What languages do you want to learn?

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"Kipróbálható" means "Try-Able" in Hungarian.

ah, i had a hunch that it translated to something like that. Google translated it to "i try"

Hmm. You had that hunch right. "Kipróbál" means "try" (the basic form, 3rd person, singular), and "-ható" (or "-hető") something like "-able". Eg. "újratölthető" means "refillable" or "rechargeable".

i see. very interesting, thank you!

If you learn Malay you can generally talk to people on Bali and Java too. Standard Malay and standard Indonesian are pretty similar from what I hear, with the main difference being that Malay has more English words and Indonesian has more Dutch words because of the colonial history. I've heard the languages are fairly easy to learn, grammar is easy and writing is fairly phonetic. I know a few words: pisang (banana), babi panggang (roast pork, babi means pork I think), orang utan (orang means human or person), nasi goreng (fried rice, nasi means rice).
And for Czech and Slovak, I think that is mostly the same language, officialy seperate languages only for political reasons.
Danish and Swedish are somewhat similar too. I can sometimes understand a little bit of those because I speak Dutch.

Greek and Norwegian

My own languages.

As for me?

Polish, Finnish, and German most definitely. Would also like to learn Swedish, and French if/when I have time or am able to after that.

I'd also maybe possibly like to learn Russian at some point... if I can get over my Russophobia that is.

i wish you all the best if you decide to learn finnish.

actually, you'll need a lot more than wishes. but still, have lots of time.

Hello, I'm new here.

Modern: Russian (currently self-studying), Arabic, maybe others.
Classical/dead: Latin (currently self-studying + school), Ancient Greek, old Norse (?)
Artificial: Esperanto, Sindarin? (Elvish from "Lord of the rings")

Whomever reads this,
Have a good one!

^^welcome!!

not a Tolkien buff (but i am often likened to him), sindarin sounds quite nice. very liquid.

Japanese, German, and French.

Russian. Cyrillic alphabet is very beautiful to me and I love the sound Slavic languages make.
Also Polish, Hungarian and Finnish sounds really cool. And maybe some Italian because I love opera.

I want to learn so many. I would love to learn Chinese, Korean, Latin, Russian, Italian, and Portuguese. Wouldn't mind learning Greek or Arabic either. Oh, and Dutch is kind of like German, and I love German, so that would be an awesome language to learn. However, I'm almost afraid I'd mix up my Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish since they're so similar. XD

having any sort of ability in either of those latter three can definitely help you in you learn any of those others. though you'd have to watch out for "false friends", or cognates that appear the same yet have completely different meanings

when you say 'chinese' i assume you mean mandarin?

I would love to learn all languages! I'm really into linguistics!