Does anyone here speak any foreign languages?

Raven_C 2016-01-20 01:46:02 UTC #11

I spent a good chunk of my childhood in the Philippines, so I can speak Tagalog pretty fluently. I don't get really deep or old fashioned words, but overall I speak it with ease.

scythe 2016-01-20 01:48:13 UTC #12

I'm conversationally understandable in German, but probably a bit rusty at the moment. My French is about 25%, and even then, my comprehension is miles ahead of my formulation of the language.

Learning another language is the only way to truly see your own language objectively. Before that, the ins and outs of thinking in a language other than your mother tongue appear quite mysterious.

gruetzi 2016-01-20 01:49:56 UTC #13

German is worst! the declensios are the hell

Ringarune 2016-01-20 01:56:26 UTC #14

English mostly, but I can also speak Polish >u< (although I can't write in it at all...) Also know minimal Spanish from school

Mharz 2016-01-20 02:13:06 UTC #15

I speak Filipino(Tagalog) since it's my Mother tongue. English is our second language. Sometimes people mixed the two languages together and we call it Taglish.

carloswebcomic 2016-01-20 02:15:07 UTC #16

"Foreign" to whom, mate?
A person that speaks Spanish while living in Spain certainly doesn't speak a "foreign" language.

mac 2016-01-20 02:27:33 UTC #17

im learning french : o

heterodont 2016-01-20 02:55:14 UTC #18

Yes! Even both of my parents who've lived in Mexico for all their lives still don't know the specifics of where to put accents - heck, the news we watch even ran a segment of a guy who went around putting missing accent marks on signs that needed them (with permission of course!) in Mexico City, I think?

Accent marks are too powerful to be wrangled into type.

kurisquare 2016-01-20 03:42:14 UTC #19

My first language is Spanish, but I also speak (and write) English fluently.

I'm currently taking French and Esperanto on Duolingo, but I don't think I know enough to hold a conversation... xD

GaleG 2016-01-20 04:11:40 UTC #20

I know english, and I'm fluent in Spanish and French! (Which are pretty easy to learn once you know a romance language)
I'm currentry studying German.

winglesscomic 2016-01-20 04:22:35 UTC #21

learning language of the moonrunes right now, it's a slow process. I know all of N5 kanji and about half of N4 but as for grammar, lol, don't ask me about that.

fun thing I learned about moonrunes: if you dont know the onyomi, guess せい or こう and it's probably right

demthorshie 2016-01-20 04:25:29 UTC #22

My mother's side of the family came from Panama, Spanish is my second language after English. I know enough Japanese to hold conversations and my boyfriend is currently teaching me Korean.

realSean_Murphy 2016-01-20 04:29:44 UTC #23

Here, as in on the forums..

carloswebcomic 2016-01-20 04:34:11 UTC #24

Um.. the forum is on the internet... no one is a foreigner in the internet. They are getting it right where they live.
Perhaps a more valid topic tile would've been "Who speaks a language other than English?"

realSean_Murphy 2016-01-20 04:53:24 UTC #25

I meant by most people seem to reply in English..

mg78 2016-01-20 05:11:50 UTC #26

italian here
my eng skill is quite low but it work a lot -_-

SpavVy 2016-01-20 05:26:45 UTC #27

I'm currently learning German, I might try learning French in the future.

AnnaLandin 2016-01-20 07:02:33 UTC #28

I'm a native speaker of Swedish. English is my second language, and I speak it quite fluently, and Duolingo tells me I know 56% French.

I also studied German in school, and if you hand me a German text, I will still be able to make at least some sense of it, even though my knowledge has atrophied a bit from lack of use.

Also, being Swedish, I can understand some of the dialects of Norwegian that are most similar to Swedish. It basically sounds like Swedish with a funny accent and a few changed words. The more dissimilar accents are pretty incomprehensible to me, though. Same with Danish.

gateofselidor 2016-01-20 07:09:21 UTC #29

I speak Japanese. I wouldn't say I'm fluent, especially when it comes to speaking, but I'm good enough to translate and proofread Japanese to English for a living. I also used to be able to speak a little Spanish and French, but I haven't studied either in a long time at this point.

blop 2016-01-20 07:16:13 UTC #30

Well, English is a foreign language to me, so yeah I speak at least one xD (ok sorry I know that joke has already been said...).
Anyway I'm french so that's my first language, I also learn German at school but I can only remember how to order a beer (which is very useful !), I also learned a bit of Japanese but not enough to be able to have a real conversation.