Your linguistic skills

[Verjamem]

I started this thread, because I want to know, how many languages you know and if indeed Eurofans are polyglots I will begin the discussion
Polish - Of course, my native language. I can speak Polish since I remember
English - I'm studying it since I was 7 (September 2005). I don't think I'm speaking English very well, but I know "some" of vocabulary and can use a language.
Russian - I'm learning this language since October. At this moment I can write and read the cyrillic, and I know some basic words.
Serbian/ Croatian - I want to learn it in future

 

[Gera11]

^ Nice thread

Romanian - my native language ^_^
English - I studied more english by myself than in school
French - I'm studying french since 5th grade. That was...like 7 years ago. I still suck at french :/
- I tried to learn norwegian last year but I gave up when I had to start studying for my final exams this year.
- I know some spanish just because I know romanian + telenovelas 2

 

[DanielLuis]

Besides Portuguese I also know how to speak English fluently. Then I know a bit of French, but not much, only studied it from the 7th to the 9th grade and that was a while ago. I can understand most of Spanish as well, as it's close to Portuguese.
I'm more into sciences, and that's what I want to make a living of, but still in the future I want to learn more languages, starting by "re-learning" French!

 

[anto475]

The language I was mainly raised in
The language that I've been learning since I was 2, only discovered my passion for it when I was 15
Started learning this in school at around 11 years of age
And then I've always had a bit of this like, only properly started learning it when I was 17
Well Zdob si Zdub got me interested in this language and I just think it's really nice. I use instead of because every Romanian I meet tells me I have a Moldovan accent, probably due to the Zdubii
I listen to a lot of Kaizers Orchestra, Skambankt, and NRKP3, which pushed me to learn this language
My Norwegian helped a lot with this, but I'd say watching Melfest and things like Hey Baberiba and Parlamentet got me into Swedish
The Norwegian and Swedish helped a lot here, I never thought I'd learn it until I started watching Borgen
We went to Poland in school and took a semester of Polish classes which I've used a lot here
Russian has always fascinated me and a friend from Yakutsk helped me learn a bit in school and I've gone on to learn more myself
Currently learning this in college
Same as Portuguese

 

[Leydan]

As a Brit, let me show you my amazing array of linguistic skills.

My language.
Started learning this at 10 in year 6, carried it through to end of school. I chose to take it as a GCSE in final 2 years of school, when I could have ditched it. I ended up with a D though. We didn't quite connect with each other...

Don't fall off your seats at the variety of languages I can speak.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

English

I cant speak French any longer, I cant remember any of it bar a few words and a couple of phrases.

 

[Leydan]

English

I cant speak French any longer, I cant remember any of it bar a few words and a couple of phrases.

Oh dear. I feel so ignorant to foreign languages.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Oh dear. I feel so ignorant to foreign languages.

Typical Brits At least you did it at GCSE though, I dropped French and Spanish asap after year 9 There was no point in learning Spanish cuz it was 1 hour a week, it took an hour away from us doing French and the teacher couldnt control the class so all hell broke loose each week I didnt know any Spanish even when I was learning it

 

[DaFlo]

my native language of course
learned it in school and I think I'm more than able to speak it, although I still have problems sometimes with the vocabularies
learned it 5 years in school.. I hated it as a subject, and so I only now some words and sentences now
I would love to learn these languages, but unfortunately I'm not that good in learning laguages.. maybe if I know some people from there they could help me

 

[Luki]

- native
- almost perfect, I just need to work on cyrillic letters
- I've been studying it for 12 years since I was 7 years old
- 11 years since I was 5 years old
- 2,5 years, in high school, soon I'll try to take some classes to improve it
- college
- I'll have courses in danish very soon
- I can understand most of the times, but I can't have a conversation in that language

 

[r3gg13]

Native (exposed to it since birth, have spoken it since I can remember, started learning it formally when I was 8)
Native (exposed to it since birth, more like my parents force-fed me English since birth, started speaking it when I was 5)
Used to speak it (I spoke it when I was a young along with Tagalog and English, I knew how to read and write katakana, hiragana, and basic kanji as well. I lost it when I was around 8 or 9. If I still spoke it, it would be another "native language")
C1 level according to the assessment test I took before starting my year in France, 2 years ago. I think I'm losing it though.
I can read it, I can also understand it when it's spoken to me, but can only barely speak it.


I pretend that I understand it

 

[r3gg13]

(ebonics > Ghetto) Learnt it off a friend.

Oh gosh 2 2. I can't even speak that

 

[Yamarus]

C1 level according to the assessment test I took before starting my year in France, 2 years ago. I think I'm losing it though.

