I'm fluent only in English, but I'm decent at Spanish.
What languages do you know?
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i was in the languages track in high school so i should know icelandic, english, spanish, french, latin, german and danish. i could tell you i speak seven languages the reality is however that i can barely carry on a conversation in half these languages :-/
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Norwegian, English, and like.. a teeny tiny bit of spanish! hah!
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English, learning French and Latin in school and trying Icelandic on the side.
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Aspiring linguist present!
I'm native in English but know the basics of Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Norwegian and French. Once I become completely fluent in those I'll move on to Chinese, Thai, Arabic, Hindi, Swedish and whatever else.
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^Oooo, impressive! Is Hawaiian difficult?
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@Kimiko, you are awesome.
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@kitarski I haven't studied it as much as the others so I don't know how difficult the grammar is but the pronunciations are easy enough. The internet doesn't offer the best sites for learning it, unfortunately.
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Italian mothertongue, rather fluent in English, know some French and took Portoguese at college but just know a few sentences. And oh! my Icelandic grammar book awaits.
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Italian mothertongue but at school I study English, Latin and old Greek and I studied French. Plus Spanish is very similr to Italien so I can understand a little even if i have never seriously studied it.
Now I'd really like to learn Icelandic but it's quite difficult!
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French native ,
English Polish Italian Danish fluent ,
German Spanish and Russian can survive.
Want to learn :
- Norvegian (should not be too difficult knowing danish)
- Swedish (makes me really feel happy to listen to)
- Icelandic (when I'm 64.....)Posted 1 year ago # -
why Icelandic at 64?
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English is what I speak, and I can pick out a few words in Spanish or Chinese, but only sporadically. Ég er að laera íslensku (I am learning Icelandic, woohoo!) I wish I were fluent in multiple languages as so many of you are! American schools need to get owith the rest of the world there...
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^^I wondered the same thing. And did anyone else immediately think of the Beatles when they read 'when I'm 64'?
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English, and I know enough of both Icelandic and Spanish to get around and order food, get directions, and carry out basic conversations. Icelandic was (and is) a royal pain in the ass to learn and continue learning.
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ha, really? Icelandic is one of the easiest for me to grasp. until you think you've got a certain word down and then they go and change it for no reason in particular and have to re-learn it and then it all just gets confusing.
French is the hardest for me. I have no idea why.
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I speak english. I took spanish for 2 years at school. I want to learn italian though, is it hard?
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Spanish, English, and a failed amount of French :p
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yes 64 for the Beatles, when I am old and have nothing else to do
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I only speak English...Although I could count to 100 in French and tell you some Olympic sports. My dad also handed down an invented code language from father to daughter...but it's a little flimsy and embarassing. Fun when I was 5.
What's the best language to learn for travelling South America? I'd love to learn Spanish but I'm sure there's some other important languages for that continent too. :) Ta.Posted 1 year ago # -
@newbliss: The Italian grammark and orthography are quite difficult I think but at the same time it's a very musical language so if you get the basic rules you could easily learn a lot of things just listening.
Plus there's a lot of poetry, opera and literature that could help you (even if sometimes they use old words quite different from the Italian used today)
And anyway you could ask me if you have any problems ^^
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^yeah I'm going to be majoring in music so I thought it would be a good idea to learn italian. It annoys me when I have to look up words on my music in the dictionary. XD there are no classes offered around here so I'll probably learn on my own. ughh but that's all I can do. I want to go to italy one day so more reason to learn.
I envy all you that speak multiple languages. I barely know Spanish and I live in Texas.
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fluent in english and spanish.. want to learn german though
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English, Bengali, HTML, CSS, Java (partial), Spanish (partial)
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LOL
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I speaketh English, enough French to survive a week or so, enough Dutch to please my Opa and Oma, and I signed up for the Icelandic class so I know some of for the Icelandairwaves festival.
I'm also a champ at pig latin.
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originally posted by kimiko
Aspiring linguist present!And another one. :-)
Native in Danish; fluent or more or less fluent in English, Swedish, and Norwegian; not quite fluent, but quite good in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Irish; and anything from somewhat competent to near-useless in German, Icelandic, Finnish, and (butchered) Dutch; plus Latin, which for obvious reasons I understand better than speak.
And if InRainbows can do it, so can I: (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL (partial), Java (partial), and JavaScript (informally). :-þ
originally posted by bjossi
i was in the languages track in high school so i should know icelandic, english, spanish, french, latin, german and danish. i could tell you i speak seven languages the reality is however that i can barely carry on a conversation in half these languages :-/Ah, come now, Bjössi!
Your very animated Danish conversation (for lack of a better word) with the fast food shop guy by Nørreport remains vivid in my mind, you know. :D
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quoth Oyzinn:
Native in Danish; fluent or more or less fluent in English, Swedish, and Norwegian; not quite fluent, but quite good in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Irish; and anything from somewhat competent to near-useless in German, Icelandic, Finnish, and (butchered) Dutch; plus Latin, which for obvious reasons I understand better than speak.
I was prepared, and yet my mind went ahead and asploded anyway.Posted 1 year ago # -
and oh I forgot to add that I'd like to learn text speech one day. It's like the new esperanto right? Not to mention T9, that I'll never be good at...
Posted 1 year ago # -
thanks to much studying this semester, now я не хорошо говорю по-русски. we just this week learned genitive and accusative cases, woohoo!
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