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I AM FLUENT IN SPANISH, AND ENGLISH.

I AM TEACHING MYSELF GERMAN; I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED THE LANGUAGE; HOW IT FUNCTIONS, AND HOW IT SOUNDS.

>>4614788
>I AM FLUENT IN ENGLISH
not so fast

>>4614788
>88
>GERMAN

Im Chilean, and i know English and obviously Spanish. But i dont have time anymore to study another language. Maybe in my free time should try french or Portuguese.

Why do so many countries put the UK flag in the corner of their flag? Are they in love with the UK or something?

>>4614811
UK used to be real good at taking shit over

fuckers

>>4614814
They'd just come to your island and be like "this is our island now" and people would just accept that?

>>4614811

you should be more grateful about your father. I wish were colonized by England rather than Spain

>>4614819
well they had guns and shit, and they'd bribe some of the people on the island to go along with it, so if anyone tried to say shit they would get killed

>>4614821
Are Spanish people meaner than the English?

Also, what country?

>>4614779
French

>>4614824

Im Chilean, and you just have to compare UK old colonies (Austrália, New Zealand, USA) to Spain colonies (México, Colômbia, Venezuela)

>>4614779

Serbian

Ideally I'd speak 6 total:

>English
>Serbian
>French
>Spanish
>German
>Mandarin

>>4614834
What's up with Kosovo?

>>4614808

You're posting on 4chan right now...stop making excuses.

>>4614840

Other than it being sovereign Serbian territory? No much I guess.

>mfw kosovo je srbija

OP here, I claim German to be the most difficult Indo-European language. I've had a stab at Old English and it also seemed very hard. I'd expect Ancient Greek and Scandinavian languages to be pretty hard too due to the alphabets, but I can't really say. In my exposure, German has proved hardest.

>Subordinating conjunctions
>Two way prepositions
>Case prepositions
>Tense structures
>Case structures
>Fucking seperable prefix verbs in present perfect...

Spanish is my mother tongue and I'm learning German

am basically fluent in French because I live in Quebec and need to be, plus a very limited amount of spanish
really want to get around to taking German classes

>>4614845

O-Ok i'll try

my motherlanguage is italian and my parents are from morocco so i speak the moroccain dialet (even if it cant be considerate a language) and italian, i'm studying french and english in high school and id like to learn german

greek as mother tongue, english and french

German.
Bit french, yet not enough to be fluent, bit finnish, just understand few things.

>>4616096

labas a5oya

>>4614831
Hace 200 años que estáis por vuestra cuenta.No culpes a los demás de tus problemas.

Por cierto que te parecen la India,Pakistán,Sri Lanka y la mitad de África.

>>4614906

>German
>more difficult than Farsi, Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Russian, Czech, or Gaelic.

amerifat detected

Portuguese, maybe some Spanish.

Finnish and level 2 JLPT Japanese. Haven't practiced it in a year though, so a bit rusty. Planning on learning Chinese and Latin atm. Should probably read some kiddy books in Japanese as well...

>>4616216
>implying you know any of those languages

>>4616514

lel, you can't even learn German. 7 years of Latin 6 years of Ancient Greek in school, bilingual in French & German (parents), English & Spanish in School, now studying Russian and Spanish at UCL

ess the dee

>>4614779
Bulgarian and Italian

My native is Czech.

I've studied English since I was 8. I don't have any formal paper stating my profiency. I'd like to take CPE exam this year. Any lower level seems like a waste of money, since I'd eventually aim for the highest one anyway.

I also study Japanese. I've passed JLPT N2 this December. N2 is defined as pic related. I kind of feel good about myself.

I was raised bilingually (my mum's German, my dad's English). My English isn't nearly as good as my German though so I'm trying to improve that before I learn any more languages. I live near France so that's an option but I also like the Dutch language a lot. Has anyone here learned to speak Dutch?

>>4614906
>I'd expect Ancient Greek and Scandinavian languages to be pretty hard too due to the alphabets, but I can't really say.
I took Ancient Greek for half a year in high school (switched to French then because I hated my class) but you get used to the alphabet very quickly, maybe two to three weeks.

French is my native language. I studied spanish and latin in middle and high school (but I forgot almost everything).
And now I'm studying japanese. I just passed JLPT N4.

