How many languages... (125)

1 Name: Ani : 2007-06-30 19:41 ID:9O0n4tua

So..
How many languages do you speak?
and what languages are they?

extra questions:
why did you learn them?
and where?
for how long?

76 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-01-20 02:27 ID:2BlxnOJ6

>"neko ga leche desu ka?"

I think confusing everything is normal... my Spanish sucks ass.

You might want to look up chatte before associating any licking with it though haha.

77 Name: soccerfuu9 : 2008-01-20 13:23 ID:EMrh7Pvo

English (fluent)
Japanese (fluent in reading everything but some kanji)
Spanish (like a five year old :( )
French (just started learning)

I've been really interested in language since I was in high school...but more particularly because I want to travel. I want to learn more Japanese so i can read all the RAW manga and watch original movies without subtitles, and French to speak to my current penpals. I HAVE to speak Spanish, however, because my girlfriend is Mexican and most of her family speaks Spanish. What's sad about my life...I don't speak my mother tongue: Tagalog.

78 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-01-24 07:05 ID:9JljrWTw

>>74

I'm a French Weeaboo now? AWESOME.

79 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-01-26 07:11 ID:vbRPiMts

Fujianese - fisrt language, native fluency
Mandarin - second language, near-native fluency
Filipino - third language, near-native fluency
English - fourth language, native fluency
Ilokano - fifth language, moderate fluency
Esperanto - sixth language, moderate fluency
Japanese - seventh language, advanced fluency
Korean - eighth language, beginner level

80 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-01-27 17:13 ID:Bo8fuErl

>>"neko ga leche desu ka?"

that is not an english word why did you say it

81 Post deleted.

82 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-02-23 14:51 ID:tgLClnXc

English: Fluent
Lao: Fluent*
Thai: Fluent*
Japanese: Learning

  • Indicates that I'm only fluent in speech and cannot read.

83 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-02-23 19:27 ID:uB7RNTjE

>>81
Advertizing should be banned here

>>76
Confusing two languages that are similar (like French and Italian or MSA and Egyptian Arabic) is sort of normal.

Confusing two languages that have nothing to do with each other (French and Japanese) is not.

84 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-02-24 03:50 ID:Heaven

>>83
No, not at all! One's L2 deeply affects L3 in language acquisition. It isn't uncommon at all to mix up vocabulary and even syntax.

85 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-02-24 03:54 ID:Heaven

here's a brief paper on a study on the subject: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~clo/Tremblay.pdf

86 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-02-25 15:46 ID:iEnJbjLt

English (native),
Spanish (not bad),
Japanese (learning).

87 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-02-26 01:15 ID:6HfFAAhy

English, native
Spanish, beginner
Japanese, intermediate

I learned Japanese because I love Japanese women and I learned spanish because my family is mexican

88 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-02-27 02:12 ID:KdUVyIKz

English - Native
Cantonese - Intermediate
Japanese - Beginner

89 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-01 08:00 ID:R60ZAAg0

wow, a lot of people are learning japanese

cantonese- first
english- second language
french- third

90 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-03 12:51 ID:B8a/Xiwz

>>89 This board is the capital of Weeabooland after all.

91 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-03 19:04 ID:SZ/WTq37

>>10
Thought I would check in again and mention that I've started learning Cantonese. A lot of fun, albeit challenging. So far my chief skill is to make shopkeepers in Chinatown laugh.

92 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-07 16:54 ID:Heaven

English - Native
Finnish - Learning
Japanese - Learning
Latin - Learning

93 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-12 09:27 ID:WZ5OoyV9

English - Native
French - Native
Japanese - Learning
Spanish - Nearly Fluent

Want to learn italian and german someday.

94 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-12 17:10 ID:cgVIrHG7

Swedish,Danish,Norwegian,English and Old Norse

95 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-12 20:20 ID:GByyjLQ+

English - Native language.
French - Used to be vaguely fluent, studied it in school for 6 years but didn't speak to natives enough.
German - Speak a bit of it, school again.
Latin - Studied it at school for a year, but dropped it and can't remember any of it.
Hungarian - Beginner. Favourite foreign language.

I'm now interested in learning languages that are slightly different from what I'm used to (so, not indo-european).

96 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-20 12:12 ID:eYXyLcOw

>>95

>Hungarian
>I'm now interested in learning languages that are slightly different from what I'm used to (so, not indo-european).

But... Hungarian isn't an Indo-European language!

97 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-22 04:30 ID:qmD/hCbU

English- Native
French- Professionally proficient (i was approaching fluency, but a few years of not using it gave me a few steps back)
Korean- On my 7th week, baby!
Latvian- Ultra beginner

98 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-23 04:39 ID:Heaven

>>96

>But... Hungarian isn't an Indo-European language!

