Wow, I'm really suprised how many people are multilingual.
I used to be a cook, so I ended up learning Spanish from the dishwashers and other cooks, I spoke a very rough very dirty version of Spanish, and then forgot it after a few years.
I married a Russian girl, learned quite a bit of Russian, then forgot after a few years. Can kind of read it still.
Trying to learn japanese, that language tends to have more cool things in their culture.
http://www.memrise.com/ has been a favorite of mine for increasing vocab, in certain languages.
Indeed great! How did I manage to miss that? Still trying to improve my Hebrew. Love the Yiddish lessons too, even though I'd have to travel around half of the globe to meet some speakers I guess... and it might be quite useless too. There's probably more Klingon speakers.
French (Native)
English (Fluent)
Spanish (I studied it for 5 years so I can read Spanish pretty well but since it's been a long time I haven't practiced, I'm not sure if I can speak it.)
German (I can understand the language and I can speak as long as it's very basic German but since I never really learned it I can't say I'm very good with it.)
Japanese (I understand it pretty well but I can't speak it. I can read hiragana, katakana and some Kanji)
Love the Yiddish lessons too, even though I'd have to travel around half of the globe to meet some speakers I guess... and it might be quite useless too. There's probably more Klingon speakers.
Hah I agree.. as a native German speaker, Yiddish has always been interesting to me.. a lot of words are still in use over here to this day.
Indeed great! How did I manage to miss that? Still trying to improve my Hebrew. Love the Yiddish lessons too, even though I'd have to travel around half of the globe to meet some speakers I guess... and it might be quite useless too. There's probably more Klingon speakers.
Where are you in the world?
The LA area has quite a bit of speakers for both those languages, as well as Ladino. My family is all native in either Hebrew, Ladino or Yiddish, as well as lots of other members of the community here.
It's just that the Jewish communities where these languages are spoken are pretty closed-off, almost Amish style.
China And yeah, I know, why am I not leaning Chinese? I just gave up on this - can't stand the TV nor most of the music and the language just doesn't do anything for me and pronunciation just puts a knot in my tongue. Plus I want to be able to read stuff, like newspapers eventually (and even then I wouldn't read the Communist Party drivel in the official papers)
Now Hebrew does all things right for me, I can pronounce all the stuff, even the chet character, I like listening to Israeli music and I'm pretty sure there's some good literature available too.
Yiddish is more interesting because a big part of it comes from German and then it's all put in Hebrew characters. I heard there's a more polish/russian Yiddish too though. What's fun is trying to understand the Yiddish Wikipedia hehe
But I guess this undertaking has to wait. I don't really see any good way to learn this here other than with the books and audio courses I have with me.
Ive gotten D's in French, German, and Latin.
Spent 2 years trying to teach myself Czech, dabbled in Russian, and Polish.
Then proceeded ace linguistics.
Fun Fact: I've only sent out a job application to a game studio on one occasion, and I wrote 2/3rds of it in Czech. Probably looked like gibberish, and no, I didn't get the job.
Nice enough reply though, so I figure I was at least able to communicate something like "Me. Work for You. Yes?"
Some languages are really weird. The weirdest one that I'm aware of is Silbo Gomero, which is a whistling language in the Canary Islands. There is a cool movie called The Whistlers which is a Romanian / Spanish crime thriller, kinda up the same alley as a Coen Brothers movie, which features the language.
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I used to be a cook, so I ended up learning Spanish from the dishwashers and other cooks, I spoke a very rough very dirty version of Spanish, and then forgot it after a few years.
I married a Russian girl, learned quite a bit of Russian, then forgot after a few years.
Trying to learn japanese, that language tends to have more cool things in their culture.
Secondary: learning Japanese
Other: Some basic spanish
Secondary : American English
Others : Ebonics
L33t sP34k
Wow, that link was fantastic!
I thank you for sharing that
Secondary : English.
Also starting with japanese ^^
Indeed great! How did I manage to miss that? Still trying to improve my Hebrew. Love the Yiddish lessons too, even though I'd have to travel around half of the globe to meet some speakers I guess... and it might be quite useless too. There's probably more Klingon speakers.
Secondary: English and French
And some words in finnish ^^
English (Fluent)
Spanish (I studied it for 5 years so I can read Spanish pretty well but since it's been a long time I haven't practiced, I'm not sure if I can speak it.)
German (I can understand the language and I can speak as long as it's very basic German but since I never really learned it I can't say I'm very good with it.)
Japanese (I understand it pretty well but I can't speak it. I can read hiragana, katakana and some Kanji)
Trying to learn the Russian alphabet, struggling to learn how to write it.
Interesting thread topic. Living here in Canada I'm exposed to a lot of cultures and nationalities but I don't hear them as so much see them.
I only glanced at the thread and it seems, aside from English, east European languages seem pretty popular.
thirty, fucking, two, languages
(not me, I only know 3 and a half)
Second: English
Learned: Latin, Conversational French
Hah I agree.. as a native German speaker, Yiddish has always been interesting to me.. a lot of words are still in use over here to this day.
partly: polish, french
excelent: javascript, maxscript, c#
Where are you in the world?
The LA area has quite a bit of speakers for both those languages, as well as Ladino. My family is all native in either Hebrew, Ladino or Yiddish, as well as lots of other members of the community here.
It's just that the Jewish communities where these languages are spoken are pretty closed-off, almost Amish style.
China
Now Hebrew does all things right for me, I can pronounce all the stuff, even the chet character, I like listening to Israeli music and I'm pretty sure there's some good literature available too.
Yiddish is more interesting because a big part of it comes from German and then it's all put in Hebrew characters. I heard there's a more polish/russian Yiddish too though. What's fun is trying to understand the Yiddish Wikipedia hehe
But I guess this undertaking has to wait. I don't really see any good way to learn this here other than with the books and audio courses I have with me.
Spent 2 years trying to teach myself Czech, dabbled in Russian, and Polish.
Then proceeded ace linguistics.
Fun Fact: I've only sent out a job application to a game studio on one occasion, and I wrote 2/3rds of it in Czech. Probably looked like gibberish, and no, I didn't get the job.
Nice enough reply though, so I figure I was at least able to communicate something like "Me. Work for You. Yes?"
Spanish, took French in JHS, don't remember jack of It.
Wish I knew more, honestly.. Dads studying mandarin, might learn It too.
Secondary: English
Some languages are really weird. The weirdest one that I'm aware of is Silbo Gomero, which is a whistling language in the Canary Islands. There is a cool movie called The Whistlers which is a Romanian / Spanish crime thriller, kinda up the same alley as a Coen Brothers movie, which features the language.