How many different languages do you speak?

[PatrickDion22]

I was just wondering who here is bilingual, or knows two, or more different languages. I couldn't help but ask because there are so many different language boards on here. While I mostly write on the English-language board, I sometimes go on the Italian board just to read a few threads. I am not completey fluent in Italian, but can easily carry a conversation, and would be okay if suddenly thrown in an Italian-speaking nation like Italy. My ultimate goal would be to become fluent in Italian and French, although I heard French is quite difficult to learn. Fortunately, Italian is the closest language to French, so it wouldn't be terribly difficult to learn. Anyway, this is the end of my rambling (I tend to do that). I'm looking forward to your replies!

[Little_Jay]

I'm from Québec so I speak French perfectly but yeah it seems very difficult to learn. As a new language, I'd like to learn Spanish or even Italian, I think it's a beautiful language Good luck for learning French

[reamary]

I love different languages and I love to learn them!! I'm fluent in Finnish, English and French and then I can speak little Swedish and some Spanish, but am nowhere NEAR fluent with them...

 

About learning French, I don't think it's any harder to learn than any other language! Especially if you know Spanish or Italian, cause they resemble each other a little. Basically I think if and when you have a good motivation in studying and learning, it's not that hard (to learn any language).

[Krys]

so far, i speak English, Malay and Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien). fluent in English and Malay. i can get through a simple conversation in Chinese. my next goal is to learn French

[Koolan]

I am fluent in English, Taisanese, and Cantonese. I took a couple of years of Spanish back in junior high school. It's quite easy to learn, my only regret is not taking French courses during university.

 

I love different languages and I love to learn them!! I'm fluent in Finnish, English and French and then I can speak little Swedish and some Spanish, but am nowhere NEAR fluent with them...

 

About learning French, I don't think it's any harder to learn than any other language! Especially if you know Spanish or Italian, cause they resemble each other a little. Basically I think if and when you have a good motivation in studying and learning, it's not that hard (to learn any language).

Your English is excellent. Seems all the active Finnish members here speak it fluently. How many years of English courses did you take?

[charmedceline]

I was born in Germany, so my native language is obviously German. Since I'm half Italian, I needed to learn Italian. Then because of Céline, I got the motivation to learn English and French. Now I know English and French much better than Italian. The next language I'd like to learn is Spanish

[Koolan]

Just realized this is a duplicate topic so I've merged it.

[Frida]

I am fluent in English, Taisanese, and Cantonese. I took a couple of years of Spanish back in junior high school. It's quite easy to learn, my only regret is not taking French courses during university.

 

I love different languages and I love to learn them!! I'm fluent in Finnish, English and French and then I can speak little Swedish and some Spanish, but am nowhere NEAR fluent with them...

 

About learning French, I don't think it's any harder to learn than any other language! Especially if you know Spanish or Italian, cause they resemble each other a little. Basically I think if and when you have a good motivation in studying and learning, it's not that hard (to learn any language).

Your English is excellent. Seems all the active Finnish members here speak it fluently. How many years of English courses did you take?

 

I'm guessing it's about the same in Finland as it is in Sweden: Here you start at around 8 years old (I started when I was 9, but I'm pretty sure my nephew started in second grade/when he was 7-8, so it must've changed), and then you study 2-3 hours a week until you're around 18. It can vary from person to person...

[PatrickDion22]

Just realized this is a duplicate topic so I've merged it.

 

I'm sorry, I didn't know there was another thread like this. My apologies.

[samart]

I'm considerably good at English and I started learning French about a month ago. I'd also like to learn Spanish (I'm absolutely in love with Barcelona).

I used to want to learn Italian as well, but after I visited San Remo I changed my mind. No offence, guys.

I'm actually thinking of moving and right now I have three countries in my mind - Canada, France and Spain (preferrably Catalonia), hence the languages.

[Nmj]

I Speak:

 

English, Arabic, Spanish and French quite fluently.

[FanDion]

I speak Ukrainian, Russian, English and German.

[Charlie92]

Finnish, Swedish, English, bit French and know the basics to German

[pollsy]

I known Bulgarian ( my native language), English ( good, but not enough so far - i need to learn it perfectly). Аnd understand a little bit of Russian and Macedonian . In september i'm going to start learning French I'd like to learn also Spanish and Italian Edited August 16, 2010 at 01:20 PM by pollsy

[iloveceline22]

I speak english and armenian! i'll be taking French in university though, to understand what I'm singing while singing Celine's french songs, and because it is a beautiful language!

