Other languages ya speak

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I am a native English speaker, and there are some of us, not to offend ya guys, speak it well, but it is not one's first language.

I have wondered- for years, I've been teaching myself French, Japanese and German.

So......... how can I learn such languages? And, do you speak other languages? Post it here.

I speak Norwegian, English, un peu de francais, and I can easily have a go at Swedish and Danish.

J'ai parlé français depuis l'âge de 5 ou 6, und ein bisschen deutsch

Solimente un poquito Espanol. English is, unfortunately, my native language. I've had several years of schooling in Spanish, but don't practice it. I'd love to learn German, Greek, Latin, and French. My mother was Austrian but refused to share her language with me.

I've several years of Spanish, but I forget a lot of it. Simply because I never use it, and yet my high school put so much focus on us to learn it. * don't know why * The best I can do is answer basic questions in spanish, but I can read signs in spanish as well.

I would like to learn Russian though.

Spanish is my first language, Catalan my second and English my third

Im not fluent but I know more spanish than the average non-spanish speaker

I grew up knowing English and Vietnamese, and I'm learning Spanish in school at the moment.

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Fluent: German, English
Know more than most people (aside from native-speakers): Slovene, Icelandic
Not fluent, but not exactly beginner either: Arabic (Egyptian standard), Spanish, Russian
Know some, not much: Mandarin Chinese

Ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch weil ich eine deutsche Freundin fuer ein Jahr hatte. (I remembered to put the verb at the end, I always forget that :p)
Aussi je parle assez bien le Français apres avoir habité en France pendant six mois.

I'm absolutely not fluent in either language and I make a lot of mistakes but I can often (often - not usually :p) get my point across.

An amusing one for somebody learning French in the deep end, en France, is being careful of your pronunciation of "merci beacoup". Probably best to just stick to "merci" until you get the different French "oo" sounds practiced. A French person corrected me one time as I had been consistently mispronouncing "beaucoup" as "beau cul" which is easy for a beginner to do but means an entirely different thing, lol (for those who don't want to Google, "beau cul" means, literally, "nice ass"). Obviously most people will realise you are a foreigner but it still doesn't make you sound less of a tit :p

My first language is German, and I guess my English is pretty good. I speak a little French - not fluently though - and I'm currently teaching myself Arabic.

English is my native language.

I'm fluent in Spanish and German, having studied and worked abroad.

I'm intermediate in French and Esperanto.

I've studied Norwegian, Japanese, Czech, Lakota, Coptic, and Klingon. Some of them more in depth than others.

All of these except for Coptic and Japanese I've learned primarily through self-study.

I have a list of languages I want to learn, including Mandarin, Old English, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch and so forth.

Ich habe für vielleicht 6 Jahre Deutsche gelernt. Wobei ich nicht fließend bin, glaube ich dass ich noch ein gut Gespräch haben könnte. Ich habe zweimal nach Deutschland angereist, und mehrere Leute hab mein Akzent beglückwünscht. Ich auch langsam Chinesisch lernen.

I learned German for maybe 6 years. Although I am not fluent, I believe that I could still hold a conversation well. I have traveled to Germany twice, and several people have complimented my accent. I am also slowly learning Chinese.