What languages do you speak?

[FAST6191]

One should be wary of trying to juggle too many languages. It's better to be fluent in a few rather than being so-so in many.

I am not sure I agree there. I think I would rather be conversational in 4 languages than native/debating etymology/engaging in wordplay in two or three.

Edit.

Also relevant (ish)

 

[demon33]

Français pour moi

French Québec Canada

 

[nxwing]

I speak Filipino which is my native language and I'm not good at it (I'm a disgrace) and English. I knw a little bit of Español but other than that, nothing else.

 

[VinsCool]

I speak Filipino which is my native language and I'm not good at it (I'm a disgrace) and English. I knw a little bit of Español but other than that, nothing else.

Am I right thinking there are some similarities between Filipino and Spanish?

Français pour moi


French Québec Canada

Tiens donc, un voisin! Content de voir que je ne suis pas seul
(Oh look, an neighbor! Happy to see that I'm not alone )

 

[Deleted User]

Am I right thinking there are some similarities between Filipino and Spanish?

I believe so? I had asked one of my Flilipino-speaking friends at school and they said that it is.

 

[Adeka]

I only speak english

I failed spanish in highschool (only class I ever failed and she had like a 40% failure rate too. Sad sad teacher.)

 

[Deleted User]

I only speak english

I failed spanish in highschool (only class I ever failed and she had like a 40% failure rate too. Sad sad teacher.)

I'm failing French class.
I hate the way our teacher teaches it.

 

[zerofalcon]

Spanish, English and a little bit of French and German

 

[DinohScene]

Variety of languages.
British English the main.

 

[VinsCool]

I'm failing French class.
I hate the way our teacher teaches it.

Funny, I actually failed english classes Same for you, my teachers were so dumb they couldn't explain properly how to speak english.
I self learnt around 15 years old , before then I wasn't able to understand 80 % of what I could read or hear!

 

[Deleted User]

Funny, I actually failed english classes Same for you, my teachers were so dumb they couldn't explain properly how to speak english.
I self learnt around 15 years old , before then I wasn't able to understand 80 % of what I could read or hear!

My teacher "explains" how to speak French without really directly explaining it. And she doesn't explain why things are pronounced a certain way, or how to just look at a word and be able to guess how to pronounce it.

 

[VinsCool]

My teacher "explains" how to speak French without really directly explaining it. And she doesn't explain why things are pronounced a certain way, or how to just look at a word and be able to guess how to pronounce it.

Yeah, That is NOT a proper method to learn a new language.
If this could help you though, English and French shares ALOT of similarities

Prononciations, verb-noun order and adjective-noun order is mostly what differ them

 

[vayanui8]

I speak English and I'm currently taking Japanese. I took one year of Spanish, but I absolutely hated it because of the teacher. he was the biggest dick I have ever met, and there was no way I was going to put up with that anymore. I'm more interested in learning japanese anyway, so its worked out for me in the end.

 

[VashTS]

i speak english...plain old english but with a New Jersey accent!

I know bits of German (thanks Rammstein, Oomph!, Megaherz!), French (took 5 years of french in high school, still know some), Spanish (some of it similar to French).

 

[Akdul]

Spanish, English and French. I actually learned the latter two by playing videogames all day long.
And I really like how French sounds

 

[VinsCool]

Spanish, English and French. I actually learned the latter two by playing videogames all day long.
And I really like how French sounds

I would like to learn Latin someday, so I could learn all other romanic languages

What do you exactly like from french?

 

[Akdul]

I would like to learn Latin someday, so I could learn all other romanic languages

What do you exactly like from french?

French is very pleasant to hear, at least in my opinion.

 

[VinsCool]

French is very pleasant to hear, at least in my opinion.

Spanish spoken by sexy women is pleasent to hear too :3

 

[Minox]

Swedish - Native language
English - Fluent
Japanese - Not yet fluent, but I speak on a moderate level which usually tends to be enough to be able to get my point across in one way or another. That being said, my Japanese level is still something I'm working on.

 

[vincentx77]

English is my native language.
I can understand Spanish, written or spoken, though I struggle to speak it back.
I was almost fluent in French in high school, but after that I never used it again and forgot a lot it.
I studied Japanese in college but never really used it after, so I forgot most of that, too.