[anewdayhascome]

I know Polish, English, Spanish and some French (gonna study it at the university so it'll improve this year very much) and German (which I'm quite forgetting as no longer do I learn it)

[pat200]

well i write, speak and read english, french, arabic and german and can understand spanish and potuguese

[Bralo20]

My native language is still Dutch (Flemish), my second language is still English (which I actually read/speak since I was about a year of 6 old), French is still my third language, a little German as my fourth language and I can read Italian, Spanish and Danish but I can't speak nor write them.

 

 

I'm thinking about starting to learn a new language but I'm not sure of which language...

My choices so far: Russian, Arab, Chinese or Italian...

[Salla]

I am fluent in English, Taisanese, and Cantonese. I took a couple of years of Spanish back in junior high school. It's quite easy to learn, my only regret is not taking French courses during university.

 

I love different languages and I love to learn them!! I'm fluent in Finnish, English and French and then I can speak little Swedish and some Spanish, but am nowhere NEAR fluent with them...

 

About learning French, I don't think it's any harder to learn than any other language! Especially if you know Spanish or Italian, cause they resemble each other a little. Basically I think if and when you have a good motivation in studying and learning, it's not that hard (to learn any language).

Your English is excellent. Seems all the active Finnish members here speak it fluently. How many years of English courses did you take?

 

I'm guessing it's about the same in Finland as it is in Sweden: Here you start at around 8 years old (I started when I was 9, but I'm pretty sure my nephew started in second grade/when he was 7-8, so it must've changed), and then you study 2-3 hours a week until you're around 18. It can vary from person to person...

 

Yeah, that's how it's in Finland as well. We start when we're 9 and study several hours every week. In our equivalent for high school we have a certain amount of compulsory courses and then a bunch of optional ones you can take if you want. Although I think it's different these days and you can start with other languages and then start studying English a bit later. We basically have the chance to study a bunch of languages through out the years, but the compulsory ones are English and Swedish.

Edited August 19, 2010 at 03:17 PM by Salla

[reamary]

I am fluent in English, Taisanese, and Cantonese. I took a couple of years of Spanish back in junior high school. It's quite easy to learn, my only regret is not taking French courses during university.

 

I love different languages and I love to learn them!! I'm fluent in Finnish, English and French and then I can speak little Swedish and some Spanish, but am nowhere NEAR fluent with them...

 

About learning French, I don't think it's any harder to learn than any other language! Especially if you know Spanish or Italian, cause they resemble each other a little. Basically I think if and when you have a good motivation in studying and learning, it's not that hard (to learn any language).

Your English is excellent. Seems all the active Finnish members here speak it fluently. How many years of English courses did you take?

 

Well thanks! And now you've probably already had the answer to your question too. So we do get to study English for many years in Finland, and start at an early age. But I think, that it has a huge impact too that we have a chance to hear a lot of English on TV, cause the majority of programs is in English (I think) here, with subtitles, so not dubbed in Finnish. And that you are on boards like this.

[_Giulia_]

I'm italian, so my language is obviously Italian, but I definitely LOVE foreign languages! I speak English quite fluently (I've been studying it for years) and French, then I'd like to learn German but I know only few words at the moment.

This worldwide forum helps me a lot to practice other languages, so I'm pleased to be here for that too (besides the fact we all love Celine)!

[ghazal]

persian(farsi),english and i know a little french

[miladceline]

my native is Persian and i know english and i have only learned some french word from celine. terre (earth)- ju taime encore (i love you still)- On ne change pas (we don't change).

[Alex_Incognito]

English, Français----I'd love to learn more. Bilingual Americans are rare enough!

[I Love You]

English, and a little Dutch.

[Terre]

My native language is Finnish. I also know English (obviously), Swedish and German. My German is terribly rusty, though.

[Doyen]

Just one. (Guess what it is.)

[celine-rc]

I live in Québec and I'm totally bilingual, I speak both English and French and I'm now learning Spanish in school. I'd like to learn another languade maybe, like German, Italian or something like that...

[Céline74]

English, Italian and a little bit of French!

[Celinechick]

English and english and well, only english!