Languages.

[Silaluk]

Anyone else fluent a language other than English?


And I don't mean discussing what language you took in high school, this thread is for people who can fully understand other languages.




Besides English, I speak Inupiat and Russian. Inupiat was my first, English second, and Russian is my third.

[The Past]

Unfortunately, I'm currently monolingual (English, of course). My family ditched Norwegian pretty quick when they moved to the US, so the language didn't stick around with us, including the original pronunciation of our surname. In middle school I tried to learn it myself using free resources online, and obviously that didn't go well.

I want to learn American Sign Language and German when I get the chance. I got a tiny head start with German, at least with writing, but I'm rusty with even that now. I can vaguely read simple German text, but I can't really write or speak it myself.

If anyone has good resources for learning either of those, do let me know. Especially if it's free... but that's probably unlikely.

[Ræfóa Aldrnari]

Well, being a dane, my first language is obviously Danish, which I speak fluently. Other than that, I speak English, which I'm told I'm really good at. Since my father is Swedish, I also speak and understand a little Swedish (but Swedish and Danish is very similar in a lot of ways, anyways). I also learn German in school, but I kinda wish I didn't. I'm not trying to offend germans or anyone who likes the language, but I just find it incredibly hard and weird at times.

[MrRazot]

I can speak English and Afrikaans, however my accent doesn't agree with most of the Afrikaans pronunciation.
It's a shame, so I don't really speak it, but I do understand it when others speak to me, I just quickly turn the conversation to English.

[jorgschrauwen]

I speak five languages.

I grew up perfectly bilingual, having one german and one italian parent. I've always spoken both languages at home.
We also spoke french at home, because it was a language both of my parents were fluent in (more so than english) and they used it to talk to each other when they didn't know how to say something in either german or italian. We also lived in France and Belgium. So yeah, learning french came pretty natural to me.
I always studied english in school and it's the main language used on the internet. And I've always been quite good at it, so much even that I decided to study in english. I attend an italian university, but all of my classes, elctures and exams are in english.
At university I also started to learn russian. I'm not tcompletely fluent, surely not as good as with french and english. But I can hold a conversation in russian and I've been told my accent is quite good.

Do you speak dutch tho?

[jorgschrauwen]

I speak five languages.

I grew up perfectly bilingual, having one german and one italian parent. I've always spoken both languages at home.
We also spoke french at home, because it was a language both of my parents were fluent in (more so than english) and they used it to talk to each other when they didn't know how to say something in either german or italian. We also lived in France and Belgium. So yeah, learning french came pretty natural to me.
I always studied english in school and it's the main language used on the internet. And I've always been quite good at it, so much even that I decided to study in english. I attend an italian university, but all of my classes, elctures and exams are in english.
At university I also started to learn russian. I'm not tcompletely fluent, surely not as good as with french and english. But I can hold a conversation in russian and I've been told my accent is quite good.

Do you speak dutch tho?

If you speak very slowly I can probably understand the general context of what you're saying. It's close enough to german and english to make some sense of it. But no, I don't speak it. Not even a single word.

Fair enough. It does look a bit like german and english yeah

[HellEye]

I grew up in Poland with polish as my mother tongue, then I was (actually still am) learning german, though I just can't really learn it fully, but I can communicate basic things. And of course english, which i learned mostly through watching youtube, now I'm bored on English lessons because I know most intermediate level grammar and stuff, though I never can explain why is something the way it is because I just understand it from the practical side. I guess it's better though, I can write fluently, I don't really have someone to speak to so it might be a bit rusty.

[Firox]

I speak English for living in USA
My family comes from Mexico, I also speak Spanish fluently.

[anoni]

I speak english and...

C, C#, Java, Perl, Python... 

[jorgschrauwen]

I speak english and...

C, C#, Java, Perl, Python... 

Talk java to me baby

[Ræfóa Aldrnari]

After talking Swedish for fun with Riddle, I realized, that it's funnier to speak, than I imagined. I mean, I have spoken it sometimes earlier, but now I just got this strong will to learn more of it, and to speak it more. Since it's kinda similar to Danish (and I have a Swedish father) it's not the hardest for me to learn and remember.

[yackie]

I speak english and danish ^^

[spadercool]

I know HTML and CSS. Used to be fluent in Vulcan but had no one to talk too and it has slowly faded.

[MustardHusky]

I can speak Japanese and a bit of Swedish (I started studying it a while back but due to work I haven't had time).

[Eesha]

I can speak English (of course), and French, since I live in France 
I learn Spanish too, but I just hate it, so I have really bad grades (1,5/20 on the last test...)