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equestriatola
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29 Sep 2012, 6:18 pm

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.


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29 Sep 2012, 6:59 pm

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



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29 Sep 2012, 7:09 pm

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


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29 Sep 2012, 7:26 pm

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. :cry:



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29 Sep 2012, 9:49 pm

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.


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29 Sep 2012, 9:50 pm

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


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29 Sep 2012, 10:12 pm

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



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29 Sep 2012, 11:34 pm

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


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30 Sep 2012, 3:53 pm

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



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30 Sep 2012, 4:25 pm

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



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30 Sep 2012, 4:46 pm

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.



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30 Sep 2012, 4:46 pm

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.



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30 Sep 2012, 5:01 pm

equestriatola wrote:
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.


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Deutsch,


Almost daily I speak
English
Suomea

Every now and then
Svenska

Seldom and more difficult for now
Norsk

Have to practise a lot before
Francais

Want to learn
Russian



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30 Sep 2012, 5:02 pm

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.



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30 Sep 2012, 5:13 pm

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



Er/Är det en eller ett problem. Haha, very funny ...
Or ei/en ko.

Just a lot of words are different in gender

I just say femoghalvfems to complete it.
And islandic numbers are quite understandable, too.



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30 Sep 2012, 5:59 pm

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


Norsk og Svensk er ikke så slemme :-)

My native language is danish and I can easily have a go at Swedish and Norwegian ;-)
German and English
a bit Kiswahili


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