That's one of the reasons it interests me - I wouldn't consider myself used to it yet. (Yeah, it was badly worded)

99 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-23 10:02 ID:WWKcESxW

English - nearly fluently
French - can speak decently if practiced for some time with mother-languages (i studied it at school for 9 years)
Portuguese - my favourite iberic/lusophone language (learning)
Spanish - my second favourite iberic/lusophone language (learning)
German - basic level
want to learn hungarian, whose grammar i find very interesting, and dutch...that's somewhat similar to German, but quite easier and more english-like than german

100 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-23 10:12 ID:uB7RNTjE

100GET

101 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-23 10:20 ID:WWKcESxW

and obviously.....:
Italian: my mother language
a bit of Romanian...easily understendable reading....way more difficult in listening and/or pronounciating

(i'm scared of finnish, i tried to understand some rule but....shivers)

102 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-03-28 00:37 ID:aABV35hc

Schwyzerteutsch, nativ oesteralps dialekt
Hochdeutsch, fluent.
English, proficient.
Francais, decent.
Danski, decent.
Italiano, basic.
Russ, cursing... :D

That's it.

103 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-04-03 17:38 ID:QauDMS7C

You guys are incredible.

Proficient: English and Singlish (heh)
Okay: Chinese (Mandarin)
Beginner: Chinese (Hokkien)
Drama-watcher/fan standard: Japanese and Korean (thrilled to occasionally understand a few words. Can rote-memorise song lyrics and phrases without understanding of grammar etc.)
Pidgin standard: Few words here and there of Bahasa Melayu

Yeah. I suck. I only added the last two in to make my list seem longer. Did you guys have to work hard at learning the new languages or are you'all naturals? Just memorising a few words is very difficult for me; am struggling with picking up new languages.

104 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-04-03 18:55 ID:Heaven

>>99
What's your mother tongue?

105 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-04-06 05:19 ID:OBhE5rpb

English: Mother language
German: Second langauge, 90% fluent
Spanish: 2 years in school, I can say basic phrases
Japanese: I can recognise some kanji and speak a few words

Aiming for speaking at least 10+ languages which include:

Romanian, (better) Japanese, Manarin Chinese, Italian, Norweign, Icelandic, Greek, Sign Language, French, Russian and a few others.

106 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-04-08 01:21 ID:8dLfoQ7c

Mandarin Chinese: First language

English: Second language, fluent

Spanish: Learning it in school, I can read more than I can write, and I can understand more than I can say.

To-Learn List
French and Japanese

107 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-06-10 12:54 ID:efOP25/E

extra questions:
why did you learn them?
and where?
for how long?

Finnish: Mother language
English: Second language

I also know little bit of Swedish and German.
School system made sure that I get a hint of these three foreign languages, though I would've learned English anyway.
Had 3 years of Swedish, ~1 year of German and the best result I had in a Swedish pizzeria was:
Haben sie milch?

108 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-06-28 18:44 ID:W1CwEahQ

English:Mother Tounge
Italian:Learning

I just graduated middle school heh... But do all you guys want to learn languages for career? I just want to to communicate with natives and for fun... Oh yeah, and I want to learn Icelandic and Romanian, and maybe Finnish, but definitly Russian!

109 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-06-29 18:34 ID:Bp8kdd3D

Lithuanian - Native.
French - 1st foreign language in school, fluent, 10 years of learning.
German - 2nd foreign language in school, fluent or at least very close to it, 8 years of learning.
Swedish - 3rd foreign language in school, somewhere in between intermediate to advanced level.
Russian - Fluent, I come from the Soviet Union, M'kay?
English - Self-studied, fluent.
Japanese - Self-study, pre-Intermediate level.
Chinese - Self-study, intermediate level.
Latin - Self-study, pre-intermediate level.
Greek - Self-study, Basic level.

Yeah, I have a lot of free time.

110 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-06-30 04:42 ID:6eHhza3T

Just English, sadly.

111 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-07-01 01:21 ID:einGhX4Z

Let's see...

English - Mother tongue
Japanese - Second language: advanced (I'm not confident enough to say fluent, heh >_<)
Mandarin - Beginner/intermediate
Samoan - Beginner
Maori - can understand basic sentences & words
Cantonese - I know a few words and basic sentences
Korean - very basic sentences & a few words
French - again, basic sentences & words
Italian - same as French
Spanish - same as above

May seem like quite a few languages, but I'm pretty much a beginner or even lower than that in most of them :S

What can I say, I like languages lol.

112 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-07-04 04:57 ID:WZ5OoyV9

English - Native
French - Native
Spanish - fluent through schooling
Japanese - self-study, JLPT 4 level

I think I'm done for languages.

113 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2008-07-25 22:32 ID:ked7OkXO

Danish/Dansk - (Mother tongue)Can't write Danish very well, but understand it perfect.

Norwegian/Norsk - (Fluent) I can write perfect Norwegian.

Swedish/Svenska - (Advanced) Swedish is a lot like Norwegian, They can understand eachother with almost no problems.

English (Advanced) I can write perfect English.

Serbian/Srpski (Little more than basic) Can write as much as I can say, because you write it exactly how you pronounce it.

