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Hi/Ola/Bonjour/Hej/ni hao/ salahm

I recently started learning Danish (recently as in this week) independently at home. So far I'm having a great time at it, I've always wanted to learn another language and Danish has always appealed to me, despite the weird pronunciations.

Anyway I was wondering if any of you lovely people also have a passion for languages or even a mild interest. And what languages do you speak/how did you learn them? What is it that drew you to doing it in the first place? For me it was a desire to speak another language because I always thought it would be cool to be able to have conversations that most people where I live can't understand :P Then it just became about the joy when you reach a stage in the language where you understand what you hear on TV/Movies etc. and can carry a conversation with a native speaker without asking them to speak slowly. It's a fantastic feeling of achievement.

Also if there any Danes reading this "kan du hjælpe mig?", I'd love to get some practice talking in Danish, both in text and speech ;) tusind tak.


Jessie :)

I would love to visit Denmark one day. As for the topic I am learning Japanese and most likely will be heading to live there next year for a while. It's quite a challenging language but most enjoyable. I try to watch a lot of Jdrama and Anime to help with my listening skill, as well as Jradio over the net.

Ooh, I'm envious.  I've always wanted to learn Japanese and Sign Language but I'm really terrible at learning other languages.  I struggled with my Spanish classes in school so I've not really tried to learn to speak another language since then.

Do to my previous occupation I had to learn a number of languages. Sadly, since I have not used them for quite a while I have forgotten them. I have learned:
Russian
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Arabic (a few dialects)
And a few others.

Currently supposed to be studying for exams as I am doing 1st year French at Uni.  :laugh:
Previously I took night school Chinese for 2 years but have forgotten pretty much all of it due to disuse.  I have enrolled in German for next year as well as continuing French.

Karen.

That's all awesome :)

Brooke that is amazing, I really want to know a few languages at some point. The wish list at the moment is English, Danish, Irish, French, Russian or Arabic, Mandarin or Japanese. That might change though in the future.

ZombieDog, don't let not being good at classes put you off. I studied French and Irish in school for 6 and 11 years respectively and barely knew how to cobble a sentence together. I'm having a much better time learning now on my own using only free internet materiel. Classrooms are not great places to learn languages because you don't get enough real practice with people or get to look at stuff that interests you.
If you want to give it a go at any point for real I have loads of links to places that would be helpful :)

Kaila, it really is so much easier when there are entertainment things you enjoy in the language. It's really motivating to have that goal to read a book or watch a film in it's original language. It makes it feel much more real than just learning grammar rules from a book or something like that.

Jessie :)

I spent as summer at the University of Aarhus..."heaven must have loose some Angels"

I used to live in Aarhus as a toddler when my dad worked in the University. That's what sort of put the idea of learning Danish into my head. I have applied for post graduate positions there recently, it would be cool to move back and actually remember this time haha.

Do you mind if I ask when you were there?

I didn't know if it was OK to post the links directly, but here they are now. I am not affiliated with the people who run these sites, I just use the sites for my own personal gain.

General Language:

http://www.memrise.com/ (http://www.memrise.com/)
http://ankisrs.net/ (http://ankisrs.net/) (I don't really use this much)
http://www.learnoasis.com/ (http://www.learnoasis.com/) (English, Danish, Hungarian, Arabic, Spanish)
http://www.lingq.com/ (http://www.lingq.com/) (I don't use this too much either)
http://radiolingua.com/shows/other-languages/ (http://radiolingua.com/shows/other-languages/) (podcasts)
http://www.onlineradiostations.com/ (http://www.onlineradiostations.com/) (internet radio, I choose stations in my target language)

Speaking Practice (using webcam/skype/chat type functions)

http://www.italki.com/ (http://www.italki.com/)
https://www.verbling.com/ (https://www.verbling.com/) (11 major languages [Beta], chat roulette sans penis :P )
There's loads more that do the same thing, it's hard to go wrong.

