The Language Topic

ZeldaXD · 2016-03-04 19:42:12

English: FLUENT SPEAKER
Spanish: NATIVE LANGUAGE
French: OK SPEAKER
German: LEARNER

BuzzerBee · 2016-03-05 12:50:01

Evilbunny wrote:

English- Fluent

I'm going to assume this is also your native language?

Pingohits wrote:

oh right, can you put an asterisk next to my Mandarin area

It was already there.

W24 wrote:

I know a little bit of spanish, but not enough to have a conversation.

I'll put you as beginner?

Gosha wrote:

And kinda know English

I'm not sure what this means, I'll just put you as a decent speaker.

RavaTroll wrote:

I studied german for 8 years and I can't remember anything from it.

That's the saddest part of the human brain, you can forget a language you were once fluent in.

Anyway, updated up to RavaTroll. I will do the rest eventually.

BuzzerBee · 2016-04-18 09:09:20

Updated all list entries up to this point. Also updated commentary on the main post.

Keep 'em coming!

AmdS · 2016-04-18 10:17:32

I speak portuguese (Brazil).

BuzzerBee · 2016-04-18 10:40:59

AmdS wrote:

I speak portuguese (Brazil).

What level? I'm going to assume fluent and native, but what other languages do you speak?

Please read the topic instructions before you post.

Jedpogi · 2016-04-18 14:33:39

i speak tagalog (fluent and native)
english (decent speaker)

BuzzerBee · 2016-04-18 22:07:05

Jedpogi wrote:

i speak tagalog (fluent and native)
english (decent speaker)

Added.

Kaslai · 2016-04-18 22:48:12

I can speak decent English, and I have a 3-year-old's understanding of French.

sthegreat · 2016-04-19 01:07:04

English: Fluent (native language)
Spanish: OK

Insanity · 2016-04-19 01:08:11

English: Fluent
Romulan: Fluent
French: Decent

jonhvictor2004sonic · 2016-04-19 04:21:24

Portuguese: Native.
English: Great.
Espanish: Beginner

I olny know like 4 words in Espanish xD

Jorc · 2016-04-28 11:31:13

Lithuanian: Fluent
English: Fluent
German: Learner
Japan: Learner

BuzzerBee · 2016-11-16 03:32:03

Updated and bump

Krosis · 2016-11-16 16:32:44

English: fluent
Portuguese: native
Spanish: intermediate? (dunno i can understand almost anything people say and write but i stuck at actually saying and writing
Dutch: learner

Anatoly · 2016-11-16 18:06:41

Please change Latin to beginner. I am never advanced there.

Please... I speak English very well. Some typos maybe only.

I am russian natively, please mark me with a star.

I have a german passport, too, so i guess german is natively for me, too

Awesomenessgood · 2016-11-17 12:37:35

hey im starting to learn japanese a bit im a begniner

Norwee · 2016-11-17 16:17:18

Norwegian: Native
Danish: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
English: Fluent
Japanese: Learner
German: Learner
Russian: Beginner

I include Swedish and Danish because i can understand the writing and speech of both due to the similarity of Scandinavian languages. Also it makes me look that much more professional and smart if i include it! This also includes German as well as to a lesser extent Dutch, but i only include German because thats what i studied in middle school. Also studied Russian in 2 years so i can read and pronounce the Cyrilic alphabet, but i know few Russian words. I'm currently focusing on learning Japanese.

Krosis

TaskManager · 2016-11-17 17:22:03

oh yeah you might as well change my english to fluent i guess

Pingohits · 2016-11-17 22:32:07

@norWEEGEE

It seems you have an understanding of many languages, especially european-based ones.

question: was it difficult to learn all those languages? I understand you mentioned that most of them are structurally similar, but how similar?

MBlood · 2016-11-17 22:48:04

Spanish: Native
English: Good

Norwee · 2016-11-17 23:58:10

Pingohits wrote:

@norWEEGEE
It seems you have an understanding of many languages, especially european-based ones.
question: was it difficult to learn all those languages? I understand you mentioned that most of them are structurally similar, but how similar?

Ok i guess i can go in depth how i learnt them.

Norwegian: Learned it as a mother tongue obviously.

Danish: While it might be slightly annoying to listen to Danes talk i can understand pretty much every word and sentence as long as i listen hard enough, the true similarity between Danish and Norwegian is much more profound in the written language, Written Danish is basically exactly the same as Norwegian with some very slight differences. Therefore with this in mind i can watch Danish movies and read Danish news articles with almost no problem.

Swedish: Same as Danish, except it's kinda turned around, much easier to understand Swedes when they talk, but slightly harder to read it in a written form. Also there are some Swedish words which could be troublesome, but overall the Scandinavian languages are VERY structurally similar. So i wouldn't say that most of these were difficult because you already know a lot if you are born in a Scandinavian country.

English: This i learnt mostly using the internet when i was quite young, also we learn this in school... Probably not very interesting story compared to other languages. Almost 99% of Norwegians know English to a certain degree anyway. This was not difficult to learn because i was exposed to it so early.

Japanese: This is obviously very different from European languages. Learned some while i was in Japan and during free time. It's much more difficult because if you want to be good you need to study thousands of words that have their own symbol. It was for example much easier to learn the Russian alphabet because they only use 33 letters. Pronunciation is not that much of a problem however, surprisingly Norwegian and Japanese have much in common with regards to pronunciation of words.

German: This i learned for 3 years in middle school, the thing with German is that some of the words sound similar to a Norwegian or English counterpart, thus with some basic knowledge it is possible to decipher a few sentences without actually learning many of the words in the first place. These examples i took from a random German sentence showcases words that have similarities between the three languages thus making it possible to guess the meaning without any dictionary or tools:
German # Norwegian # English
Spielt = Spiller = Plays
Muss = Må = Must
Platziert = Plassert = Placed
Sagt sie = Sier hun = She says.

To sum up German, I still would need to learn many of the words if i had desire to learn it again, but i'm still able to understand a good amount of it when it's spoken or written. (The grammar is total BS tho ;_;)
I mentioned Dutch as an example, what's interesting is that i have never learned any Dutch ever in my life, yet i could sometimes with pinpoint accuracy understand what some Dutch people on EE were talking about without using any translator.

Russian: Whats funny about the two years i learnt Russian is that i can read and pronounce the words very good if i saw it in front of me, but i don't know that many Russian word other than basics. However knowing the alphabet also opens many possibilities. For example looking at the word: "банк"
It might look confusing for people that cannot read Cyrillic, but if you can it will read as "Bank" thus making it very obvious what it means. Learning Russian vocabulary was very difficult but there are still moments
where you will recognize loan words and figure it out instantly.

So yeah hope this rambling post answered any questions. If it didn't feel free to ask me more. :s

Pingohits

Kkay · 2016-11-18 00:39:45

English (Native, fluent)
French (O.k)

oranj · 2016-11-18 20:54:20

I speak English natively

ZeldaXD · 2016-11-27 00:07:00

Put me in Finnish under "Learner"

Anatoly · 2016-12-11 10:18:56

For all who can understand German:

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