How many languages do you speak?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I’m fluent in English, Spanish and French.</p>

<p>I understand Arabic perfectly, and I read and write even though I make way too many mistakes. But when I try to talk it’s a mess. No one understand me because of my awesome (horrible) accent, and it takes me hours to find the correct words…</p>

<p>I also speak Italian, but I make a lot of mistakes, and I understand Portuguese, but that’s as far as it get, because I have no idea how to talk.</p>

<p>I would like to speak Latin. I think one of the reasons is that when I was younger I thought that everyone who spoke Latin was incredibly smart. But I don’t think I will ever try to learn it.</p>

<p>And I agree with 314159265, knowing an African language would be pretty awesome… =)</p>

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<p>I’m fluent at English and Spanish(Native Language). I also have an advanced/intermediate level in Guarani and I have started learning German. I would also like to study French sometime.</p>

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<p>Russian, English, French and German. I’d love to learn Spanish, and Swedish or Norwegian.</p>

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<p>English, can get by in couple of others but I certainly do not speak them… I can read Latin and Ancient Greek (Attic, Homeric and New Testament) though.</p>

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<p>Haha, no insult intended. I got called akata a lot, because I don’t have the typical Yoruba accent. and you know in yoruba accent is everything.<br>
no jalapenyoface- i don’t speak pidgin. I have heard it spoken though. It’s funny. I didn’t know you Ghanians called them akatas too! Man, I wish i could speak some of the languages you do. i shall just have to cultivate the languages.</p>

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<p>Fluent: english, macaw-ese, corvid, dolphinese
Proficient: C, C++, Java, Python (with NumPy and SciPy), Matlab, Javascript (with Ajax), PHP, HTML (with CSS), Fortran, OpenMP, LaTeX, R, Mathematica, IRAF</p>

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<p>I know a girl and she can speak Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish, and she knows Latin as well. Pretty cool, ha!</p>

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<p>@Hoping411 I’ve only lived in the US, haha. Both my parents are full Ghanaian, so they taught me twi. My mom used to be a linguist, so she taught me Portuguese as well. Plus I grew up in a predominantly Filipino community, so I know just enough Tagalog to understand it, but my accent is terrible.</p>

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<p>This made me laugh (as did dolphinese) :D</p>

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<p>I never thought I’d see the word akata on CC lol.</p>

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<p>oh , yeah. First , Nigerians take over CC
next the world!
HAHAHAHAHAMUWHOHAHAHA</p>

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<p>BWAAHAHAHAH!!! <em>evil laugh</em> What are you talking about? We already have!!!</p>

<p>But I totally get what you mean, I can’t even speak Yoruba (darn you parents) so imagine how much I get made fun of!</p>

<p>@nne718: sorry, I really didn’t mean any offense :)</p>

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<p>Yeah my parents also never taught me the language, and then my dad tries to get on me for not being involved in the culture <em>rolls eyes</em>. It’s sad that I literally don’t know any Nigerian kids who can speak their respective language. What’s up with that? I hope to study Igbo in college though. I’ve told my parents multiple times to teach me, but they never follow through.</p>

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<p>@nne718: OMG I can totally identify.</p>

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<p>I speak English, Hebrew, Russian, Italian, Greek, and Afrikaans. I’m learning Hebrew at school right now (third year)</p>

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<p>The list of languages I want to speak FAR exceeds the list of languages I know.</p>

<p>English–>native language
Latin–>well I can read it pretty well but obviously my speaking abilities are subpar b/c I don’t get a whole lot of practice… also not too many native speakers around to practice on!
Hebrew + Spanish–>v. crappy at. I can <em>sort of</em> understand some of what ppl are saying if they speak in Spanish, but I can’t even have a basic conversation. Hebrew I can read + write but I only know some words and like no grammar. I took it for a year.</p>

<p>I want to learn German and French and ancient Greek a bunch.</p>

<p>Yiddish (the language of my ancestors!!!), Russian, and Welsh or Dutch would be cool too.</p>

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<p>I’m almost fluent in French, Adv/Int in Spanish, Beg/Int in Chinese and Beginner in Swahili, and can read Italian.</p>

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<p>I speak English, Portuguese (1st language), and can read in Spanish.
My spoken Spanish kinda suck: I can pronounce the words just fine, but when it comes to coming up with them in a conversation, I just can’t :frowning: I ought to practice more, though.
I tried French - loved how it sounded, hated speaking it. Maybe something to explore while in college.
The best way to learn a language is to try associating learning with fun. I learned most of what I know in English from listening to music (and reading translations, of course) and playing video and computer games <3.</p>

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<p>Being a son of Indian expats in America, my 1st language is (surprisingly) English, and I’m most fluent in it. Though, I can speak relatively intermediate Hindi, and basic Punjabi & Spanish. Currently, I’m learning French in High School.</p>

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<p>Im fluent in English since its my 1st language (no duh there) but i am pretty good with French since i’ve been taking it for four years and still going strong and im learning twi as well so when i go to Ghana to visit my family i can actually talk to them and not feel out of place like two years ago.</p>

<p>But i think that i will also take up Russian as well cuz i always thought tht it was soo cool that my dad can speak Russian and it sounds kinda cool too.</p>