Your French is excellent Reggie! The C1 level is totally accurate .

- My main native language (native level)
- My second native language (studying English literature and linguistics at university means I can teach English better than French) (native level)
- My main language of study (C2 level)
- My minor language of study (A2-B1 level). I can't speak it very well but reading and understanding is quite easy.
- I should be fluent in Spanish (took classes at school and evening classes) but somehow I never got the hang of it and I actually have a very poor knowledge of the language. Romance languages don't seem to stick... Strange considering my native language is French.
- The language I would love to be able to speak. At the moment I only know a few phrases and most of the basic grammar rules but I lack vocabulary and practice. Turkish is definitely on the top of my "to learn" list.

 

[pinkchiffon]

(Are we using the flag of the variety that we speak, or does that make me look like one of those "we speak AMERICAN" types? ) Native
Have been learning it in college for the past few years, can read and understand quite a bit. My conversational skills aren't great, but I'm working on it.
I end up listening to it a lot, so last year I decided that while I'm at it, I should try to learn some grammar and how it actually works. I just study it in my spare time when I'm not too busy with Russian.

 

[amateur]

There was a thread like that, as I remember it? Anyway,

Native
I think I'm fluent, as I can communicate online and understand ~90% of what I read and ~70% of what I listen, but I'm not sure if I can speak it
Mutually intelligible language to Turkish, I know the grammar rules where they differ, but I think I need to learn more vocabulary

Have been studying it for a year, I have made some progress but still I'm not even close to fluency
Studied it at high school but have forgotten pretty much everything except a few phrases, never learned much anyway

 

[lilka]

Polish - my native language
English - I learned it at school and I'm still learning by myself I'm fluent.
Spanish - I learned a bit of it by myself when there was a boom for Mexican telenovelas in Poland (end of '90s, I was 8-9) and then I took Spanish lessons at a language school. Now I'm fluent.
Greek - I learned it by myself and spending vacation in Greece helped me a lot. Now I'm quite fluent, when I go to Greece I speak only Greek.
French - learned a bit at high school, but almost everything was forgotten I understand a lot though, and I want to refresh it.
Italian - I have once learned a bit by myself. Now I only understand a lot, but I'm not able to speak.
Swedish - this is a language I would love to learn. I love how it sounds to my Polish ears - like a bit of German, Dutch and English with British English pronunciation.

I also understand some German, because I had German lessons at primary school (years ago )

 

[Salmon]

A mix of and - Native

- Kind of native, since I was born and raised here (don't have any German relatives though)

- Since 3rd grade (I was about 8 years old then)

- Since 8th grade (that was some 3 years ago)

(Latin) - well, I can easily read and translate and stuff, however I really want to learn speaking Latin one day

- tiny bits, I started learning it about half a year ago

 

[greece]

-Native language
-I learn for 6 years since I was 7
-I don't speak them perfect but I can understand some things.I also can read them.
-I study for 2 years in the school but we don't do lesson so I know only some things about the grammar
-I had do some lessons for one year in the school but I don't speak good
////-I can understand only some words

 

[revallsay]

- my native language
- I studied English in the University and graduated this year
- I speak some German, as I had it in the school and as a second language in the University
(Latin) - I had a year of Latin in the University, I may understand something

 

[Bluebird]

Here are my linguistic skills:

Dutch: My native language and mother tongue.
French: My "second skin". I studied French linguistics and literature at the university and nowadays I'm a French language teacher. I have a very good level but I still want to improve learning expressions and so on. I can't get enough of French! I can explain French much better than my native language. (C2 level)
Swedish: My other passion! I studied Swedish for six years in evening school because I wanted to understand the Swedish songs at the Eurovision Song Contest in the 80's and 90's. (B1-B2 level)
Italian: I studied Italian as a minor language of study. Officially, I can teach Italian too, but nowadays I almost never use Italian any more. (B1-B2 level)
English: I only studied English at the secondary school. (B1 level)
Danish: I've been studying Danish for two years now. It's great to understand more and more Danish songs. (A2 level)
German: I studied German for 3 years at the secondary school. I understand almost everything, but speaking is more difficult (A2-B1-level)
Spanish: At university, I took Spanish as my third language (1st = French, 2nd = Italian) and I studied it for one year. I forgot most of it but I'm still able to understand a lot. (A1 level)

Because of my Swedish and Danish skills I can understand Norwegian too, but I never studied that language.
I know some words in Finnish and Russian but it's really very very basic knowledge.