous2011-06-23 23:32
-native English speaker
-decent at french, like i can read it alright but i cant speak it or understand it that well, so i want to be a lot better
-(slowly) learning arabic and urdu
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Anonymous2011-06-24 5:57
FAGGOT
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Anonymous2011-06-24 15:19
We should all focus on mastering all the sounds of the IPA. Then languages will come more easily to us.
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Anonymous2011-06-25 20:34
i know english and low-level spanish (which i hate). my high school only offered spanish, so i took it to fulfill the university i will be attending's language requirement.
i am studying french on my own, at the moment. i've studied japanese in the past, so i understand basic principles of the language, which i'll be continuing through an intensive program this fall.
i wish to be fluent in french, russian, and german. there are a few others, such as middle eastern/central asian languages, classical greek, etc. which i find daunting and slightly less useful, so they're lower on my list.
right now, i'm trying to figure out how i'll go about this, as 18 to 20 credits per semester will be pushing my limits, and my japanese course alone is 10. i also know that i'll need to cram in other classes for whatever major i eventually settle on. i'm thinking a mix of autodidactic study, basic classes or peer instruction, and straight up travel will be best.
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Hijack2011-07-02 1:24
Partial thread hijack. How hard/self-defeating is it to learn several languages at the same time? I'm a native English speaker and I know a fair amount of spanish, but I'm moving to Japan in a few months and want to know how bad I'll fuck myself up if I try to learn Spanish and Japanese at the same time.
>>28
Not at all, especially when it comes to completely different languages like Japanese and Spanish. In fact I am studying those two right now without trouble.
You might run into issues with similar languages like French and Spanish, but it is plain impossible to mix up Spanish and Japanese.
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Anonymous2011-07-12 0:41
I was raised with both Greek and English and can speak fluently in both, but am currently pursuing Japanese.
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Anonymous2011-07-15 15:16
Native: English
Can get around in Spanish, but I don't care that much about it.
Learning Arabic at the moment via college. I just finished my first final (I got a 100%) and my professor has said that he's never seen someone pick Arabic up so quickly before. I'm just four weeks in and I can have five minute long conversations.
I'm going to take 4 years of Arabic at college, so far I just finished the first semester of the first year (I'm in a special summer language program).
I'm going to be taking Pashto and Kurdish (Kurmanji) in the fall.
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Anonymous2011-07-16 16:09
I can read Dutch, English, German and French (French just barely though)
I'm learning Japanese
I'm planning to learn Mandarin (already started, I now know the basics), Spanish and Icelandic.
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batoru2011-07-18 1:19
Native English
Japanese at an advanced level
Can speak a little Mandarin, plan to take courses at university soon.
Interested in Korean, French, Hindi and others but no plans.
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Anonymous2011-07-18 2:48
Native: English (American)
Low level (enough to survive): French and Japanese
Low level (actively learning): Chinese
I'd like to pick up French and Japanese again (I don't get enough practice).
I would like to learn Spanish, Polish, and Ukrainian. I deal with many speakers of these languages at work, so my interest in them is far more utilitarian.
Speaking: German (native), English, Latin
Currently learning: Russian
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Anonymous2011-07-31 13:54
Native spanish (latinamérica)
Fluent german and english
Learning norwegian (because of norwegian girlfriend) (we live in Austria)
Can a bit of japanese because learning videos in jewtube
I also understand lots of dutch, italian and portuguese
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Anonymous2011-07-31 16:20
Native: Cajun French
Fluent: English
Learning: Spanish
Someday: Japanese, Quechua
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Anonymous2011-08-02 22:57
native: english
conversational: german
learning: more german (goal is fluency)
very rusty: latin
want to learn:
french
dutch
more latin
koine greek
spanish
japanese
norwegian
klingon
i should stop, really...
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Anonymous2011-08-15 19:29
Native: English
Fluent: Scots/Doric... not sure if actual language, but w/e
Need to improve: French. It's an on off love affair.
Native: English
Know/Learning: French
Want to learn: Spanish & Russian
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Anonymous2011-09-11 11:02
* English (native)
* Portuguese (native, spoken only)
* French (very rusty at this point)
* Japanese (getting there)
* Mandarin Chinese (still weak)
* Korean (only basic stuff)
* Russian (starting this month)
* German (probably next year)
Hay suficiente en el mundo para cubrir las necesidades de todos los hombres, pero no para satisfacer su codicia. jvmll http://youtu.be/Vqls8q3tcjg
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Anonymous2011-09-12 13:55
Native: Brazillian Portuguese
Know: English
Learning: French
Next: German
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Anonymous2011-09-12 16:51
Native: English
Native: Dutch
Know: German
Learning: French, 日本語.
