Language Learning

[Carlota]

Spanish (Mexican variety). I am a Spanish teacher and i loved linguistics (morphology through semantics). Bilingualism and language dialects are also fascinating.

I took a (Brazilian) Portuguese class and I can fairly understand what is written. 

[Megan82]

I learned canadian french in elementary and 2 years in high school (obligatory), and I'm learning france french now. I am definitely noticing the differences as I learn more, mostly little nuances that pop up.

[Blue Senpai]

I learned Spanish first and then English when I started elementary school.
I want to learn either French, Italian or German next.

[ThePersona]

Hello! Bonjour! Annyeong Haseyo! Ni Hao! Konichiwa! Privet (привет)

I currently speak
English
French
Italian
Latin
Russian

Learning
Korean

Languages I speak that are dead
Enochian
Biblical Hebrew


I've always been fascinated by language did you know that in Chinese verbs don't conjugate! Or that in some Australian languages they don't use left, right, forwards or backwards and instead describe direction using the cardinal directions! Or that in Korean there are two words for "we" to describe whether "we" in inclusive or exclusive!

Yeah, I'm a nerd, I know. But at least I can speak a ton of languages and be a nerd!

[Drazenko]

My native is Croatian/Serbian. I learned English when I came to U.S. in 2001
My favorite language is German. I am not fluent though. I like German because I feel like listening to Oomph or Rammstein helps me when I'm angry. 

[chaotic]

ohh. i'm fluent in polish and advanced in spanish. got some beginner german and japanese going too. i'm kind of a language nerd

[L00T]

I love Language. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed it until recently.

I've been learning Japanese. It's still very basic. I know most Hiragana, a few Katakana, and a handful of Kanji. Though I know a few hundred spoken words. I've been really trying to buckle down recently and connect all the dots together. I want to be able to be around the N3 level (a Japanese language proficiency test, 5 being the easiest, 1 being the hardest) before I apply for university to study it. I'm not the quickest learner, so having that head start will make me feel better.

私は日本語が少し分かります。

[Polina]

Hello, hola, oi, привет!
Language it's very interesting! Now I need study english many many time for speak fluently! I speak spanish good and my native language is russian!
I want study portuguese and french too and later i want to study second slavic language: polish or czech )))

[Daft]

I love Language. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed it until recently.

I've been learning Japanese. It's still very basic. I know most Hiragana, a few Katakana, and a handful of Kanji. Though I know a few hundred spoken words. I've been really trying to buckle down recently and connect all the dots together. I want to be able to be around the N3 level (a Japanese language proficiency test, 5 being the easiest, 1 being the hardest) before I apply for university to study it. I'm not the quickest learner, so having that head start will make me feel better.

私は日本語が少し分かります。

I'm guessing Hiragana is the easiest to pick up on? I'm interested in learning Japanese, and my university offers it, but I feel like I'd lose track very easily.

I find language intriguing, and would love to become fluent in a multitude of them, especially Romantic languages. I took two years of Spanish in high school, and I'm taking French in college, but I'm not doing too well. I'm quite interested in German, Dutch, and Italian, and would love to learn one of them one day.

[awkward-shark]

I'm a linguistics student, I live in Mexico so spanish is my native language and I like to think I'm fluent in english (though, I've never had the chance to practice face to face with native speakers, I can only say I'm fluent writting it...). I've taken french clases before and I loved it but couldn't put as much effort on it as I would've liked. I understand the basic stuff, though.

I don't see myself as a language lover as in "I love learning languages" but as in "I love language as whole". The only languages that I'd like to learn and be fluent on is french, greek and latin (noone can be fluent in latin, of course, I'd like to be able to make translations and read it).

[Sulmor10]

I'm only 13 so II don't know if I really count, but I'm essentially bilingual in Irish (I only learnt Northern Irish dialect in primary school, then in secondary went on to the other dialects which was very difficult and confusing) and English. I do German in school, and I have one of the top grade averages for my year and the best spoken German in my year and the year ahead, apparently! I taught myself the Cyrillic alphabet when I was about 9, though I only know a tiny bit of Russian (I can pick out some words in a TV show or movie, but not read very well). I am studying (in a very lazy manner ) Danish at home, and plan to do Spanish. I also have a small bit of French, Italian and Japanese from my mom and reading books, as well as an unhealthy amount of Japanese animation... I want to be a translator when I grow up, so I'll have to do more work if I'm going to get anywhere! I also want to re-learn the French and Japanese from my childhood since they're such useful languages. I secretly want to learn Finnish and Ukrainian, though I don't think my mom would approve on me using my time on languages I won't get to use very often... She wants me to learn Polish very badly so she can use me in the Polish supermarket, but I find it a really hard language to pick up and it's taking me a while. I can read a bit, but I can only hope it'll pick up soon.

