Your linguistic skills

[B3stbeats]

Native:
Spanish
Galician

Fluent:
English
B1 French (I left it this year, but I hope keep my French level or upgrade it)

Others:
Italian (I can understand a little)
Portuguese (I live near the frontier, and also the Galician and the Portuguese are quite similar)
Catalonian (Only some words)
Norwegian (Only some words and basic phrases)

Studying:
English
Latin
Ancient Greek

(This last two are only for Humanity students)

Alphabets that I can understand/write/read:
Latin alphabet
Greek alphabet
Cyrilic alphabet (Thanks to the Greek alphabet. I use the bulgarian flag because this country was the first in use it)

Languages I want to learn:
Japanese
Czech
irish
Latvian
Romanian
Russian
Interslavic

 

[Sultana]

Interslavic

Actually its not that difficult to understand it if you know one of the slavic languages at least on the B2 level. As a native speaker of Russian I highly recommend you to start your interslavic journey with something like Bulgarian or Croatian. Bulgarian will open you world of Macedonian and somehow Russian but in a weird way, Croatian will open you world of Ex Yugo languages and Interslavic understanding on 60-70%. Russian is kinda no-no as interslavic sounds to my ears like a 18th century russian

 

[tomos2019]

I have had a brief look at the Cyrillic alphabet to partially use with Ainu!

 

[DenizESC]

We need an update drastically don't we girls:

Fluent:
I'm ethnically Turkish and spoke it at home with my parents, watched Turkish tv, visited the country etc the usual...
I'm Dutch, I was born and raised here mostly

People say I'm fluent sometimes but inşşşş, doubt it:


Learning Currently on a serious level:
I L-O-V-E Korea with a passion, sister nation for me. I mean k-pop and especially k-dramas were always super famous in our household but I also lost myself again in the world of k-pop lately especially but also anything else Korean, I love Manhwas (webtoons), Korean tech and science and amazing lifely and advanced cities like Seoul, Busan, Incheon etc. And in general I like how future and present-day oriented they are, unlike much of Europe and the world really... I booked quite some progress already, the grammar is crazy similar to Turkish so that really helps. My fave word is the word for "hi" ''안녕'' aka ''annoying'' I might study here in the near future for my masters.

Learning on a not so serious level:
Tbh I haven't really been learning it but I swear I will soon, My queen @anaraqueen will help here inş and we can give the world even more hot Turzil connection literally no one asked for I think Brazillian portuguese sounds so seductive

Planning to learn: (not realistic to do all but I can dream)
I already tried in the past, I love Japan and grew up with anime and japans gaming industry too but I will come back once I have a better grasp on Korean, but I will definitely come back!
Underrated sister nation with an iconic language, have to learn one day
Again underrated!! Vietnam is an intruiging country that deserves more attention imo

Birds told me it's the future Singapore and I want to visit it and learn more about it

Cambodians say they can't even learn it but omg, it's the most iconic language, I can dream

there will be more btw I'm sure

Gave up/Learned in the past:
I had it in school and was quite good at it, but I haven't followed up in a long time and forgot basically everything
It was mandatory at high school and Idk why, literally added nothing to my life
classes at school I didnt ask for again
might go back one day

 

[tomos2019]

My current situation which sadly has showed little improvement, I just can be lazy sometimes!

As I've said many times still what I'm best at and can probably get by relatively well.
Kind of OK and would like to get up a bit more, it's just that I have always struggled for a lot to watch that holds my attention for long other than the occasional music or drama thing, likely not helped by the rarity of Korean tokusatsu!
Admittedly only benefits from it being quite ever-present and the odd word that's similar to Korean or Japanese but reading-wise I definitely could put more effort in.
=== Swahili Also emerging contenders in terms of enthusiasm if I'm honest with myself I probably know literally nothing though lol

Cornish Ainu Unfortunately I felt were best to temporarily rest. It's just that I don't really spend long enough on what I am learning so I thought it best to prioritise!

Okinawan Rested a long time ago because I felt I wasn't giving it my best shot, I can't say I'll never go back to it though!

I would like to focus on my current ones for the time being, if I do add any more I will have to unfortunately drop some at this stage but possible contenders (now getting more diverse!): A Turkic language Hawaiian Greenlandic Navajo Twi Quechua/Guarani Maori Tok Pisin and possibly one or two of . Italian seems most likely at the moment just for another ''more spoken'' one, I do like the idea of learning at least one per continent though!

 

[HarryUK]

Fluent in


I understand and can hold basic conversation in


I can understand parts but not speak

 

[heke1988]

Native:

My first language is Finnish and second language Swedish. Swedish I started to learn at fifth grade. Right now it is a little bit rusty, because I haven't need it much.

Good:

I understand English better than speak of it. Also English prepositions are a nightmate to me.

Basics: and

Germany I started to learn at junior high school and continued at high school, but then I stopped to learn it. Japanese I started to learn in Autumn 2019. But because of Covid-19 pandemic it was cancelled in Spring 2020. Perhaps some day I continue to learn more of Japanese.

 

[lilka]

I love the sound of Finnish, it sounds to my ear as if someone was speaking while jumping. I don’t understand much, just some basics from my trip to Pielavesi 3 years ago. Finland is also a beautiful country, lots of forests! Actually, it’s like riding through a forest all the time and I love it.

My next goal is the dialect of Greek. I can do it.

 

[Rmetr0]

My native language


Studied in school and by myself
- by watching videos on YT and reading (and now even communicating on) forums and other social media (and now even work)

Understand without actually learning
- by reading one TG channel + Vidbir

Tried to learn on Duolingo and succeeded a little bit
+ Melfestttttt

Tried to learn on Duolingo, but almost didn't succeed


Tried to learn, but not on Duolingo
+ current environment

Watched one channel about Slavic languages and understood some parts



And also I would LOVE to learn Karelian which is the language of my homeland by location
Even tho... ethnically I'm not Karelian, I'm 3/4 of different kinds of Russians (2/4 Pomor Russian which is in Karelia and Arkhangelsk oblast along the White Sea coast; and 1/4 Russian closer to Belarus) and 1/4 Mari (which is Finno-Ugric people living somewhere in between of Central Russia and Urals, my grandma is 100% Mari). And btw I heard some words and songs in Mari language from my grandma and read some books written in Mari

 

[Looren]

Native :

French

Fluent :

English
Dharija

Can understand some sentences but not speak :

Dutch
Arabic

 

[ESC94]

Native :

French

Fluent :

English
Dharija

Can understand some sentences but not speak :

Dutch
Arabic

Isn´t Dharija just the Morrocan variety of Arabic??

 

[Looren]

Isn´t Dharija just the Morrocan variety of Arabic??

Yeah it's our dialect, but it's a bit different from classic Arabic

 

[ESC94]

Yeah it's our dialect, but it's a bit different from classic Arabic

But as it´s a dialect technically you speak Arabic, right??

 

[Looren]

But as it´s a dialect technically you speak Arabic, right??

Well I don't really speak classic Arabic but yeah we can say that I "technically" speak Arabic I guess