What Languages do you know?

[_Minato_]

English :D
Japanese!

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[Hajimeru Rinko]

I speak English and Chinese(I fail at it.), well because my country is pretty much multi-racial. Some knowledge of Japanese too, but could understand RAWs too. Can't read Japanese thought(Kanji was what I can read...unfortunately.)
I speak too much English and therefore...ruined my Chinese speaking ability.

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[After_Image]

I know English & Spanish :amuse

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[jester_agr]

I'm Spanish, and know English and few Japanese.

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[Mushashi]

japanese and english.

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[tivaro27]

I'm Indonesian, can read and speak in English, some Japanese and even understand the conversation in Japanese language (although not able to read the kanji) and a little understand written Spanish.

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[Eternal]

I'm fluent in English.
I only know a little bit of Spanish.
I can completely understand Korean, I'm so-so at reading and writing, and I suck at talking Korean. My accent is horrible. D:

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[Cikasa]

1.Japanese
2.Portuguese - but I'm already losing it T__T
3.English
4.Spanish - since it's similar to Portuguese, plus I took Spanish courses to learn the differences
5.German - currently studying for the sake of having less essays and researches in college

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Huh, I can read and speak

Japanese, English, Italian,French,German,Portuguese and little Chinese

I'm already having a hard time keeping up with my main three languages, but I can barely speak my second language without feeling like a retard anymore... How do you do keep up with all of them?

[jonepark]

Hi,
First of all reading this topic I thought you might be asking about computer languages.But no problem I know many languages,not talking about computer languages.I know Swedish as my aunt lives over there.I know Spanish,English and learning Japanese from one of my friend.

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[Klaud543]

I speak English fluently and I'm taking French in school right now. It's my first year though so I don't know much.

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[luca_puuk]

I can speak and read Dutch and English
Also a little German and Japanese (but that is really a little).

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[durendal]

Wow, there are a lot of europeans here. I myself speak only a few dialects, namely, English, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Fukien, my native language.

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[Aramix]

I know only two languages: English (learned it pretty easily) and Lithuanian (my birth language). Well i can speak very very little Russian and Japanese too.

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[Shizumi]

Hmm, I know portuguese (my original language), english (I think I can say I'm good in english ^^') and more or less of japanese... I can watch anime RAWs without problem (or with little problems), but write and read is still more or less...

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[nanaDmari]

Hey, there...
I know portuguese (since I'm brazilian XD), english in advanced level (I finished studying it and now I practice writing in foruns ;]) and I'm studying japanese since last year... oh, and I also know spanish (a little) that I learned at school (and where I live here in Brazil we deal with a lot of people from Argentina for example...)
that's about it.... but I'm sure my list will get bigger!

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[ssj6akshat]

Hindi-Mother Tongue
English-Fluent
Sanskrit-can read and write but cannot speak
Japanese-learning

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[Shinomori Aoshi]

I know:

Greek (native-and some Ancient Greek, of course, which is not a dead language, by the way)

and I'm a student of

English (almost perfect)
German (used to be advanced, but I'd say basic now)
French (basic)
Hungarian (few)
Japanese (basic)

And a little Quenya... :p

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[Gcat88]

I KNOW ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!

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[rufi-san93]

dutch and a bit german and english

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[Isogi]

English: Native speaker
Japanese: A bit weak on vocabulary, but nothing a national language dictionary can't solve. Otherwise, passably fluent (?)
Korean: Basic comprehension

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[himitsu87]

Arabic: Native language
English: My second language and am fluent in it :)
Japanese: I still need to learn few things here and there but I can speak a little.
Korean: In the process of learning it but know few phrases.

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[Rankendrake]

English is my first language, and Mandarin Chinese was taught in school. After that I can roughly understand simple Japanese.

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[Arch!]

English is my first language, I have a minimal ability to speak and read Spanish, I am in my first year of German (but learning quick!) and am able to read Latin at something like an intermediate level (still lean heavily on the dictionary though).

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[ghostbear]

English is my first language and was taught Mandarin. I can read Japanese decently well or at least good enough to read manga ;)

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[~*Enigma*~]

English, learning Spanish, can read and write Arabic, and know a bit of Somali and Swahili. :D

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[desireable]

English
English
English
English
English
English
English
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English that's all

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[dark lord]

for any manga follower it would be very good to know japanese as for discussing them you need english . so i believe that english and japanese are good to know.

