How many different languages do you speak?

[A New Day Has Come]

I know a little bite of Spanish the basic to get by on.

[ZoraSourit]

My native language is portuguese. At school I learnt to speak english (I had classes for 7 long years) and french (I had classes for 3 years only). And last year I started working at a Spanish Hospital in Tenerife, so I also learnt spanish. About 2 years ago I started to learn german by myself but it is too hard and my german adventure came to an end few weeks after it started. I only know the basics.

 

So, 4 languages: portuguese, english, french and spanish.

[Sriline]

Wooow, some of you speak so many different languages!!!

My native language is GERMAN

I learned ENGLISH at school from the 5th class on. Then I chose to learn FRENCH four years later to understand Céline's songs . (but neither my French nor my English are really good )

 

For studying at a university I had to learn LATIN (I study 'history of art', and we you to be able to read the old latin inscriptions in cathedrals etc. ... I found it really hard to learn it ) and this semester I' have to take courses in SPANISH and ITALIAN...

And I'll end up mixing it all together, French, English and Latin, Spanish and Italian:doh: 'Fr-english' and 'Sp-italian'

[Libeck528]

Spanish and English

 

Not fluent in either!

[Wunderkind]

My first language it's spanish. I speak and I write english pretty good. And now i've started learning french. It's beautiful language, but you have to be careful with the pronounciation!!

 

You can make a mistake easily. My french teacher cames from France and she is always surprised with the very different meanings of ONE word in spanish. Sometimes, she even can'T believe, and sometimes she laughs when we explained the meanings!!

Edited October 12, 2008 at 03:57 AM by Wunderkind

[autumnskies00]

My first language it's spanish. I speak and I write english pretty good. And now i've started learning french. It's beautiful language, but you have to be careful with the pronounciation!!

 

You can make a mistake easily. My french teacher cames from France and she is always surprised with the very different meanings of ONE word in spanish. Sometimes, she even can'T believe, and sometimes she laughs when we explained the meanings!!

 

 

The pronunciation in french is very difficult sometimes. It's those damn R's.

[Allie]

English is my first language, but I took French for a few years...I can't form sentences well but I can understand a good amount. I've picked up a little bit of Spanish because of where I live, 90% of the people at my old school, including most of my friends, had Spanish as their first language. Edited October 12, 2008 at 09:14 AM by Allie

[LuisMa]

I speak Spanish and English 100%. French I can read and understand almost everything, but when it comes to speaking it, I haven't had a lot of practice so I hesitate, but I think all I need is a boost of confidence. I had some basic Mandarin and Italian courses. I can read Portuguese, and now I'm learning Catalonian.

[CellyDee87]

My first language is English, I understand Italian no problem, but I'm conscious while speaking Italian as I speak Sicilian dialect, which has some very very different words than your standard Italian it's kind of like slang

[Bellamy]

I speak Spanish and English 100%. French I can read and understand almost everything, but when it comes to speaking it, I haven't had a lot of practice so I hesitate, but I think all I need is a boost of confidence. I had some basic Mandarin and Italian courses. I can read Portuguese, and now I'm learning Catalonian.

Speak some Mandarin.

[LuisMa]

I speak Spanish and English 100%. French I can read and understand almost everything, but when it comes to speaking it, I haven't had a lot of practice so I hesitate, but I think all I need is a boost of confidence. I had some basic Mandarin and Italian courses. I can read Portuguese, and now I'm learning Catalonian.

Speak some Mandarin.

 

OMG Bellamy! It was such a long time ago, I guess the only things I can say are

 

Ni hao ma?

 

Hao

 

Pú hao

 

Ma ma hu hu

 

Chie chie

 

(approximate pronunciation, of course)

 

[LuisMa]

I wish I had learned a lot. I remember we had like 4 professors in one month because they would quit, so everyone got frustrated and started dropping the course. In the end, over a four-month period, it was a miracle we got to learn the numbers from 1 to 10. Edited October 12, 2008 at 12:35 PM by LuisMa

[Bellamy]

Why would they teach you Ma ma hu hu?

