What language(s) do you speak?

[curiousunistudent]

Well, I'm in uni reading a few different languages.

I speak (fluently) English, Spanish, Catalan & Italian. I half speak Portuguese, but not massively well, with only a year and a half's learning having gone into it.

Also, next year in uni, I have the choice of either Russian or Japanese as an extra module. Which do you think would be quite fun (and a bit of a challenge)?

 

[RDaniel]

I am the next Harold Williams. No, not really. ;p
I only speak Spanish, Romanian and Polish fluently. Decent at French, Hungarian and Italian.


@curious, Japanese will definitely be harder than Russian.

 

[RDaniel]

Sadly, I can't speak English.

*sigh*

 

[LilBit]

English (fluent), French (fluent), Modern Standard Arabic (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate), Italian (elementary), Martinican Creole (elementary reading knowledge), Catalan (intermediate reading knowledge)

 

[Puzuzzu]

English and Arabic (Lebanese Dialect), beginner French.

 

[curiousunistudent]

I am the next Harold Williams. No, not really. ;p
I only speak Spanish, Romanian and Polish fluently. Decent at French, Hungarian and Italian.


@curious, Japanese will definitely be harder than Russian.

Japanese would be really tough. Russian's a bit easier from my experience; I dabbled with Korean and Japanese and got along fairly well, but it requires a lot of input. Russian is fun, Japanese a challenge.

Hmm, I suppose it would be quite a lot harder, but I figure that both have their own alphabet and as such, the insignificant amount of extra work needed for Japanese would pay off in the long run, in a business sense, with how strong the Japanese economy is, and it's geographical location in relation to China and the U.S.

 

[Muzzy91]

I can speak English and some German. I wouldn't know if I'd say that I was bilingual because my German isn't the best. I'm good at it, but wouldn't say that I'm completely fluent.

 

[RDaniel]

Your English is fucking great

You're too kind.
I might be able to type, "G'day mate. Let's put some shrimp on the barbie" but saying it will prove to be difficult.

 

[Berbenli]

Fluent in English & Spanish, and starting to pick up some French from my school

 

[Mark-Knight]

I took French class, and am pretty good at it...but I'm from a small town in southern Indiana, so I'm not real great at English. At least speaking it.

 

[Kester]

I can speak English, and count to 3 in Italian....

 

[xRemyx]

French and English. I was raised bilingual.

 

[TheOscar]

English and Spanish.

I hope to learn Japanese soon, though.

 

[dancub]

Mexican Spanish, American English and Brazilian Portuguese. I used to speak French, not anymore but I can understand it.

I took Italian, Russian, Japanese and Chinese classes at college, but none of them stuck.

I studied Arabic by my own and can read and write the script fonetically, but don't understand a lot, just some basics.

 

[unloadonme]

Like many of my compatriots, I can barely manage English. Nothing else.

 

[AussieGuy91]

I can speak fluent English and some French.

 

[Corny]

If anyone speaks "sloppyseconds" I'll tip my hat off to you

Nun, wir warten schon eine Weile auf eine sprachgewandte Person die uns dabei behilflich sein könnte ...

 

[gustischafer]

I speak Greek (both Ancient and Modern), English, German, Spanish, French, Latin (all of them quite fluently) and just a bit Russian and Japanese.

 

[Sam Blum]

I am the next Harold Williams. No, not really. ;p
I only speak Spanish, Romanian and Polish fluently. Decent at French, Hungarian and Italian.


@curious, Japanese will definitely be harder than Russian.

Although it's a lonnnnggggg time ago, I did Japanese as a major after doing six years at high school. It was not a difficult language to learn, just time consuming (as opposed to French). My sister was the first person in our state to ever score 100% on her High School Certificate, and she didn't find it at all time consuming! Like me though, she's forgotten pretty much everything. Some of my friends still teach Japanese, but the rest of our group that began teaching 20 years ago all moved to Euro languages or English.

I don't know any Russian, but from my late uncle trying so hard to get me to learn with him (he ran a charity from Germany to support people in the old East Prussia), I would have to say that the gendering of verbs and adjectives would render the language far more complex than Japanese, which is a very clean, pared back and systematic language with very clear rules and good organisation.

Born in Germany and my German's alright, with most friends either from Germany or having lived there for some time.

 

[FL Farmboy24]

I speak Japanese fluently and I'm pretty good at Spanish. Despite what people day about it, I don't think it's too hard. It's actually one of the most fun languages I've ever studied! You make a ton of friends that way too. 頑張って勉強してね！