Re: Which Languages do you speak & Which is your f
I speak:
Polish - native. Can't really say how does it sound to me, because I hear information, not the sound of it.
English - I think I know it quite well, but I'm quite nervous when I'm supposed to talk. I can't really say anything about it as well. I like it because I know it.
French - I've been learning it in primary and secondary school. My french was actually better than my english, but I managed to forget it all, mostly because I attended english-speaking fora in internet, watch english films etc, and did not use french at all. I am going to study in France for a couple of months, so I hope my french will improve. Everyone says how nice french is, but I find it just normal.
Arabic (classical) - again, I keep forgetting it and don't really speak so good lately, but I find no difficulties in writing or reading. I like when someone speaks nice classical arabic, and lebaneese dialect sounds really nice when spoken by a girl, but egyptian dialect I don't like at all.
Turkish - I only know the very basics of it. I really like the sound of turkish language, it is lovely.
Greek - I've just started learning it, I always wanted to
Latin - used to learn it, and sometimes knew it well (I passed university exams thanks to it), but, obviously, I do not speak it.
I used to attend persian and aramaic too: I only remember aramaic alphabet and some info about the language, and in persian only a couple of words: I never wanted to learn persian, but I could not learn turkish, so I started learning persian (I had to learn some language, it was compulsory), and abandoned it as soon as I could come back to turkish. So these two do not count.
I want my greek to be good enough to read books. I will try to improve my turkish by going on some summer vacation language course.
I'd like to know:
- armenian
- german
- russian
- aramaic / coptic
as well.
Armenian because I have some armenian roots, and because I am interested in byzantine history and armenian would help me, perhaps.
Russian and german because there's a lot of oriental studies literature in these languages, and, anyway, as a person from Upper Silesia I should know some german.
aramaic / coptic because I am interested in the history of ahl adh-dhimma.
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