What languages do you speak? Where are you from?

[GoodPersonEffed]

American Sign Language and English. I'm from the US.

ASL is really interesting. It has a different structure.

Fom what I understand, people who communicate in ASL can somewhat communicate with sign language communicators from a different language. Kind of like how Spanish and Portuguese speakers can understand each other. Do I have that right?

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

English, obviously.
I also started learning German on Duolingo but when I started to get a bit more advanced I realised that Duolingo is a bit rubbish as it doesn't explain general concepts. It just throws similar phrases or sentences at you repeatedly in the hope that stuff sticks and you figure things out yourself.

For instance, "Das Madchen", "Die Frau" and "Der Mann" is repeated constantly.
But the principles behind der, die and das are not adequately explained and so rather than applying a rule, you have to remember whether it's der, die or das for every single thing!

I was learning Spanish and French over Duolingo and I agree that it is not a very good app.

 

[KleinerWolf]

@mahakali88 @BipolarGuy

 

[LonelyNick]

I speak French and English fluently. I understand Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. I just can't speak them and it saddens me so much. I live in Canada, grew up in Quebec

 

[Viro_Major]

J'ai oublié tout l'allemand que l'on m'a enseigné à l'école.
Ich spreche jedoch fließend Französisch, da es meine Muttersprache ist. Außerdem kann ich ziemlich gut bestimmte Akzente aus der Schweiz imitieren, von denen ich binational bin!
Что касается каталанского, официального языка Lovale, я правильно понимаю его устно и письменно (это еще один романский язык). Я с нетерпением жду возможности заполнить пробелы, чтобы перейти к производству.
Finalment, no m'importaria aprendre portuguès o rus més que l'espanyol que menys m'agrada. Aquestes són llengües també representades aquí, al meu país, lectura cosmopolita. Tot i així, el portuguès encara seria més pràctic.
Na verdade, são línguas também representadas aqui, no meu país, interpretação cosmopolita.
Almost forgot about english, lost in translation(s) !

 

[VIBRITANNIA]

i'm from the us, so i'm a native english speaker, but my family is hispanic, so i speak some basic spanish. (i have an awful accent, but oh well).

 

[262653]

I love some Norwegian metal song names. I can even remember a few very cool ones without checking the spelling.
Og Jeg Laktok Odstrikets Inntog
Raabjorn Speiler Draugheimens Skodde
Hunnerkongens Sorgsvarte Ferd Over Steppene

I have no idea what those mean, but they sound very brutal when pronounced with Russian accent. Does anyone here is passionate for pronouncing certain words or their combinations? Regularly doing this improves my mood, but first I make sure that no one hears me.

Что касается каталанского, официального языка Lovale, я правильно понимаю его устно и письменно (это еще один романский язык). Я с нетерпением жду возможности заполнить пробелы, чтобы перейти к производству.
Almost forgot about english, lost in translation(s) !

Производству чего? :думает:

 

[Giraffey]

I'm English, so naturally, I speak English... But I can also speak Welsh with a reasonably fluent Southern dialect, although I can certainly also get by with the Northern dialect with the odd mistake here and there.

 

[cyberlordsumit]

Is it stress?

Betryal, Backstabbers, Twisting the things i said, manipulation, Gaslighting, and etc.. Then Being villainized as some criminal by those imposters. I had enough. I tried, it's time.

 

[Lupgevif]

I am a Brazilian who speaks Portuguese, English, and very little Spanish.

 

[LastWhisper]

From Russia. Yeah, we have to learn foreign language in school (and in any other educational institution), usually English. Some schools/institutes can provide two lessons of different languages at the same time as it was in my school, - English and French, the second one came few years late, so it was a hell to learn it after/with English. Even after all of that my English still sucks :D

 

[Myforevercharlie]

I'm from Holland, I speak Dutch, English and German ( not fluent but understandable)

 

[Brokensaddle]

I'm curious. I've always heard that people in Europe are required to learn a foreign language in elementary school. I want to know if this is true. I find it really weird that people in the US aren't required to learn a foreign language until high school.


I know American Sign Language and English. I'm from the US.

I'm from the uk I speak English, Punjabi and Hindi

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I speak:

• Northern English
• Southern English
• Bollocks

with a soupçon of French, a smattering of German and a little Latin and ancient Irish.

