lets see,
1. can read write speak urdu
2. can read write speak english
3. can read arabic
4. can speak punjabi
5. can speak saraiki
6. can speak hindi
7. can speak pushto but understand it perfectly
there are some others like jangli and stuff… but i dont count them since they are minor languages and not commonly known... next in line for me is french. really wanna learn that language.
My native languange is italian, 2nd place for english ( studied almost for 10 years ), 3rd one is russian ( 5 months in erasmus in Vilnius, Lithuania with the possibility to learn russian and I took it ) and the last one is spanish ( studied for myself with assimil ). But actually I can hold a conversation just in english and russian, not in spanish.
Italian, english, french, spanish, german (although it's been a while since I've spoken it the last time) and I'm learning japanese.
Why is 0 an option?
portuguese,english,spanish,france
(note:i NEVER study france..but for some reason i can read/talk)
I voted 2. My native language is English and I can pretty confidently speak Spanish.
My dad is German and my mom is Croatian, so I know both Languages fluently.
Oh and English, but who doesnt…
I can speak English, Spanish and French.
How many languages can I read? Three. (English, Spanish, and Japanese) How many can I speak?
[hide]One. :P[/hide]
Hopefully, I'll be able to read and speak alot more in the future. I'm currently interested in studying German, Greek, and Italian.
Lessee.
Fluent English (at least, I like to think so)
Some Spanish
Some Italian
I voted 1 since I can't speak the other 2 very fluently.
English and Bulgarian.
I studied German for a couple of years and I can honestly say that I didn't learn a thing. So I would definitely mark it as a "hard" language. Next year I'm starting Russian in school, which I like to believe is close to my native language and should be easy to learn. It's all about your determination, dedication and making connections with other languages that you already know.
One thing I can say for sure is, watch foreign stuff. You'll be surprised at how much you'll learn from that. Well, maybe you won't be surprised, considering you're already familiar with anime. But anyway, common phrases and words won't be a problem for you at all. And most importantly, you won't be bored, because you'll be watching something you're actually interested in.
Also, am I the only one seeing that this thread is 5 years old?
lets see,
1. can read write speak urdu
2. can read write speak english
3. can read arabic
4. can speak punjabi
5. can speak saraiki
6. can speak hindi
7. can speak pushto but understand it perfectlythere are some others like jangli and stuff… but i dont count them since they are minor languages and not commonly known... next in line for me is french. really wanna learn that language.
Wtf? I can do the same! Except for the pushto one. Am having a hard time learning dutch here.
I can speak swedish, english, spanish and danish, I also understand norweigan. I'll pick up mandarin in the begining of next year also, anyone here that knows mandarin?
hah, look at that… apparently I am the thread creator...
German and English.
I learnes Latin and ancient Greek in school, but forgot most of it =(
Oh, and I'm learning French since last week.
I only speak English fluently, but I'm learning basic Spanish.
i have to study farsi Arabic English at school
Damn people here speak quite a lot of languages
I really wanted to learn some of the ancient languages which is still used currently but totally not finding the time to do it
I vote zero because I'm so bad at learning languages that I doubt I'd have learned English if I wasn't raised from the crib with it lol.
Not sure why this thread was necro'd, but… I like languages so why not. If people are actually interested.
I vote zero because I'm so bad at learning languages that I doubt I'd have learned English if I wasn't raised from the crib with it lol.
I guess for some people the drive to learn a language comes out of compulsion and need. I suck at learning languages myself but staying in a country like mine, I really do need to learn the regional, common and the official language. Worst part is all of them belong to different roots (Sanskrit, Dravidian etc) or at least were common but got split up into incomparable ones.
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@xan:
I guess for some people the drive to learn a language comes out of compulsion and need. I suck at learning languages myself but staying in a country like mine, I really do need to learn the regional, common and the official language. Worst part is all of them belong to different roots (Sanskrit, Dravidian etc) or at least were common but got split up into incomparable ones.
I have lots of compulsion. Need though…eh.
Were I more a normal person on this I would probably pick up Greek and Spanish.
The former for familial reasons, the latter because yeah it's not necessary in the US but it's an easy optional. Spanish is right there down the block at any given point if you want to go interact with it.
only arabic and english
I vote zero because I'm so bad at learning languages that I doubt I'd have learned English if I wasn't raised from the crib with it lol.
You might be like me in that you can't really learn languages in a classroom enviroment.
Whatever language skills i've acquired have been through books/conversations/tv/videogames/forums.
Me i've got an almost passable grip on English, some basic Spanish and village idiot/gutter level Russian under my belt so far.
Perfectly fluent in French and English, and a bit of spanish. Though I'd like to learn more.
Who are the three smartasses who answered 0 ?
English only, but I'm trying to learn Spanish.
who answerd 9 ?
3 international (English, French, German)
3, native African languages - Twi & Ga
#Started and stopped Japanese, Hungarian, & Swahili
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I currently know 4 languages.
