To people who know more than 3 Language here?

Question

Are you a person of mixed race?
If yes, could you please tell me what race is it?
If not, how long did you take to know more than 3 Language?

I always envy people who can speak more than 3 language,are you proud of it?

Answer 1

Are you a person of mixed race? - Yes

If yes, could you please tell me what race is it? - My mom is jewish, russian, and italian. My dad is afro-jamaican with spanish and indian.

I can speak russian, italian, hebrew, french, and some spanish. My family taught me russian, italian, and hebrew. I learned french at school and on my own.

& Yes, I'm very proud of it!

Answer 2

I speak four, English, French, German and Spanish (native). I'm Spanish, I learnt French at a French School in Madrid. Everything was in French since I was three, all my teachers were French so I didn't notice I was learning a language! I learnt English at school too, as second language and then I used to travel to England and Ireland for the summer and go to live with English families. I enjoyed and learnt a lot!! Always tried to make English friends.. Then Iearnt more English and German at the university and went to live for 6 moths to Germany with Erasmus. I went to the university there.. At the beginning, I didn't understand anything but after six months I had learnt a lot. I also had a lot of fun!!
Now I work as a consultant and almost 100% of what I do is in English so.. I continue learning.. and I answer YA in English and watch youtube videos in English and it helps me improve the language too!!

In my case, I wouldn't say that I'm proud of it but that it is really VERY useful, especially when you look for jobs. And I just love to learn other languages!!

In my opinion, the best way to learn a language is to travel to the country where the language is spoken for more than one month and make friends there. If you can do it and have the time, you should do it because you learn much faster than attending to classes in your country..

besos!

Answer 3

No, I am a white American but grew up near the Mexican border where I learned Spanish (in school and on the streets). I also studied Russian in college and lived in Denmark. My Russian isn't as fluent now and my Danish is getting rusty but I try to practice by speaking it when I can, etc. I have also lived in other countries so have picked up basic French, German and Arabic and survival skills in a few others. I have always loved languages and travel so I make an effort if I am going to be somewhere for a while. I'm lucky that my job requires a lot of international travel and pays for my Arabic classes.

It took at least 6 months living somewhere to pick up the language and for those I studied in school, it took a few years to even be good, longer to be nearly fluent.

Answer 4

I speak Greek, French, English, Italian and a bit of German. I am Greek - no mixed race. I studied these languages for about 8 years, through highschool. I am not exactly proud of knowing them, but happy to know them, because i can read books and communicate better, plus i understand the structure and origins of each language better knowing the others.

Answer 5

i am of a mixed race: half spanish and half mexican.
i've been speaking english since i was like 4 years old, so i speak it almost as well as my language, spanish.
i started learning french about 4 years ago, and i've started to make a huge improvement in the last year or so. i already presented some ifal exams (to get a diploma or something like that), and i guess i can speak it fluently.
i am very interested right now in learning portuguese. it seems not that hard, and i love the way it sounds. if i do decide to start studying portuguese, im thinking about learning greek afterwards. it also seems like a very interesting language.
truth is, im quite proud of the languages i speak, ive worked very hard to learn them.
:)

Answer 6

I'm just English (but my mother was Cornish; although Cornwall is part of England the Cornish are Celts and don't consider themselves English, and they used to have their own language which some are trying to revive).

I learned French for 5 years at school but had forgotten nearly everything when I first went to France 9 years later. In three weeks of working in an all-French environment I'd learned more than in the 5 years. I'm still fairly fluent in French.

I learned Dutch in 2 months living there up to the level of my school French, but I'm rusty 33 years later (I practise when I meet Dutch people on my travels).

I have a bit of German and Spanish, but can only hold a conversation when I'm a bit drunk! (Strange, and I can even remember my tiny bit of Italian and understand spoken Italian when drunk too).

I also have a few basic expressions in Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese. It would be much easier to pick these up if everyone didn't want to speak to me in English nowadays, and if I wasn't 57.

Nothing to be proud of, but it does give me a sense of quiet satisfaction.

Answer 7

I'm colombian of italian origin and i know so far, 5 languages. It took me 2 years to know each, in a total of 4 years of the other 3 languages, which are french, portuguese and italian ( i grew up with english and spanish). I am proud of it because I love learning different cultures and learn the humanities of all cultural identities and also, be diplomatic to different countries.

Answer 8

It took me 15 years to learn English 7 years for French and 2 years for Spanish. I'm a native speaker of Portuguese, I'm not of "mixed race".

I am currently learning more languages than I can handle, I'm constantly postponing the decision of which ones I will renounce ^_^

Answer 9

Yes .

I'm Portuguese , African ( Exotic ) , Russian and Hebrew .

I've learned English through my travels around the world with my family ( took about 5 years for English ) , French and Portuguese at School ( took about 4 years for French and 5 years for Portuguese ) .

I'm still learning Russian .

I also understand Spanish .

I'm thinking about learning Hebrew ( , since I am a quarter of it ) .

Note :

Portuguese , French , Spanish , Romanian and Italian are romance languages ( , having the same root --- Latin --- thus easing the learning process ) .

I started learning English and Portuguese when I was about 4 years old . I learned French when I was about 11 years old .

Answer 10

Hi!
I consider myself a "language person", and I speak a few language, but it is very hard to say which language is on what level.
I'm native speaker of serbian and croatian (which is northern dialect of serbian, but is now considered a language). I speak and write fluently english, italian and greek.
I understand france, romanian, portuguese, bulgarian, macedonian and german.
I've spent 4 year studding ancient greek, and 6 years in Latin. It is impossible to say that you actually speak non-speaking language, but I can say I know them very well....
...and I'm still not proud, my aim is at least all roman languages, and 2 more non-roman.
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Answer 11

I speak english, french, german, dutch, french and german being my native languages, due to a rather mixed upbringing.
It took me 5 years to speak english fluently (school) and 2 for dutch (in fact it's more flemish as I live in Belgium and have a hard time understanding people from the north of the Netherlands).
I took also classes in russian, spanish and italian. I can understand spanish/italian thanks to french but speaking.... I am even more of a joke in russian as I think I have forgotten everything but 5 words.