Languages

[lumiina]

English is my native language. I'm learning French in school, and am studying Japanese on my own. In the future, I want to study Mandarin.

[kii-chan]

Ethnically, I'm 100% Han Chinese, but you could also say I'm Taiwanese-American.

Fluent Languages: Chinese Mandarin (first language, can't read and write to save my life), English (2nd), Japanese (Again, speak, not write. Independently learning how to write online...its hard T_T But easier than Chinese).

I can somewhat understand Spanish after 5 years of it (Castellano, my grammar SUCKS, even with the advanced grammar book...), and I'm trying to learn Korean (and failing because of lack of materials...).

AND, of course, the every popular pig-latin!

yeBay!

xDDD

[chicchick]

I'm fluent in English and Tagalog, and I'm pretty good at Spanish (I've been taking classes for about 2 and half years). I want to learn Japanese after I've mastered Spanish. (^_^)v

[xlovebliss]

English fluently, conversational mandarin fluently (seeing as i'm a CBC so I'm not surrounded by the chinese language much, so I can barely read and barely write, and a lot of words I don't know xD..but still it's good enough for the MAJOURITY of conversationg hehe)

And i've been in an extended french program at school for 5 years now, so i'm ok in that =)

[kii-chan]

^

I'm like xlovebliss, except ABC. :d

[LIPSTIQUE]

i speak malay*anyone?* and english
but im not very good at both altho malay is my native language
so sometimes i speak manglish; malay + english
hahahaha





get it?

[Beertje]

I can speak fluently dutch (duh, i live in holland), english and turkish. I also know french and german because of school. I went to chinese school for 6 months, so i know some mandarin xD.. Right now, i'm trying to learn Japanese (and maybe Korean in the future!)

[SeiOhtori]

I wonder why I never posted in this thread before.

I can only speak fluently in English. I dunno if pidjin(broken english) is a real language but I guess I kinda talk pidjin sometimes. xD Both my parents talk pidjin all of the time lol.

I wish I knew how to speak Japanese. =/

[laylasef]

umm well i can speak english and arabic. at home i speak deriga which is a type of arabic slang, or non formal way of speaking and at school or with friends english. at school i also studied french and spanish, but i only know sentences, words and phrases, not enough to say i speak them fluently. and now on the side i am learning japanese because im going to tokyo next year with my sister so it would be nice to know a bit so i wont feel like a complete tourist

[XiaoYue]

I'm fluent Dutch and English.
At school I learn German and French. And I know some Mandarin Chinese because of watching and listening non stop to Taiwanese dramas and music. I think my Chinese is actually better than my German and French, LOL.
And I can understand Frisian(language spoken in the north of The Netherlands) but I can't speak Frisian.

[Tsuyako]

I speak English and conversational German and Japanese =]

[Kanzaki]

Originally Posted by harajuku_girl

S : where are you from ? because if you're not from scandinavia , swedish will be very hard to learn !

Was that a reply to me? o.o If so, I live in Sweden but I am from Denmark. So yes, I am Scandinavian ^__^

I didn't find swedish hard at all, but as you say, it's harder for those who aren't Scandinavian. All 3 scandinavian languages are basically the same, but some words are miles apart, so it's all just about different pronounciation of the words that you are already familiar with, and then learning those new words. Only took me 2-3 months to speak and write fluent swedish.

Then again, I'm a prodigy when it comes to languages o.o

[Yumiko15]

I can speak dutch english german and japanese
and french when I was little but I forgot everything
I also know a few korean and chinese phrashes but I cant speak it

[tsaefen]

fluent in english and taiwanese

semifluent in mandarin (traditional writing only)

took spanish for 5 years, but i don't remember much. ahah. i can somewhat read

interests in learning french and japanese

[AmyLou]

I've probably posted on here before but...

English - first language (boringggg xP)

Forced to do french (I've done five years of it) by school and I'd just forget it all if a french person started talking to me... I can read it really well though - I am alright at translating most sentences (don't test me though, I'll get all pressurized x-x)

Did a year of spanish and I can't remember any of it!

I really wanna try and learn Italian and Japanese as I plan to live in Venice or Tokyo in the future.

(venice is like my favourite place in the world! you come out of the main station and see the massive river and the boats and stuff - its mindblowing!)

[rainkisses-xxx]

I am fluent in English. Working on Spanish. I hate it so I'm switching to German next year.

[CaramelCookies]

english cantonses and french. I'm currently learning korean from my friends =D

[shiawasette]

I speak English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
I'm learning Korean at the moment which is super fun XD

[urban.star.dust]

Well considering that I live in the USA, I speak English fluently but I also speak Spanish (like Mexico spanish, not Spain and stuff because that is somewhat different I heard)

[thelighteternal]

I'm really boring when it comes to languages . . just English fluently.

I've taken Spanish for FOREVER it seems (like, ten years. Since kindergarten at least) except I'm not fluent because I just now am starting to take what I refer to as "serious Spanish". Because, you see, in elementary school, we had Spanish, but it was very basic stuff. Things like simple vocabulary and everyday phrases. Helpful, but not very broad. I'm just about to finish Spanish 1 (2 more classes!) and I'll continue on to Spanish 2, 3, and maybe 4 and 5, but not likely.

Languages fascinate me. If I could have a super power, it might be being able to speak, read, and write any language.

And I'm one of the best Japanese-speaking people at my school, too! (Not saying anything at all. There are no Japanese people in my school, as far as I know. I know no one in my grade is Japanese at least, and then I'm fairly certain about the other years as well.) I can say a few phrases in Japanese, as well as sing a few songs, and it's usually enough to impress people. But it's so annoying, because this one Korean guy, he can say one word in Japanese, and that's Konichiwa. But just because he's Asian, everything thinks he's like super-fluent because of it.