I speak portuguese, I can read in english but I write/talk in english more or less
Russian - native language, English and German - more or less fluent, Japanese - actively learning, but the progress has been lacking, unfortunately.
Native in English, fairly good but rusty with Spanish, and still learning/elementary proficiency in Japanese. Also took a year of Latin and one month of Russian before forgetting most of those languages.
National language, local language, and English. So, three.I can read Korean but have no idea what those words mean.
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@Massimo:
National language, local language, and English. So, three.I can read Korean but have no idea what those words mean.
I heard Korean is really easy to read. Is true? Btw check out "Talk to me in Korean" if you want to learn, apparently they're good.
@Massimo:
National language, local language, and English. So, three.I can read Korean but have no idea what those words mean.
What are the national and local languages?
German- mother tongue,
English- almost as good as german,
French-5 or 6years of learning it in school and I barely know anything now. I can still read it but not rly understand what I read,
Spanish- one year in school, can still say a few sentences
learning japanese since this year…
I want to know more languages and my mum always said I'm good with languages but I don't feel this to be true. I struggle a lot.
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I'm so jealous of everyone that speaks multiple languages.
If kitchen French counts for anything i'm not entirely incompetent in that regard either.
I won't vouch for my pronounciation. But i understand alot of cooking and culinary terms.
My native language is Arabic. I am fluent in French (speaking, reading and writing) and I know English (reding, speaking and writing) but my vocabulary is not that rich. And I understand Spanish.
I always feel weird when I say I know three languages, because I suck at Russian.
Besides that, my native language Georgian, obviously, and English.
And I wanna learn like 10 other languages, but not ever happening , probably.
English and Spanish.
Obviously English, but I'd say I'm….skilled enough to throw Italian onto that pile. I've been learning it since middle school, so at the very least, some things are just glued into my subconscious now. (Currently we just finished the remote past in my class, next week is conditional)
English, Japanese, and passable French.
I'd love to tackle German and Chinese someday (got a headstart with kanji :D).
@CCC:
English, Japanese, and passable French.
I'd love to tackle German and Chinese someday (got a headstart with kanji :D).
How do you and the others do it? Languages like Chinese and Japanese seem like a nightmare to learn because of the numerous symbols. It seems too easy to draw something wrong and mean [insert profanity] than oh say…."fish".
How do you and the others do it? Languages like Chinese and Japanese seem like a nightmare to learn because of the numerous symbols. It seems too easy to draw something wrong and mean [insert profanity] than oh say…."fish".
Kanji's probably my favorite part of Japanese, actually. You get to a point where it all sort of becomes clear. The logic and real utility of it (which means "fish" will pretty much never be mistakenly written as anything too far in meaning from "fish"). Where you realize that learning a single new character in its entirety opens up dozens of new vocab words and that much more overall comprehension. I've probably only got ~2000 of them down pat, but that's more than enough for average writing/games/manga. And knowing more makes learning others even easier.
It's a big motivator when you're trying to boost reading comprehension to get a manga volume finished in 2 days as opposed to 4 
How do you and the others do it? Languages like Chinese and Japanese seem like a nightmare to learn because of the numerous symbols. It seems too easy to draw something wrong and mean [insert profanity] than oh say…."fish".
The issue with Mandarin is the tones.
I heard Korean is really easy to read. Is true? Btw check out "Talk to me in Korean" if you want to learn, apparently they're good.
Yeah, quite easy. I didn't even know that at first. So a few years ago some Korean students came to my university. There was this cute girl and I used "I want to learn Korean alphabet" as an excuse to talk to her lol. To my surprise, in about two hours I knew all alphabets and read them albeit very slowly.
What are the national and local languages?
I'm Indonesian, so. Also, the local language is called Batak. It's from northen Sumatra.
Originally Posted by Emporio Ivankov
"Miracle only descends upon those with the will to carry on. Do not take them so lightly"
How do you and the others do it? Languages like Chinese and Japanese seem like a nightmare to learn because of the numerous symbols. It seems too easy to draw something wrong and mean [insert profanity] than oh say…."fish".
Learning Mandarin has been made easier with a system called "pinyin", where Roman letters are assigned phonetic sounds from the Chinese language, and the 4 tones are assigned numbers or accents. So the normal "hello" would look like ni1 hao3. Learning the characters is just complete memorization though, which I kind of find fun due to the funny little pictures you can imagine to put meaning to that symbol.
I was in China two weeks ago at this restaurant and this older man took interest in me and my husband and wanted to have small talk, I was able to use google translate to say "what is your name?" correctly from reading the pinyin 
felt great!
@Massimo:
Yeah, quite easy. I didn't even know that at first. So a few years ago some Korean students came to my university. There was this cute girl and I used "I want to learn Korean alphabet" as an excuse to talk to her lol. To my surprise, in about two hours I knew all alphabets and read them albeit very
That's hilarious lol! Wish I knew reading Korean was easy, would've helped immensely when I was in Korea since I had to use the Korean maps app so much >_<