[Ichimai]

Language i can speak Fluent Swedish, Germany, English.

Trying to learn Japanese and Chinese language.

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[sener]

i can speak fluently in Polish, English , Russian and i know a bit latin

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[niiica]

Mhmm... Well, I'm fluent in English and Tagalog (Filipino) and then I've taken years of French and I know Japanese as well~

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[Jovvi]

Native English speaker with 5 years of German I hardly remember, a dab of Latin, I can read Japanese, but I can't understand much of it, but I do speak/read/write mandarine Chinese passable well (I haven't taken the HSK yet, but I will in a couple months, hope I pass). That's all

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[Sage ninetail]

speak french and english, also can write and read arab.
speak a foreign language named fulani

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[progste]

I speak italian, english and... latin(?!)

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[charlhussey]

I know english language vey well because english is my mother language. I also know french and german language. But I can not speak frencg language very well.

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[Kasu]

German is my mother tongue and I can speak English fluently.
Also had French in school for a few years and Latin, too, which leads me to being able to read just enough French for French Wikipedia :D
I also can read and understand spoken Luxemburgish, but I can't speak it myself (and no, it's not German...)
And then, I've been studying Japanese at university since October last year and currently am somewhere between (old) JLPT 3-4 level.

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[BulaNe]

I can speak Czech - that's my native language; Slovak, because it's really simmilar to Czech (don't confuse it with Slovenian), English, German ... and Russian a little

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[rajand]

English, Estonian, German and a lil Russian.

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[dark lord]

i just want to know how many languages can a person know 20 maybe ?

[goldb]

I think this article (http://www.bbcfocusmagazine.com/qa/what-record-most-languages-spoken-one-person)should shed some light on your question...

[blai]

I think this article (http://www.bbcfocusmagazine.com/qa/what-record-most-languages-spoken-one-person)should shed some light on your question...

Woah, that makes me ashamed of saying that I'm multi-lingual. I can speak four and fully understand six. But that's like.. nothing compared to those...

[dark lord]

six is actually a fair amount , well looking at your age seems like you've done a good job but you know there is allways a room for more .

[blai]

Yeah, I want to learn Chinese, Dutch and Spanish. Need to know a lot of language if you're going to work with business.

[Asarii]

I can speak English and Japanese. Although Japanese is the first language I've spoken, my English has become far more fluent. I can read up to sixth grade level kanji. ^^;

I've learnt French since elementary school, and I'm continuing to learn the language today. I can read and write but my speaking still needs a lot of work.

In the summer I'm taking Italian, but there are a lot of languages that I still want to learn. For example: Korean, German, Latin, and Finnish.

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[boosiv]

Portuguese
English ( I started talking when I was in 3rd class, I am on 9th class, so you think I know how to talk?I don't... I suck taking, but I can understand very well, and my writing I don't think it's so bad )
French ( I barely know how to say my name and where I live... Je m'appelle Isaac Vargas et je habbite à Silveira )
Japanese ( I know 9 words, Baka, Ame, Umi, Mizu, Boku, Arigatou, Shiro, Kuro, Ryu )

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[nanaDmari]

Yeah, six is a fair amount indeed... I also want to learn many more (add to the portuguese, english, spanish and little japanese that I know...)

in the other post I forgot to say that I'm studying Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS)
I work in a place with a lot of deaf people, and I want to communicate better with them... anyone else into some sign language?

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[crumejack]

English, Spanish and Portuguese(my 1st language). I've studied English and Spanish in High School. I'm always studying. Who speak different languages want to learn more and more.

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[Iceiphoenix]

English :)
Mandarin Chinese- learning, but I can understand most of it because of random dramas
Cantonese - I speak it at home, so I'm quite fluent
Shanghainese (Chinese dialect spoken in Shanghai) - My mum is Shanghainese and I usually go to Shanghai every year, so I understand it all, but I can't speak it
Japanese - I can understand some phrases, and I'm trying to get my friend to teach me >.>
Korean - I can read it, but I have no idea what it means :D

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[Queenofmuffins]

Wow, this thread puts me to shame...;A;

I speak English fluently, as it's my native language, and I personally rate myself as "intermediate" in Japanese.