Latin would be awesome too. 

[awkward-shark]

I'm only 13 so II don't know if I really count, but I'm essentially bilingual in Irish (I only learnt Northern Irish dialect in primary school, then in secondary went on to the other dialects which was very difficult and confusing) and English. I do German in school, and I have one of the top grade averages for my year and the best spoken German in my year and the year ahead, apparently! I taught myself the Cyrillic alphabet when I was about 9, though I only know a tiny bit of Russian (I can pick out some words in a TV show or movie, but not read very well). I am studying (in a very lazy manner ) Danish at home, and plan to do Spanish. I also have a small bit of French, Italian and Japanese from my mom and reading books, as well as an unhealthy amount of Japanese animation... I want to be a translator when I grow up, so I'll have to do more work if I'm going to get anywhere! I also want to re-learn the French and Japanese from my childhood since they're such useful languages. I secretly want to learn Finnish and Ukrainian, though I don't think my mom would approve on me using my time on languages I won't get to use very often... She wants me to learn Polish very badly so she can use me in the Polish supermarket, but I find it a really hard language to pick up and it's taking me a while. I can read a bit, but I can only hope it'll pick up soon.

Latin would be awesome too. 

WOW!! I envy you. When I was 13 I had a very basic level of english and had trouble in spanish spelling... I guess living in Europe where a lot of languages colide is an advantage? Honestly, you should keep doing it if it's something that you like. Would you like to translate books or be more like an interpreter?
Don't worry, you're very young and already have the basics on plenty of languages, as it seems. Try to learn one language at a time, perhaps? That way you focus more time on one single thing at a time and you learn more, at least that's how I see it, but different people learn in different ways.

[Lady Smith]

When I was younger I was keen on Middle English poetry and while I can't speak French I can read it,  My Latin is shocking, unfortunately when I was in school Latin was taught like it was a punishment for being naughty so I never felt motivated to master it.  I would like to learn Aramaic to help with scripture study though.

[genderirrelevant]

I've been listening to JapanesePod101.com for almost 10 years and it has really helped me retain my intermediate level since moving home. They have a whole suite of language learning websites, just try "xLanguage"Pod101.com e.g. SpanishPod101.com. The most recent podcasts are available free for ~3 weeks. You can get a very short paid membership and download all the previous lessons.

[Sky]

こんいちわ! Hello! Privet!

I know-
English
Japanese
and Some Russian. ^_^ I'm quite a quick learner. 

[WildThing]

I know a little Russian, some Spanish, A couple of phrases in Irish, and English (obvs)

[Sulmor10]

WOW!! I envy you. When I was 13 I had a very basic level of English and had trouble in Spanish spelling... I guess living in Europe where a lot of languages collide is an advantage? Honestly, you should keep doing it if it's something that you like. Would you like to translate books or be more like an interpreter?
Don't worry, you're very young and already have the basics on plenty of languages, as it seems. Try to learn one language at a time, perhaps? That way you focus more time on one single thing at a time and you learn more, at least that's how I see it, but different people learn in different ways.

  I don't really know at the moment. Having multiple languages is pretty useful in Europe, so I'd love to actually work at translating documents for the government or teaching English on the mainland.

[DriftingCrow]

I've been taking telephone-courses on improving my Gurmukhi-script reading. I feel like I am getting a lot better.

[Felicity R]

Languages have always been interesting to me. I took two years of French in high school, but none of it really stuck with me regrettably.

I did however, take a year of Russian in high school and two and a half years in college. Due to a lack of use, I've forgotten some of it, and most assuredly couldn't hold a conversation without a brief refresher. I've found that I can still read Russian relatively well though.

Funnily enough, learning Russian completely destroyed my ability to write in cursive in English. Throughout school I was always taught to write in non-cursive text, whereas Russian was the complete opposite in that everything was written in cursive. Even to this day if I try and write in cursive in English I have to focus very hard to make sure that I am forming English letters and not Russian ones 

I also wanted to take Farsi while I was in college, but simply didn't have the time in my schedule to accommodate it. I've considered simply auditing the class anyway now that I've already graduated.

French has always interested me as well. I would love to go back to it more seriously.