Languages.

[Baba Yaga]

Hey. I was just curious as to what languages everyone speaks here, and to perhaps have this as a thread where we can discuss language/languages as a subject in general, and help other people that are trying to learn a new language if they have questions.

I only speak my native tongue English, but I've been really trying really hard to learn Spanish. I downloaded duolingo which has been a pretty helpful app, but I'm currently struggling a lot trying to nail down Spanish conjugation. I was told Spanish is supposed to be one of the easier languages to learn, but it definitely doesn't feel like it. I think one of the hardest things to get used to is the fact that you can't just literally translate what you know in your native tongue over to the language you're trying to learn. For example, "Como pan" made absolutely no sense to me because it literally translates to "eat bread" in English. Anyways, I'm mainly interested in Spanish because it has so much practical use. If I can master Spanish, I want to try my hand at a more fun but less useful language, like Hebrew or Gaelic. I also think the bonuses of boosted brain health and a second personality are kind of cool.

 

[Tenmashi]

I only speak English and Dutch.

 

[Gengarite X]

Dutch is my mother tongue and I'm a sales advisor for the German department of my company, so I speak German fluently as well. Other languages I speak are English, French and I'm following a course for Spanish.

 

[lemoncatpower]

I speak English and basic to intermediate french. Not fluent but enough to work where I work and get around. Also took spanish in school so i have my basic understanding

 

[ACEtrainer.Cedric..117]

English is my mother tongue so i speak English most.konkani and hindi comes second. Then comes french (even I've downloaded duolingo to learn it).

 

[Psychic]

I grew up learning English, French, Hebrew and Yiddish. My French is at a conversational level, but my Hebrew and Yiddish both suck, even when I lived in Israel for a few months.

There was just no way to properly learn that many languages in the amount of time we had and with the curriculum my teachers used. I wish I was a bilingual English/French speaker, but alas. Knowing multiple languages is definitely beneficial, but it's way easier if you start young.

~Psychic

 

[RedJirachi]

I can only speak English. My dad knows some German, and my sister has learned some Chinese

 

[Zora]

English is my native language; in high school (and a year of college) studied Latin. My Latin's very rusty--don't remember a whole lot of vocabularly besides the important ones and barely remember any of the inflections (i.e. declensions and conjugations) by heart any more :v

Haven't ever tried learning another language, mostly because I have so much else to study :/

 

[Silence27trey]

I have an Abra who's nicknamed in Japanese characters and was wondering if anyone could translate for me..it's written in symbols and I would like to know the worded Japanese name and what it means in English. I would greatly appreciate it!

 

[Sketchie]

American English is my native language, but I speak German, Dutch, a little Danish, and I'm beginning work on Norwegian. (I really suck at it though.) My dream language is modern Greek and I WILL learn it one day.

 

[Alexander18]

I speak only English. Probably too difficult for me to learn any other languages.

 

[RubberChicken]

I speak only English. Probably too difficult for me to learn any other languages.

Surely a New Zealander knows a bit of Maori too?

 

[RedJirachi]

Surely a New Zealander knows a bit of Maori too?

Hey, I'm from New Zealand and I don't know a thing about Maori. The loudness of it scares me

 

[Alexander18]

Surely a New Zealander knows a bit of Maori too?

I am a NZ European so I don't speak. I feel comfortable speaking a language that I am born with. If I wanted to learn another language, I would learn French or Spanish.

 

[lemoncatpower]

Hey, I'm from New Zealand and I don't know a thing about Maori. The loudness of it scares me

Is Maori the native tongue on the island??

 

[Goodbye Kalos]

I can speak 18 different languages. I made 14 of those languages up myself, though.

 

[Alexander18]

Is Maori the native tongue on the island??

Don't think so since most of us speak English.

 

[Ascended Dialga]

My main language is English. I took four years of French in school, and I can read and write it pretty well. However, I still have difficulty in listening to someone speak it; it has a lot of silent letters and different words that sound alike, so it can be hard to mentally spell out what they're saying. I've also studied a little bit of Italian and Portuguese on the side out of curiosity.

 

[Bananarama]

I can only speak English fluently. I used to be fluent in French, but it's pretty rusty nowadays. I'm thinking about re-learning it, though.

 

[Skygge]

I can speak both English and Spanish. Spanish is my first language, and I learned English when I was in grade school.