Language fun!

[fireheart]

Just wondering here who is learning another language (s) or who is fluent in another language.

I'm studying French full-time at uni and also do a little Japanese on the side. Mostly learning the alphabets though, it's quite a challenge.

I'm just interested to see here who speaks what languages.

[RetailWorkhorse]

Learning Japanese, German (heritage), and Canadian French (used to know it as a pup).

Used to be very prolific in Sign. Don't have much reason to use it now.

Still having problems with English as it is.

[SengaKitty]

I went to high school in Israel, so I learned Hebrew. Unfortunately it's pretty rusty since I've been gone for nearly five years. I do get a chance to use it sometimes at the mall, or when I'm on the phone with my grandparents, but very rarely.

I'd love to learn Irish-Gaelic though...

[AdminAssistant]

Taking a graduate "French for Reading" course. (Basically, being able to read original research shtuff in the language, not having to rely on Joe Shmoe's translation). I'm hoping to get my speaking better before I go on my first research trip (maybe next summer *crosses fingers*). Thinking of trying PIMSLER. I'd take the basic language classes at the college, but I've heard only terrible things about them...and I just don't wanna deal with an undergrad class that meets 5 times a week. bleh.

Right now, I'm just trying anything to train the ear - movies and especially music. I've been listening to a TON of Jacques Brel lately. Luckily, BT really likes French cinema (our first date we watched Delicatessan)

(Oui, j'etudie l'histoire de theatre de francais - 19e et 20e siecle. Focusing on le Theatre de Grand-Guignol a Montmartre.) And yes, there are supposed to be accents in that, but I don't feel like typing it up in Word and pasting.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I am ten years removed from six years of German.

[RootedPhoenix]

I'm currently dabbling or have dabbled in Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Norwegian.

I started my Spanish dabbling in first-grade. Then we moved. I'm still a beginner, so 22 years sounds like a lot, but it isn't! That's why I want to finish what I started.

My Japanese study started about 11 years ago. You can blame Sailor Moon, I won't argue. I'm still a beginner because I got away from it. Now I'm involved in it again. Awesome language. You have to back up and think about what it is you're trying to communicate, because a lot of literal translating doesn't work. I listen to a lot of Japanese pop to practice with. I still watch Sailor Moon, lol.

Everything else, I plan to take my time with. Languages are fun!

I still want to try German, Portuguese, Indonesian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, the language of the Crow tribe of Native Americans, and Greek. I heard Indonesian was really easy. I want to know if that's true.

I still have problems with English sometimes, even though it's my first language. Maybe all these other languages will help with my English, lol.

[RetailWorkhorse]

You can blame Sailor Moon, I won't argue.

Meatball Head had some of the coolest baddies, didn't she?

[Nyoibo]

At one stage I could carry on a conversation in French or German, and basic conversation in Chinese, however no longer, I can however speak fluent American, which is an acomplishment when one speaks the queens Australian English.

[Sliceanddice]

i know enough shinese to say i am an american i cant speak chinese i speak eglish my chinese anme is shin han lin.
i want to learn french arabic, pima for pure curiosity and japanese. and more chinese.
i have to take two languages classes to get a degree in social work... my mom tolds me i have to at least one spanish if i want to work in arizona...

[Boggles]

I'm fluent in English, gibberish and waffle.
I am slightly rusty in Latin because i rarely speak it!
I'd like to learn French and will get round to it eventually.

I also speak fluent Yorkshire which is a dialect that is more like it's own language than merely a subset of English.

[draggar]

I know some Spanish and a bit of Drow.

Venduí

[cactus]

I don't know about fluent, but English. I've come to the point where I actually sometimes prefer to write in English instead of Norwegian! Been quite a few years since I learned it in a school setting, but I use it all the time.

Got excellent grades in French when I took that, but I don't know why, since all I can do is count and say hello :P

[Nurian]

I speak some Spanish and can Sign a little. My wife and I sign to each other a lot.

[It shouldn't]

Fluent in German and English.

Used to be able to read and write technical french. Since I taught myself from books and practice I can't pronounce or understand it spoken, though.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

I'm in my third year of High School German,
problem being that my ability to remember alot of the mechanics and vocab is virtually nil most of the time