Danish Specific

http://www.speakdanish.dk/ (http://www.speakdanish.dk/) (small set of free material, + more for a price [I haven't used the paid content])
http://radiolingua.com/shows/other-languages/one-minute-danish/ (http://radiolingua.com/shows/other-languages/one-minute-danish/) (podcasts)
http://www.copenhagencast.com/ (http://www.copenhagencast.com/) (podcasts)

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. :)

Jessie

I have started using Memrise a bit and I have noticed that I learn languages much better on my own time than in classes o.o I am currently working on French, German and Spanish, but I would like to learn Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Italian, and Dutch over the next few years as well. I speak English (obviously) and though I am not fluent in French, I am an adequate writer. I am a programmer in a community that is mostly English and French speaking, so I often try to translate tutorials and documentation (usually only around 30 to 50 pages, though). My goal is to be able to read fluently in as many languages as possible so that I can learn and then to be able to write fluently so that I can share my knowledge. Speaking isn't too high on my priority list, but it isn't in English, either XD

I'm something of an amateur conlanger, so I've been trying to learn some other languages to help with that. I have a great interest in Latin and Ancient Greek; I'm adequate at the former and a novice at the latter. I also speak a little French, although I could do with some practice, I'm a little rusty!

I took German in highschool for three years and a year of Japanese and Chinese each in college, but never really stuck with it so I'm couldn't really speak anything though I can understand German pretty well. I've always wanted to learn Aramaic, but since it's dying out I'm running out of time. I also really like Arabic, I think it sounds beautiful especially in the form of the Islamic adhan (call to prayer), also I think Hebrew is really cool as the language has so many subtleties.

Quote from: septuagenarianTurist on January 21, 2013, 10:04:51 AM
I'm something of an amateur conlanger, so I've been trying to learn some other languages to help with that. I have a great interest in Latin and Ancient Greek; I'm adequate at the former and a novice at the latter. I also speak a little French, although I could do with some practice, I'm a little rusty!

I've just started to get into conlanging, it is so hard! it's like a brain workout!

I took Spanish in high school, but don't really know anything, and French in college but didn't do well (I got a C first semester, a D second).

I was learning Eastern Arabic via Pimsleur, and it was great. I love Pimsleur. I think Arabic is so beautiful, and saying "ma teke inglesi" to canvassers on the street works well to get them to leave me alone.  :D

I am currently learning Brazilian Portuguese though, also with Pimsleur. I switched over becauce there's a ton of Portuguese people here, including my next door neighbor so I'd have more of an opportunity to practice it. There's also more materials for Portuguese that I can get after I finish the 3 levels of Pimsleur that I can use where there wasn't as many in the Eastern Arabic.

I do want to continue with Arabic though.

Quote from: Jessica M on September 26, 2012, 05:57:02 PM
Hi/Ola/Bonjour/Hej/ni hao/ salahm

If that was your attempt at Spanish, it's spelled "hola."  :P

Quote from: LearnedHand on February 09, 2013, 03:06:24 PM
I took Spanish in high school

Ugh, don't even get me started. I only chose that class to get an easy A, seeing as to how language class was mandated.  :laugh:

Quote from: DianaP on February 09, 2013, 03:58:45 PM

Ugh, don't even get me started. I only chose that class to get an easy A, seeing as to how language class was mandated.  :laugh:

Lol, yeah I really only learned how to say "Corey es calvo" and a bit on how to make cocaine.  :P

Two years of German during high school. A year and a half of (full time) Mandarin after college. Some Ancient Greek, self-taught in a few other languages.

Managed to get along fairly well in Germany on my one visit there, mainly Berlin. My ex promised (but eventually forgot, to the point where she denied once ever promising) to get us to China or Taiwan some day. Also learned a fair bit of religious Hebrew, Latin and Aramaic. My initial interest in Chinese actually came from being in a production of Brecht's The Good Person of Sichuan -- I had a huge crush/almost SWF identification with the lead actress, who happened to be studying Chinese at the time, and also an interest in reading the Yi Ching in the original.

Also studied most of the Old and Middle English dialects a little as part of a Structure and History class (I was an English major).  The professor for that class allegedly knew somewhere upwards of 20 languages and wanted to make fluency in most of those dialects one of the requirements for English Honors. He was the son of Peruvian diplomats, and so had gained fluency in several languages, probably sometime in pre-school and didn't appreciate that others might not have such quick study skills and yet might still be intelligent and well-versed.  I think he was also a friend of gay historian, John Boswell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boswell), though maybe I made too much out of a footnote in Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3631097.html)?  Whether true or not, he was the object of much curiosity among my friends.

I'm a native English speaker, though I'm fluent in German (10+ years of study, spent time interning in Stuttgart) and Sign Language (one of my grans was deaf).

I could probably get by in Spanish and Gaelic.

... oh and my French is horrendous! :p

I would love to learn an Asian language though!

