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Languages

Watershed said:
Dutch reads like German quite a bit. It's close grammatically as well. Pronunciation is markedly different.
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the g ahhhhhhh

I speak fluent Slovenian and English. I nominally have five years' worth of German. It is more like two. I can get around a city?

eta: oh, by virtue of Slovenian I can mostly understand written Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, et al., and on a good day basic things in Russian, too.
 
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I only speak English.
I might have the patience to learn a new language if someone could teach it in a way that interests me.
I failed Spanish 'cause it was boring, so. ><
 
Well, English obviously. Other than that, I know some Latin, but even after 4 years I can barely choke out a sentence. I'm good with vocab, but fall apart when it comes to the grammar...

I really want to start learning at least the basics of other languages...English is boring.
 
I speak English fairly fluently. It is my native language.

Estoy estudianto español. Lo hablo mal, pero escribo y leo un poco bien. Creo. Tal vez.
 
Em primeiro lugar, my native language is Portuguese.

I speak English fluently as well, clearly. And estoy aprendiendo Spanish.
 
I'm fluent in English and Danish, and I am struggling to learn German.
Pluuuuus, I know a few random sentences in other languages:
Merra, merra! Tengu tu narris!
Ceci ne pas un pommes.
Je ne regrette rien.
Ajunngilaq.
They're probably all misspelled XD
 
Fluent in English, proficient in French and Spanish, learning Russian, and can speak tidbits of Greek, Cornish, Chinese, Japanese and Lithuanian (don't ask).

I also am proficient in Latin, though that's hardly useful today.
 
English...and that's about it. I want to learn another language, but I can never decide which one I want long enough to stick with it. I know a little bit of French thanks to a high school class I took for two years, but it really wasn't very competent, so I barely remember anything. I can read/write French much, much better than I can speak/understand it.

Spanish would definitely be the most practical to start with, seeing as I plan to move to the Southwest U.S. But I also want to finish French and pick up German as well. Oh, well, not like I don't have time, and there's always college courses...
 
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^That'd be "Hablo Español, más o menos."

Personally, I'm fluent in English and Swedish. Then there's the general knowledge of Germanic and Romance languages, which definitely helps. Although I wish I could actually use some of them...
 
Blastoise said:
We haven't gotten into gender-stuff yet, which is annoying.
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Well, your sentence translated into "I spoke Spanish, more and less." If that was what you wanted to say, then it made sense, but it didn't seem that way. The new one is just in present tense. o.o
 
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