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How many languages can /lit/ speak?

>> No.8558397

Sólo dos! Español e inglés.

>> No.8558398

I can speak English, Ancient Greek, and Latin. That's it.

I refuse to ever learn Spanish or Portuguese. Dirt monkey languages.

>> No.8558399

>>8558391
Most of /lit/ can hardly speak english

>> No.8558400

Three. Not a big deal when you're not american

>> No.8558455

>>8558398
calm down, pseud

>> No.8558458

/lit/ barely speaks a single language

>> No.8558462

>>8558391
>2060 years after Caesar
>still reading aloud

>> No.8558464

>>8558398
>lo dice y aprendio latin
lmao

>> No.8559118

>>8558391
one 9/10, second 7/10, third 6/10, fourth 2/10

>> No.8559370

>>8558398
Which do you use more? What do you like to read in each?

I've thought about studying both and decided I could probably do one or the other. As I can read French, Latin seems easier, but I think Greek has the more interesting stuff.

>> No.8559400

Farsi, English and Danish

>> No.8559411

>>8558391
French
Spanish
Italian
English

>> No.8559454

American
Some French

>> No.8559470

English, Spanish, and Italian. Currently learning German.

>> No.8559478

>>8559400
Du skulle have skrevet dansk forst. DF kommer efter dig nu.

>> No.8559485

English
Italian
Japanese

>> No.8559490

>>8558391
Hebrew
English
Russian

>> No.8559500

>>8559478
DF er old-news, det er sku Nye borgerlige der prover at holde mig nede lige PT.

>> No.8559507

Russian, because I was born and raised there
German, because I moved there a long time ago
English, because it was taught since 2nd grade and is the most useful language

I might try to learn Latin or Ancient Greek, so I can get some ancient (demi)god pussy.

>> No.8559513

>>8558464
Lingua Latina non difficilis usu est

>> No.8559517

>>8559513
>"The Latin language is not difficult"
Don't speak any, but I'm sure, that's what it said. Hopefully you're right, if it's not that hard to learn I might actually motivate myself to do so.

>> No.8559518

Portuguese
English

>> No.8559521

Three Sprache, da budem iskren.

>> No.8559526

>>8559500
Klar på borgerkrigen?

>> No.8559534

All of them, desu. It suprises me, that people, who speak less than 100 languages don't forget to breathe.

>> No.8559607

>>8558391
English
Dutch
Greek
Latin
Russian
Polish
French
Italian
Swedish
Finnish

Currently learning Hungarian.

I work as an interpreter for the EU.

>> No.8559612

>>8558399
Underatardo

>> No.8559613

>>8559607
and you go on /lit/.

Man, you'd think people like you would have better options.

>> No.8559619

>>8558391
Portuguese (Hue) and English

>> No.8559643

>>8558399
*Englisch

>> No.8559646

>>8559607
How do you study languages at an early stage? Which language gave you the most trouble so far?

>> No.8559656

>>8558391
English
Spanish
Russian

>> No.8559673

>>8559607
>I work as an interpreter for the EU.
>Latin
Almost memed me

>> No.8559704

I can speak English, German and Japanese. I can't read Japanese without rikaichan though, damn Kanji.

I also learned Latin in school because I didn't want to learn French but I forgot everything. Shouldn't be too hard to relearn or better remember what I knew but becoming fluent would be very hard. I also had 3 years of Spanish in school but since I never used that I also forgot most too.

>> No.8559707

>>8559517
Yeah, not difficult to use. People tend to overexaggerate how hard /learning/ it is
>>8559673
Potest fieri ut Latine homines loquantur

>> No.8559714

>>8559673
The fact he speaks Latin doesn't mean he uses Latin in the EU

>> No.8559719

>>8559613
EU delegates and everyone else here is boring, pay is good yet no reason to linger around, except for the food.

>>8559646
Dutch: native
English: school
Greek: school
Latin: school
Russian: self-taught by living in Russia for a year.
Polish: self-taught & local course
French: school
Italian: Mother is Italian
Swedish: Dad is Swedish
Finnish: Lived half my youth there

>>8559673
Dutch Gymnasium = Latin Greek as subjects in secondary edu.


My German is poor, looking to tackle that next, Hungarian is tricky so I'm devoting all my 'learning' time to it.

>> No.8559722

>>8558391
FILIPINO
ENGLISH
HILIGAYNON
ASI
my languages

>> No.8559723

All of them

I am Timothy Doner AMA

>> No.8559738

My religion (Buddhism) teaches simplicity, and that's why I'm content to know only one language. To know another would be extravagant.

>> No.8559740

english, in my country you dont need to know any others.

>> No.8559741

Hebrew and English. Sort of learning German.

>> No.8559743

>>8559719
Salve, Latinista collega! Quomodo te habes? Quomodo invenisti modum tuum Latine loquendi?

>> No.8559780

>>8559607
why not german?

super impressive though fäm. how did you learn these? are you interpretator-level in all of them?

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8559783

>>8558391
Croatian
English
Italian
Latin

>> No.8559794

>>8559738
>speaking even one language

>> No.8559799

>>8559783
Verene tu Latine loquiris? Vivâ voce?

>> No.8559802

>>8559799
Viva la vida loca!