Quote from: DianaP on February 09, 2013, 03:58:45 PM
If that was your attempt at Spanish, it's spelled "hola."  :P

Ugh, don't even get me started. I only chose that class to get an easy A, seeing as to how language class was mandated.  :laugh:

Actually, 'Ola' can pass as Portuguese, lol!

I used to be a big language enthusiast; I could get by in accent-free Quebec French and Castilian Spanish, and took Mandarin and Japanese classes in University College. I also come from a Filipino background, so I could speak basic Tagalog.

I learned Esperanto when I was 13 years old, and that just began a whole whorl of linguistic tendencies! I can also read and pronounce transliterated Punjabi, Hindi, and Sanskrit. Church Latin, German, Korean, Portuguese (both Continental and Brazilian), etc. Not that I understand these particular languages, but at least I've mastered their basic phonemic inventories!

Nowadays, I'm really just fluent in my native language, which is English, lol. However, it would be nice to retake a language and just master it. I would rather be bilingual at bare minimum than monolingual any day!

I took Spanish throughout high school but forgot most of it, unfortunately. I'm only fluent in English...

I would love to learn Swedish, Finnish, or Japanese.

Quote from: Bexi on February 09, 2013, 08:10:01 PM
I could probably get by in Spanish and Gaelic.

Irish or Scots Gaelic, not that they are massively different but the distinction matters to some :P

Quote from: Mohini on March 05, 2013, 06:23:47 AM
Actually, 'Ola' can pass as Portuguese, lol!

Yeah lets pretend that was my intention and that I can actually spell :P

Also sorry to resurrect a (presumably) dead discussion but I've been away from the site for a while.

I lived for 12-13 years in Poland and whilst there learned the language naturally and several years later I'm still pretty much bilingual in Polish (anything I can do in English I can do usually in Polish). I also learned French at school, Russian, Spanish (at least three times but I keep forgetting), Czech, Italian and some German, but usually Germans and Austrians visibly wince when I try to speak German and other non-native speakers tend to become confused.

I've just started learning Japanese through Pimsleur and I love it.  I've always loved the English language and grammar and I'm really bummed that they don't teach grammar in high school anymore! What's up with that?? Anyways, French is next on the list and then Mandarin.  But language is fascinating to me, I can't really put my finger on why.

I'm learning sign language so that when I go to conventions as a boy I won't have to talk.  And because  I want to become an ASL translator.

Although I live in an area where I really should try to refine my Spanish, I have always wanted to learn Japanese. I even took a semester of it before our local university lost our only instructor. :(

Currently, I am planning on continuing with Latin. My Latin professor was the first person I ever encountered to speak of being transgendered as a non-negative. Consequently, she is the first person I came out to at the University and out of loyalty I'm inclined to continue with it... not to mention it's a fascinating language.  :)

Quote from: StellaB on May 14, 2013, 03:19:27 PM
I lived for 12-13 years in Poland and whilst there learned the language naturally and several years later I'm still pretty much bilingual in Polish (anything I can do in English I can do usually in Polish). I also learned French at school, Russian, Spanish (at least three times but I keep forgetting), Czech, Italian and some German, but usually Germans and Austrians visibly wince when I try to speak German and other non-native speakers tend to become confused.

Dobreze.   :)

I speak English and Dutch fluently, pretty reasonable Italian and I am learning Japanese (yatta! ^_^). I want to start Korean too soon.

Languages! Yay! I'm a native English speaker, but proficient in Spanish.  I can read/write it better than I can speak it due to disuse.  I have studied Italian in the past, but remember very little of it.  I am currently attempting to learn Modern Greek on my own.  It's an adventure! Yassou!

あたしは三年ぐらい日本語を勉強している。

I'm double minoring in Japanese.

Thank you so much for the links!

I'm a typical American.  I only speak English fluently.  I did study Spanish in high school and Italian in College, but never mastered them.  I even studied in Italy for a while and never really learned the language.  However, one day I do hope to master Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Russian (Italian and French being my first priorities). Will it happen?  I don't know. For those who live in a Scandinavian country, how easy is it to get around without knowing the respective native language? Just curious. 

English is my native language. As a Canadian I had to study French in school. Also, my mom's family are French Canadian. Sadly, my French is miserable since I have spent little time in the past 15 years or so practicing it :(. I can still read ok, but am completely lost when someone tries to talk to me. Some day I hope to take some classes.
I do speak Russian, which I studied in Uni and in Russia. I also speak passable Czech (please don't judge me too harshly Sarah84 when you hear me speak! :) ) - Some situations in Czech are second nature to me at this point, but I often find myself in the middle of a conversation where both the grammar and the vocab are lost on me  I am also having some crazy problems with my doctors at the moment where I struggle when trying to decide which gender to use when using verbs in the past tense do describe something I did :) I am too used to using the masculine ending when talking to people..

