What Languages Do You Know?
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Just English, I am able to recognize some Japanese through just hearing it though. I would like to become fluent one day. Which is your native? Personally I sort of have a tough time pronouncing French words correctly. I think I have gotten better over time however! 
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Just English, I am able to recognize some Japanese through just hearing it though. I would like to become fluent one day. Which is your native? Personally I sort of have a tough time pronouncing French words correctly. I think I have gotten better over time however!
english is my native, but i like the think i'm pretty good at pronouncing and speaking coherent french c: i still don't know all the grammar, but i'm getting pretty close! it's pretty cool that you have a goal of being fluent in japanese, i was thinking of learning it myself ^^;
UglyMonsterFace
Arize from Azulon
I speak English and Tagalog, though I'm not fluent in the latter.
UglyMonsterFace
Arize from Azulon
oo cool! tagalog seems like a cool language
the only words i know are kumusta kaibigan from my friend saying it to me all the time-
You can also say "magandang umaga" (good morning) and "maligayang pasko" (merry christmas). Very random but it's the first phrases that came to mind lol
You can now impress your friend in the mornings or on Christmas!
thisistian
Senior Member
I was born and raised in China as a child, so I know Mandarin fluently. However I've been living in the UK and speaking English for 12 years now, so I'd say my English is probably better than my Mandarin now lol. At the moment I am studying French at intermediate level and will be starting Japanese next year at beginner level.
I speak English as my native language. I took Spanish in school and still remember enough to understand a fair amount, but I can't speak it very well anymore because I'm out of practice.
I'm working on learning Japanese but it's self-taught so my progress is very slow. But I know quite a few words and phrases and can put together simple sentences. As with Spanish, I'm better at understanding Japanese than I am at speaking it because I don't get a lot of opportunities to practice.
I'm working on learning Japanese but it's self-taught so my progress is very slow. But I know quite a few words and phrases and can put together simple sentences. As with Spanish, I'm better at understanding Japanese than I am at speaking it because I don't get a lot of opportunities to practice.
I'm a native English speaker, but after taking 2 years of Spanish allll the way back in middle school, and using some of it at work, I can read and pronounce most Spanish words, spell less than most, but not terrible at it. I quickly learned basic Spanish statements (I asked a Spanish speaking employee) because where I work, the place across the street attracts alot of tourist, so later they come to the grocery store to ya know, get food. I took it upon myself to learn some basic stuff, cause only 3 workers can fluently speak Spanish, and they aren't there all the time. So rather then a Spanish speaking customer getting mad at me for not knowing what they're saying (check yourself, I don't look any Spanish speaking in the slightest) I can now say basic yet get-just-enough-of-the-point-across-stuff that way I can serve them. They still want to go full blown Spanish on me, even after I say I speak very little, but eventually they slow down and realize "oh, she really only does know a tiny bit of Spanish."
Shellzilla_515
F1 fan who loves onions
Oh wow, same here lol. I’ll admit, there are many words that are so hard to pronounce which will make me look like a fool in front of those kids who speak Tagalog very well. Better than nothing though. At least I can understand the language most of the time. (For starters, kuya means big brother and ate [ahh-teh] for big sister) To make things even more complicated, there are more varieties of languages in the provincial areas of the Philippines. Now THAT, I wouldn’t understand them, but my grandmother does. Other than the language I said above, I can speak French but at a bare minimum. For starters, I can only count up to certain numbers, say bonjour, ca va bien, and au reboot. Used to learn French back in elementary and high school, but I’ve forgotten 90% of what I learned (and that Canadian French is different compared to the other French). Just for the laughs, I can speak animalese in a jumbled way. XD
I'm sorry but, Tagalog, I've never heard of so I'm reading it as literally tag-a-log and thinking of the game tag involving a log. Like go tag the log to win or whatever.
Also au reboot sounds funny the way I'm reading it, man French, I will never understand it.
Also au reboot sounds funny the way I'm reading it, man French, I will never understand it.
Tagalog is pronounced Tah-gah-log. It's spoken in the Phillipines. My brother-in-law is Filipino so I'm aware of the language but only know the words for certain family members because all my nephews call his side of the family by those names.
this magical language called english, and that's it.
although, i would love to learn spanish, german, norwegian, japanese and of course my native Irish; which is a dead language but i feel it's important and a part of me that i don't yet have.
although, i would love to learn spanish, german, norwegian, japanese and of course my native Irish; which is a dead language but i feel it's important and a part of me that i don't yet have.
Norimagical
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Hellooo! i've been studying Japanese for a long while(like around 3 years now) since half of my family is Japanese and i really want to try and understand and talk to them instead of my grandma doing all the talking i still havent grasped all of it though i need to work on kanji but for the most part i can read,speak,and write pretty okay my next language to learn is spanish or korean^^ oh! yeah and my born language is English
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I speak English and Dutch! I got Dutch from being in The Netherlands, and English from being addicted to the internet.
I had French and German (and Latin and Ancient Greek, but those are more puzzles than languages if you ask me) in school but I really can't learn languages properly in a school setting and that definitely showed on my grades.
I'm also currently absolutely killing it in the Duolingo Japanese lessons, but I don't think that'll make me speak real Japanese anytime soon, I'm just doing it for fun.
I had French and German (and Latin and Ancient Greek, but those are more puzzles than languages if you ask me) in school but I really can't learn languages properly in a school setting and that definitely showed on my grades.
I'm also currently absolutely killing it in the Duolingo Japanese lessons, but I don't think that'll make me speak real Japanese anytime soon, I'm just doing it for fun.
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I-- I'm shocked at the number of people who know Tagalog/Filipino. I thought it was just a select few. ; w;
Anyway, word of advice: Tagalog and Filipino aren't the same!! They are usually interchanged, but it's most likely Filipino that which you know of, since it's the national language of the Philippines. Tagalog has very similar words to Filipino, but I believe Tagalog was rooted in central Luzon (the top island) and was one of the major languages that influenced the formation of the Filipino language we all know.
Anyway ye, I speak English and Filipino! More fluent in English than Filipino, but I can manage either in a normal conversation or essay. There's another language I know though that I'm not hella comfortable revealing (since it's only specific to a certain area and I like keeping myself private lol), I'm not fluent but I can carry conversations with it. So I've been practically trilingual as a child, though English and Filipino are my main ones.
Anyway, word of advice: Tagalog and Filipino aren't the same!! They are usually interchanged, but it's most likely Filipino that which you know of, since it's the national language of the Philippines. Tagalog has very similar words to Filipino, but I believe Tagalog was rooted in central Luzon (the top island) and was one of the major languages that influenced the formation of the Filipino language we all know.
Anyway ye, I speak English and Filipino! More fluent in English than Filipino, but I can manage either in a normal conversation or essay. There's another language I know though that I'm not hella comfortable revealing (since it's only specific to a certain area and I like keeping myself private lol), I'm not fluent but I can carry conversations with it. So I've been practically trilingual as a child, though English and Filipino are my main ones.
i know a little bit in several languages. my first language is English, and i took two years of Spanish in high school. on an app called Duolingo, i learned more Spanish, as well as Swedish, French, and a tiny bit of Irish. i know more French than the rest because i was studying it avidly
ScaryGhosts
stump maker
Wow so many people here speak French! Ugh, I’ve been learning it for some time but I am no where near fluent. I am fluent in Polish (and English) though..
my mothertongue is german and i’ve been learning english for quite a long time (around 12 years) now, on my own, with the help of video games and my fair share of online friends. other than that, i know tidbits of italian after 2 years of having it in school and really basic mandarin.
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