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Just wondering how many multilingual people we have here. I had Vietnamese class today and hot damn. It's not a tough language to learn, but it reminds me how difficult it is to pick up something so foreign, even when starting from the lowest of the basics.

All in all, plus Vietnamese, I know 3 languages. Anyone else here adept at languages?
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lowyhong: Just wondering how many multilingual people we have here. I had Vietnamese class today and hot damn. It's not a tough language to learn, but it reminds me how difficult it is to pick up something so foreign, even when starting from the lowest of the basics.

All in all, plus Vietnamese, I know 3 languages. Anyone else here adept at languages?
You can try to learn Bulgarian or Russian... it's pretty damn hard for people that don't use cyrylic :)
I know Russian,German and English ...and will gladly learn Japanese or Chinese ;)
About six I can at least read in and build simple sentences, but to varying degrees and including my native tongue: German, English, Italian, French, Portuguese and Dutch. Due to my familarity with other Romance languages I might be able to grasp a bit Spanish, too.
Post edited January 30, 2012 by Leroux
I only know Spanish and English. I understand a little Portuguese because it's a little similar to Spanish and I used to watch a lot of Brazilian television years ago.
I can speak Polish and English fluently, and I'm learning German - not fluent by any means, but I can put together sentences in an OK manner.
English is my first language. I took a year of french in high school (Most of which I've forgotten), and I'll occasionally use German/Spanish words for.... no real reason. French is actually pretty similar to Italian in many ways, or at least at a glance it is, so I can read a bit of both of them.
Italian and English here, though I'm seriously considering to learn Spanish (another "lingua franca" of our times) and Japanese... You know I'm buying so much Japanese-written shit that I would spend a fortune just to make others translate it for me :-P
As I'm French, I speak french of course. Plus English. Of course ^_^

Then, as somebody else said, i can read italian and spanish even if I haven't studied thrm. i studied german, but forgot almost all of it.

And i can speak japanese, let's say at an average level...
Not much. My native language and English.
I speak slovak as my native language, then czech (for obvious reasons) and english. I used to know german too, but after long years of not using it, I still somewhat understand it, but can barely speak, barring some basic conversation.
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klaymen: I speak slovak as my native language, then czech (for obvious reasons) and english. I used to know german too, but after long years of not using it, I still somewhat understand it, but can barely speak, barring some basic conversation.
I'm pretty much the same, just switch Slovak and Czech the other way around.

(Czech and Slovak are very similar languages, and mutually intelligible to a large extent. I always thought that if we lived somewhere in Africa, linguists would call the two languages just simple dialects without batting an eyelid.)
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lowyhong: Just wondering how many multilingual people we have here. I had Vietnamese class today and hot damn. It's not a tough language to learn, but it reminds me how difficult it is to pick up something so foreign, even when starting from the lowest of the basics.

All in all, plus Vietnamese, I know 3 languages. Anyone else here adept at languages?
Damn, you learn our language. Great when hearing that xD. I just know English enough to chit chat here. I have a plan to learn Chinese in near future
Post edited January 30, 2012 by metalkidz
English only.

I'm not too bothered about knowing other languages though. I never go abroad so i expect anyone in england i come across to speak it, unless i actually moved to another country or wanted to become a translator then i would try and learn another language.
hmm, not very much:

German (of course), English, Latin and Spanish. I do now understand a bit Italian as well, but am not able to answer in Italian ;)

I think my "Austrian" and "Bavarian" has improved as well, but those two languages are really hard :)
The only languages I actually know would be Swedish and English, I did learn French for a few years (while living in Belgium, basically), but I never liked it much and have forgotten most of what I did learn. Danish and Norwegian are often simple enough to read, even if their pronunciation may at times differ greatly from Swedish (or not, given the many variations of pronunciation within various regions of Sweden, the Skåne, Finnish-Swedish, and Gotland dialects are pretty much incomprehensible between each other, and Stockholm people often enough cannot understand any of them).

Beyond that, I understand a few (written) words here and there from a lot of (Latin and Germanic) languages, even Cyrillic alphabets due to partial knowledge of the characters (though not knowing any differences between the Cyrillic-alphabet languages).

If I'm lucky, the beginner Japanese course I applied for will even start this semester (didn't start last semester due to too few applicants).
Post edited January 30, 2012 by Miaghstir