>>4616581
Native Dutch speaker here. I always wonder why people are fascinated with the language. It's such a convoluted mess, with stupid to pronounce phonemes. I much prefer German, at least the language makes sense

>>4616595
>And now I'm studying japanese. I just passed JLPT N4.

How long since you started studying?

>>4616602
Well, it appeals to me because I understand some of it and the words are really interesting to me, they look so... non-traditional, like they shouldn't be that way, you know? I also like the country.

>>4616605
10 years or something. I started studying it with a teacher for a year and then I completely gave up.
I started studying it again three years ago (but sometimes i spend like 6 months without thinking about it).

>>4616567
>passing JLPT N2

holy fuck I'm impressed.
how long have you been studying japanese? I'm taking N4 this year.

>>4616628
>how long have you been studying japanese? I'm taking N4 this year.

3 years of university education. But I waste most of my free time. I feel like I could have passed N1 if I gave my full effort to studying. But oh well, universities here in Czech Republic are free and it's not like I can skip the years needed to graduate, so I have plenty of time to take it easy. Although I do plan on being way more serious once I advance to the Master's course.

>>4614906
taking german

english never prepared me for this masculine and feminine shit

Dutch
English
German
French
Latin (only passive)
Ancient Greek (only took it for 3 years)

learning Russian atm

>>4616661

Literally almost every European language has this.

>>4617552
Are there any that don't? (besides English of course). I only really have experience with western European languages.

I'm about to study German at B2 level at uni this year, but I feel as if I'm really B1.

Oh doge

>>4617536
>Latin (only passive)
>only passive
wut

>>4617552
>>4617556
I he means the discrepancy between Genus and factual gender (if these are the right words)

the table (n) = Der Tisch (m)
the cat (n) = Die Katze (f)
the girl (f) = Das Mädchen (n)

I would say I speak Italian. I can understand most of things said and can read and write very well. But speaking it doesn't come out right, or very slowly. If I could afford to go there and stay for a month I would probably be great.

>>4614819
Combination of Guns, selling them things they couldn't make and legal trickey

I now feel a bit like a massive pleb for only speaking English (my shitty school gave us the option of dropping a language after year 9 and only gave our year the option of learning French any way. Didn't like it so dropped it ASAP)

What language would /lit/ recommend learning in one's spare time for someone who is not naturally good at learning languages?

>>4618924
Spanish? Where do you live? You should have some interest in the language, the country/countries it's spoken in and books or movies in that language that you could watch to improve your (whatever language you choose).

I speak Hungarian, English, German and I'm learning Japanese.Try Hungarian, then talk about difficult. Thanks to the diversity and complexity of the language it has a beautiful literature, it's a shame it's mostly useless for anything else.

>>4614906
>I claim German to be the most difficult Indo-European language
Germany is easy as fuck. Languages like >>4618980 are hard

I speak english, portuguese, spanish and I learning french.

i know enough french that i can read/hear pretty much anything aside from rap music or something and understand it but not enough that i can speak without sounding retarded

>>4618980
Spanish mother tongue. Know English and Hungarian. (mom and dad were born in Budapest, my grandfathers escaped to latin america during WWII) they met here and a local community club.

>>4619073
*at

>>4619036
>learning french
Group lessons or?

>>4617662 Scusa se non ti credo sulla parola na questa board è piena di gente pretenziosa e piena di sè. quind formula una frase o un periodo in italiano e ti dirò se lo parli bene quanto pensi

>>4619073

>parents born in dem Lebensraum Deutschlands
>flee to Latin America

Have you ever seen this man, OP?

>>4619375
Never noticed how much he looks like Bundy.

>>4619375
Not him, but my family was also german who left around that period and Eichmann was captured in the next town over.

You can find all sorts of people in Patagonia. My neighbour was a high ranked retired KGB colonel who used to teach me russian until one day he disappeared.

I speak English and a little Spanish.

I plan on becoming semi-fluent in Spanish (enough to understand the grammar and hold a conversation) and then move on to Modern Standard Arabic.

I can comprehend (read and listen) Romainian very well, but have a hard time speaking.
Also a little japanese

I can speak and write English and Spanish both fluently, though my English is a lot better than my spanish– I'm Mexican that moved to the US pretty young (4~ years old). I learned some Japanese but have lost most of it, so I can only chotto hanashimasu. Currently learning French by myself and would like to get around to Portuguese, then Arabic or Farsi (girlfriend is Iranian so it'd be nice to know since she knows Spanish), maybe eventually Icelandic or Mandarin

I can read Estonian, English and French. I understand Russian pretty well, but can't speak it myself.
I'd love to learn German.

