Quote from: childofwinter on January 27, 2010, 09:54:20 AM
Apart from my native English, I know very basic French and Spanish.

I can also speak basic Swedish (by which I mean, more than Spanish but less than French), and I understand a lot of Esperanto.

I'm fluent in English

I can also sing and speak in the following languages
Maori (the language of the indigenous New Zealanders)
Hebrew
Italian   
French   
Elizabethan English
some Asian/Pacific Islander dialects
African
Arabic
Latin 
Spanish   

Damn! whered you learn all those languages! Its hard enough for me to learn a second one!

English is my main language...

Was schooled in Germany for awhile.... so I can get by with Deutsch...

Ditto have scraps of French too...

And when I travel I make a point of starting to get a gist for the lingo... Nagyon köszönöm!

Can get you outta sticky-wickets sometimes...

Think languages just happen at a certain point:

My mother tongue is Dutch (Flemish)
My father tongue is French
Got family in the US where I spent some holidays as a child, so: English
Thought Spanish sounded cool and studied that in College
Fell in love with an Italian so I ended up studying that too
Got some German friends so I picked that up (can read and understand but barely speak)
and when it comes to languages, I tend to be like a sponge picking up words and expressions as I meet people from wherever, but I'm not counting those

I am a native dutch so i do speak it fluently
at school I had English lessons and of course holiday in the UK,US and Canada
I had a relationship with a german girl for about three years, so I learned german in bed.
with french it's always a struggle, i can tell wat I want and they can tell me what they have to offer, I'm still always pleasantly suprised when we seem to understand eachother.
I had friends in spain so we talked on the phone and write eachother.
But, in transition time none of these languages had enough words to tell how I felt.
sometimes language is not enough to explain your feelings.

hugs to all
annette

Very true Annette "never enough words".

I am focusing on Japanese hoping to be fluint in the next 2 years.

www.lingq.com    is a great place to learn about 10 differnt languages.

I may have said this already. lol.

English and Spanish.

Also basic SQL. I'm joking.

I want to learn Mandarin, mostly because writing it is challenging and beautiful, but also because I feel like I'm going to need to in my lifetime.

Quote from: childofwinter on July 29, 2010, 08:22:03 AM
I can also speak basic Swedish

FAN!

I can speak/write English and German. I can read French, Dutch, Spanish, and some Norwegian. I'm currently working on my Dutch; it's the next language I'd like to be fluent in.

Hi August
You can always write me in dutch for practicing and I'll write you back in dutch, but there was a british comedian on the dutch television.
His name is John Cleese and we enjoy him very much.
He said, the dutch don't have their own language, they are just making the gargling sounds to confuse the english speaking people.
They don't really understand eachother, they just making sounds, when they want to understand eachother, they speak english.
well it isn't quite true, we do understand eachother but, for foreigners it's a hell of a language.
so, I think you're very brave and I wish you a lot of strenght while learning dutch (lol)

a big hug
dutch annette

all off you learning a new language check out lingq.



Look me up ID is jamesnorville

I speak English, French, and Slovenian fluently.

I can read and converse passingly in German.

I can speak and understand colloquial Mandarin. I can read literary Mandarin.

I have studied and can manage to navigate through the respective native countries of Finnish, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Serbian.

I am attending college to major in Mandarin Chinese and Russian business translation, and I hope to spend the rest of my life learning languages.

Oooh, I love languages, there are so many I want to learn. I'm really jealous of all the kids who have foreign parents and have grown up bilingual... Head start, no fair!
English is my first language, so I certainly would like to think I'm fluent in that.  I've been studying French for 5 years now, so I'd say I can probably communicate fairly competently at least. Other than that, I know fragments of Scottish Gaelic, scraps of Old Norse, and a bit of Sindarin Elvish. (Yeah, nerd alert.)
There are SO many more I'd love to learn! I'd really like to learn more Gaelic, I'd also like to learn a Scandinavian language, maybe Norwegian, Russian would be awesome to know, Hebrew just because it sounds so nice, Arabic... The list goes on!

Well, I speak English not very clearly

I am toying around with learning Spanish. 

On my "It would be cool if..." list, I'd also like to learn German and Sign Language.


Anyone have any suggestions for software/tapes/websites they really progressed with?

I like the Pimsleur tapes, but I'm not using them right now.

Happy learning!

Quote from: bearded on December 09, 2010, 05:57:29 PM
Well, I speak English not very clearly

I am toying around with learning Spanish. 

On my "It would be cool if..." list, I'd also like to learn German and Sign Language.


Anyone have any suggestions for software/tapes/websites they really progressed with?

I like the Pimsleur tapes, but I'm not using them right now.

Happy learning!

Oh I highly suggest sign language, it's great fun! My ASL teacher (I'm only in the first semester of ASL) gave me a few good websites where you can basically learn all the signs you need to know.

www.aslpro.com is my favorite
www.lifeprint.com is anothe good one

Quote from: lightvi on December 13, 2010, 02:29:30 AM
Oh I highly suggest sign language, it's great fun! My ASL teacher (I'm only in the first semester of ASL) gave me a few good websites where you can basically learn all the signs you need to know.

www.aslpro.com is my favorite
www.lifeprint.com is anothe good one

Hey, thanks, lightvi!  I'll check those out pretty soon.  I wonder if making a regular flash card deck would still be effective with signs.



(and I looked at the lingq site, laineyjain...it looks interesting but it seems to be a pay site?  or is the free stuff worth checking out too...)

Hmm maybe for some of the easier signs like numbers from 1-9 but for most signs I've noticed there's a lot of action involved that's hard to understand just from reading it on a page. You really have to see the motion, especially for some of the more complicated ones like the word "tiger". For things that only have a single motion you could do it though, just draw an arrow to the direction you move your hands. Gl! I'm trying to get into the next semester atm so I can get my foreign language hehe

fluent:
English.
German
I can read in English and German
write in English and German
and I want to learn
French

How did I miss this thread?

I have studied ancient Greek, Japanese, Thai, East Cree, and have been taught a little French and Spanish. I know a tiny bit of Gaelic thanks to my musical preferences. And I know how to ask "do you speak English" in Cantonese. One day I would like to be fluent in one of these languages, probably one of the Asian ones.