/lit/ - Literature

>>14065323
>speak 4 languages
>talk to no one
>read english only

Shit's overrated.

>>14065340
You can impress an autistic girl that's also into the polyglot shit, you never know. I remember I once started talking with a girl about languages but sadly I never ever saw her again. It would have been pretty cool to have a wannabe polyglot gf like me

>>14065323
If you're from Europe and you can't speak English, German, and French at the bare minimum, you're an embarrassment.

>>14065351
True, the French and Italian combo is pretty powerful to break some ice and toot your own horn but that's pretty much it.

>>14065323
First two are reserved for the mother tongue and english, you don't have much of a choice there. Third one is for your personal affinity. I've picked Russian and Latin for muh literature, plus planning to learn German soon.

>>14065323
my mom is a lazy bitch, so i just speak english. im currently learning german (will probably be near B2 fluent before next fall). after that, i might try for greek or italian, but im not sure. i want to learn albanian, but it's supposed to be pretty hard.

>>14065386
AHAHAHAHA
thanks, this makes me feel better about myself

>>14065340
>read english only
Found your problem.

>>14065372
>If you're from Europe and you can't speak English, German, and French at the bare minimum, you're an embarrassment.
so 98%+ of europeans are an embarrassment? actually, that's probably pretty accurate. at least it's not america tier though.

>>14065323
>>14065412
Disgusting mutt
>>14065410
The patrician choice for that region is Serbian, just as Goethe preferred it.

>>14065418
You're underestimating the number of bi and trilinguals quite a lot. Many people grow up in bilingual households along the borders, and even the hillbillies learn A2 level English and German for business most of the time.

>>14065416
Who said I had a problem.

>>14065418
Isn't 3 languages the bare minimum for passing high school?

>>14065437
In Europe it is.

>>14065437
You learn two foreign languages in HS, but you only have to pass an exam in one of them, AFAIK.

>>14065372
>Vladimir Nikolaitch spoke French very well, English well, and German badly; that is the proper thing; fashionable people would be ashamed to speak German well; but to utter an occasional—generally a humorous—phrase in German is quite correct, c’est meme tres chic, as the Parisians of Petersburg express themselves.

>>14065323
Depends on what matters to you. Didn't matter much to me.

During school, I was made to study at least a couple years of four different languages, none of which include my mother tongue.

>>14065386
>im going to learn three languages, while i currently only know english XD
5 years from now, you will still only know english. im learning german (taking uni courses for it and everything) and its a lot of work. you need to really dedicate yourself to just one language and continue with that solely until you are fluent, otherwise you will never learn shit.

>>14065428
>The patrician choice for that region is Serbian
tbqh, im probably never going to spend any real time in the balkans, other than just visiting. my family situation is a shitfest, so i dont know anyone who lives there.

>>14065432
>Many people grow up in bilingual households along the borders
yeah, but most people live in cities, where they just use their native language and english.

>even the hillbillies learn A2 level English and German for business most of the time
A2 is meme level. i know most people know a good amount of english, however, but no german so much, nor french. my mom took french classes in highschool but did retain any of it (she's bilingual though - scando-language + english). she didn't retain any polish from her parents.

>>14065437
i live in muttland where you need to take one, but no on learns anything. in europe, people only really learn english. they always forget the french or german they learned (based from person experiences and family)

>>14065372
OP here,Im brazilian :)

>>14065372
Define bare minimum
I know a few German and French words and some of the very very basics of each language but I can't communicate any idea more complex than "hello my name is anon and the sky is blue" in any of them

>>14065466
>you need to really dedicate yourself to just one language and continue with that solely until you are fluent, otherwise you will never learn shit.
As an albanian you underestimate there's a synergy between languages. If you are raised speaking Romantic language, other Romantic ones are easier. Same for Germanic or Slavic ones.

>>14065481
You can read Kafka in German and Camus in French without reaching for a dictionary on every page. In other words, just a smidgen better than B2.

>>14065482
if you learn two similar languages at the same time, you are just going to confuse them, especially the genders for the nouns. learning italian and spanish at the same time would have to be a nightmare for that reason. nevertheless, our burger friend only knows english and probably 10 german words.

>>14065486
B2 should definitely be the benchmark before you claim that you can speak a language.

>>14065486
delusional

>>14065435
Op

>>14065435
If you speak four languages, why do you only read works in English?

>>14065497
How so? Do you think you can do anything meaningful in those languages if you get plebfiltered by babby's first authors?

>>14065510
because the language you read in only really matters for poetry

>>14065510
Mostly convenience and often coincidence, I just like English authors.