Does anyone here speak any foreign languages?

[SethJH]

I'm currently trying to learn French and Russian. I spent several years trying to teach myself Russian through books and wikipedia and internet guides to the language, but I haven't gotten very far. I can fluently read the Cyrillic alphabet and correctly pronounce most words. I'm using an app called "Duolingo" to try to learn French. According to the app, I'm "40% fluent" but I don't know what that really means.

I took 4 years of Latin in high school, but I don't remember too much about it any more. It did give me a big advantage to understanding French and Spanish basics though.

[igneriss]

My native language is Polish. I also speak English- I'm quite fluent in it, though I still make mistakes ( : I know some German- I understand a lot (if not most of) when I'm reading or listening to people talking in German (...or songs' lyrics), but it's really hard for me to write/say a sentence myself. I also know some basics of Italian- some simple phrases and words (for example, I can introduce myself and order a beer : P I'd probably able to buy some food and ask for directions as well).
+ some random words or phrases in Japanese and Hungarian, though I highly doubt I'd be able to communicate in those languages : D

[blop]

Oh yes, I forgot to say it, I also learn latin in middle school, but I don't remember much, it was a pretty boring subject for me, except when we read stuff about mythology, I used to love that.

[tsujin]

My mother language is Spanish. I can speak English, and I know basic French and Italian.

[Menbung]

Yup, I speak other languages besides english, and I'm fluent in one of them. Also I love accents =] . I'm pretty confident putting them, there are rules for them, but learning grammar rules is a pain... at least for me =(

[fighterxaos]

Grew up in a bilingual house but for some reason Spanish kinda zoomed right past me. I understand it well enough but speaking it back seems to be trouble for me. To make my parents even more confused by me I speak CHINESE better than Spanish and I learned Italian for 3 years which, you know, is related to Spanish as a fellow Romance language.

[kambreapratt]

I speak English (my first language) and some French, but it's been years since I have used it.

[getsuart]

The foreign language for me is English, though I'm not fluent, I can speak it. My first language is French.
I also learned German and Italian at school, but god, my german has always been really bad. And for Italian... meh. Not good, not bad, but now I forgot everything. XD

[chanalli]

I'm Latina, so my first language is spanish. But I also can speak a little japanese, its almost all gone but it's still there...

[mvleksa]

Well, English is my foreign language... But I`m too afraid to tell you my native one xDD

[dglisson]

I was born in Panama so English is my second language I've lived in the US most of my life though so my only accent is when I try to fake a Scottish one (badly).

[Noglastiaa]

While english is my first language, I speak bengali with like my parents and other adults that speak it. I learned to read and write it too for a few years. Its helpful when you're actually living in a country to learn a new language cause well... you need it to read anything

[whitherling]

I grew up with English and French, so I'm fluent in both. I took Scottish Gaelic and Spanish at university, and I've kept up my Gaelic, but my Spanish has suffered, and I can only read it now, and only some of it, at that. Someday, I'd like to learn a language I'm completely unfamiliar with, like Arabic or Korean or Russian.

[illizard]

Looks like I'm first in this thread to know Hebrew (I'm from Israel) =) . But my mother tongue is Russian - cause I was born in the Soviet Union.

[ratique]

German is my native language - Anyone who needs someone to practice with, feel free to send me messages! ; )

[Stellamari]

My native language is Bidayuh language, other than that I am fluent in English, Malay language, Chinese (including a few dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien). I can speak conversational Japanese but that's about it.

[Elwetritsche]

Interesting that a lot of people learn German here, which is my native language.
I'm doing pretty well in English. I even do translations, but not without an internet dictionary.
I tried to leard Russian using only books, but now I visit a course as well. It's just that books don't help you much with pronounciations and the course helps remembering stuff.

[Silerna]

We learn German,French,English and sometimes Spanish on high schools here. English is already a main subject on grade school, even Dutch is our native language. English is taught better then Dutch tho.
However I didn't learn French or Spanish or English on school because it was added much later. I learned German through reading alot , same as english (together with gaming)

[CaptainUfo]

Native Italian speaker here. I can speak English (better, i can write in English. I rarely have occasions to actually speak, so my accent is really rusty) and a little bit of French.

[blop]

Fun fact, in France, you have to choose 2 foreign languages in middle school, one in 6th grade and one in 8th grade.
You usually can choose between English and German in 6 grade, and English, Spanish and German in 8th grade (but if you choose German first you have to choose English in 8th grade).
Anyway, I don't know if it's still the case but when I was a kid, the classes with kids who choose German first were considered to be the "elite", so a lot of parents wanted their kids to choose German first to be sure they will be in the best class. I think that's because German is considered to be difficult to learn.