What Languages Do You Know? Or are Learning?

[Zane_C]

I spent year 7, 8 and 9 learning German. Most pointless class ever, yeah sure maby if you want to travel in the future, for those that aren't planning on speaking German, it should be optional. But NO, It's compulsory at my school for 7, 8 and 9.
Now that I'm finished year 9, I feel happy, but sad seeing that I wasted literally hundreds of hours.

 

[V-te]

I'm currently learning French, but I feel that I'm not learning much, as we hardly speak it in class, and the teacher just spends her time telling other people to hush up. This is my final year of French, but oh how I wish to learn Arabic or Latin.

 

[baker`]

I speak English.

I am learning Japanese at highschool and will continue to learn it until i graduate after senior highschool.

When I read Chinese (traditional and simplified) I can pretty much understand what is written as it is so similar to Japanese. However, once they open their mouths I can hardly understand a thing.

I understand what you mean Zubon. Does your name happen to be the word for 'trousers' or is it just a coincidence?

 

[Zubon]

I speak English.

I am learning Japanese at highschool and will continue to learn it until i graduate after senior highschool.

When I read Chinese (traditional and simplified) I can pretty much understand what is written as it is so similar to Japanese. However, once they open their mouths I can hardly understand a thing.

I understand what you mean Zubon. Does our name happen to be the word for 'trousers' or is it just a coincidence?

Yeah, that's me. "Trousers"!

 

[LNZ]

When I was at high school (1983-1987, 8th-12th grade), I did study German for two years (1983-4).

 

[CharlieCooper]

I have always spoken English and French and am therefore fluent (although my French writing sucks because I don't ever use it!) and I studied German and Spanish for almost ten years. I had a very high level of those two languages also, but since I finished them at university I haven't spoken them much and have lost a lot of my proficiency.

 

[blah]

I can fluently speak English, Japanese and French.

I know a bit of Spanish and Latin.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you can't speak Canadian!

You can survive in Vancouver by only knowing an Asian language XD

I doubt I can survive by only knowing Malay :rolleyes:

 

[Kyle Barry]

I know enough English to get by; I can order food in a restaurant.

Also, I'm learning Russian, and I may minor in it at Rutgers University. I'm taking it pretty seriously, and I'm learning pretty rapidly, unfortunately there are so few Russian cubers. We need more!

I studied Spanish and Latin in high school, and a semester of Greek at Rutgers, but know very little of all, except for a fair amount of Spanish.

 

[Erik]

Just Dutch, English, German and Luxembourgish. Though I forgot some luxi lately, I'll have to refresh it

Other than that bits of: French, Spanish, Hungarian and Czech.

 

[Litz]

Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian and some Japanese (nowhere near fluent though/still working on it).

 

[Novriil]

Estonian, English, Russian (not so much as others)
Very-very-very little: Finnish, Latvian and German

 

[peedu]

Nice...

I can speak/read/write:
English, Estonian.
I avoid writing (too many errors), but speak OK:
Russian, Finnish.
Read, able to speak:
German.
Speak, able to read:
Lithuanian, Hungarian.
Understand the general direction of the conversation in Swedish and/or Danish. Also able to read.
Learning: more German, Japanese.
Interested in French only because of kissing.


Peedu

 

[Neutrals01]

I can speak/listen/read/write:
English

I can speak/listen/read/write(but weak):
Malay

I can speak/listen:
Mandarin
Cantoese
Hakka

I can listen/understand a little of:
Hokkien
Japanese
Korean
Indonesian

 

[cmhardw]

I majored in German in college, so presumably my academic German is at least at a high school or college level. After my experience in Germany though I think my "real world" German is at more of a 1st or 2nd grade level. That's ok though, it's motivation for me to travel back to German/Austria and improve!

I also studied Russian for 1 year in college, but I have since forgotten quite a lot of what I used to know. I only remember certain common phrases now. :s

Chris

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

Full English and Malay, I can speak Cantonese and understand Mandarin
I also understand VERY VERY VERY VERY little French.
@Neutrals: Indonesian is almost the same as Malay. Doesn't count

 

[gyc6001]

Other than English, I can speak, listen, read, write chinese (mandarin).
I can speak, listen, read, write (but weak) in Malay.
can speak, listen hokkien (weak in speaking).
can listen cantonese.
Understand a little of Indonesian, cuz it's something like malay.

 

[stiwi griffin]

spanish(i'm from spain), english and german

 

[ben1996123]

I know English (well duh...), learning french, know a bit of german, a few words in hebrew (thanks shahak =D), few words in spanish, know how to say 'my name is' in greek, hello in ukranian and russian, learning chinese.

 

[jms_gears1]

c#,lsl,gml, a bit of java script, html, xhtml, php
learning: c++, java, mysql,

xP

umm really though
english (blah blah)
and im learning japanese

 

[r_517]

English and Japanese fluently.

When I read Chinese (traditional and simplified) I can pretty much understand what is written as it is so similar to Japanese. However, once they open their mouths I can hardly understand a thing.

China is too big even to Chinese, people in the South have difficulty in understanding the accent in the North:confused:

Have learned:
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Manderin
(but i forgot everything)

Languages i know:
English
Shanghainese (a type of chinese)

I'm Shanghainese!