Multilanguage People UNITE

Awesome, I'd love to learn Russian as well!

For me Arabic (native) English (Fluent) French (Fluent) German (Pretty decent, though not fluent)

I'd love to learn Persian, Russian, Italian (I tried once, it didn't end well) and of course Spanish.

 

As I mentioned in your earlier thread, I speak fluent Spanish and English, and very rusty French. I'd like to get back and learn French fluently and then maybe learn Italian or Portuguese.

I actually learned Spanish first and then English (all before I was 8) so my mastery of both is very good. One of the only problems is that when I speak English, I sound like a Southerner with a Spanish twang (or vice versa) and in Spanish I have a slight "gringo" accent, albeit with perfect grammar, and I cannot roll my r's to save my life.

 

Since joining EC, I was pleasantly surprised to find several other 'language people' discussing their interests with enthusiasm. You seem to be one of the many polyglots, while Rakkaus is more of a linguist. I'm a bit of both, but definitely have my phases of being knee deep in one or the other. At the moment, I'm preparing to start my journey yet again, though I haven't quite decided on which language, exactly.

I usually reach an intermediate or conversational level with them, get bored, and move on to another, while retaining the basics and important linguistic distinctions to compare and contrast with others. For those like Latin or Old English, the interest is purely theoretical and there's no desire to carry on a conversation in either, unless it contributes to my research directly.

English (100% native speaker)
Spanish (receptive bilingual, can understand anything, but fluency goes up and down with exposure or lack of)
Hmong (reached intermediate levels in less than a year)
French, Russian, and Lao (beginner phrases)

There are others I've barely scratched the surface of, meaning a few days of skimming through pronunciation guides, phrases, and orthography, but remember *nothing* of today: Navajo, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Dutch, Czech, Hungarian, Greek, Arabic, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Mandarin Chinese come to mind.

Chances are, the next language I decide to go at is either going to be one of those from the beginner phrase level aka unfinished business, or something totally random, but not entirely unrelated to one of those I've scratched the surface of, like Polish, Korean, or Farsi. Again, total fluency is *not* my goal, as that requires tremendous amounts of time and effort, and those aren't requirements for my journey(s).

And now I just realized I probably sound like either a complete freak or elitist snob, maybe both. :rolle:

 

I speak Hungarian and English.

I'll be learning Croatian soon.

I'd love to learn German, Swedish, Dutch, French, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic and Russian. Realistically, I hope to learn German some day. And Croatian, of course.

I've studied German in school for about ten years and I know nothing of it now, or at least not as much as I'd like to. That's why I'm a bit desperate to learn it before I die.

 

UGHHH Je deteste cette accent! Je ne pas comprends un mot. Je suis desole, mais l'accent au Quebec es ne pas tres facile..

 

I've learnt some German and would like to become fluent, though sadly I won't be continuing it in school next year. I'm still able to work on a rough translation of Tanz der Vampire, though! (It's a very successful German musical which is not available in English; nobody liked the Broadway remake.)

 

I speak English as my first language, ed io parlato un piccolo Italiano a una seconda lingua. That was prolly really bad and really butchered - I know the phonetics (pronunciations) *really* really well, and some vocab, but my grammar is a hopeless, epic fail, so yeah, my sentences sometimes come out as total and complete gibberish (at least I didn't use a translator).

 

^So are you Latino? From your username, I would have guessed either Venezuelan, Cuban, or Puerto Rican.

 

Dutch (native), English (fluent) and I'm currently studying German and French (which is not going so well). I speak and understand a little German, but close to no French at all.
I would like to know Chinese and sign language (if that counts as a language)

 

I wouldn't bother trying Dutch. It's my native language, and I still sometimes don't understand shit about it.

 

Thank you for the correction. I have a tendancy to just take the words I know and arrange them as I would in English XD I have been learning the language on and off for quite some time now, and so my vocabulary has just naturally increased and I have the pronunciations *totally* down pat (seriously, I can say any sentence like a native from practicing for hours on end, with the help of YouTube videos and Disney songs sung in Italian).

I seriously need to just buy an Italian grammar book one of these days, park my rear, and study XD

 

It's definitely a weird language compared to some of the others.

 

Well, yes and no. You already kind of get the accent, and some words. But even though the grammar is a lot more systematic, it's also a lot more. The Dutch pretty much just do whatever sounds right.
I think it would help you to know some German when learning Dutch, but it could also really confuse you, because it's alike, but also really different sometimes.

 

You have to learn Romanian and then you will know ALL of the children of the Latin language (minus dialects, of course, which can obviously be like they're own languages).