I am now trying to learn some Punjabi, starting very simply with the Gurmukhi alphabet.

Latvian is my native language (to those who might wonder, it is one of the two remaining languages of Baltic branch of Indo-European languages. My Russian is on par with my Latvian, English coming in as my third language.
I have also taken courses or studied German (for 6 years during school), French and Chinese for about 3 years. These are my "sleeping" languages - I can "reactivate" them if needed, but because of the lack of practice, I cant improve my proficiency with them  :(.

Quote from: -Emily- on July 06, 2013, 10:28:17 AM
Latvian is my native language (to those who might wonder, it is one of the two remaining languages of Baltic branch of Indo-European languages. My Russian is on par with my Latvian, English coming in as my third language.
I have also taken courses or studied German (for 6 years during school), French and Chinese for about 3 years. These are my "sleeping" languages - I can "reactivate" them if needed, but because of the lack of practice, I cant improve my proficiency with them  :(.

How cool, Lativan (as well as Estonian) sound like fun languages. Funny, my husband can sing the entire Latvian national anthem in Latvian by heart.  :)

Quote from: LearnedHand on July 06, 2013, 11:55:07 AM
How cool, Lativan (as well as Estonian) sound like fun languages. Funny, my husband can sing the entire Latvian national anthem in Latvian by heart.  :)

Is he a child of WW2 aftermath exiles? Estonian sounds very much like Finnish, but as far as I have talked with my Estonian friends, it is even more complicated than Latvian and Russian... We have only 7 possesive cases - Estonians have 14!!! Though we still conjugate the verbs to match gender, tense and singular/plural.... Ah yeah, and the joy of pronounciation :) - being Latvian, I never had trouble to pronounce Chinese words correctly :P

I took 2 years of French in high school, about 30-32 years ago...have forgotten nearly all of it. A couple years ago I took a semester of German in college, and often I would automatically slip in the correct French words (Once an entire sentence) during presentations, and not notice it until the instructor mentioned it. :embarrassed:

Practice, practice practice. Not only at home and the classroom, but everywhere you go. Carry a little notebook too, so you can write "what is the word for..." and look it up later. And don't let the rhythm of speaking be interrupted by embarrassment of not knowing the word...just use your native language for that word.

Wir haben...err...fun...mit unsere language!

:)

Quote from: Bikini Babe on July 06, 2013, 12:50:05 PM
I took 2 years of French in high school, about 30-32 years ago...have forgotten nearly all of it. A couple years ago I took a semester of German in college, and often I would automatically slip in the correct French words (Once an entire sentence) during presentations, and not notice it until the instructor mentioned it. :embarrassed:

Practice, practice practice. Not only at home and the classroom, but everywhere you go. Carry a little notebook too, so you can write "what is the word for..." and look it up later. And don't let the rhythm of speaking be interrupted by embarrassment of not knowing the word...just use your native language for that word.

Wir haben...err...fun...mit unsere language!

:)

Aber natürlich haben wir Spaß! :)

Quote from: -Emily- on July 06, 2013, 12:29:44 PM
Is he a child of WW2 aftermath exiles?

Lol, not quite. He was dating this girl who was born in Soviet Latvia and her family had moved here to the US. He was trying to impress her father.  :laugh:

I study Classics, so I speak both Latin, which I've been learning since I was ten, and Ancient Greek. I'm also starting Ancient Akkadian this summer at the British Museum, which I am tremendously excited about.

I also speak Spanish, which is very easy for me as it's just simplified Latin with all the scary bits taken out. And I can get the gist of modern Greek if it's written down, because it seems it hasn't changed that much. Strictly, however, that doesn't count.

I just which I could speak Italian! Now that is a beatiful language. The language of Dante.

Quote from: LearnedHand on July 06, 2013, 02:23:06 PM
Lol, not quite. He was dating this girl who was born in Soviet Latvia and her family had moved here to the US. He was trying to impress her father.  :laugh:

:) :) :) On a side note, I am not surprised at all... Latvian girls actually are very pretty. Well, most of Eastern European chicks are hot :).

Just curious, has anyone used the "Colloquial Series" to get the basic start of any language?