I've just started learning French, so I can do the basics. ("Hello/Where is the bus/Do you speak English", ect) and I would love to study Spanish (it's so pretty~~) and thai, because I'm trying to learn bits and pieces of it while I'm here. :3

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[solopocolo]

English
Vietnamese (mother language =)
Cantonese (pretty decent, except my vocabulary is somewhat limited ;S)
I wanna learn French & Japanese, maybe some Mandarin as well

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[lazuardi00]

Indonesian. My mother language.
Japanese. Studying for 2 years, still have a long way o go.
English. I have a good understanding about it.

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[Jorge D. Dragon]

Vow:) There are really many tallented people here.:) It's really great to know as many languages as possible, so it is really cool when a person knows from four to six languages and even more))
I'm not so talented, but I know English, Spanish.
Also I can understand and read Italian, Ukrainian and Belorussian, though I can't speak them.
The next year I really wanted to start learning Italian. :)

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[Yusaku Jon 3]

English, of course. I do know a little bit of Japanese, as a result of my earlier attempts at learning the language in an attempt to self-translate various manga that I collected over the years. Also, I've had some exposure to Latin through a middle-school class that gave me some idea what Romance languages such as Spanish and Portugese are saying in writing. And finally, there was also a short French class.

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[goldb]

Wow look at you yosaku :p!!!

[steelwingcrash1]

Filipino is my native tongue.

I'm fluent in American English not the British one.

I know very little Japanese (only few expressions because I watched anime when I was a kid)

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[phio_chan]

English and Indonesian. Somehow I feel like English is also my native language since I used it as often as Indonesian, lol~ :D

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[steelwingcrash1]

When I was in senior year in high school, the curriculum of the school changed middle of the school such that it now includes French as one of its minor subjects.

I never took my French class seriously because it was so hard. Plus, we started out so late already.

But I guess, I know a few words/sentences in French. Thanks to that class.

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[blai]

Adding Afrikaans to myself as I've taken an iNet course and refreshed my memory to the point where I once again can speak and write it! High five *clap* Yay!

[Mama Satsuki]

Fluent only in portuguese and english. Portuguese for I am brazillian, english for I like good-quality fanfiction, and Brazil has none to offer.

I also understand Spanish, but have difficulty in speaking it (clashes too much with portuguese, too many same-sound-different-meaning words for me)

I would say Japanese, but only when I've watched the anime times enough to remember what they are saying :p

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[steelwingcrash1]

I would say Japanese, but only when I've watched the anime times enough to remember what they are saying :p

Yeah, I guess that goes the same for me too. I was once "enthralled" with Nihongo (from watching anime at that point of my life) that I frequently wrote all the terms in a piece of paper and then memorized the words.

Fortunately, some of them still lingered in my mind. I guess, I can understand the basic sentence structure of Nihongo.

**********My French classes suck. I know some but it was definitely hard. xD

[lawlett-kun]

english,russian,croatian,serbian(even though they are the same ) :)

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[Jorge D. Dragon]

good_boy
Quite an interesting list of languages.:) Actually there are not that many people who actually know both serbian and russian.:) Are you actually descendant from one of those countries?:)

[lawlett-kun]

good_boy
Quite an interesting list of languages.:) Actually there are not that many people who actually know both serbian and russian.:) Are you actually descendant from one of those countries?:)

well i guess you can say that:amuse

[Kyouria]

Korean and of course, English!

I'm taking Japanese 1 next semester in college, so we'll see how that goes. I took Spanish in High School to 3 but really no where fluent in it.

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[foobar]

some vietnamese (speak-only)
german and english fluently ... i think
basic french

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[Michalv]

I speak Indonesian... and have english lesson on school. Learnt a bit for germany, and i can speak a little for chinese because of my parents =,=

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[mattiaildivino]

I speak Italian very well :p and English enough well,i know Latin and i know a little bit of french.

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[alphabeta]

Russian (fluently :p), German (fluently), English (fluently... i hope) French (very, very bad :p)

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[yukilove21]

English, of course. I am fluent in it, or so I would like to think.

I am learning Japanese and French very slowly. And I know a little bit of Spainish, from what my grandma has made me learn. I know a few words in Italian and German. I want to learn more.

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[mikkih]

Japanese (native) & English (American/2nd language). My French + Chinese are so bad that I should just hide the fact that I took some lessons. :-_-

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[Saasuh]

I only speak Portuguese. xD

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[kkck]

I am fluent in spanish and english (although I have a spanish speaking accent). I have also wanted to learn german and italian for a long time (german is cool, italian is easy and both are a part of my heritage).