[Black Kitten]

i speak just 2 languages (Tagalog and English).

 

but i have a LOT of Chinese and Korean classmates (my university has a Korean and Chinese Community. that's why almost 25% of the students are Chinese and Korean) and i befriended 1 of them. her name is Julie Ann Christine Sy (i forgot her Chinese name), and she's having a hard time teaching me.

Edited October 12, 2008 at 01:34 PM by dhena

[amyja89]

English because my mother is English y Espanol porque mi padre es Espanol!

[freakyali]

I speak italian, english, a little bit of german and I'm trying to learn french!

[CelineDionx]

I speak English, Irish and a little bit of French!

[LuisMa]

Why would they teach you Ma ma hu hu?

 

Bellamy

 

I told you it was an approximate.

[Koolan]

Nice to see my ancient thread get dug up.

[Bellamy]

Why would they teach you Ma ma hu hu?

 

Bellamy

 

I told you it was an approximate.

It's correct. But I don't understand why they would teach beginners that.

[Edwin]

Spanish is my native tongue. I was adopted from Guatemala and came to the US at age 7 and now I am fluent in English and know a good portion of spanish but I am no longer fluent in it.

 

And what does 'ma ma hu hu' mean?

[Soloni]

Well, I speak Danish.

I learned English since 5th grade and German since 6th grade. A little bit of swedish (learned a bit in 4th grade), norwegian and french.

[Bellamy]

And what does 'ma ma hu hu' mean?

Let Luis tell you.

[Wunderkind]

I've never studied italian, but can understand everything. I think it's because the italian and the spanish are brothers languages. Maybe cousins

[Bralo20]

Native language: Dutch

Fluent written / spoken: English

written / spoken: French (not so fluent)

Spoken (a bit): German

 

Only reading:

 

Italian, Spanish, Danish

 

When I find some time I would like to improve my French and learn Italian and maybe also some Polish of Russian and Arabic or Chinese... Someday... Sometime

[no1celinefan]

English lol

[Nmj]

I'm Fluent in writng and speaking these languages:

 

1. English (I use this the most as i live in the United States)

2. Arabic ( I'm Lebanese and My mother only spoke this to us as babys and children... My mom and dad made a deal with each other they said when they had kids they would speak different languages in the house..one English the other in French in the United states.. They kept their promise and all four us kids speak both languages with no problem

* I will do the same with my children someday)

 

3. [i]French[/i] - Fluent - Lived in Paris for 4 years!!

4. Spanish- Fluent- ived and Studied in Panama for 1 year!

 

-Nmj

Edited October 13, 2008 at 08:27 PM by Nmj

[celinedream]

Anway, I was wondering for those who know more than one language, how long did it take you to become fluent in a second language and how did you learn it?

 

Hey Laura well for me music was a huge help learning both English and French. Learning songs word by word helped me with the correct pronuntiation of words, vocabulary and listening comprehension...For speaking and writing go into the French section of the forum and just try to understand what other people are saying and even try to throw in a few lines.

 

The most important thing is that you lose the fear of trying. The only way to learn is to make mistakes

 

Luis que significa 'ma ma hu hu' ??

[destin139]

Wow! some of you guys speak so many languages!

 

English is my native tongue but I did French and German at school. However I am not very good at either but my french is better than my german because I listen to so much Celine!! After uni I'm going to go and live in France or Canada for a year to learn French fluently - its my favourite language and I'm desperate to know it well!

[wunderbarCéline]

Well, my native language is German and the only other language I can speak fluently is English. But I also learned Latin (5 years), French (3 years) and Spanish (2 years) at school. However, I don't remember very much because it's been soooo long ago! I'm not saying that I'm old though. I've been taking Italian lessons for a year now and I'm also working on my French. I think it's a very difficult language but I really want to understand what Céline says and sings in her mother tongue!