I am considering getting  Colloquial Panjabi  (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/colloquial-panjabi-mangat-rai-bhardwaj/1111521601?ean=9780415672818) to help me get started in Panjabi, but I've never taught myself from a book before. I usually hear good things about the "Teach Yourself" series, but I hear the Teach Yourself Panjabi book is extremely difficult for beginners.

I studied French, German and Latin at school (although I've sadly forgotten a lot of what I learned), and Japanese at uni. Despite the fact that I graduated a few years ago, I'm actually still learning Japanese, and although I've improved greatly at reading and listening comprehension over the years, I'm still pretty terrible at the speaking and writing side!

i took french in high school for 4 years, so ive gotten a bit rusty
I took 11 months of Hebrew at DLI but Im not so confident with it...

I totally want to learn Mandarin, cantonese and perhaps also tagalog because my family speaks those languages :/

 :icon_wave: Native language Finnish and I've studied (mandatory) English and Swedish as well as (optional) French at school. :)

Also been studying German on my own for a couple of years since I know a few folks living there. :) Still don't speak it fluent though. Maybe someday.

Russian I'd want to learn too even if it sounds soooo weird to me. ;D would also be useful as it's right on the other side of our eastern border and we've a lot russians visiting here. It'd be so nice to be able to tell 'em directions and such with their own language. :)

Quote from: -Emily- on July 06, 2013, 12:29:44 PM
Estonian sounds very much like Finnish

It does and we can understand each others at the basic level. I mean, to me Estonian sounds like speaking Finnish with really weird dialect and with a couple of strange words here and there. I wouldn't be able to discuss about world politics with estonians by using Finnish but you get the point. :) Russian and other baltic languages I can't understand at all, they have nothing in common with our weird language. :P

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Currently learning ASL to become an interpreter!

Quote from: Jessica M on September 26, 2012, 05:57:02 PM
Also if there any Danes reading this "kan du hjælpe mig?", I'd love to get some practice talking in Danish, both in text and speech ;) tusind tak.
Jessie :)

Ja, selfølgelig kan jeg hjælpe dig =)

Im native danish speaker so if you need some help I will be willing to help you ;)
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I know a couple of diffrent languarge,

Danish and norwegian pretty fluent, because my parrents are danish and norwegian. (but I dont really speak norwegian)
English and swedish on understandable level.
and germany and japanese on basic level.
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Danish,Norwegian and Swedish are very simular languarge so its not so difficult to learn again,
I had to learn English and Germany by school
And japanese is because im a geek which was annoyed that alot of the interviuws,comics, and videogames I where into (who was japanese) wasnt translated, so I decided to learn japanese, it was how it started out, then I got many friends and also got into the culture and had visit from japan and everything and now my japan interest is more than just a nerdy thing.
I still would like to practice my japanese one day, But I would then have to go to japan.
I also need to practive my Swedish or german because I consider working/studing in those countrys.

I am a native English speaker. I am learning Serbian due to a lot of my friends speaking Serbian and I am relearning Spanish with the help of Rosetta Stone. I find other languages very fascinating and I want to learn them all!

I put something on Facebook that is relevant to this topic:

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In order of familiarity with languages, I have:
Z80 Assembly, English, Mathematics, TI-BASIC, French, C, Python, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Physics.

I am not really sure of the order for English and Z80 Assembly, but English is much more complicated. My reading comprehension is better for C than Python, but writing is worse. I know how to ask for where my pants are located in all but Physics and Mandarin. In mathematics, there is no need to ask as the answer can be deduced from the appropriate axioms.

I thought Mandarin would be difficult to learn since I have difficulty with picturing things, but it has been surprisingly easy and it makes a lot of sense so far. (I started yesterday, so I have learned about 50 characters (.1% of them?) :P). Writing is something I am still working on and it is giving me a wonderful mental workout :) I did a quiz on Memrise which is currently down and I missed a single question out of over 100.

I am far from fluent in French, but in some areas my French is as developed as my native English. (I am supposed to be writing a five page and three page paper in French, at the moment.)

I have been learning German in both English and French. In other words, I have been learning German by doing online lessons intended for native French speakers. There are some conflicts with translations. Some words that I have learned via French will use "die" "das" or "der" and it will be different as I learn them in English, which is confusing. I have just learned to use my gut instinct for that stuff :P

I probably know less Spanish than German, but I probably know Spanish grammar better than German grammar.

I have read Russian before, though I never formally learned any Russian (I used my knowledge of the alphabet being brought by the Byzantines to figure out the sounds of the letters and that it should be similar to the romance languages and it worked).

