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Franice

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Are you fluent in a foreign language? If so, how long did it take you to learn it? If not, would you like to speak another language?

I took Spanish in high school and hated all of the teachers, and made very little effort to remember anything. So, even though I took intermediate college level classes, I never really improved past the basics. I'd like to become fluent, but the insane grammar scares the crap out of me.
 
Yes, I do. I'm fluent in English, obviously, and my native language, Tagalog (Filipino).

I took 2 years of Spanish in high school and I still remember most of it after 4 years and am now currently taking Mandarin in college and German online. I find it's really easy for me to remember languages simply because I have prior background in knowing how to pronounce most characters/syllables in any of the major languages.

I'm also planning on taking Russian, French, Portuguese, and Japanese soon (as in within 3 years), so I'm expanding out while improving on the languages I already know.

Except Polish. I've tried with a little language program. The pronunciation scares me, but I'll learn it after I've done Russian and French. :(
 
I did Italian for a few years in both primary and high school but I hardly consider myself fluent. I got bored of it in high school and I rarely paid attention, I didn't really enjoy learning it. My friends family is Italian so I can occasionally understand them when they speak it, but I can't correctly put sentences together for myself.

I wanted to study Russian in university, but my uni doesn't offer it as a subject, so that sucks for me a little. My mum speaks Russian though, so I've been trying to get her to teach me.
 
Oh, languages ... a passion of mine. :D

I'm fluent in English, been learning Japanese for 4 years, Chinese has been on and off... right now I'm learning Cantonese again, absorbing it like a sponge. ^_^ Mandarin, I'll get back to.

I took Spanish for 2 years in High School, forgot it completely. -_-

I'm wanting to learn Korean and maybe so more languages... Yes, I aim to be a polyglot. :D
 
Currently, I'm not doing any foreign languages at college - I don't intend to try and learn one ever again. After doing Latin, German and French and hating all of them (well, Latin was cool) It's just not something that interests me at all. I spent a year doing Latin (before the course was removed from the school D=) two years doing German, and five years doing French - more than enough to satisfy me.
 
I didn't pick up French again after my 4th year of High School and I've regretted it ever since. It's such a great language, the classes are always fun, I had a knack for it and I'm kicking myself whenever I see French written or spoken somewhere and I think, "I knew what that meant, once!" I should try and pick it up again outside of school.
 
english obviously. estonian as my first language, my dads russian so i know that as well, and also somewhat finnish. went through some special german class (from 3rd to 12th) in school but kinda know only the basics.....hmm, so yeah, 5...
more interested in computer languages right now...wanted to go from c# to c....but now started doing stuff with xna and changed my mind ^^
 
5 years of French... though I look at something in French now and have to really think back XD

Latin. It's kinda important in what I am. Ask no question and I'll tell no lies. >_> xDDD Spanish I can't understand and Italian... well. No.


Friend is slowly teaching me her native language of Japanese as well as Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese. (She's Japanese Chinese) and I'm learning German on my own.

Also being taught a bit of Swedish. Awesome language.


There's a few languages I want to learn.

But I'm fluent in English and I know Irish Gaeilge (which is of no use cos it's barely spoken these days it seems) -_-
 
I did french in school but took absolutely no interest in it at all, i dont wanna learn french:gasp:
I do want to learn a second language though, maybe japanese though i hear its bloody hard. I wouldnt also mind learning dutch or some eastern european language, I wanna travel eastern europe so its be handy to know at least one language.
 
I'm fluent in Dutch and I think I'm pretty good at English too xD At school I also have German, but the grammar is pretty hard. And that's it.
And I'm starting to learn japanese by myself a bit, but only words and sentences (so it's just memorising actually xD) The kanji/katakana/hiragana are too difficult for me at this point. I'm planning to study Japanese next year, so...I hope I'll be able to speak Japanese in the future, haha xD
 
My second choiche for high school afer a scientific school was a languages one, I love learning new languages and also seems to learn the sounds with ease.
I studied English at school since I was 8, but it wasn't real study until I was 10 so... 8 years for English. I really appreciate it as a language, when last year I managed to pass the FCE test I was overwhelmingly happy! :)
Another language I studied but only for two years is German. I know many people dislike it because of how it sounds, but i liked it (hated the grammar, but I still like it a lot).
I'd like to study a lot of other languages: German (in a better way, and not stopping), Finnish, Russian (my father had to learn it a little because of work and I found it very interesting) and maybe French and Spanish (since I'm Italian and somehow I manage to understand them even without knowing them properly, I'm a bit lazy XD). Also when we went to Scotland I had the chance to listen to Scottish Gaelic and it charmed me, but I don't have a clue about how learn it.
 
English is my first language. Although I'm Irish, i'm pretty bad at the language :(

I also took German in school. I was actually pretty good at it! I can still read and pronounce things fine, but I haven't practised since finishing school really. I should pick it up again though.

I'm learning Portuguese right now, through friends and mainly listening and trying to speak as much as I can when I do be in Brazil! I'm enjoying learning it :)
 
3, kinda. I'm fluent in English and Tagalog, my native language. I learned Spanish back in high school...took 2 years of it and I still remember quite a few even to this day, although I know I should re-learn everything.

I was going to take a foreign language class this semester but I was stuck between French, Japanese, and Spanish, so I decided to wait it out until next semester. I know it would be wise to take Spanish since I live in Southern Cali and everyone pretty much knows Spanish here, but I wanna take French and Japanese too. Mainly Japanese since I love anime and I tried to teach myself the language, but it's just too complicated. =/

But then I'm also thinking that Spanish is an easy language to learn. I don't need to take a class for that. With Japanese, I'd definitely need to take a class, so that's something else to consider too.
 
I took french and german for five years each back in school and became quite fluent in both. Fast forward seven years and I can barely remember the basics.
 
I spent 8 years learnng maori, so I'm kinda semi-fluent in it, though most of the time we just ended up singing maori songs which were epic.
I also learnt Spanish for four years and was quite good at it, but I've not kept it up. Now I can't do much more than order food and say stuff like I want to go to the beach. Me Gusto voy a la playa.
And English.
 
I'm fluent in English (funnily enough) but that's the only language I'm fluent in. I've been learning German for about 7 years now and I'm pretty good at it if I do say so myself. I've also been learning French for about 9 months now and have made pretty good progress in such a short time. I'm glad I started with German though, because it's by far the more difficult one with all of the grammar rules and cases. Though saying that, I LOVE all of the grammar and structure in German! Yes, I have no life. >_>

I've also started teaching myself Italian but haven't made much progress with it because it's just something which I'm doing in my spare time. I really want to try learning Latin too because it looks super interesting, along with many other languages. I want to spend some time living abroad when I'm older and hopefully that'll help me to become fluent in some languages. I'm more interested in European languages though than anything else, and I don't really have much of a desire to learn Japanese or Chinese or anything like that. Though that could also be partly because they look incredibly frightening. <_<
 
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