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...