 

[EssenceFocus]

Ich komme aus Deutschland und spreche auch Englisch.
I come from Germany and speak English, too

 

[Chupacabra 44]

Like the average American from the states I find struggling through English to be a full time job. Last I read a couple of decades ago, English has over a million words in the dictionary. This was before the internet and before Webster added the word "`bigly".

I can order a beer in Spanish and I can ask for the bathroom an hour later. This level of bilingual seems to serve me just fine.

 

[nitroautnz]

Im french but i live in NZ so i speak French and English fluently. I learn Italian, Corsican and a bit of Japanese but i forgot since i stop using those language unfortunately.

 

[greebo6]

I'm curious. I've always heard that people in Europe are required to learn a foreign language in elementary school. I want to know if this is true. I find it really weird that people in the US aren't required to learn a foreign language until high school.


I know American Sign Language and English. I'm from the US.

We are taught a foreign language in Secondary School ( That's age 11-16 ) here in U.K. Its not optional. Its on the syllabus.
In my time it was French. I still know some words and phrases.
(I enjoyed it. I found it interesting and kind of wish I could speak a second language fluently. But I'm not linguistically gifted.)
Spanish replaced French as the taught second language in U.K schools some years ago.

I also , pointlessly , know how to say 'I love you' in Ukrainian but anyway…..

I do think Sign Language should be taught to all kids at some point in their schooling.

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

Производству чего? :думает:

"Manufacturing what? :thinking:" - is this the correct translation of what you wrote?

 

[262653]

"Manufacturing what? :thinking:" - is this the correct translation of what you wrote?

Yeah, but I was wondering more about the context because it didn't make any sense to me. I thought that he might use google trans to translate the sentence from one language to another, the result then is translated onto another language, and so on, and so on, and then back to the original language to laugh at the result.

 

[Homecoming]

Yeah, but I was wondering more about the context because it didn't make any sense to me. I thought that he might use google trans to translate the sentence from one language to another, the result then is translated onto another language, and so on, and so on, and then back to the original language to laugh at the result.

I use Google translate most of the time here, and it definitely takes effort, time, and energy to translate back and forth between English and Arabic language. And the translation results sometimes can be inaccurate and quite funny

 

[watsonsmith]

I'm curious. I've always heard that people in Europe are required to learn a foreign language in elementary school. I want to know if this is true. I find it really weird that people in the US aren't required to learn a foreign language until high school.

The main reason is that being from many countries in Europe you end up speaking a language that is common to just a few dozen million people (or less). If you want to travel and/or work abroad and with it being much more common in the last few decades, you really need a second language. So I would say it definitely is true.

 

[Niirvana]

أنا من الشرق الأوسط وأتحدث اللغة العربية. يسعدني أن أعرف أنك تعيش في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية

JAJAJJAA

 

[StateOfMind]

For instance, "Das Madchen", "Die Frau" and "Der Mann" is repeated constantly.
But the principles behind der, die and das are not adequately explained and so rather than applying a rule, you have to remember whether it's der, die or das for every single thing!

German is my mother tongue and I couldn't explain to you when der, die das is used.. I just "know" when its appropriate.

I was born in former East Germany, grew up in the UK and now live in Austria.

 

[KleinerWolf]

German is my mother tongue and I couldn't explain to you when der, die das is used.. I just "know" when its appropriate.

I was born in former East Germany, grew up in the UK and now live in Austria.

Austria seems nice.
Imo...

 

[StateOfMind]

Austria seems nice.
Imo...

It's nice if you haven't been blacklisted. Also its very difficult to make friends if your not a regular local.
Architecture, infrastructure, nature and the environment is the stuff of fairy tales though.
Just a crying shame I am not allowed to participate as a "normal" citizen.

 

[Fehler]

Im from Spain and speak spanish, catalan (not very usefull) and english. The last one i sucks speaking and sometimes writing but at least can understand practically everything. My mother is from germany and i don't know german

 

[Good4Nothing]

I'm from USA. I only speak English.
In my lifetime I have tried to learn Spanish, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Cantonese, and Mandarin. My brain just doesn't retain languages. I'm unable to learn.

 

[BPD Barbie]

I speak English primarily as I live in England, but I can also speak Norwegian as I'm half Norwegian half English. I'm learning Korean currently and a little Chinese on the side. I used to be conversational in Chinese mandarin but I lost it due to lack of use.

 

[illbeinthegarage]

speak english and fluent gibberish and bullshit