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How many languages can you speak? Don't say you understand a language if you only know a few words (I see that on facebook all the time).

>> No.3084746

Two, English and Latin. I am super employable.

>> No.3084750

>>3084741
English, german, ancient greek, latin. Well I don't really speak the last two much, but I can read in them capably.

>> No.3084764

>>3084750
How easy is German to learn if i already know Dutch?

>> No.3084775

Italian, my mother tongue, English, Latin and Spanish.

>> No.3084776

Dutch and English. I was too busy being angsty to remember most of the German and French I've learned in high school.

>> No.3084779

>>3084764
Please tell me you're native Dutch. You didn't actually go and learn Dutch on purpose did you?

>> No.3084782

so much dutch and italian!
italian (native language), english, french (rusty), and i'm trying to learn dutch, but I'm very lazy and I mostly speak english with everyone here

>> No.3084784

>>3084779
As a Dutchman I share this sentiment.

>> No.3084785

>>3084764
How would I know that? did you see me claiming to speak dutch? But well, since you asked, I'll give it my best guess. Its 83% as hard.

>> No.3084787

>>3084779
>>3084784
Why do you hate your own language?

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>>3084787
I don't, I think it's beautiful. But for anyone not planning to spend his life in the Netherlands or Flanders it's a relatively useless language to learn, so I would urge people who don't plan on living here to learn a language that reaps them more benefit.

>> No.3084797

English, German, Hindi, learning Japanese atm

>> No.3085110

Two, English and Japanese.

I can read simple French and German but my vocabulary is pretty lacking, and I can't speak or understand their spoken forms except for a few common German phrases

>> No.3085114

3

>> No.3085216

>>3084792
Dutch is a disgusting language. I say this as a Belgian, by the way.

I speak Dutch, English and French. I want to study Esperanto for the hell of it but I keep procrastinating.

>> No.3085242

Romanian, Hungarian, English and Portuguese ( english learned from cartoon network like most of us Romanians, I guess)

>> No.3085279
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3085279

German, English, French.
Not speaking too much french however. I just never get the possibility to do so.

Learning chinese at the moment.
And so should you whitu pigu

>> No.3085285

English is my native language, and I am somewhat fluent in Spanish. I actually learned Spanish before English but I didn't like to speak it because all of my friends in elementary were Asian and they didn't speak Spanish.

>> No.3085291

>>3084797
you are my fucking dream.

english, french, spanish here. i dropped german, thought of doing japanese but now i'm going for hindi so i can learn sanskrit after that.

>> No.3085292

Latvian, English, Russian, German, Ancient Greek, Latin, and a bit of modern Greek and Spanish.

>> No.3085305

I'm looking to learn another language. I know English and Spanish. I reckon another Romance language would be easiest but I kind of feel like learning German. I think I'd like to move there some day.

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>>3085216
>Dutch

>> No.3085420

>>3085216
Do you mean Dutch Dutch or Flemish Dutch? I find both quite sympathetic, the first for it's relative harshness and the second for it's gentleness.

>> No.3085432

Four.
One is English and the other three are obscure regional languages.

>> No.3085435

english, irish, german, python, open gl, visual basic....

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>>3085435
>tfw you study Irish for 14 years and still not know no focal at all

>> No.3085715

English, French and Italian.

Looking to self-teach something else. Thinking a Scandi language cause it'd be fun, but Spanish or German would be more useful. Depends on the nationality of any European girls I can get to help me learn I guess.

>> No.3085734

Danish, english, German, Spanish, Chinese (understand Swedish and Norwegian)
Chinese is hard as fuk to learn. After 6 years of uni and 1½ years in China I still have plenty to learn.

>> No.3085748

Spanish, english, that's it. I'm planning in doing french and german, but that day will never come.

>> No.3085798

hungarian, english, swedish somewhat (improving every day)
would like to get into spanish or russian next probably

>> No.3085831

>>3085608
Goddamn that feel

>> No.3085854

English and I know all the grammar for Spanish but my vocabulary is awful. So I'm working slowly through Gabriel Marquez's short stories to help me learn.

I can't understand Spanish spoken at all though

>> No.3086272

to all the Latin speakers in this thread how long did it take before you were able to start reading primary sources like Cicero's speeches?

Also where you self taught or was it taught to you at school/university and is the dowling method a good way of learning Latin

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/Latin.htm

>> No.3086279

I speak Parsel-tongue :3 XDDDD .