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jombii

jombii

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    How many languages do you speak? Was it easy learning your second language if you have one? Any plans on learning another language?

    I am bilingual myself. I speak perfect Filipino and English, writes well in both too. I think English was a required course here in the Philippines during our elementary days so it was kind of easy learning it since I practically had to do so all my life. Currently, I am practicing German and is 33% fluent according to Duolingo.

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    Es geht mir gut, danke. Und dir? ^_^

    I love studying languages, but I tend to bite off more than I can chew. As a result I know a little about a lot rather than a lot about a little. It's not the best way to learn a language for practical purposes, but I enjoy it so I'll keep it up.

    That said my best language is French, no doubt because I've been exposed to it from a young age given where I live. I had to take it in school until grade nine, but I didn't really start to understand it until I began to take it more seriously while in university. Nonetheless, while I can read and write French okay, I am still horrible at keeping up with the spoken form.
     
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    I speak English & Spanish. Spanish was first as that's what my parent spoke around me, but I picked up English pretty fast once I got into 2nd grade. I'm halting on planning to learn French right now, nearly failed the class last year.
     
    Russian & English, with the former being my first language. I'd really like to learn French since I want to go back to Quebec and live there for a while, but puh, it's so hard when you're busy and have 50 other responsibilities. Took three semesters of it in uni but it never stuck due to lack of immersion.
     
    I used to be pretty fluent in Spanish but it's really rusty right now :s
     
    I speak Italian and English. No problems with the first one since it's my main language, as for English it's a different story: I started learning it in Primary School, making some progress in Middle School, my skills have skyrocketed since I started playing video games in English and watching content in the original language (mostly being YouTube videos), but it's really useful in everyday life too. I still make some mistakes, but practicing here gives me an opportunity to improve and get better.
    Another language I might want to learn is German, I don't know why but I think there's some hidden feature of that language that attracts me. {XD}
     
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    I speak Italian and English. No problems with the first one since it's my main language, as for English it's a different story: I started learning it in Primary School, making some progress in Middle School, my skills have skyrocketed since I started playing video games in English and watching content in the original language (mostly being YouTube videos), but it's really useful in everyday life too. I still make some mistakes, but practicing here gives me an opportunity to improve and get better.
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    your English is impeccable! good on you =)

    and yess I forgot German lol. Another one I'd love to learn, but French is at the top of my list right now!
     
    I speak 3 languages - English, Sicilian, and Finnish. I learned English and Sicilian naturally through family and growing up, and taught myself Finnish two summers ago because I was travelling to watch some hockey over there.

    I am completely fluent in English and Sicilian, and am pretty comfortable, but not yet fluent, in Finnish.
     
    English 100%

    French
    -Speaking 100%
    -Writing 80%
    -Listening 50%

    Japanese
    -Speaking 50%
    -Writing 10%
    -Listening 30%

    After I completely master the above languages, I want to learn Spanish!
     
    im bilingual. american sign language is technically my first language since i learned it first, and then english. i've known ASL basically my whole life since my parents are deaf and was taught it from them when i was only a few months old. afterwards i think i just picked up english from my sister (who is hearing) but had speech problems for a lot of my life. but yeah, im bilingual. i'm glad i know asl because if i didnt i wouldnt be able to communicate with my parents as well as i do.
     
    I'm French and learned English by playing Pok?mon, and getting the text translated by my dad. School never could make it work for me. I know my English is silly sometimes, I still have trouble with some verb tenses and stuff. Also I used the word ripples instead of wrinkles once.
    I learned a bit of Spanish, just enough to read. I wish I would have been more serious with Spanish, I regret not being able to communicate in more than 2 languages.
     
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    Russian & English, with the former being my first language. I'd really like to learn French since I want to go back to Quebec and live there for a while, but puh, it's so hard when you're busy and have 50 other responsibilities. Took three semesters of it in uni but it never stuck due to lack of immersion.
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    I'm a native French speaker, and I can attest to this being an issue for me as well. I live in an overwhelmingly English neighbourhood, and I know my skills in my first language have rusted somewhat. However, as my parents (especially my father) speak French at home, I have been able to hang onto the the essentials. I understand almost everything, can speak alright, can read very well, but my spelling/grammar isn't great to say the least. However, my new job is in a bilingual environment, so my French will likely improve with more exposure. It tends to get better when I'm able to get more immersion in the language, such as when I attempted French university (which went shockingly well, considering I'd done my secondary education in pure English)...

    I'd really like to learn Spanish; I've wanted to for a while, but never really pursued it. Now that I'm done college and have a lot more freetime, I should consider taking lessons...

    Other than that, I'd like to expand my language base even further, with Japanese and Italian standing out. I won't turn down the chance to learn others though, should the opportunity arise.

    I really put value in learning languages and speaking them; it opens up more of the world to you, presents all kinds of opportunities, and allows you to experience another culture, per say. I know being able to speak French is a key factor behind my getting my second job as a library technician. My bilingual classmate and I both found permanent work within a very short time-frame, while many of my unilingual peers are still looking for a job/were only able to get term positions. It totally opens doors!

    (And I obviously know English, as I was able to read the replies and type this post up)
     
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    Native Dutch and Persian (Farsi) speaker, though because of exposure Dutch is the language I'm most affluent in. Aside from pronunciation mistakes and that kinda stuff, I do not know any formal Persian at all and that saddens me.

    English could be considered my third native language, but I prefer to include it as the first foreign language I got fluent in. There's just so much exposure to English here in the Netherlands, it's natural for almost every child to learn English on an early age without having even had classes. Classes that started in grade school for me, by the way.

    Other languages I know are Spanish (stagnating at B1.2), Japanese (never formally taught), and German due to similarities with Dutch. Funnily, just by having watched so much anime over the years, I got a good grasp on what sounds 'right' and wrong in Japanese, a sense I don't have at all in Spanish. Japanese still remains a language I learned mainly out of interest (and a need to have read some stuff) and I actually wouldn't want to take any formal lessons. I'm good with puzzling with the language myself for now. As for Spanish, no amount of lessons has ever really improved my sense of and fluency in the language. It's getting kinda annoying at this point...

    Languages I still want to learn (after getting fluent in Japanese and Spanish) are Pashto and Dutch Sign Language. Pashto is gonna be hard because there is no one around me that could teach me. My mom knows it, but is insecure of her own fluency so she refuses to teach me. Sucks majorly.

    Alakazam17 said:
    Es geht mir gut, danke. Und dir? ^_^

    I love studying languages, but I tend to bite off more than I can chew. As a result I know a little about a lot rather than a lot about a little. It's not the best way to learn a language for practical purposes, but I enjoy it so I'll keep it up.

    That said my best language is French, no doubt because I've been exposed to it from a young age given where I live. I had to take it in school until grade nine, but I didn't really start to understand it until I began to take it more seriously while in university. Nonetheless, while I can read and write French okay, I am still horrible at keeping up with the spoken form.
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    How come your usertitle is in Dutch?
     
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