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[clamche]

I know Bulgarian, learned English and a bit of Russian in school, trying to learn Japanese now.

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[Gwilthyunman]

Only fluent in Indonesian since I'm Indonesian, and English (not really fluent though) because I'm studying abroad now... I can't speak Chinese, but I do understand bits of it since my parents can speak Chinese.

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[TheHangedMan]

I'm fluent in Indonesian and English(perhaps xD). I'm can understand Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, a bit Hokkien/Khe(Southern Chinese dialect), and a bit Cantonese(only learnt for 1 month). Planning to deepen Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese, and perhaps learn new languages(German, French, Italian, Russian) Anyone willing to teach me? :P
Learning languages is really fun ^^

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[phio_chan]

Learning languages is really fun ^^

Totally agree, although self-teaching doesn't work for me. XD
Indonesian as my mother tongue, obviously. Then English. English feels like my second mother tongue now, considering that I'm involved with English as much as Indonesian each day in my life. :3 Then a little bit Japanese from what I learned at high school and from anime I watched. That's all. I wish I could speak tons of other language. Maybe it would be fun spending your life learning various kind of languages. XD

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[M3J]

Order of fluency/what I know most:

English

Gujarati

Hindi

Spanish

Japanese/German (meaning I can only understand very few words)



I can verbally communicate in these languages to some extent and can only read it in English. English and Gujarati, I grew up listening. Hindi, I learned and learn from movies with subtitles and guessing, as well as looking at lyrics and its translations. Useful for listening to Hindi songs. :tem

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[shuha27]

I'm fluent in English and Bangla. I'm currently learning Japanese.

Sadly I can't read in my own native langauge (Bangla). I know most of my Japanese characters (Katakana and Hiragana) and read excellently in English. I can read Arabic as well because I'm Muslim and need to learn Arabic for the Quran but I don't understand the meaning of most Arabic words.

Wow, a new language to add! Thank you and added

[Kishin Kingdom]

I'm fluent in English (of course) and i can speak French, Japanese (kanji is annoying) and very little German.

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[Joefish]

German - Native speaker
English - Unfortunately I'm not as fluent as I would like to be. Especially speaking is still a problem if you're not used to it..
French - Only understand/read
Japanese - About JLPT 3~4. Still a lot to learn and love it :)

I'm also interested in Korean, Spanish and Russian but I need to improve my English/Japanese first to a decent level.
I started learning Japanese so many times and needed to drop it because of school. But now I have the time and hope I'll use it wisely.

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[Asclepius]

Portuguese - Main language.
English - fluent at writting and reading. I've been told i speak well, but it's hard to hear. ^_^
Spanish - I can read and write a little bit.

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[lawlett-kun]

Russian
Croatian
English
Serbian
Makedonian
Bosnian
Ukranian

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[lost in space]

i can speak arabe english and little little french and spanich

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[BakaHaze]

Not enough.

English.
Chinese - Mandarin.

I've forgotten the rest that I learned early in highschool, but dropped, like French/German/Latin/Greek. :XD

Added. I didn't know that you knew Mandarin though, BakaHaze. That's pretty cool.

[Punky fish]

The last time I answered to this thread was like... three of four years ago? So I've actually studied another language, yay..... It's latin! I can speak it a bit and understand it somehow if spoken, but I've mostly just studied to read it.


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[Darjaille]

Ah, found a beautiful thread <3

Anyway, I so love learning new languages, I hope once I can proudly say I'm multilingual.

My mother language is Slovak and I'm fluent in Czech as well; they're similar and I spent holidays there when I was a kid.

I don't know how good my english is, I'm a student of a slovak-english billigual school though. Let's just say I'm fluent in english as well, although I know I make grammar mistakes here and there.

I've studied spanish for a year; I quit due to.. well, the professor had bad teaching skills and I started to dislike the language because of that, so I just quit. I quite understand written text, but it's more like I just figure out what is the text about from few things I remember :XD

And soo, as my second foreign language (after english), I have italian now. My cousin lives there, so I use to go there for long visits. And as for now, I know very little, I hope I'll be better next holidays :D

Eh, it's not over, I'm also learning japanese, but that's just a form of self-study. No problem with sentence structure, particles and other basic things but I have no resolve to learn kanji :sweat I'm saying to myself, once I get my e-reader I'll study more.