>>4614834
serbian too

i speak serbian, german and english
also able to read latin
kinda able to speak macedonian and bulgarian

@>>4614834
odakle si mi ti inace?

I've been constantly studying for many years English and recently I finished an Italian language course, so I'm quite confident I'm mildly proficient at it. My main focus is reading and understanding, given that the primary goal for me is to be able to comprehend as many books as possible in their native language, and to say, mine is Portuguese. Given Spanish is far too similar to my mother tongue, I always have the impression I'm mistaking words and mixing vocabularies, albeit I did dedicate myself to learning its grammar and pronunciation. Currently I'm studying French, and I ought to say it's anomalous and irrational. The written words do not have a corresponding pronunciation, its speech is unusual and the words differ considerably. Some examples:

Avoir besoin de
Precisar de
(strangely, in Italian there's a similitude: avere bisogno di)

Aujourd'hui, je ne travaille pas. Maintenant, je veux jouer avec mon fil.

Hoje, eu não trabalho. Agora, eu quero brincar com meu filho.

Hoy, yo no trabajo. Ahora, quiero jugar con mi hijo.

I'm at an extremely basic level, but the first lesson I had was the first time I got somehow scared about having difficulty to keep a language up. Granted, I missed the previous one, so I already was handicapped. Do excuse any mistakes I may commit in the examples, I'm not proof reading them. If anyone would have any doubt about my native language, I'm more than willing -and capable- to answer it.

>>4619336
forse il mio italiano non è perfetto ma l'ho imparato per cinque anni e ho fatto bene a ogni esame

Fluent in Dutch, Turkish, French and German and shitty English.

>tfw, one parent is a Turkish immigrant, other is a German immigrant, grew up in France and moved to Belgium.

Hey guys I'm considering learning Old English. Got any good resources for me? Also what would some good study texts be?

Speak fluently French and Portuguese (both mother language), English and a bit of Spanish (I understand and can make small talk)

>>4619033
Hungarian is uralic.

>>4621649
Beowulf and shit, nigga

>>4621663

Well, obviously, I was just wondering if there were any texts other than the obvious ones.

Croatian and learned English easily through video games, the internet and books. I can fluently read modern english but old translations and vocabulary give me trouble and I have to dish out my Oxford dictionary sometimes.
I've considered learning another language since knowing English really isn't anything special nowadays. One option is Japanese because I like a lot of their media. Or French to read their poetry and literature. Or Russian since it has similarities with my language... Fuck, I don't know.

>>4621670

Learn Turkish. You're practically a Turk anyway.

>>4614906
scandinavian languages are bretty easy, at least the eastern branch of the north-germanic languages.
I guess russian is more difficult than german. But german is my mothertongue so I can´t really evaluate it.

>>4621673
shut up

>Slovenian (mother tongue)
>English (fluent)
>German
>Croatian (only limited communication skills, doesn’t really count due to the similarity with my native language)

If you are interested in difficult languages (of Indo-European descent), take a look at Slovenian.
>dat dual grammatical number

>>4621682
Truth be told, there's no such a thing as a difficult language, but what does exist is cultural differences that make some things seem easier than others. The process of learning a language is by internalization, thus knowing it for a native speaker and a fluent user is as natural as breathing and walking. One does not simply memorize words and concepts akin to Biology or History, instead, it's of utmost importance to recall the many meanings written in signals that are constituted by letters and the grammatical composition BY HEART, so to say.

>>4621688
Well said.

Rudimentary German. I have decent reading comprehension, enough experience to understand what others are saying, but I'm not really so good at speaking it.

I have some familiarity with Spanish from grade school (mostly just vocabulary and basic verb constructions, we got new teachers every year and they insisted on just teaching us the same old vocabulary over and over) and I'm able to properly pronounce written French to a fair degree, but I've no real understanding of anything beyond the obvious loan words. I'm currently letting the German knowledge rot and I'm taking up Spanish, as I only took up German because I was tired of learning the same Spanish conventions over and over with no variation.

>>4621675
Why do you want him to shut up?

>>4616187
+10 puntines. Sos groso.