Are you good with languages?

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Since most aspies have excellent long term memory, does this trait come in handy when it comes to languages?

I read a lot, so I have a large base of cognates which helps me to read and write Romance languages with little to medium dificulty even though I am by no means fluent in them.

Yes. Even though people tell me that Japanese is a difficult language to learn, I find it relatively easy. This is partially due to my familiarity with it from years and years of exposure from anime & its fandom.

I do not think I would ever speak another language well. Reading them is a completely different matter though.

I speak English as my first language, but I can get around in French, German, and Welsh.

Japanese is not hard to speak, trouble is the writing, now that quite something else. For the reading a student who graduate from high school is considered to be able to final fully read the journal.

Japanese have 3 form of writing and they can all mix. Forgot their name but come from the Chinese where everything symbol represent concept. The other is the most used one which is every symbol represent a pronunciation syllable, third the Latin character and Arabic number (in other word occidental writing)



Me I speak French and English. Know a bit of German, can understand Spanish and Italian text even through I never learned the language (through don't ask me to understand someone speaking them). Can even understand some Scandinavian written sentence here and there.

This is all mostly because I try to be very accurate with word so I often search in dictionary (when I was a kid I couldn't understand expression since I understood everything by the word (So for example if someone asked me "What up ?" I would have come to answer the ceiling)).

Thus root of word and other stuff like that are somewhat familiar to me so I come to easily link other language word to said root even through I got no actual learning of the language. But can only do that with language using Latin character and Latin or Germanic language.

I know some Spanish and Latin.

I have been told many times that my pronunciation is unusually good using my second language (Spanish) that I learned in school. I tried to learn French, but the only thing I was good at in French was pronunciation. The fact that it is non phonetic was the problem.

I speak English. I can read French easily, but my pronunciation stinks. I also can read some liturgical Catholic Latin.

English first language here, but am told that
I pronounce pretty well in whichever language
I try to speak.

I don't speak enough of anything other thAN
English to travel yet, but I keep learning more
from Paul Pimsleur until I have at least a 5 yr old's
vocab enough to go to Germany for example to visit
a friend who brother and me know by email.

I want to at least be able to tell the taxi driver
to get to a certain place, talk to shop and restaurant
people, place food orders, buy stuff at the grocery
or if need be, takl to police without a serious language
barrier, to get around and whilst there, learn more
of the language to talk even more.

I speak fluent Polish and English.

I speak German as well as English.

I also speak a tiny bit of Icelandic.

Snazzlestick, do you come from an Anglo-Polish family or did you learn the language at school? At my school we could only learn French, German or Urdu (because of the high proportion of Pakistani students)

Yep, my mum is Polish and I spent 9 years in Poland as a young one

Ah. Well I've lived all my life in England, so I never really got to pick up another language except for the one I learned at school. As the vast majority of Irish speak English as opposed to Gaelic, my mum doesn't know the language despite her Irish parentage. I do plan to live in Iceland one day, to pick up the language and get peace.

I also plan to get out of the UK someday, it sucks.

Have you seen the film Noi Albinoi? It's about Iceland, I think you'd like it

No, sadly. I watch that awesome documentary that sometimes comes on BBC2 in the mornings after Something Special. Wait, that isn't a documentary