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Because you can't have enough different ways to express the same thing.

edited 15th Dec '11 9:00:37 PM by Stormtroper

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!

edited 28th Aug '12 4:39:34 PM by Stormtroper

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!

Damn, I thought this was going to be resources-sharing and stuff.

Learned:

• English
• Mandarin
• Spanish

Learning:

• Russian
• Turkish

Want to learn:

• German
• Finnish
• Taiwanese
• Arabic
• Irish
• this list is going to get very long if I actually try to remember everything I've put on my to-learn list

survival of the tight-lipped

Learned:

• English

Proficient:

• French

Conversational:

• Japanese

Learning:

• French
• Japanese
• German
• Mandarin Chinese (next semester)

Want to learn:

• Finnish
• Russian
• Italian
• Norwegian
• Latin

Why?

Because I love them.

月を見るたび思い出せ

Well, it's not like something's stopping us from talking about that.

(Maybe I shouldn't have asked these questions.)

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!

Know:

• English.

Learning-ish:

• German.

Want to Learn:

• Russian
• Gaelic
• Arabic
• Mandarin

I'm not good at this language thing, though.

edited 15th Nov '10 3:45:39 PM by LuckyRevenant

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

Know:

• English

Learning:

• German

Plan to learn in the future:

• Mandarin
• Gaelic

Fluent: English

Decent: French

Can fumble around in: Swedish

Next on my language list: Japanese

It Just Bugs Me

Native; English.

Fluent enough to read and write at a high school level: Written Spanish.

Meh: Spoken Spanish.

Will Learn: Japanese, Lojban.

The Philosopher-King Paradox

Know:

• English
• Chinese

Learning:

• English
• Chinese

Why? Because I live in China.

And you never strictly stop learning a language in the first place.

edited 15th Nov '10 4:00:26 PM by Kraken

Native: English. Learning: Lojban. Could probably pick up pretty fast if I got into a good program for it: Spanish. Want to know: Mandarin, for a start.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.

So, I am a native English-speaker, and took a few years of French in high school, and I know a bit of Spanish (I call it "kitchen Spanish" because I worked in a restaurant with a lot of Mexican guys, and it's mostly food words, spanglish and swearing).

I'm wanting to become fluent in French, but I wondered what a good way to go about that would be. I still have a decent grasp on the vocabulary, but not so much on the grammar and verb tenses and all that. I was looking at the Rosetta Stone page a few minutes ago... Yeesh... I don't have that kind of money to drop on software...

Any ideas? Hopefully cheap ones?

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth and the learned find themselves perfectly equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists

Fun fact: Despite the fact that English is the only language I can speak fluently right now, it is not my first language.

Rather, Polish is my first language. According to my grandmother I spoke it very well for a 4 or 5 year old. I guess when school came around, I forgot Polish in favor of English, since I spoke English inside the home anyway due to my mom and dad being fluent in both languages. (My dad being almost fluent, to be exact. His grammar is a little awkward, but he has no problems communicating what he's trying to say.)

I know scattered bits of Spanish (from high school lessons) and Polish. I can understand Polish very well when it is spoken to me and I can read it too, if I read it out loud, but I can't speak it due to knowing little of the language's functions.

I've actually been thinking about learning Polish lately, since it doesn't feel quite right to me to be so interested in other languages (dead languages, at that) and their associated cultures yet pay so little attention to my own.

EDIT: Ah yes—in a perfect world, I would love to learn languages like Old English and Old Norse, but because those languages are no longer spoken it wouldn't be worth my time to learn to speak them fluently.

Thought learning Old Norse may come with the additional benefit of being weird but almost understandable in Iceland.

edited 18th Feb '11 1:01:52 PM by annebeeche

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.

Self update: I know a smattering of Chinese and can read Russian.

月を見るたび思い出せ

Just English, fluently; I can just about get by in French and German from learning them in school. I want to learn Italian and Spanish; Spanish because it's widely spoken and I hear it's extremely easy to learn for people who've done French, and Italian because it sounds so pretty.

Scepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. - Clarence Darrow

Know: German(Native), English, Latin(Reading only)
Learning: Japanese
Will: Ancient Greece, Old German/English/Norse(they,uh, kinda overlap?), Russian (my mother is a teacher), alot of others which could be cool.

edited 19th Feb '11 4:42:20 AM by myrdschaem

Native: English
Learning:Japanese
Want to Learn: Latin, French, German, Russian

Requiem ~ September 2010 - October 2011 [Banned 4 Life]

Know: English [fluent]

(Was) Learning: French [insofar semi-proficient], Basque [non-proficient]

Want To Learn: Arabic, Venetian, Catalan, Albanian, Ukrainian, Piedmontese, Maltese

edited 19th Feb '11 4:47:41 AM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

Know: Aenglisc

Learning or am going to learn in the near future: Japanese, Spanish

Want to learn: Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, German, Polish, Welsh, Nahuatl, Mandarin, Farsi, Coptic, Latin, Korean, Russian, French, Gaelic (Both Scottish and Irish), Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Finnish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Greek, Old English WAARGH SO MANY LANGUAGES.

ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᓈᒻᒪᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ

Know: English, barely

Would like to learn: Russian and Polish, due to my desire to study eastern european politics

Mandarin would be useful considering about 1/5 of my classmates speak it as their native language.

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Know: English

Wants to learn: Italian. Of all the romance languages, it's my favorite. Also, Latin, Japanese, German, and Greek would be awesome.

edited 19th Feb '11 5:01:47 PM by Firestarter

Everything happens for a reason. The reason is a chaotic intersection of chance and the laws of physics.

Latin's a bitch to learn.

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Speak/Understand: English (native), French (conversational).

Understand only: Tagalog. I get a lot of flack from my mom about it.

Learning: Irish.

Enough to get by  ^*

: Polish, Finnish, and a couple more that I can't quite remember.

Want to learn: Arabic, Tagalog, more Finnish, and German.

edited 19th Feb '11 10:45:54 PM by Sharysa

Functionally knowledgeable:

• English: Quite obvious.
• [REDACTED]: Language of ancestry, obviously used quite a lot at home, though I could've been better at it. Also seconding Anne's sentiments.
• Indonesian: Because restaurants, and close proximity with Ausland.

Learning:

• Russian: Webcomic project. Also sounds amusing and epically hammy.
• Arabic: No, I don't really know why... bloody thing. Lughatul majnun.

Planning to learn:

• Mandarin: Most native speaker among world languages, also somewhat of a milestone.
• Quite a lot, to be honest.

edited 10th Jun '11 9:12:43 PM by betterthanstrawberry

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Russian is my native, and I'm fluent in English. Currently learning Japanese, with Italian and Spanish next on the list of priorities.

   I will consume not only your flesh, but your very soul.