I used to learn german (for six years, haha) but I know absolutely nothing now. Oh, I remember 'Eins zwei polizei, drei vier officier, funs sechs alte hex...' but that's it.
Hey and I can read arabic, but that's just from a year-game in scout :tem


Uff, I think I have a history with languages. But I swear I'll be fluent in them, once! (A)


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[benelori]

Ah, found a beautiful thread <3

Anyway, I so love learning new languages, I hope once I can proudly say I'm multilingual.

My mother language is Slovak and I'm fluent in Czech as well; they're similar and I spent holidays there when I was a kid.

I don't know how good my english is, I'm a student of a slovak-english billigual school though. Let's just say I'm fluent in english as well, although I know I make grammar mistakes here and there.

I've studied spanish for a year; I quit due to.. well, the professor had bad teaching skills and I started to dislike the language because of that, so I just quit. I quite understand written text, but it's more like I just figure out what is the text about from few things I remember :XD

And soo, as my second foreign language (after english), I have italian now. My cousin lives there, so I use to go there for long visits. And as for now, I know very little, I hope I'll be better next holidays :D

Eh, it's not over, I'm also learning japanese, but that's just a form of self-study. No problem with sentence structure, particles and other basic things but I have no resolve to learn kanji :sweat I'm saying to myself, once I get my e-reader I'll study more.

I used to learn german (for six years, haha) but I know absolutely nothing now. Oh, I remember 'Eins zwei polizei, drei vier officier, funs sechs alte hex...' but that's it.
Hey and I can read arabic, but that's just from a year-game in scout :tem


Uff, I think I have a history with languages. But I swear I'll be fluent in them, once! (A)

Sieben, acht guten nacht...:XD...same here with german...studied it for 4 years, but it was a long time ago...I still understand some bits of words and such, but I like to refer to this as not knowing german at all:p

[BakaHaze]

Added. I didn't know that you knew Mandarin though, BakaHaze. That's pretty cool.

Whaat? How else could I possibly translate from Chn-> English...:XD

[Sama_al_Azraq]

Indonesian is my country language. Javanese is my mother language although I'm not good on it.
I understand English and Japanese but often make grammatical mistakes.
Can read/write Arabic words (not fluent) but do not understand the meaning.

Javanese had never been added to the list before, so you're the first! Added

[Ancy]

Romanian- native
English- proficient
Dutch- fluent
Spanish - advanced
Japanese- just a few phrases and some basic vocabulary
Sarcasm - good :cheez



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[Crude]

I'm half-Portuguese and half-Scottish so my native languages would be English and Portuguese. I can also read in French and Spanish, though I have trouble using both languages in conversations.


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[Tick]

My mother language it's portuguese, but, since the two languages really look like, I can understand some spanish too.
I also know english and a few words in japanese.

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[Black Lagoon]

Tried to learn German Lately but the only I can say is count from 1 to 1000000, Good Morning/evening/night and the first thing you learn about a new language (You know what I'm taking about :rant:cussing:3c) -_-;


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[TheMoa]

Portuguese (native)
English (passable), I can read and listening with no problem, but speaking and writing is kind of hard... it's mostly because I never did an english course
Spanish - It looks like portuguese in some ways, so a can understand some of it, but I can't speak shit.

I'm thinking about having some french or german class, also it'll be important to polish my english(I want to try a student exchange program with my university)


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[kkck]

Still merely a bilingual with Spanish being my first language and English my second... I am fluent with English although I do have a bit of a Latino accent. I was planning on starting italian or german this month but I never quite got to it.... Maybe I am just lazy lol

[benelori]

Romanian- native
English- proficient
Dutch- fluent
Spanish - advanced
Japanese- just a few phrases and some basic vocabulary
Sarcasm - good :cheez



Romanian? Native? :o

Come to this thread (http://mangahelpers.com/forum/showthread.php/2567-Romanian-Community-Drumurile-noastre-toate-se-vor-intâlni....pe-MH!-Bine-ați-venit!)...:oh


NOW!:yelling

[ladylola]

Darija-Native
Darija is the Moroccan Arabic dialect.It's very different from Standard Arabic.Some even count it as language, not just a dialect.
Arabic-Fluent
French-Fluent
English-Fluent
Some basics in Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean.


