I speak English and I try my best to learn German and Spanish.
Leaning languages is not my talent. A real pity because it would be a useful thing for a traveller to be good at.
Mel
Reply to this I majored in Japanese at uni, and also did two years of Spanish.
But there's nothing like living in a country and using the language daily to really get good at it.
Reply to this I speak English (native language), some Spanish, some Italian.... and translate Latin quite well. I'm great to have around on vacations to Italy as I can translate almost any building inscription.... LOL.
Reply to this English (native), Japanese (JPLT 1 standard ... with a Nagasaki accent 😉 ), Mandarin (not fluent yet... will be fixing that this year). Can read & write korean (no idea what it means though, mostly because I passed my first year korean by guessing at the interim between Jap/Chi!) and read french quite well.
I'm one of those annoying people who definitely *does* have a talent for languages... which can be helpful, but it's not as useful as it sounds!! Having a talen for languages = will never, ever shut up. And of course, being good at talking doesn't get you a job on its own @.@;; dammit. Maths is probably a more useful skill in the real world.
Reply to this Learning languages was always a hobby, I really enjoy it!
I speak Portuguese, English, German (7 years studying it - all the levels!), Spanish and a bit of French.
Next one is Italian!
Reply to this Chinese (Mandarin & Minnan)
English
Malay
Indonesian
Thai
I'm learning Japanese
Reply to this English, French, can understand spanish(attending tuitions).
Also few Indian Languages as I originally belongs to India.
Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujrati and others if you ever heard.
Reply to this Polish (native) and English.
I did speak Greek when I lived there but that was when I was a kid so I dont remember much.
I'd like to learn German, Greek, and some French (not a big fan of the language but its nice).
I tried to learn Latin on my own but that didnt last too long....but I might pick that up again.
Reply to this English (native) , Fluent in Swedish (which means I can get by in Norwegian too) , a little Spanish and ive just started learning Mandarin as im hoping to get a teaching job in China :S
Reply to this English (native), competent in French and I plan on learning Spanish soon too.
Reply to this My native language is English and I'm fairly competent in French. I could probably be fairly fluent if I spent 6 months to a year there... next I want to tackle Greek or Italian, maybe even Portuguese. I'm always amazed when people can rattle off in 5 or 6 languages, especially very distinct languages.
Reply to this I've always been terrible with languages having only doen a bit of french and german ages ago. I would like to pick up a language sometime soon as its one of those things you've got to in life :D I do want to learn Japanese sometime but i've been told its extremely difficult, what would be the best introductory language?
Reply to this Hi Graham,
Welcome to TravelBlog.
If Japanese is the language you are most interested in, then I'd say study Japanese.
No foreign language is easy to learn, and attitude is worth more than raw ability in my book. There are sooo many resources (particularly websites) for studying Japanese (others I'm not sure about). The main thing is that you continue to chip away at it, preferably on a daily basis, even if its only a few mins.
Reply to this I speak English (mother tongue) and have a degree in Russian - I'm currently working as a translator in Ukraine. My Ukrainian is getting better but I don't have time to learn it properly!
Has anyone forgotten a language? I used to speak French quite well but the other two languages have pushed it out of my head!
Reply to this Yeah, I am always forgetting languages I learned. It would take a few weeks in a Spanish speaking country to somewhat dig up my Spanish. I also used to speak Irish fluently. I dont anymore.
Mel
Reply to this I'm billingual, fluent in English and Dutch, one is what we speak at home the other what I learned in school and spoke with my friends... I speak German more or less fluently; French, un petite peu... Spannish, un pocco; Swedish, I understand, read and speak, though my spoken Swedish is crap these days, which is shameful really as I am half Swedish... And than I try to learn a bit of the language of the countries I am in, but though I mostly can hold simple conversations while in the country, as soon as I leave it, so does the language...
Reply to this ARABIC ( NATIVE )
CHICNESS ( a little )
English ( not really bad 😊 )
Reply to this Fluent in English, Dutch, French and Indonesian. I understand German better than I speak it, and have a basic knowledge of Spanish.
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