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Mother languages: Polish and German

Fluent in: English, French

Soon a B.A. in Chinese and Japanese (though my Chinese is way better, went to Shanghai, lived and studied there).

And I understand and can read Spanish, speaking got rusty, because I have no one to practice with :/

All in all: 7 languages
Planned: Italian, maybe a Nordic language as well. Or Russian.

Did I win?
 
English - Native
Japanese - Fluent
Tagalog - Fluent Listening, Proficient Speaking
Spanish - Very Elementary Level
French - Beginner
 
Kinokou said:
But you all speak the same dialect? Does it have a semi official spelling?

I hate it when people write in dialect in Norwegain, we all have a different one depending on where you are from and even people who have the same dialect will choose different spellings for the same word. It's a nightmare. Luckily most people don't write dialect and keep to Bokmål or Nynorsk which are the two official ways to write Norwegian.
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The people in the same area pretty much spell and talk the same dialect, but there are small differences, especially in spelling. Go to another area or another state within Austria and they speak a completely different dialect, you usually have no issues understanding different Austrian dialects though except for some words or phrases sometimes.
 
Daniel R said:
I am swedish and I can read and understand 80%+ of danish and norwegian.
I am also fluent in english and almost fluent in german.
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Pretty much bilingual English/Swedish these days (Brit that has lived in Sweden for sixteen years). I used to work for a Norwegian company, so got used to speaking Swedish to Norwegians with them replying in Norwegian.

Like you I can probably read a lot of Norwegian and Danish. Hell I used to read Norwegian for work and the amount of times I've passed through Copenhagen I seem to have got on fine reading stuff there. Understanding spoken Danish is a whole different kettle of fish though.
 
Reasonable at French. I'd doubt my ability to be grammatically correct having not used it in so long, but I could make myself understood and understand others. Reading it is no problem.
 
All of them if they're in transcription form

But otherwise just English and some Irish(which is an insanely useless language to know)
 
Native: English

I've been learning Polish and know it well enough now to know the gist of what people are saying. Duolingo just released Polish in beta so I've been going through that. Then my wife is a native Polish speaker so I'm constantly surrounded by the language.
 
English (Native) - Born and raised in Australia so this is the language I know the best.

Turkish (Fluent but not native) - I'd say my level was C1 in total and maybe B2-B3 in writing and reading.

French (Advanced level) - Unless I'm able to practice in a French environment I don't think I can really improve my French level beyond what it is..I just need practice speaking and listening. I got through the first book of Harry Potter in French but I still sometimes muddle up my prepositions, confuse some simple things and forget which phrases trigger the subjunctive.

Chinese Mandarin (Early intermediate in reading and writing, beginner in comprehension and speaking) - I want to learn this language a lot better. It's the language I know the least of the four and that's because I took it because I had to take another one.

Planned:
I want to do languages that are nothing alike. So the next language I might want to learn is Arabic. I don't have anything from the Semitic language group thus far.
 
  • Native speaker of Swedish
  • Fluent-ish in English
  • I have a Bachelor's degree in French and was on C1 level when I got it three years ago; unfortunately, I haven't had much opportunity to speak French in the last few years and I feel a bit like I am losing the language. Luckily, I will be in Paris for three months this year, which should give me plenty of opportunity to brush up on my French!
  • My girlfriend is from Finland and my Finnish is slowly but steadily improving. I was surprised to find that I could communicate with her parents in Finnish without too many misunderstandings this Christmas!
 
Mother tongue is Polish and I'm fluent in English and Japanese.

I was studying Latin, Chinese, and German in High School/Uni, but I barely remember anything.
 
Native English speaker. Also learned Mandarin and Urdu. Been meaning to learn to read Devanagari so I can add Hindi to the list, but don't really have the motivation for it. Should do it though.

Have also thinking about actually trying to learn Spanish, but once again don't really feel the motivation so haven't started trying.
 
Native language: Swedish
Can speak and write: English
Can understand: Norwegian and, barely, Danish (the latter is significantly more difficult for most Swedes to understand, especially when spoken)
Low skill: German (can produce and understand simple sentences)
 
My mother language is Spanish.
I'm fluent in English which I learned by myself since I got to the kindergarten. Sometimes I lose focus and tend to mix some words, but I can comfortably use it in my everyday life. I'm lacking a little bit on pronunciation, though.

I'm learning French now, it began as a plan for helping my girlfriend so she could have someone to teach to and someone to practice with, but I found it so easy that I started to learn it for myself too. Having a background in both English and Spanish made it even easier to learn.
I'm still at beginner level, though, since I have no one to practice with or that can teach me (my girlfriend abandoned the course she was taking and she's slowly forgetting about French).
 
I'm not fluent in any language at all.