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[rudorofu]

Cantonese and English are fluent. I've taken lessons in Japanese, courses in French, Korean and Latin as well. Who speaks Latin nowadays, I have no idea. Maybe one day I will end up going to the Vatican City and trying it out there -shrug- As for Korean, I've learned the basic alphabet and grammar structure so I can create simple sentences.


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[Doraku]

Let's see :
1. Indonesian - Native
2. English - Fluent
3. Japanese - Fluent (but not with handwriting, my Japanese Kanji handwriting sucks)
4. German - Fluent
5. French - Basic phrases. Still struggling with the accent
6. Spanish - same with French
7. Arab - writing and reading, should expand my vocab.

Also I could speak several local Indonesian languages ( Javanese, Sundanese and West Sumatera-nese )

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[Crude]

Currently learning German. My pronunciation has vastly improved, though there are still some sounds that I have difficulty in pronouncing.


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[外国人]

English- native
Japanese- advanced
German- beginner


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[meeedoooz]

Arabic - native

English - fluent

French - advanced

Japanese - basics


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[Hyoune]

Romanian - Native
English - Advanced
Japanese - Intermediate (third year student at University of Bucharest, studying Japanese)

:^_^


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[wizzard]

A bit of Bulgarian, little less English, very little Russian and a tad more Japanese.


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[zelllogan]

French - native
English - fluent
Dutch - i can roughly understand but i have much more trouble to speak

C++, fortran, matlab, xpress, ... ;D


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[Hoon]

Korean: native
English: also native.. if that makes sense? LOL. i'm born and raised in america and i spoke both korean and english equally as i grew up
Japanese: can read fluently.. can't really speak it lol
Chinese: i can read a lot, but not as well as Japanese
Spanish: advanced


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[cearon]

Turkish: native

English: fluently

German:advanced

French,Japanese: intermediate


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[FaustXIII]

Filipino, English, and very basic Japanese


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[EMS]

any american that use Japaneses for a second or third language how hard is to learn it?.

[Mr. Arashi]

Spanish is my native language, i know a few words of english and don't know how to keep a conversation. But i'm really proud of how girls fall by my flattering :cheez


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[goldb]

any american that use Japaneses for a second or third language how hard is to learn it?.

EMS is english the only language you speak?

[MiyamotoMusashi]

Turkish: native

English: fluently

German:advanced

French,Japanese: intermediate

Pretty similar to me

Ot: German and Turkish native, English fluently and French + Chinese advanced


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[Miihoo]

English: Native
Japanese: Intermediate
Mandarin: Super basic I have no idea why I even put it here. I did some lessons at University so have the slightest knowledge.


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[Sohma Riku]

Hmmm, I'm native Dutch,...
Pretty fluent in English (though my accent is horrible)...
My Japanese knowledge is Intermediate/Advanced (I have BA degree in Japanese)...

And once upon a time my German and French were intermediate as well I guess (was though those two languages throughout middle/high school), but I forgot almost everything by now. I think I can still read and understand German if I really try, but that's about it...


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[MiyamotoMusashi]

English: Native
Japanese: Intermediate
Mandarin: Super basic I have no idea why I even put it here. I did some lessons at University so have the slightest knowledge.

How many characters did you learn?

[carlosgmsousa]

Portuguese/Spanish - Native (It's complicated :$)
English - Fluent
French - Basic understanding
Japanese - Very basic understanding of spoken and kana (Kanji? No way! Well, maybe like 20 kanji :P)

And that's all folks... No polyglot here for sure.

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They're languages allright... And very difficult ones I might add. I don't understand the slightest of any of them...

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And what language is that? Lingala? Kikongo? I am a bit of a philologist... I like the study of comparative languages. I mainly concern myself with the Indo-European family (because of my background in Archaelogy) but I like other language families too, like the Bantu family. But I guess I'm going off topic here...

Lingala is the national language. Kikongo is from a different area/tribe of the country. My parents speak swahili(mum) and tetela(dad); I used to speak very little swahili as a kid but understand very clearly but now...nothing. It's a shame. Even my lingala is increasingly becoming french orientated; true lingala is very raw and spoken mostly outside the capital or by elder generations, whereas lingala/french is used most often in the capital and by younger people.