I have not learned Arabic, Hebrew, or Japanese for the same reasons that I didn't try Mandarin-- I thought the symbols would be too complicated for me, but I want to give it a try now!

I imagine Portuguese and Italian shouldn't be too difficult once I get French and Spanish fixed in my brain :)

Language I had passion for would be French and Vietnamese. French when I was a bit younger and as a side I tried to learn Vietnamese but never found the resources as easily.

I know a few words of quite a bit of languages. I bought a CD called 32 languages of the world around 2003 or 2004. I tried to see if I could learn them all, but the languages with characters I eventually turned away. If I can't see the words I won't be able to form a way to pronounce them. Only last year did I start seriously studying Vietnamese on my own from a website called L-lingo. The way it was setup I could catch on fast, but memorizing was something I continue to work on. Eventually I watched cooking videos in tiếng Việt (the way to my heart) and used that as a tool to listen. It's fun to heart familiar words, then to try and figure out what they are saying, what mood they are in, etc.

I started doing language exchange with a few people and learn quite a lot and made some friends in the process. I don't know if I'll ever get to the level where I can use it on the job, but nothings's impossible.


[edit] Wanted to add that over time I plan to learn Chinese. I'm not sure which I'm learning, but I started collecting all my fortune cookies and will write down the word at the bottom. I've collected about 10 or 12 new words from my fortunes. It's pretty cool.

I'm going to take German as an elective, as it's something I don't already kniw, and won't be bored to death in. I already know French and Spanish, and have a grasp on Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and Romanian. Not really enough to speak those, but I understand very well. I thibk I should be able to pick up on Dutch after pearning some German. Portuguese and Italian shpuld be pretty easy as well. Romanian is not very useful, IMO, but if I want another language I think I can pick up quickly, I'll try it out.
For now, looking forward to having German as my first class I go to as a woman,  in the fall, if all goes well and I'm full time by then.

I am learning german in school and I love it. I cNt really focus on learning another language at the same time though.

I've been using the Teach Yourself book, and I can now read Punjabi script.  ;D All those alien-like symbols make perfect sense now.

In highschool I took 4 years of German and Latin, 2 years of ancient Greek and one year of French (could have skipped into French 3 if it fit my schedule the next year so more like 1.5 years)
I considered my German fluent for about 2 years before it got rusty in college.

I keep trying to teach myself Japanese but I think I need the structure of a classroom setting.

Also I have surprisingly good reading comprehension for dutch Swedish Norwegian and danish for some reason (80+% for dutch, 65-80% for the others) I guess it is from the German? That or watching too many danish movies.

I would love to formally learn one of the Scandinavian languages some time. That and Welsh.

I love languages, studied quite a few of them - Then I got in an accident and most of that got blown out as well

I do remember somethings though, and as I hear and/or interact in some languages some of it comes back to me, sometimes in floods

Eh, I don't want to list them all, but I've been learning 23 different languages at relatively the same time. I am most fluent in Japanese, ASL, and D'ni and I've recently started Armenian, Russian, and Klingon. I'm looking to become completely fluent in all 23 and more eventually.

I'm fluent in three Japanese phrases. Plus I can count to ten in Italian. And I can say "We are friends" in Mandarin. That's about it. Does that make me multilingual? ;D

Reminds me of a bad joke.

What do you call someone who speaks two languages? 

Bilingual.

What do you call someone who speaks three languages?

Trilingual.

What do you call someone who speaks one language?

An American.

(And most of us barely so...)

I had a pretty good grip on French and Spanish at one time or another myself.

There were quite a few foreigners in my neighborhood when I was a kid and so that's what sparked my interest  8)  Mostly I just wanted to know what the hecks they were talking about  :D

I've decided Hindi/Urdu is my next language, which should tie in nicely with Farsi/Dari/Tajik nicely.

I learned German in High school and Japanese on my own. Though I'm far from fluent in both.

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. 

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.

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

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!

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.  >:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmn4aNGr5E8

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 :D

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。

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 )))

Quote from: L00T on December 10, 2014, 11:20:29 AM
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.

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).

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 :P ) 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.  ::)

Quote from: Sulmor10 on April 13, 2015, 05:29:18 PM
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 :P ) 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.

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.

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.

こんいちわ! Hello! Privet!

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

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

Quote from: awkward-shark on April 13, 2015, 10:12:02 PM
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.

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

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  :P

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.