What languages do you speak?

[SAIYAN48]

Je peux faire un petit peu du francais. Ich spreche ein Bisschen Deutsch. Italaino mio e buono.

Latina mea optima est. Mínn norrœnt mál er góðr.

That's about 6. 1 fluently, 1 semi-fluently and the rest at various levels. Want to know why French is kinda weird? It's half Frankish! Besides, lots of linguistic changes were made by drunk people

Also, I've picked up some Japanese from watching Dragon Ball (Z) and Dragon Ball Super. Yatta!

 

[8BitWonder]

I speak English natively, along with some german.

 

[YugamiSekai]

Native: English
Learning: Japanese

 

[pwsincd]

English
have in the past got by in japanese / french and italian , can just recall bits.(mainly i can still order a few beers at the bar) .. work at home these days...

 

[mgrev]

i speak Norwegian as my primary language, and english. i also speak a tiny bit of german

 

[daxtsu]

English, and I'm starting to learn French.

 

[regnad]

English is my native language.

I studied German at university and lived in Germany a few years, so my German is pretty good.

I've been in Japan now for 10 years working as a university and high school English teacher. My goodness, though, Japanese is hard! It's much much much harder than German, at least as a native English speaker. My little boy, who is bilingual, speaks better Japanese than I do despite my having been in Japan longer than he's been alive.

 

[Diego788]

i'm Spanish native and i know speak some english

 

[Xexyz]

I used to be bilingual when I was younger. Sadly, I forgot like 95% of my Japanese.

 

[VinsCool]

I would like to learn Latin someday :3

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French is my native language. I can speak english, although it isn't perfect.

Also, quoting this because I improved a lot over a year. Really.

 

[SAIYAN48]

Hey @VinsCool if you ever want Latin help, feel free to ask me! I've done it for 4 years and pretty much taught it for a bit last semester.

 

[VinsCool]

Hey @VinsCool if you ever want Latin help, feel free to ask me! I've done it for 4 years and pretty much taught it for a bit last semester.

I like how almost directly French came from Latin! I had some read of old French, it's almost like as if Latin was morphing into a modern language

 

[SAIYAN48]

Italian really is closer. I like french but it's kinda like drunk Latin Ofc, Classical Latin is the only good one. The Ancient one is kinda weird and the Late/Vulgar is gross.

 

[VinsCool]

Italian really is closer. I like french but it's kinda like drunk Latin Ofc, Classical Latin is the only good one. The Ancient one is kinda weird and the Late/Vulgar is gross.

Isn't that what most actual roman languages are? Vulgar Latin?

I heard it was, I could be wrong though.

 

[SAIYAN48]

Isn't that what most actual roman languages are? Vulgar Latin?

I heard it was, I could be wrong though.

Basically, yes. Regional forms of Vulgar Latin. Italian, imo, sounds the prettiest. The actual Vulgar Latin is gross.

Comparisons:

Latin: Ego Sum
Vulgar: Eo Essyo (wtf is essyo? )
Italian: Io Sono
French: Je Suis

 

[VinsCool]

Basically, yes. Regional forms of Vulgar Latin. Italian, imo, sounds the prettiest. The actual Vulgar Latin is gross.

Comparisons:

Latin: Ego Sum
Vulgar: Eo Essyo (wtf is essyo? )
Italian: Io Sono
French: Je Suis

Now the "suis" makes sense to me, hahaha.

I always wondered why verb tenses were so weird. Especially for "avoir" and "être"

 

[iAqua]

English primarily. French and a bit of Mandarin.

 

[SAIYAN48]

Now the "suis" makes sense to me, hahaha.

I always wondered why verb tenses were so weird. Especially for "avoir" and "être"

To be and often to have are always irregular. Habere became avoir. Esse->estre->etre. Some French verbs are parts of two Latin verbs. Ex: Aller. The ones that start with v come from vadere, the "ir" stem in future and conditional is from ire.

 

[VinsCool]

To be and often to have are always irregular. Habere became avoir. Esse->estre->etre. Some French verbs are parts of two Latin verbs. Ex: Aller. The ones that start with v come from vadere, the "ir" stem in future and conditional is from ire.

Just impressive.

This is exactly why I would like to learn Latin and old French. The origin of words are very interesting

 

[SAIYAN48]

Indeed. I can look at a word and figure out if its Romance or Germanic based by the prefixes/suffixes.