How many languages do you speak? How did you learn other languages?

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I speak Mandarin and learning English right now so it's bad.

Qinart · Accepted Answer

I am speaking two languages, German, with is my native language and English.
I started learning English pretty late and to be honest in a relatively short time because I had fun 'learning' it. One of my hobbies is gaming so I spend a lot of time talking and writing with other people, I started a game where not many people would write or talk in German so I used a translator for a long time, douple checked it so it wouldn't be this typical broken English from a translator. 😅
During the writing and hearing people talking it improved quickly. I asked them to correct me when they would see or hear a mistake I made and they did so.
Being able to talk to different people, wich were willing to support, and about topics I find interesting made it feel less like learning.
And of course, I am still learning, I don't think this will ever stop haha

Soon I will have the same situation with Swedish, its scary but I am excited already!

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

Polish, I was born there. German, learned that as child in kindergarten and elementary school while living in Germany. English, learned basics in school and improved due internet use. There are dialects I understand it's Schwäbisch and Kashubian.

Fireguy17 · Accepted Answer

just English.
That is one of the hardest languages to learn.
There are so many words that are spelled the same, but will have a different pronunciation.
We have 3 different to's, two, to, too.
And the ever popular lay and lie.
Do you lay down or lie down, but lie also means not telling the truth.
Read can be used 2 different ways, I will read this book soon, or I just read a good book, but then we have red, the color.
Lead and lead.
lead can be either the mineral, the bullet is made out of lead, or I lead people on a guided tour, or I will lead you to the store. Hour the time and our. We only have an hour to get there before we start our tour.
best of luck, it only gets worse.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Good luck! I've heard English is the hardest language to learn. Being that we have so many words that sound the same and mean completely different things.

Nonetheless, I speak one language. Until I move to a different country or join the CIA, it's gonna stay that way lol. Too (to? Two?) many other pressing matters in life need my full attention

Massageman · Answer

I speak and write English fluently. I can read and speak a bit of Spanish, just enough so that I wouldn't starve and could find a market or bathroom. I learned despite having one of the world's worst Spanish teachers in the world for High School. She was too worried about verb conjugation, etc., but really didn't teach the day-to-day USE of the language.

Plus, I have to know a few phrases in Spanish and Polish- as well as English- for doing massage. "Where is the pain? Do you ache more here or there?" etc. These specific phrases and a few others, I just looked up on line.

I took a class in American Sign Language (ASL) at our church. Unless I use it every day, I tend to forget it, but I brush up on it every few months, just in case I need it.

Uzi777 · Answer

I fluently speak Korean (Native), French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Hindi, and English.

I even am starting to become fluent in Turkish, Russian, and Czech too.

I started learning Ukrainian last week and my Ukrainian is bad rn lol.

Wraith_Cemetery · Answer

I am a polyglot. Fluent in English, French, German, Irish and Levantine Arabic. Reading level of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Russian.

Learned Irish and French in school growing up. Learned German while studying in a university in Germany for a bit. Picked up Arabic through social circles and self study.

Robbey · Answer

I can speak English and a little French and Spanish. However, I can read the Bible cover to cover untranslated.

Lyndsielee666 · Answer

Chinese and Hawaiian. Don’t know how I learned it, known them both since birth because my family speaks them

DancingQueen16 · Answer

The only language I speak fluently is English but I'm currently learning Spanish, French and I'm trying to teach myself sign language

Blackcupcake · Answer

I speak 3 languages and I learned them naturally growing up

NewsReader · Answer

English and Russian. My family and I are Russian so I learned it from them. We moved to the United States and I learned English in school.

NathanDavis · Answer

Spanish... and some English to get by

mark000h · Answer

I speak 3 (English, French and Spanish) and know some Italian too. I learned in school.

NostalgiaSenpi · Answer

I speak and write English fluently. During high school, middle school, and college, I studied French and Spanish, but forgot most of both with no practice in speaking them.

samuluaa · Answer

I know English fluently and I know some Turkish but I’m not fluent in Turkish.

shortster · Answer

I know English and Algebra. I tried to learn French, but it didn't stick.

bowenw · Answer

English plus a little French that was learned in school, but has mostly been forgotten.

CreatingWonders · Answer

I can only speak English, I do know a few words in French and German, but nothing wonderful.  Accents though oh I have many. 🤣

Anonymous · Answer

I can speak 3 languages and can read some of an other languages. I learnt the 2 languages I speak first at school and then by myself.

the-mad-german · Answer

I speak german English a bit russian, a bit italian and some small junks of japanese

Iron_Man · Answer

Just one I know a few words of Spanish and Swedish

Babygirl_S · Answer

Hindi and English. I learned in school.

sunflower00 · Answer

I speak English and a tiny bit of Swedish

legalgirlie · Answer

I speak English. Oh and Southern English (This is my 1st language)

Agape93 · Answer

2 fluently, one other rather well

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

English, little Maori and little sign language

LavLavLuv · Answer

Indonesian and English

Account · Answer

Fluently? Just 3.

EaterPeter · Answer

4, home, school, toefl, esl

Alex8736 · Answer

Greek, Italian, Cantonese, Portuguese

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