Language Learning / Bilingual / Polyglot Thread

[Maple]

I've been trying to learn Japanese through Rosetta Stone, but I've had a hard time committing myself to it. Mostly I want to learn the language to enhance subtitled anime watching.

 

[champthom]

Let's see, I know English obviously and I know a bit of Spanish.

I'd like to learn Latin and Ancient Greek so I could read the classics in their original form and I'd like to also learn Chinese so I could welcome our Chinese overlords.

I've tried learning Esperanto, I know a few words like how to say "How are you?" and "Hello" and I sorta remember some of the grammatical rules, but I kinda put it aside. It's really easy, like if you want to make a word a plural, you just add a -j, there's no irregular verbs like most languages, you add an -n to indicate the object of the language, it's super simple. You know that George Soros is a native Esperanto speaker? Apparently his parents were big people in the Esperanto movement and raised him to speak Esperanto.

 

[José Mourinho]

I know English obviously and know some Chinese.

 

[The Dude]

I wish I knew German, Russian, and Japanese.

 

[TheRedBaron]

I of course fluently know English but I want to know German I know some words and I can sing some songs but I cant even speak it poorly

 

[The Hunter]

I just realized I used to sing this song to myself all the time.

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I used to sing it in Italian only, though. I actually had trouble singing it in English even though I knew almost exactly what the words translated to.

 

[Sakamoto]

English of course, and a working knowledge of Japanese (spoken and written). I'm not fluent, but I'm there at least once every year so I had to learn, and now I can get by pretty well and am often asked to translate for people.

I've been trying to learn Japanese through Rosetta Stone, but I've had a hard time committing myself to it. Mostly I want to learn the language to enhance subtitled anime watching.

Learn to read hiragana & katakana before working on spoken Japanese. That will not only make learning to read easier later, but more importantly you'll become familiar with the sounds used in Japanese which will make it easier for you to remember and pronounce the words.

 

[Lefty]

English is my first and I studied Spanish for 3 years only to not know shit the moment after I took my final test. I'll be starting Japanese classes in the fall. Their status as full blown languages is debated but I understand and speak Gullah and Jamaican Patois.

I want to be fluent in: Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and an African language, preferably west coast but something mainstream like swahili would be fine.

In a perfect world where I could just learn all the languages I want: Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, African language, Malay, French, Tagalog, Vietnamese, maybe Thai.

 

[c-no]

I'm fluent in American English due to being born in America. I learned Spanish during middle school and high school though my grasp of the language isn't great due to not speaking the language, which I could of spoke to friends who are native Spanish speakers. I'd love to learn Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, since I visited the country a few times and I like to grow more connected to my Filipino heritage.

What part did you visit? My wife is from Mindanao, near General Santos City. I've never been to the Philippines myself but we're thinking about taking a trip to Manila.

Well, through all the trips I had to the Philippines as far as I can remember, I've only been to San Isidro (I'm pretty sure that was the name of the area since I always visited the farm that most of my relatives lived at), near Olongapo, which I also visited. I have also gone to Manila though only a very few times, most of which was just going to some mall. Two visits back, I actually managed to go to Iloilo, a region in Visayas, with my mom and few relatives. I pretty much learned that it was the province my mother was born in.

 

[Aiko Heiwa]

I speak English and a bit of Spanish.

I know various words in other languages as well.

 

[cypocryphy]

I took German for four years in high school, I always did well in it....but I'm very rusty these days.

so ein mist.

 

[Mourning Dove]

I love foreign languages! Unfortunately the deeper and more advanced you go the more exacting and difficult learning the language becomes.

I know English obviously. I've known Spanish since middle school and plan to get my minor in it soon. I've taken beginning level classes in French in high school. I've also taken beginning level Arabic classes in college but stopped there since I took those for fun and they weren't part of my major. I'd really like to learn more Arabic eventually because the language and culture is beautiful and I think we should try to understand the Middle East before we bomb and war against them.

In high school I attempted to self-teach myself a whole gaggle of languages:
-Japanese (due to being a weeaboo at the time)
-German (I was also a borderline GERMAN WARFARE BITCH back then who loved listening to Rammstein)
-Russian (it sounds fascinating)
-Portuguese (it's a language closely related to Spanish, so why the hell not??).

I'd also like to learn Mandarin Chinese since it's part of my heritage. I'd also like to be able to visit my sister in Taiwan or mainland China and not be lost in translation.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

I'm learning to read Spanish right now, using the book "Spanish for Reading." I also have the two other books in that series, for French and German. I'm trying to finish the Spanish book by the end of the year, which shouldn't be a problem because I'm about halfway through and I just started in August. Then again, I had 3 semesters in college, so I have a basic knowledge.

I'm really wanting to try German, not because I'm a GERMAN WARFARE JERK but because I think the language is very beautiful and I want to learn it, I like reading about Germany and I have German ancestry on both sides of my family.

After those three I'm thinking about Latin, also an incredibly beautiful language, and maybe Portuguese because I dabbled in it and thought it was fun to learn.

I also thought about an East Asian language, like Mandarin or Japanese, but I think they'd be really hard to learn. I tried to learn a bit of them and they were just too foreign for me.

 

[c-no]

Earlier in this thread I mentioned wanting to learn Tagalog. Since last month, I have been learning the basics of Tagalog.

 

[exball]

I'm currently learning how to speak Latin.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I want to learn German.

 

[SlowInTheMinds]

Dutch (main language)
English (pretty much secondary; learned through Pokemon like everyone else my age)
French (a little, learned in school)
German (also a little, also in school)

and a few words in Spanish and Papiamento (Netherlands Antilles language)

 

[Stalin]

Well I can speak/read/write in Russian and English.

I know some French and can read it fairly well. I also know some basic German.

I would really like to be able to speak French fluently.

 

[Dr. Meme]

私は英語を知らない
私は私がGoogleから受け取るの翻訳を知っている

 

[Venusaur]

I'm fluent in English and Spanish. The language I really want to learn though, is German. I've met so many awesome Germans recently that its made me interested in the language.