French/Francais (Basic) Had it for about a year. Understand more than I can write.

I can cuss in:

Norwegian 1
Danish 2
Swedish 3
English 4
Spanish 5
French 6
Portuguese 7
Sami 8
Faroese 9
Serbian 10
Albanian 11
Kurdish 12
Arabic 13
Russian 14
Polish 15
Japanese 16
Persian 17
Finnish 18
Somalian 19
German 20

114 Name: Terje : 2008-07-25 22:34 ID:ked7OkXO

Danish/Dansk - (Mother tongue)Can't write Danish very well, but understand it perfect.

Norwegian/Norsk - (Fluent) I can write perfect Norwegian.

Swedish/Svenska - (Advanced) Swedish is a lot like Norwegian, They can understand eachother with almost no problems.

English (Advanced) I can write perfect English.

Serbian/Srpski (Little more than basic) Can write as much as I can say, because you write it exactly how you pronounce it.

French/Francais (Basic) Had it for about a year. Understand more than I can write.

I can cuss in:

Norwegian 1
Danish 2
Swedish 3
English 4
Spanish 5
French 6
Portuguese 7
Sami 8
Faroese 9
Serbian 10
Albanian 11
Kurdish 12
Arabic 13
Russian 14
Polish 15
Japanese 16
Persian 17
Finnish 18
Somalian 19
German 20

115 Name: Ana : 2010-02-18 03:36 ID:cd0IMPm+

russian - native
english - fluent
spanish - fluent
french - begginer
japanese - for now self study, soon ill start attendin jap courses:)
to learn list >> korean and german:)
im 17

116 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-03-02 04:20 ID:90v+PzTR

>How many languages do you speak?
>and what languages are they?

A few.
English - Fluent
Japanese - Fluent
Dansk - A bit
Suomi - A little bit :p

>why did you learn them?

I was raised in a Japanese/American family :/ One of my newly acquired friends is Danish and I REALLY want to learn Danish <3

>and where?

At home...

>for how long?

Approx. 16 years...

117 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-03-05 05:50 ID:dvRnAb2c

0 = not at all
10 = like a native

English - 10
Japanese - 8
German - 6

118 Name: Sa : 2010-03-06 04:34 ID:nFur5y7d

English, my most fluent language
Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin, so-so since that's my background.
Japanese, self taught and still learning.
French, Beginner level.
Italian, can hold a day-to-day conversation I guess.

119 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-03-11 02:11 ID:rJdscbcm

Turkish: Native (Turkish parents),
Dutch: Fluent (Born and raised in Holland),
English: Fluent,
Japanese: Just started learning.

120 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-03-24 14:45 ID:oFojWuKi

Spanish - Native
English - Pretty much flawless. I've been studying English since the age of 3 and, while my formal studies ended at the age of 16, I still read/write in English on a daily basis (Thank you, Internet!)
Italian - Studied two years and had to quit due to awful time restraints, forgot pretty much everything but re-reading my notebooks in half an hour would likely make all the stuff come back to me.
Japanese - Self-learning dummy. Can make out basic sentences and whatnot, but that's about it.

To-do:

-Latin: Formal studies will begin somewhere this year.
-Japanese: Go somewhere where I can actually begin formal studies before I end up mastering the language out of Rosetta Stone.
-Reinforce my bare knowledge of modern latin languages.
-Hungarian: Why not?
-Russian: Why not?

The beauty of having a language such as Spanish as your mother tongue is that you can "understand" languages such as Portuguese, French, and Italian because they are all latin derivants (Of course, you can't reply back because you don't know a word, but at least you can know how to get into the hotel restrooms without having to crap your pants in the lobby)

121 Name: The Failure I am!YgQRHAJqRA : 2010-04-01 13:07 ID:ISjyPah5

No, seriously, I only know two for good...

1 - English - Mother Language
2 - Cantonese (Dialect of Chinese, spoken in Hong Kong) - Second language I know

I used to know Spanish, but nah, ever since I finished that class... nah, discontinue it >.>

122 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-04-03 02:23 ID:4mR+0fup

English -- native
Japanese -- four years of high school study, though I probably need to start over again at an entry level course
Turkish -- a year 9so far) in college. Thought it might be a fun language to learn - needless to say, it's been interesting

And I really want to learn Finnish. Such a beautiful language to listen to.

123 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-07-14 16:27 ID:fC7fk9xI

My mother language is English (British). I don't know any other languages, but I can recognise and correctly identify several foreign languages, and I'm learning Swedish (I know some words and some basic grammar).

124 Name: Scatterbrain : 2010-08-23 04:17 ID:JO+A084f

My mother tongue is Spanish, but I speak English (I'm studying to become a translator). I am just starting learning Japanese.

125 Name: Anonymous Linguist : 2010-12-20 23:32 ID:gyZbEQOm

I found a web site which your multi linguistic ability works greatly. http://shiroube.com/

Do you know any other reccomendation?

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