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Charlie Brown said:
^ wow, I always respect people who give Latin a go. It's something that I don't think I'd ever be able to follow through with it because it doesn't have too much of a practical application and it seems like a nightmare to learn, so respect to you!
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It's true that you can't use Latin anywhere else other than the Vatican, but I didn't think it was particularly hard language to learn...Is that the general perception of Latin these days? D: I found it enjoyable learning it, even though all we did was writing and grammar.
 
Realistically, just English. However, through High school classes, I know a little bit of Spanish and Sign Language.
 
English is pretty much the only language I'm fluent in, as it's my first language. I also know a few Chinese phrases, but not nearly enough to have a conversation with.

I've been learning Japanese for maybe 4 years (5th year starting this year) which has been quite a good experience and I feel like I'm progressing quite well with it. Hopefully I can get good enough to visit Japan without difficulty one day.
 
Since I was born in Germany, I can speak German as mother tongue, and English as second language. And I got kinda fluent in English with 16. Other than that, I can just swear words and that in Russian, Polish, Croatian, Turkish take that as something :3
 
I only speak English fluently. I can understand enough written and spoken French to get by (and honestly, if I had to speak it to get my point across if I was lost in a French-speaking locale, I'd probably manage okay) but it's really deteriorated over the years since I don't like the language all that much and haven't had a reason to use/study it since high school.

I really like learning Japanese and I've been studying it a long time but it's been lazy studying. I have almost no interest in being able to speak Japanese orally so I focus most of my efforts on reading comprehension. I can understand fairly basic things when they're said to me but I'm much better at it when kanji is involved, haha.
 
je prétends que je sois bilingue, mais honnêtement je parles au francais un peu seulement.
 
English, French, Ilocano, Tagalog, Spanish, a bit of Italian & Portugese.

...I also know 1337 sp33k
 
Haha no. I'm too stupid to learn a whole different language. English is enough for me, I barely understand it as it is.
 
I'm taking Spanish, took it last semester and now a more advanced class in that subject. It's not exactly straightforward stuff for me, although I feel like everybody in my class has it down except me...
 
Unfortunately, I can only speak English. I think that it would be great if I could learn another language, but it is just so difficult to do so after early childhood. Hopefully someday I will be able to learn another language to be a more useful member of society :3
 
english is my first language but ive known spanish almost my whole life, ive been studying japanese recently although i am nowhere near close to fluent yet.
 
I can speak English, Arabic, and French. My first language is Arabic. I mostly speak English. I speak French too since a lot of Lebanese people speak French, but I don't speak it as well as English or Arabic. I grew up speaking French as well. My paternal grandparents are francophiles and enjoy speaking French, though my maternal grandmother does not speak French. I don't speak Arabic to non-Arabs except for my friends Frank, Ashley, and Tom.

I would like to learn either Spanish or Portuguese.
 
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I speak Cantonese and English fluently, and can (kind of) read and write traditional Chinese. I'm also currently taking a Mandarin course and learning simplified Chinese, which is going pretty well - I just lack the courage to speak it outside of class.

I took French from grades 6-12, and 3 semesters of Latin in college, but I'm far from fluent in those languages.
 
i can only speak english.
learned some spanish in school.
learned some french.
don't remember any of it.
 
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