Now you're talking my language!

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    [PokeCommunity.com] Now you're talking my language!


    What languages do you know? How well do you know them? What's your mother tongue? Any languages you are currently learning or want to learn????

    I myself know English (Bri'ish innit), French, German and Italian at very varying levels! I'd say that right now I can hold conversation in English (mother tongue m8) and German, the others are probably not quite that strong. I am actually re-learning French right now and am kinda obsessed with learning languages (just haven't go to it properly for a long time) so I'd really love to pick up Japanese again and probably then something a bit more out there like Finnish.

    For those interested, a few of us have picked up Duolingo again so please do join us in learning a language!
     
    Arcaneum said:
    That's cool! When you say here, do you mean like where you are IRL or as in on PC i.e. with other members and stuff?
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    unfortunately it's just an online course I'm doing at home lol, it'd be fun if I could invite people here to join loll
     
    I'm bilingual! English and Spanish. If Spanglish was a third language I know that too.

    I'd love to learn Italian and Japanese. The former because my fiance's family is Italian, the latter because...JAPAN!
     
    Lavender said:
    unfortunately it's just an online course I'm doing at home lol, it'd be fun if I could invite people here to join loll
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    Reminder that we have a Duolingo thread! Who knows, someone else might be learning too!

    Megan said:
    German and English for me. We had English starting from 5th grade. Though most of my knowledge stems from video games, Youtube videos and being on PC, at this point. ^^"
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    Yay German!!!
     
    English, I was good at French but I never used it so I lost it.
    I consume media of any language though.
     
    Speaks English natively.

    Retained fragments of French from school. Could probably understand the gist of something written. Fared okay on the reading and writing portions. Struggled primarily on speaking. Finds it hard enough to converse in English at times.

    Is not really interested in learning other languages. Kind of soured on it after taking French for longer than desired. Stands very little chance of using most languages as well. Acknowledges benefits beyond knowing another language. Bets on diminishing returns, in that regard.
     
    Dutch is my mother tongue. I'm fluent in English though.
    Aside from that I still have some comprehension of German lingering in my beehive of a brain. I can usually follow along with German text. Speaking it would be another matter as I haven't actively used it since high school and I finished it with a 5.4 (0.1 short of passing the class lmao)
    Well that's a 5.4 on the higher level I did after finishing the middle level. On the middle level I finished it with a 6 (out of 10).
     
    I haven't studied another language for a long time, so I only speak English and it hasn't caused me any troubles yet. I dropped Italian as soon as I had the option in my schooling for other subjects I was more interested in.

    I do sometimes wish I had kept it up or that I had stuck with other earlier attempts at learning another language. The reality though is that there's just other things I'm better off investing my time in either for recreation or for work purposes, even though I do think speaking another language would be neat. Plus, as it turns out, languages are actually one of the annoying handful of things I'm terrible at learning. That doesn't help.
     
    I speak English and decent Japanese I want to say, but I've definitely fallen in terms of fluency for not really using it at all in years. I can still read it just fine but I should really find a way to express myself in it more often so I don't lose that aspect of the language. :') I mostly just use it to read or play games in jp and it's fine for that. I passed the N2 years ago and am sort of flirting with the idea of writing the N1 next year but I'm not sure I wanna buckle down and learn all the specialized stuff to get to that point...

    I'm also trying to pick up French again. I can sort of get the gist of things when I read/listen to them because I studied it in school but it's been so long since I used it in any sort of a meaningful way and the more I try to get back to it, the more I realize how much I've forgotten. :( I want to pick it back up mainly for job purposes but I'm also struggling to find things to read/watch/play in native French that come so easily when I'm looking for JP stuff and I feel like having stuff you want to consume in a language makes all the difference when it comes to enthusiasm for learning.
     
    Missed this thread when it was new! English is my first and only language. As a Canadian I was required to take several years of French classes through the middle/high school years but I never enjoyed it and pretty much none of it stuck with me.

    The only language I've made a serious effort to learn has been Japanese, but the extent of my knowledge is just being able to read hiragana/katakana. I'm not great with vocabulary so I've only got a really small laundry list of words I can know/recognize, but I can fumble my way around really simple sentences if given enough time. The idea of really studying grammar and vocabulary is something that's been in the back of my mind for years, and I keep going "Yeah maybe I'll try to get back into that."
     
    I can only fluently speak English. I know some French from the classes I took in high school, and a bit of Japanese from anime and video games and such. Definitely not enough to hold a conversation in either of those two languages, but I would like to learn more of them both.
     
    Another native English speaker. Though I did take six years of Spanish during school, my interest in learning another language was low, so I can't speak a single word of it.

    Currently, I am learning Japanese (though taking a break from it). I can read all hiragana, most katakana, and a decent chunk of basic kanji. I can speak some sentences fluently, but it's more like I have to have a conversation where those sentences are set-up for me to respond with.

    Another language that I would love to learn is American Sign Language. And, to combine things, Japanese Sign Language.
     
    I'm a native Cantonese and English speaker! Growing up in a Chinese household and being Canadian-born, I essentially spoke English during the day and Chinese at home, so I'd say I learned both pretty simultaneously. I speak both fluently, but my reading and writing is obviously better in English. My parents did put me in Chinese school from age 5 to 15; they were only Saturday classes, but I have retained and am able to read a fair amount of Traditional Chinese, though definitely not at the level of reading novels or writing essays, stories, etc.

    I took French in high school until it was no longer mandatory and am currently trying to pick it up more seriously. It's slow but it's going - by CEFR standards I think I'm back up at the level I would have studied at in high school (Canadian grade 9 or 10 material), or at the level of a small French child.
     
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