Languages

[ajaccio corsica]

hi
I think it must be pretty difficult to learn corsican if you don't live here, you have to take courses at the corti university
some foreigners speak the language though
cheers

[Chommpers]

I speak english and only understand a little French. I took a French class for 3 years in high school, but I dont think it helped that much, unfortunately. I might try to take it up on my own time though, I would like to anyway.

[garçoncanadien]

really good at English and French (although still makes brain farts occasionally :P)

Chinese and Spanish at a conversational level

rudimentary Russian
rudimentary Arabic
i wanna be good at Russian and Arabic very much xD

[DJK GBYF]

someone should learn Sicilian lol

[espire]

At one point, I planned to teach myself Tolkein's Elvish. It's a complete language, and someone created a University course on the language and put it on the Internet.

[nurvonic]

english and bad english. i am very proud of myself

[espire]

I await the day that nurvonic will capitalize an 'I'. Just one!

[Amigo!]

English, Spanish, French

Just kidding about that last one

At most I can pronounce what I read

[GianGian]

Portuguese and English. Very mediocre Spanish.

[Runner Simon]

Originally Posted by la Barbe d'Echanie

Si där, en landsman!

As with Runner Simon, my mother tongue is Scanian, a group of closely related dialects belonging, in a manner of speaking, right in between Swedish and Danish in the Scandinavian language continuum. My first written language is Swedish. The language situation here in Scandinavia means that I also completely understand (most varieties as well as standard) Danish and Norwegian, and when necessary, I can also, with some effort, speak them. I've been studying Icelandic since I was 17 and speak it quite fluently now. I'd also be so bold as to say I'm fluent in English, having learnt it since the ripe old age of eight years. I also speak, read and write German pretty well. Written Dutch is also quite intelligible, but I don't speak or write it, although I mean to learn it to "completion" eventually. I've studied Faroese at the university, but, admittedly, I tend to throw in a lot of Icelandic words when speaking it. I had a period when I was greatly interested in Russian in high school, and I did learn a little studying it on my own. What little time I had didn't suffice though, so there's a lot to be done in that department. I've recently taken an interest in modern Greek and French, having also taken up studies in the latter using Ollendorff's New Method (Quel chapeau avez-vous? J'ai mon mauvais chapeau de papier.). I mean to learn the French language to "completion", attaining the fluency I've mustered with English and Icelandic. Other languages that profoundly interest me, but that I don't currently study, are modern Greek, Corsican and Sardinian. (I'd be delighted to receive bibliographical tips especially as to Corsican!)

Among the dead languages (or historical stages of languages still in existence) that I have studied academically, one may note Old Norse (in its different varieties), Ancient Norse, Gothic, Classical Greek, Classical and Vedic Sanskrit and Avestan. I also took Latin classes in high school.

I think I've covered most of it now.

On a sidenote, I may mention that I am a student of Scandinavian languages and comparative Indo-European linguistics.

Whell I usually speak "väskötska" now when I live in Skövde, gud förlåte mig, but when I hang out with my cousins in Skåne, whell let's just say it's like riding a bike, it ALL comes back.