What languages can you speak?
By onlywan
@onlywan (182)
Philippines
September 23, 2010 12:41am CST
What languages can you speak? Do you plan to learn a new language? and if someone here has tried learning other language, could you share your experience in learning that language, was it difficult? I personally know how to speak two languages. As for learning a new language, I would like to learn to speak and write Japanese but its writing style is difficult to learn especially kanji, and aside from kanji, you need to learn hiragana and katakana but I think kanji is harder to learn.
10 responses
@lucas5 (455)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
23 Sep 10
I speak Portuguese as my mother tongue and English as second language, I've tried German, I learned a little, but I was out of time and stop, I'm thinking in come back to study German again.
@camomile07 (1420)
• Germany
2 Oct 10
Nice discussion. There are many languages I've never heard from. Actually, I speak czech, german, english, french, spanish and a bit italian.
I grew up with czech and german, then I learned english and french at school and later on, I had to learn spanish as we moved to spain. At the beginning, it was a bit hard to understand, as there you can find for only one meaning several words, but not all of them are used in the same situation or sentence. So you have to know when you have to use which word. On the other hand, you can find several words with the same meaning. But it is nice to speak several languages as you will be able to speak directly to more people in different countries, read their books, learn of them and find more jobs. It really open minds.
@Downwindz (2537)
• Netherlands
23 Sep 10
Hello Onlywan
I certainly cant speak japanese, but would be kinda cool if I could maybe, not having the linguistic problems when travelling to foreign countries.
Personally I speak fluently 2 languages, Danish and English. Then i speak halffluent Dutch and basic German. I also understand Norwegian and Swedish :) - So im pretty linguistic but I is very though learning new languages - and it gets harder the older you get. But I have never been good in grammatics, maybe that is why I only do two of them fluent.
@aarpees (149)
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24 Sep 10
I am a Filipino so I can speak my native Language which is Tagalog, besides that I can speak english too. Before I can speak a little chinese and korean, but know I have forgotten how so I guess I am just bound to two languages. I want to study French language, i think it sounds cool.:)
@advokatku (4033)
• Indonesia
23 Sep 10
I am an Indonesian and use Indonesian language. Right now I'm trying to learn english by self-taught with active in MyLot. Hopefully with diligently write on MyLot can improve ability my English
@nicajoice (188)
• Philippines
23 Sep 10
I can speak English and Filipino.. I can speak Korean (not too well, but I can read and write Korean), I want to be really fluent in this language coz I want to visit my Korean friends very soon. I also learned Russian in college and studied Japanese on my own three years ago. I'd love to learn Italian and maybe French and Spanish in the future. :)
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
23 Sep 10
I can speak English and Vietnamese. I took Spanish for 3 years in highschool but I do not remember much except the basics. Learning a new language is hard, I am going to try to learn Spanish again, I downloaded an application called iSpanish (I believe) and going to review it... I would like to learn Chinese (since I am a tad Chinese), Japanese would be nice too as I want to travel to Japan one day as well as French :)
@jypsyjulia (912)
• United States
23 Sep 10
I love learning languages! I don't speak many though. I speak Spanish and Japanese enough to get by and I can understand French much more than I can speak it. (I should remedy this, though. My cousin's side of the family is French). I can speak a little bit of Russian, as well. But only a little! Haha. Oh, and of course, English :)