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How many languages do you speak?

de Darkmaster127, 3 février 2011

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Langue: English

jchthys (Voir le profil) 26 décembre 2012 23:12:35

0. English
1. Dutch (at a beginner's speaking level; spoken to me by my mother as a young child and occasionally used still)
2. Koine and Attic Greek (proficient reading level, not spoken)
3. Latin (proficient reading level, not spoken)
4. German (beginning spoken level)
5. Esperanto (proficient speaking and reading)
6. Toki Pona (for fun)
7. French (intermediate level of speaking and reading)

I'm also learning some Classical Hebrew, and have studied a bit of Mandarin Chinese. I'm learning words in Arabic, Cherokee, and Russian.

I would say that I "speak three languages"—en, eo, fr.

Uridium (Voir le profil) 27 décembre 2012 01:59:20

1-Italian, my mother language
2-Spanish, my girlfriend teaching at me;
3-English, but on a level between beginner-intermediate (in few words, im quite bad on it)
4-Esperanto..bone, mi provas de paroli en Esperanto en ĉi-tiu periodo..

I would like to learn some other new languages.
For example im very interesting to Interlingua, another ausiliar language (and seems to be "the fastest language to learn on world) and im quite undecided between portoguese, french, catalan, greek and icelandic...

But i think its better to think about that in a very reflessive way lango.gif!

broiledvictory (Voir le profil) 27 décembre 2012 07:54:46

I speak American English natively. I'd say I speak 2 languages confidently, 4 if I'm a bit generous and include Esperanto and Russian.

Spanish: A high school class got me strongly interested in Spanish so learned it independently, studied and practiced with native speakers a lot, very effective.

Russian: Country and culture fascinates me, right now my Russian is at the "can hold a conversation so long as I have a dictionary level.", I want to improve it.

Esperanto Been playing with the idea of learning it for about a year or so, now finally wanting to actually learn it now, it seems simple enough.

German I've studied it a little, but I would love working on it and reaching a fluency level like my Spanish.

Fenris_kcf (Voir le profil) 27 décembre 2012 12:37:09

@razlem
Can you say something about Angos in relation to Esperanto? Does it have a similar difficulty (apart from the vocabulary)? What would you consider "better" or "worse" than in Esperanto?

vincas (Voir le profil) 27 décembre 2012 13:03:11

It's so sad, because I can't speak any foreign language very well. And my knowledge of Esperanto also isn't good. But I can speak fluently in the Lithuanian language which is my native tongue. I could learn English when I was at school, but at that time I drank to much beer and vodka ;] and don't bother about English. So I was a fool. Besides the teacher of English was very good.

dauntingjoker (Voir le profil) 29 décembre 2012 15:36:45

1. I speak English, as it is my native language.

2. I also speak Korean. I consider myself at an intermediate level in Korean.

3. And lastly, I speak low intermediate Esperanto.

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sdpy (Voir le profil) 2 janvier 2013 09:44:29

I am Chinese.I'm very interested in learning languages.English is my first foreign language and had been learning it through all the school years,however,not yet very good at speaking up till now.and Reading is much better. I have taught myself a little about Japanese,Korean,French,Spain and Russian.Japanese and Korean are easier to me than western languages.I'm now learning Monglian(the traditional one which is used in inner mongolia of China),for i love the mongolian songs very much.and couple of days ago,i started to learn Esperanto and found it very interesting and good.Hope I can master it in the future and make many friends around the world.Contact me if you wanna make friends and learn foreign languages with me.By the way,I can teach you Chinese if you like .
cjkpy@ sina . com

brw1 (Voir le profil) 4 janvier 2013 22:55:42

I speak mainly English and French and I am in the beginning stages of Spanish and Greek! Can any one especially Russians commit on Slovio and tell me if it would help with Russian?

Tempodivalse (Voir le profil) 5 janvier 2013 00:19:40

brw1:Can any one especially Russians commit on Slovio and tell me if it would help with Russian?
I'm a somewhat-out-of-practice native speaker of Russian. I've looked at the Slovio website and grammar a bit, it reminds me of Interlingua, except with Slavic roots substituted for Romance ones. However, unlike Interlingua, Slovio (at least to my ear) feels rather clunky and lacks aesthetic appeal. On the plus side, I can understand 97% of Slovio with minimal to no prior study, so I suppose the language has accomplished its goal.

I don't know enough about Slovio to advise either way, but my impression is that it may help you grasp basic Russian lexicon and sentence-building concepts. But I doubt it will give you any idea of what Russian inflection is like. Russian has six grammatical cases, considerable verb conjugation, etc. -- all of which are mostly absent in Slovio.

Zandingas (Voir le profil) 5 janvier 2013 09:13:59

I'm a native portuguese speaker and I also speak english, spanish, catalonian and french. Right now I'm in China, I've been here for one year studying chinese.
Six years passed since I left the university. Recently I tried to speak french with a classmate and I found I lost my fluency due to lack of practice.
I've been interested in Esperanto for several years but until now I didn't study it seriously. It seems quite easy to learn, I expect to speak it fluently within one year.

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