I'm Mexican too, so Spanish. I can see We're a lot of spanish speakers here.... Can a suggest a bilingual site?
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)
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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
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?
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.
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
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.
I'm Canadian, so I speak English AND French! I was also lucky and my mom insisted on my sister and I staying in full French until the end of high school. Most kids (outside Quebec) get to choose to stop after gradeschool.
As it is I'm REALLY rusty, but I can still hold a conversation under duress.
When I made my book 'Towerkind' I got a bunch of people to help me with translations for Urdu, Spanish and Tagalog. It's super useful having kind people on on the internet willing to lend their expertise <3<3
I speak Tagalog (for 'tis my mother tongue) and English, which should count as a foreign language here. I can speak conversational Spanish and Nihongo because of those elective classes I had back in high school, though I'm getting rusty.
Mmm, my first language is Cantonese. I'm okay in it, like 70% fluent. I can understand and speak most household conversation, but have trouble with proper grammar and listening to the Cantonese news. I can't read or write Chinese other than the beginner's stuff I learned in class.
English is my second language. I took ESL since I was a kid in school. I'm fluent now and majored in English Literature in university.
French is my third language. Blame the Canadian school system for forcing us all to learn even a bit of french starting in grade 4. I took it up to grade 10 in high school since it was the only other language my school offered.
Japanese is my fourth language. I switched from French to Japanese in high school as soon as I could escape the endless French classes. (My second school only offered French and Japanese as second languages) I ended up minoring in Japanese in university, so I can read pretty much any Japanese manga/novel/newspaper/etc. and understand/speak/write without much problem.
Native Language is English.
I can understand written/typed and some spoken Spanish,but don't expect me to respond...without google translate.
I've been learning Japanese on/off for almost 5 years now. I'm OK, nowhere near fluent because I can't construct a complex/full sentence without having to think...HARD. Though I can understand about maybe 30% of most of the podcasts/TV shows/Movies I watch.
I just started learning French a month or two ago. Duolingo has been pretty helpful and I can sort of speak/read/write it already(thought it using the same alphabet as English helps)
I can almost read Korean.(learning that next)
I know your pain, Japanese is very difficult.. The Kanji, the several ways to say "you", and sentences that often drop "I", "me", and "you".
Still, learning some of that enabled me to understand some Japanese terms that the anime fandom uses is a bit twisted from it's original meaning. Like "nakama".
Learning Korean eh? That's almost as hard learning Japanese since it's related to it.
I'm speaking foreign language right now. : D
I'm Finnish and it's also my native language. English is my second and I'm fluent in it too. Third is Swedish and I'm okay with it, just a bit rusty from lack of using. I've also studied German and Japanese for a year but I'm beginner with those.
Sadly, knowing a smattering of words and phrases in Italian, Spanish and Greek doesn't grant me even a beginner's title. xD
Iam born in germany so i speak german. Also i live in switzerland since many years and I also speak swiss-german. If you would count that as a language. For the swiss it does and for a german it sounds like another language because you dont understand a single word, if you dont speak it haha. My first years where really hard because i could better speak english then swissgerman. I was able to follow a short conversation but after a little time my brain just shut down to afk modus, which you could always see on my face when my eyes tunred blank and didn`t move haha. Now Iam fine with both, english and swiss german. I can folllow conversations as much as if it would by german. I even speak swiss-german much better than english now.
I grew up in Spain, so Spanish is my native language. I also know speak English... more and less; I'm on it, haha. I studied French too when I was on high school, but I forgot most of it, sadly :C
I speak Korean . I can read it and write. I can speak a bit of Mandarin Chinese , I can understand as well I haven't used it so long so I cannot read it perfectly. I also know Japanese from being in Okinawa . And English o can understand Italian but can't always speak it bacl.
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I am English and can speak conversational Japanese, I'm really no master at it but I know enough to be understood I guess?? XD
I also am recently learning sign language (bsl), cos what if one day I meet someone I can surprise by talking to them in it? Might make their day right?? :3
Cool thread, so many different languages spoken here. Lovely to see. <3
