What/How many languages do you know?

Question

I was just wondering how many and which languages you guys know with a little history of how you came to learn them. I love learning languages, and as of right now I know Spanish and am learning French and Italian, and slowly but surely, I am teaching myself the Russian Cyrillic alphabet...

Answer 1

Its fantastic that you've decided to be a cultural person. Anyway, I was raised on English. My family often traveled to Hawaii, so when I was 10 I took on-line tutorials.Then in high school, I began to learn French, but my teacher was a racist, American... meanie, so I took to memorizing the glossary of my textbooks and going on-line to teach myself, and practiced what I had gathered for 3 years by going to France. In my international relations studies I noticed that China will be a valuable language to know and I love learning about culture, so I got some Rosetta Stone guides and got help from Chinese speaking friends.

My genius friend has begun to learn Arabic and another is becoming quite fluent in Turkish, and they have begun to help me with basic phrases, a little writing, and the number system and it's quite exhilarating. I cant quite decide if I should go for German (quite common in the business world) or Japanese (for business and culture sake).

I wish I knew more...

Answer 2

I love languages too. Have you noticed yet how connected the romantic languages are? French and Spanish are very similar.

I personally speak English, some French (Canadian), and am currently teaching myself Arabic. I have never studied Spanish, but I do find myself understanding quite a bit of it when it's similar to French. When I was in college I took a course on Greek and Latin medical terminology, so when I watch one of the doctor shows like ER/House/etc. I understand what's wrong with the person purely because I still remember a lot of that college course.

Good for you for teaching yourself Russian! That's hard! I couldn't decide if I wanted to learn Russian, Chinese, or Arabic, but picked Arabic because I know people who could help me learn it faster. Good luck!

Answer 3

English - native

a little Dutch - my parents are both from the Netherlands, so I can understand and speak a very little.

Japanese - I've been living here for 7 years. I started studying the Japanese characters while living in Korea. I can read at a 3-4th grade level - too many chinese characters to remeber.

Korean - I can read their alphabet (hangul) - it was very easy to learn; i did it in an hour.

Spanish - I'm learning phrases little by little.

Answer 4

I am fluent in both English and French and I know some Italian.

My mother is Scottish/Irish and my father is French.

My ex-husband was Italian and his mother spoke very little english so I had to learn Italian so I knew what she was talking about.

Answer 5

In the philippines, there are hundreds of languages. I got to know three of the most widely-used languages here like tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasinan. I also know english as it ti an official language in the philipines too..l learned all these languages by exposure and I believe, I can get to learn more...

Answer 6

4!!! English - born in the US, Spanish - Parents are from El Salvador, French - Learned It and Italian - Learned It.

Answer 7

I can speak Italian, French and English.

Answer 8

I know English because I was born and raised in America in Cali, and I also know Arabic because I was raised with my two parents who speak Arabic and I am Egyptian, but I know English more cuz I went to school for English and all, I know a lot of Arabic but I wouldn't exactly say I'm fluent in it-YET.

Answer 9

I know English, Malay(Malaysian), Indian, Chinese, Thai, Tagalog, Korean, Japan, Indo and some Italian...

Answer 10

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