Does anyone here speak any foreign languages?

[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.

[saari]

I speak Polish as a native language. Though living abroad and having almost all friends in US, I don't use it much lately so I'm often catching myself on 'how the hell do I say this word in my own language' problem. It's funniest when I can't remember it in either English or Polish and I'm browsing my brain in panic trying to fill the empty space x)

Also I was learning French for a long long time (about 14 years), but I have never had the need to use is outside of classes. So now, after so many years devoted to learning a language I can say my name, and where I'm from using it... and that's about all. I can understand a little bit more but not much ^

I was also learning Finnish for couple of months when I was n exchange student, and a bit before because I find this language really wonderfully sounding. But also, haven't used it since then and I forgot most. But I still have all my notes and one day will probably refresh my memory ♥

[JigokuNeko]

Been a polyglot since I was a wee devil. Born in Poland so, Polish first. Then Greek and English and some mid-level German in school. Got to be fluent in French in uni but it's been a long time since I used it so it's gotten too rusty, though it's surprisingly easy whenever I make an effort to refresh it. Did Japanese for 6 years after graduating but I only got to level 3 and that's also rusty now. At times I've tried to learn Swedish and Korean on my own but I'm not as disciplined as I was when younger so I could never get that seventh notch on my language scorecard, lol.

[Choosybeggar]

ASL, American Sign Language. It counts by your definition! I'm not fluent, but I could maybe get a deaf person something they needed. The very idea of communicating that way scares me, but I have enough of it to ask anything I didn't understand. So yeah! Sign language is awesome!

[Mineu]

I am not native in English, actually I'm native in Spanish so I'm fluent in Spanish. Also I'm learning French right now
I agree with @Choosybeggar, sign language is awesome! I know Salvadorean Sign Language (LESSA), I'm not fluent either but I can ask and understand one or two things.

[OxxYuzou]

I'm Mexican too, so Spanish. I can see We're a lot of spanish speakers here.... Can a suggest a bilingual site?

[cribeilletguillaume]

I'm a native French so like a lot of people here my foreign language actually is English (I can write it (at least it's understandable) but speaking it is out of question)

[cecylinares35]

Hahaha the same happens to me cribeilletguillaume my native language is spanish, so yeah my foreign language is english xD Im learning german right now but in the basics xD

[acealmansoori]

Aside from English, I'm fluent in Arabic and know a bit of Korean.

[Merle]

Englisch is not my first language I am German, so I can speak german of course, I am quite good with englisch and a little spanish, but I don´t consider that talking at all I was so bad at it in school...
Then again, I am fluent in Latin....just joking xD
Anybody else from Germany?

[lorenu]

German is my native language and I understand a liiiiiitttle bit indonesian, but can't speak it myself.
I learned some french too, but it is by far not enough to talk to someone
So English is the only foreign language I can speak properly.

[69Michi]

English is probably the 3rd language I studied. My mother language is Vietnamese, I'm fluent in Vietnamese, know a bit of French and can sort of read Chinese 😂 Thanks to all the time reading Chinese novel

[El_Psy_Congroo]

As someone studying linguistics this looks like a fun thread. I speak Urdu and Punjabi at home, though I'm not super skilled at it and I mean to study both properly soon. I studied Spanish in high school but never really took it anywhere. In university I studied Arabic. I'm actually hoping to study middle eastern and Islamic cultures from a philological perspective so I want to start learning other languages like Persian as well. I may also have to start learning German and or French since a lot of "oriental" scholarship is done in those languages. I've always been a bit intimidated of Chinese due to its tonal system so I'm looking to study Japanese since I think they both have cool writing systems. Ah, if anyone is interested, google Hajji Noor Deen, who combines Chinese and Arabic calligraphy styles and makes really beautiful pieces.