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[Ceallach]

Japanese I can speak, can read fine, but don't know enough kanji, 99% of the time I need furigana to be able to read well

 

[UnPremierAmour]

I can speak English and Greek fluently and can somewhat manage reading Hebrew.. in a way. I can understand some German and I also know basic French and are currently learning Japanese.

 

[hypernima]

God people up in here like

I can only speak english, and very rudimentary japanese, spanish and yoruba.

 

[Lucumo]

German, English and a bit of French and Latin.

Need to start learning Japanese by myself...or I need to move somewhere where courses are available.

 

[Harry Stewart]

Fluent in English, French and Russian. Russian is my mother tongue, but getting rusty as I've been out of the country for most of my life. Still, my prononciation is on point and I can still read and write, so a month back in Russia and I'm good.

Also speak good Italian, as I studied it in school and Uni and lived in Milan on student exchange for six months. Also rusty as it was nearly a decade ago, but every time I spend a few hours with Italians I find that it comes back and I remember more than I thought. Plus it's not that hard if you know the grammar and prononciation basics and can already speak French.

 

[Aureon]

English, Italian, Latin,

Spoiler

Java

 

[bootsthecat]

Fluent in English and Greek, and my German is serviceable in a 'I probably sound like a 5 year old to someone fluent in German' kind of way.

I'd like to learn Spanish. Got the Rosetta Stone and everything, but got lazy.

 

[Nivash]

I'm a Swedish native so I get Norwegian and Danish for free. Pretty great. I studied French in school but had horrible teachers, I can somewhat read newspapers and hold basic conversations but that's about it. German is close enough to Swedish so I can make some sense reading it, don't understand a word if spoken though.

 

[Ramsiege]

I'm conversational in Spanish and can read it, but I can't write it.

 

[StayDead]

Can speak, read and write Japanese (although my speaking is the worst due to not having enough practice).

Used to be able to speak read and write German, but now whenever I try and think of it the grammar gets messed up with Japanese (learnt German in school)

 

[TatteredHat]

Dutch is my mother tongue, I speak enough Japanese to get around in Japan and am working on managing to read it though mostly as a hobby.

I can also speak and read a fair bit of German.

 

[Hydrophobic]

I can read Japanese at an intermediate level (I can generally read some news paper articles with some assistance from a dictionary) and I used to be able to speak in conversations about non-technical topics. I haven't really used my Japanese much in a few years and I've started to lose the speaking, but reading is still with me.

 

[Always-honest]

Dutch: think, speak, read, write.
Englis: second language, speak, read, write.
German: third language, reading is pretty good, speaking reasonably, writing pretty bad.
French: shit, but i can read, speak and write a bit.
Latin: i can read a bit. I had it for a few years in school but i think i forgot most of it.

 

[PandaShake]

English and native in Cantonese. Can only speak, but not read/write in Chinese.

Dutch: think, speak, read, write.
Englis: second language, speak, read, write.
German: third language, reading is pretty good, speaking reasonably, writing pretty bad.
French: shit, but i can read, speak and write a bit.
Latin: i can read a bit. I had it for a few years in school but i think i forgot most of it.

That's impressive. My thoughts are sometimes a mix of English and Cantonese within the same sentence. I wonder if trilinguals and + does more.

 

[RangerX]

Fluent in English/Irish and have a moderate level of french.

 

[Harry Stewart]

That's impressive. My thoughts are sometimes a mix of English and Cantonese within the same sentence. I wonder if trilinguals and + does more.

I remember when I was learning French and Italian, you'd know the language was really sinking in when you started having dreams in it.

 

[Shadow_Lord]

Arabic is mother tongue, learned English at 11.

 

[TheSloth]

Level N1 Japanese - I am a translator by trade. Comes from my mother's side.

I'd be happy to translate small bits of text if anyone needs.

 

[Apathy]

Spanish. Comes in handy like 0% of the time in Canada unless in talking to family. I can understand a little bit of Portuguese and Italian when I hear it spoken and even less French despite taking it for 5 years in school (I hate French). Funny that actually taking French in school and I can barely understand it but I took no Portuguese or Italian but I can get the gist of those.

