Languages

[DJK GBYF]

i have nothing to do so i'll make a post.
what languages do u speak? i have english german and italian.

[Fish]

English well/fluently
Can read French fairly well, though I'm not good at speaking or understanding it yet, but am actively working on this language.
Know a little bit of German.

[Deepwaters]

I'm in almost exactly the same place as Fish: fluent in English (better than fluent I hope), and can read and write French pretty well, but have trouble understanding it when hearing it -- mostly because I've done more reading than hearing. I also have a smattering of German. Toss some Latin into the mix as well.

[fsquared]

I'm a native English speaker. I speak Bulgarian fairly well but it is declining somewhat from disuse (after I started listening to French music instead of Bulgarian music). I spoke some rudimentary Hungarian at some point, but that but is mostly gone now. I took Spanish in high school/college and was reasonably proficient but it's quite rusty now. I can glean the occasional bit of comprehension from written French, and a little teeny bit from spoken French, but I cannot write or speak it. I could at one point understand some technical German. I can understand certain isolated phrases in Cantonese.

[Bud10]

I only speak English, I wanted to learn French but French class was cut out of my high school when I got into high school due to budget cuts and all that was left was Spanish, I have nothing against Spanish I just don't really have much of a desire to learn it. but I wanna learn Russian, French and Japanese, those languages always interested me the most.

[INDUSTRIAL]

Fluently in Korean and English
A little bit of German and French.

[fsquared]

Originally Posted by Bud10

I only speak English, I wanted to learn French but French class was cut out of my high school when I got into high school due to budget cuts and all that was left was Spanish, I have nothing against Spanish I just don't really have much of a desire to learn it. but I wanna learn Russian, French and Japanese, those languages always interested me the most.

I think in another thread, someone was recommending Before You Know It (byki.com), which I think is way cool too. You can download free introductory lessons in lots of languages (including those, IIRC).

Actually one of the big up-front investments in language learning is learning how to learn a language; if you learn Spanish, then you can transfer a lot of "how to learn" skills to your next language. One of my Esperanto-speaking friends once told me that they did an experiment with two groups of students: one studied one semester Esperanto and one semester French, and the other one studied two semesters of French, and at the end the Esperanto-first people learned more French than the control group (I guess the idea being that learning "how to learn" a language in a regularized environment like Esperanto facilitated their acquisition in a different language).

[Bud10]

Originally Posted by fsquared

I think in another thread, someone was recommending Before You Know It (byki.com), which I think is way cool too. You can download free introductory lessons in lots of languages (including those, IIRC).

Actually one of the big up-front investments in language learning is learning how to learn a language; if you learn Spanish, then you can transfer a lot of "how to learn" skills to your next language. One of my Esperanto-speaking friends once told me that they did an experiment with two groups of students: one studied one semester Esperanto and one semester French, and the other one studied two semesters of French, and at the end the Esperanto-first people learned more French than the control group (I guess the idea being that learning "how to learn" a language in a regularized environment like Esperanto facilitated their acquisition in a different language).

Interesting read makes allot of sense too. Thanks for the site, I'll check this out.

[ajaccio corsica]

hi
I speak corsican then french and italian (not surprising for a corsican )and some english
cheers

[Runner Simon]

Swedish, Skånska, English. Also some spanish, but not that much.