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Anonymous2011-09-12 23:28
Native: English
Learning: Japanese
Next: Norwegian
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Murakov2011-09-13 2:20
Native: English
Know: Japanese (can speak fluently, but reading/writing's still challenging)
Learning: Russian
Learning: Armenian (my two heritage languages)
Next: Arabic
Next: Korean
Next: Portuguese
Next: Mandarin
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Anonymous2011-09-13 3:12
Native: English, Brazilian Portuguese, French
Learning: Korean
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Anonymous2011-09-13 4:43
Native: German
Know: English
Know: Classical Latin (reading fluent, writing worse)
Know: Ecclesiastical Latin (*way* more challenging)
Learning: Japanese
Next: French
Next: Russian
Next: Mandarin
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Anonymous2011-09-18 0:02
Native; English
Fluent: Hebrew
Fluent: Greek
Fluent: French
Fluent: Spanish
Next: German
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Anonymous2011-09-20 21:32
Native: Japanese
Know: English, Chinese
Learning: French, Russian
Next: German, Hebrew
But sometimes I feel it is worthless for me to learn a lot of language......(Some Japanese is thinking learning other language is meaningless except English. So mass opinion manipulate me!)
Well, Studying language is interesting for me, so I'll keep going on.
Why would anyone want to learn russian?
Film making is long dead.
Video game industry hasn't been even born.
Modern literature is dead. Sure, you could read classic, but does it really worth it?
Maybe you've got a russian friend, but unless he's a complete idiot, he speaks english anyway. So why bother?
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Anonymous2011-10-17 7:26
Native: Bengali
Fluent in: English, French, Hindi
Terrible at: Arabic, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Japanese
Learning: Icelandic, Kannada
Want to learn: Finnish, Estonian, Latin, Greek
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Anonymous2011-10-17 14:39
My native language is Russian. I speak English fluently. Also I am good at French and German. I hope to learn Dutch, Swedish and Baltic languages.
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Anonymous2011-10-17 21:29
Native: English
Major: Chinese and Japanese
Dropped: Hebrew and Spanish
Want to learn: Russian and maybe Korean
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Anonymous2011-10-19 5:27
Native: Japanese
Not Fluent: English
Dropped: Korean,Russian,Latin
Want to learn: German,Arabic
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Anonymous2011-10-19 16:01
Native: Russian, Ukranian
Not fluent: English (not fluent 'cause had next to no speaking practice, reading etc is ok (hopefully))
Currently learning: Japanese (4 years)
Would like to learn (in my dreams): German
At the moment, Swedish. I'd like to learn Japanese, but I haven't started studying it yet.
I started learning Swedish in mid 2010. I haven't been studying as much as I should, so I'm only just beginning to understand things now. But man, even though I can only understand a small amount, it feels amazing being able to understand another language.
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Anonymous2011-10-19 17:25
I am a native English speaker, 我现在学习中文。 I speak some broken Mexican Spanish and Argentine Spanish.
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Anonymous2011-10-21 4:56
Native: English
Actively using: Czech and Slovak
Dropped: French, German, Latin
Would like to learn: Hungarian
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Anonymous2011-10-23 2:26
Native: German
Know: English (Fluent) Polish (Fluent) Turkish (Rusty)
Want to learn: Russian, Czech, Arabic
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Anonymous2011-10-23 2:31
Native: German
Know: English (Fluent) Polish (Fluent) Turkish (Rusty)
Want to learn: Russian, Czech, Arabic
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Anonymous2011-10-28 13:50
I know swedish and english.
Want to learn: Japanese
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Anonymous2011-10-28 14:15
Native: Czech and English.
Studying: Japanese, 1st year; Italian, 2nd year; Russian, 5th year.
Want to learn: Latin and Finnish
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Anonymous2011-10-30 14:27
Native:
English
Learned:
French (6 or 7 years' worth, haven't used it in ages though. I can still understand from listening.)
Spanish (1 years' worth, picking it up again soon.)
Learning:
Mandarin Chinese (only 3 month's worth, but they've been pretty intensive months.)
Japanese (small amounts of work on it over a longer period.)
Next up:
Arabic
Hebrew
Indonesian
Possibly:
Korean
German
Swahili
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Anonymous2011-10-30 16:58
Native : French
Know : English
Learn : Russian / English
Want to learn : Italian/Sweden
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Anonymous2011-11-06 13:38
Native: Vietnamese from parents. Illiterate.
Know: English
Currently learning Spanish. Thinking about Chinese, Italian, French, or Japanese.
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Anonymous2011-11-06 17:39
>>39
what? do you want to go to the peruvian andes?
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molot2011-11-06 17:47
>>39
wut? do you want to go to the peruvian andes?
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Anonymous2011-11-06 20:41
Native: Dutch
Know: English
Learning: Japanese
Want to learn: German, Chinese, Russian
How realistic is it even to want to learn Chinese, Japanese and Russian, 3 non-alphabet languages for a Dutchman?
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Anonymous2011-11-07 16:27
>>84
Don't worry about Russian, any idiot could learn the Cyrillic alphabet in less than an hour.
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Anonymous2011-11-14 23:11
Native: English
Know: English
Learning: Some Japanese, Spanish, and French.
Want to learn: German, Swedish.