 

[The Omega Man]

I am fluent in English, German, Spanish and French, I get to use all these languages everyday (German wife)

My 6 years old is also fluent in these 4 languages as well, he speaks Spanish with me at home then he'll switch on the fly to German to speak to his mom, he goes to a French school ( official language here in Montreal) and he watches his cartoons in English and plays with his neighbour friends in English or French.

 

[Verelios]

Korean!

Which is weird since I signed up for a Japanese class

 

[Zhao_Yun]

I am fluent in German and English. I can speak Cantonese Chinese pretty well but I cant really read or write. I am conversational in Japanese and French although the latter has become worse over the years because of lack of practice.

 

[brau]

English, Spanish, Italian, a bit of French... and the mandatory some japanese because i watched anime

 

[pauljeremiah]

English, French, Ancient Greek and Latin, yes I had a classical education.

 

[Big Baybee]

American Sign Language.

 

[akilshohen]

Some Japanese. Tried learning Mandarin and Spanish but haven't really been as exposed to those two as much as Japanese.

 

[FonkyByNature]

French, my most spoken language.

English

Arab ( speak well but lost reading)

Russian ( speak well and can read but not everything)

 

[BluWacky]

I teach Latin and Classical Greek; I am by no means fluent in either but I suppose I'm half-decent.

I know enough French and German to muddle through conversations on holiday. I knew about as much Japanese a few years ago, but lack of use has made me forget much of what I learnt.

All I can say in Spanish are "two beers please"/"my name is _____" style phrases, but I can read it okay from knowing Latin.

Despite the above sounding fairly half-hearted, I don't feel that I struggle with picking up languages in terms of grammatical features. I am just the world's laziest vocab learner! Give me a pre-defined list of words to learn and I'm fine, but I came pretty unstuck when I got to university and kept having to read texts essentially filled with vocabulary I just had no idea about. I'd have probably done a bit better if Memrise had been around back in my student days...

 

[sinxtanx]

I can speak most languages passably if I just get a paper with the sentence written on it

 

[Jisgsaw]

French: mother tongue
German: my mother's (and father's) tongue. Incidentaly, I live in Germany now too.
English because of internet. Was actually pretty easy to learn, as it's a somewhat misshapen fusion of french and german.

I tried several times to learn japanese, but having to learn a new vocabulary is not for me.
Since I know french, I can more or less roughly guess what a spanish/italian text is about, and knowing english and german, same goes for dutch.

 

[diamount]

Still a monoglot, I do want to learn Spanish as it's the easiest of the romance languages and would help immensely when traveling Latin America.

 

[sn00zer]

First language is English, picked up Pig Latin when I was around 7

 

[MGrant]

English is what I grew up speaking and reading. Second language was German (high school and college), which I can read and write decently, but I'm a little slow in speaking due to lack of practice. It is one of the best languages to learn if you want to learn more languages, I still maintain, because German really teaches you how languages are structured due to the grammatical rules in place.

Chinese was my third, but I only took one year in college, where I learned simplified characters, which didn't help me at all when I moved to Taiwan last year, because they use traditional characters. I'm about half-way to conversational now; can take care of important things and run errands, but I can't really sit and talk with anyone just yet.

I'm also okay at French, but unpracticed, since I only studied it for about a year back in 2009-2010. Want to get better at that one some day.

 

[Kaze Kyou]

Went to Taiwan from 2012-2015 just to learn traditional Chinese. Can read and write at least 70% of the characters, the rest are hardly used, ancient characters that you find in poems, scripts and whatnot.

I could also speak it when I was younger, but it was a broken, western-born Chinese kind of level. Now I can speak it confidently and use it for business.

I only understand Cantonese, but can't speak a word of it. =__=

I was also once fluent in Indonesian and Italian, but when you don't practise it for ages they just disappear into thin air. =__=

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Native Englisht tongue (Scotland)
Have a degree in Thai, but my speaking has gone to shit. Couldn't hit a falling tone if my life depended on it. Reading, writing and understanding are all top notch though. Thai soaps on YT <3