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How Many Languages Do You Speak?

This may have been done before, did a quick search and yadadada.

How many languages do you speak fluently?

I'm bilingual so Swedish and Finnish comes naturally, I studied German for six years and my English is, well good enough. So that would make it four.

I've been meaning to start studying Spanish for years. My motivation is still there, so when I have the time I'll take a few classes.

How many do you speak? What language would you like to learn?

I also created a poll for this, here's the link:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=518829

i speak korean and english.

if i had a chance to learn a new language then i would have to say.... japanese

English, Tagalog (Filipino) and Spanish

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Originally posted by TranceOwnsLol and Spanish

Where did you learn and how? Did you take lessons? How was it?

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Originally posted by DuBam Where did you learn and how? Did you take lessons? How was it?

I study it in my school as a subject for IB. I've been studying it for 4 years but it comes pretty natural for me as there are a lot of Spanish words which are also in Filipino as the Spanish invaded us for 300 years.

Haha, ok. Learning English was pretty easy for me since it has very much in common with Swedish.

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Originally posted by DuBam Haha, ok. Learning English was pretty easy for me since it has very much in common with Swedish.

Really? Grammar or vocabulary?



I speak English and German, and I understand a little bit of Danish (though can't produce it). I need to start learning French.

German, English and French.
But I'm not sure how much of my French is left, because I haven't used it since school. Bad thing is that I'm strongly considering a career where I'll need it...
Unfortunately, I don't enjoy learning languages that much.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov Really? Grammar or vocabulary?

Both, actually. But grammar in particular. You should hear a joe-sixpack Finn try to pronounce something, anything in English, it's horrible!

It's hard for a Finn simply because there is no relation between the two.

You don't believe me? Check out some random interview with WRC champ Tommi Makinen

I speak Finnish and English. I probably "should" speak some Swedish as well, but.. my Swedish sucks. I'm currently studying Japanese, but I'm at the very very beginning so don't know shit yet.

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Originally posted by Meat187 I'm not sure how much of my French is left, because I haven't used it since school. Bad thing is that I'm strongly considering a career where I'll need it...

This reminded me of the fact that I forgot German for a couple of years, now I have a job where I use it regularly.
Thank God for that, since otherwise I would probably have forgotten it completely.

Dutch, a bit of English, a bit of German and a wee bit of French. I'd like to learn Italian.

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Originally posted by Ghost Raver I'm currently studying Japanese, but I'm at the very very beginning so don't know shit yet.

I can say aishiteru, but not to you!

At least not in the way that it's intended.

English and Arabic are the only one's that qualify as fluent for me, and I would certainly like to add Spanish and Mandarin to that range.

By the way, anyone given Rosetta Stone a try?

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Originally posted by DuBam This reminded me of the fact that I forgot German for a couple of years, now I have a job where I use it regularly. Thank God for that, since I would probably have forgotten it completely.

So it's easy to re-learn a language? I hope so, because my biggest nightmare is something like: "I see you've had French for 5 years in school. Good, we'll send you over there for 6 months."

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Originally posted by Meat187 So it's easy to re-learn a language? I hope so, because my biggest nightmare is something like: "I see you've had French for 5 years in school. Good, we'll send you over there for 6 months."

lol

When I started to re-use it, it was amazing how fast I started to remember things I hadn't even thought about in ten years. I guess it's like riding a bike, it stays in your spine, whether you acknowledge it or not. This is the case with me, don't now about the rest, though.

Haha, I'd forgotten most of my German, but one or two conversation courses brought almost all of it back.

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Originally posted by DuBam I can say aishiteru, but not to you! At least not in the way that it's intended.

I know some words and a lot of the hiragana. A lot more to learn, but I'm also planning a trip to Japan in the not so near future so that's going to help some too.

I'm also in the (very early) process of learning Japanese.

Pimsleur method really helps for speaking and understanding. Reading/writing is gonna be tough.

I'm always wondering, is there any incentive for you guys learning more languages or are you doing it for fun? Because I can see no fun in learning Japanese (for example) and I'm not interested in it at all.

Urdu,punjabi,(arabic 25%) and a little bit of english.

English and... English. Did French since I was 6-7 till maybe 16.. (wow just realised 10 years lol) but can only remember weird random words...like..pen...computer.

Tried Italian...half a cd.
Tried Spanish...one cd.
Tried Polish...hmm maybe a couple of cds worth, but still basically nothing.

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Originally posted by Meat187 I'm always wondering, is there any incentive for you guys learning more languages or are you doing it for fun? Because I can see no fun in learning Japanese (for example) and I'm not interested in it at all.

I took German starting pretty young, and I picked up a little Danish while living there for a few months. French I need for a career though, so I will probably start taking courses as soon as I finish my current degree program.

english

basic cantonese and mandarin
spanish i can more than get by i think. the only problem is native speakers speak a mile a minute so it's hard for me to keep up. especially during sin senos.

Czech (native)
English
German (I've studied the langauge for more than 10 years but now I feel like I would have a problem forming coherent sentence)

Wanted to learn Spanish on my own, still stuck at Lesson 1.

Also know some weird Finnish words (phrases), though I probably couldn't spell them right.

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