I just interchange they when needed.

m3r4 said:
I use DuoLingo for the most part, since it's the most motivating (because game-like) option to me. I also asked Spanish-speaking friends to try and not use English when we talk so I can get used to conversational patterns.

The occasional conversation between my "Spanish self" and my "French self" is probably not too effective, but it helps to keep the languages present in my mind.
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You never told me to speak with you in Spanish... :p
 
Spanish. I know a bit of French also. that's helped me understand Portuguese.
I'm going to enroll in an elementary Chinese class this year though.
 
Mother language is English
I am bad at speaking Spanish, but I am decent at reading and writing. Might be like that because I read spanish newspapers every once in awhile to get a different perspective on the news.
 
Chinese as mother tongue and somewhat fluent English. Plan to learn Spanish in the future.
I'm also surprised that so many people are learning or going to learn Chinese.
 
My mother language is English and I'm in my 4th year of learning German at a University. I can read and write German better than I can speak and listen to it, but I'm working on improving all of that.
 
Urdu ; It's my native language - fluent
Memoni ; Native tribal language - fluent
English ; Learned since I was a kid - fluent I guess. I don't converse in English much unless it's online.

Arabic ; Learned before Urdu :v - I just don't know the meaning of plenty of words, otherwise I can speak/read/write you name it - fluent

Japanese ; I can speak and can read katakana. Hiragana and Kanji are beyond me. At least I can understand the words!

Chinese (Mandarin) ; Learned as a child, but I forgot so soon (Lack of conversation) :(

There are more, but they are at quite a basic level and I don't feel like listing them as I haven't used them in a while.
 
Slovenian as my mother language
Pretty fluent in English and Serbo-Croatian
I can understand German, but writing/talking is on a very wobbly side, but it is improving.
 
I'm Dutch and can speak and write that fluently and also English.

German a bit.

French not so much.

One day I want to learn Italian, just because it sounds cool.
 
Persian / Farsi

A couple of years back, I could speak some Spanish. Not a lot, but enough to get around. Lost most of it as I found myself using it less and less.
 
Mother Tongue: Spanish
Fluent: English and Japanese

I can speak some French but forgot a lot. Can understand much more than I can speak though.
I can barely speak any Italian nor Portuguese, but I can understand well enough (I used to read comic books in Portuguese when I was a kid) to know what's going on, plus some details. Guess it's easy once you know one romance language.
 
Spanish and English.
I've been thinking about learning French but I haven't been able to find a decent program around here.

Either they're insanely expensive or only teach you the most basic stuff and that's it.
 
Read and write Japanese. I'm not fluent by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm improving everyday, as it's required for my job.

I've all but forgotten the tamil I learned as a child (my family's mother tongue). Everyone in the family speaks to me in English now.
 
I am german, I can read and understand english. And I should also be able to read latin. Of course I forgot pretty much everything except for the most important parts, like:

GAF stultus est.
 
Fluent in English (consume all my media in English....sometimes I think in English) and German (native language). Can read a little bit of Spanish. No good at speaking that, though. I can also read Latin. Well, I can read it slowly. Had 8 years of Latin in school. No speaking or writing though.
 
Natively: German

Second languages: English (fluent), a bit of French

I also have an advanced proficiency degree in Latin.
 
Native French speaker
Fluent in English and German
Intermediate level in Spanish
Beginner in Swedish

I am learning Russian at the moment and loving it.

Pro tip : If you are interested in learning a lot "Western" languages, study Latin
It's like having a skeleton key for Western civilization.
Latin is awesome!
 
amanset said:
Pretty much bilingual English/Swedish these days (Brit that has lived in Sweden for sixteen years). I used to work for a Norwegian company, so got used to speaking Swedish to Norwegians with them replying in Norwegian.

Like you I can probably read a lot of Norwegian and Danish. Hell I used to read Norwegian for work and the amount of times I've passed through Copenhagen I seem to have got on fine reading stuff there. Understanding spoken Danish is a whole different kettle of fish though.
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You could probably learn to understand it quicker than you think. The similarities come through once you get over the initial hump.
 
I can speak and read German well enough to get by on my own there for a few weeks.

Love the language and wish I knew more.
 
Dutch is my mother tongue. English is second when it comes to reading and general usage. I can express myself in French and have conversations in it, but I will stumble from time to time. I have notions of German, and I speak some Portuguese (which I am learning at the moment). Understanding a conversation is hard due to how fast it is spoken, but I can read simple (first to second grade) texts.
 
I just started on Russian last week. I use Rosetta Stone and DuoLingo, plus I practice with my girlfriend who is also trying to learn it alongside me.

I am somewhat less than conversational in Spanish I think, but not by much.

My goal is to be fluent in Spanish and conversational in Russian by the end of the year.
 
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