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Which languages do you speak?
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English, russian, spanglish. Voted two. Would really like to learn some more, I suppose changing around from spanglish to actual spanish would be a nice first step.
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English
Bad English
Philosophers English
Pig Latin
German
Understand French, and Dutch
How many languages is that?
also I can understand and speak Jive pretty well.:beer:
Bad English
Philosophers English
Pig Latin
German
Understand French, and Dutch
How many languages is that?
also I can understand and speak Jive pretty well.:beer:
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Polish, English and German
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Mastered French and English, spanish is coming along 
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Still having trouble wrapping my lobes around English, LOL!
Also, a smattering of leftover high school Espanol.
rob
Also, a smattering of leftover high school Espanol.
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Has anyone here who's first language is English learned Japanese as a second language? People always say Japanese and Mandarin are hard to learn, but is that mostly because of the complex script? How hard is it comparatively if I was only interested in the spoken language? I understand that different people can vary greatly in ability to learn languages, but certain languages do seem to always come up on the list of much harder ones.
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As someone who grew up with both mandarin and english, and went on to learn japanese.
I feel that japanese is easy to read but harder to speak due to excessive formalities.
Mandarin is hard to read and write, even for a born and raised chinese; it is easier as a spoken language, a very basic working spoken mandarin will work anywhere. There is little formality to worry about. Further advancement of the spoken language just involves incorporating idioms into your speech and swapping out simple words for more complex ones.
Idioms are fun and allow you to condense a complex thought into a "cute" short phrase. E.g. "Playing music to a cow" means to waste time explaining/showing sometime to someone who cannot possibly appreciate it.
I feel that japanese is easy to read but harder to speak due to excessive formalities.
Mandarin is hard to read and write, even for a born and raised chinese; it is easier as a spoken language, a very basic working spoken mandarin will work anywhere. There is little formality to worry about. Further advancement of the spoken language just involves incorporating idioms into your speech and swapping out simple words for more complex ones.
Idioms are fun and allow you to condense a complex thought into a "cute" short phrase. E.g. "Playing music to a cow" means to waste time explaining/showing sometime to someone who cannot possibly appreciate it.
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I stumbled across this interesting chart ranking many of the world's languages by difficulty for an English speaker to learn. Wonder how accurate it is. Would also be very interesting to see how the order would be if they only took into account the spoken language and not the written form.
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I'm fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. (Read/Write/speak)
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I'm fluent in English and Chinese (mandarin), got a little bit of Latin as well
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My motherlanguage is a dialect of italian,
i learned italian at the age of 3 and that became pretty much my official motherlanguage as dialect is not recognizes as such. Then i learned french which i really improved in the army and german (from school). English came with both school and addiction to gaming/communities and now i am improving it by spending 3 months in america (1 left )
5 languages in total
i learned italian at the age of 3 and that became pretty much my official motherlanguage as dialect is not recognizes as such. Then i learned french which i really improved in the army and german (from school). English came with both school and addiction to gaming/communities and now i am improving it by spending 3 months in america (1 left
)5 languages in total
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I know English, Mandarin (most common Chinese language), and am picking up Japanese. I can converse in all 3, so I voted 3, but due to lack of practice, two of them are rather difficult for me.
I speak rudimentary Hokkien to my grandmother, and used to speak rudimentary Indoesian Malay to a domestic helper (but we no longer have one).
I must say... If you know Mandarin and English, the next language to pick up should be Japanese. There are a large number of these two elements in Japanese, so that will assist you tremendously.
I speak rudimentary Hokkien to my grandmother, and used to speak rudimentary Indoesian Malay to a domestic helper (but we no longer have one).
I must say... If you know Mandarin and English, the next language to pick up should be Japanese. There are a large number of these two elements in Japanese, so that will assist you tremendously.