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8559816

>>8559794
IKR

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>>8559794

>> No.8559956

>>8559478
danskjävlar :^)

>> No.8559969

>>8559743

Mandatory, it's part of the basic package in gymnasium.
Greek is optional I believe (not at my school) but most do it anyway.

>>8559780
Read: >>8559719

All but latin and Polish, neglected the latter for a while and latin sees little use these days.

Why no German?
Dropped it halfway in secondary school, you couldn't combine it with physics and chemistry for some strange reason.
I can hold a somewhat decent conversation in it but nowhere near the level at which I would like to.

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8560119

Puedo hablar un poco español. ¿Cómo es un libro de español que no es difícil pero un estudiante de la lengua? Also is it a good idea to study Spanish in college if you'd like to go to graduate school/law school anyways? Just feel like it would be more useful than an English degree, I read English on my own time

>> No.8560144

>>8558391
I'm fluent in Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, French

And can read and talk just a little bit of German, Russian and Italian

>> No.8560148

>>8558391
>speaking to people
Step up your game /lit/. Say nothing all the time. Some of you could really benefit from talking less.

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>>8560144
Fuckin fite me

>> No.8560161

>>8560144
>Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, French
So, three languages?

>> No.8560162

>>8560144
>finnish
useless
>estonian
useless
>karelian
literally what tier
>swedish
useless
>norwegian
useless
>danish
Not useless but not useful
>english
Mandatory
>French
god tier

Damn son, someone memed you really hard

>> No.8560165

/lit/ here

one. just english

>> No.8560166
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8560166

>>8560162
>>norwegian
>useless

>> No.8560169

>>8560166
Name 1 (one) reason why norwegian isn't useless

Outside of visiting norway

>> No.8560173

>>8560162
>such thing as a useless language
Fils de pute

>>8560161
Three language families, eight languages

>> No.8560174

>>8560169
Ibsen.

>> No.8560179

English
French
Italian
Japanese

Sorry to ruin this thread by being the best

>> No.8560187

what to learn after English/French/Spanish? whatever appeals to me?

I was considering Russian

>> No.8560198

>>8560174
He wrote in Danish.

>> No.8560204

>>8560187
Italian and German. Or just German.Russian is not useful nowadays

>> No.8560221

>>8558458
>>8560162
>>8560169

"Only an idiot uses all his knows"
-Socrates

>> No.8560227

>>8560221
But why not spend the time used to learn those languages to learn something more useful, like German or French or Latin, there is a huge opportunity cost when one sets about learning a language

>> No.8560255

>>8560162
>>8560227
Literally the only languages I've had to "learn" of those were the scandi languages, all the others came through family and media

>> No.8560268
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8560268

Finnish
Swedish
English
Russian (stopped at cefr b2 but using it almost daily)
Dropped Korean after a semester, thinking about pursuing it on my own.

>> No.8560322

>>8559478
jävla danskar

>> No.8560334

>>8558400
this p r e t t y m u c h

>> No.8560340

>>8558391
Italiano e inglese. Rispettivamente, il linguaggio più interessante e ricco al mondo e quello più utile. Qualche infarinatura di latino e greco dai tempi del liceo.

>> No.8560400
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8560400

English, French, Arabic, and some Japanese.

>> No.8560404

>>8560340
japanese is more interesting than italian

>> No.8560408

>>8560400
>Arabic

How do you do this? I've attempted at learning the script but it doesn't fit in my brain

>> No.8560410

>>8560400
>and some
why spoiler?

>> No.8560420

>>8560408
My parents are Jordanian, so that's what I spoke at home as a kid.

>> No.8560430

Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Íslenska, English, Spanish, gonna learn German soon

>> No.8560446

Here is the official /lit/ trash tier languages list:
>Arabic
>Urdu
>Chinese
>Japanese
>Swedish
>modern greek

>> No.8560447

>>8560410
Because I'm a hopeless psued who watches too much anime for his own good.

>> No.8560455

>>8560446
>>>Chinese
>>Japanese
>>Swedish

aww you fell for the memes?

>> No.8560542

>>8559794
>communicating vocally

>> No.8560561

>French
>English
>Polish
>Dutch
>Highschool German

>> No.8560620

>>8560408
Do some Bible reading with ancient Hebrew and see how all the semitic languages stay similar. I found that useful way back but I can barely remember anything at all about either now (but I have reasons for that that won't apply to you).

>> No.8560656

>>8560165

>I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch—
>I said it in German and Greek;
>But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
>That English is what you speak!

>> No.8560677

>>8558391
English, spanish and italian here

>> No.8560683

>>8559370
different poster, but just read french translations of latin works.

learn greek for sure. im planning on doing the same thing

>> No.8560712

>>8560144
>Karelian

It doesn't even have a written form
who are you trying to kid here?

>> No.8561145

German
English
Russian
French

>> No.8561389

Those threads always end up being disgusting attention whoring circlejerks. Knowing how to say Hallo, Adiós and Bonjour doesn't mean you can speak a fucking language.

>> No.8561458

Languages student here. I study Farsi, English native.

English
Kurdish (Kurmanci dialect)
Farsi
Italian
French
Yiddish (can have a chat in)

I'm starting Bengali this year, which should make Hindi and Urdu (basically the same language) easy.

>> No.8561469

>>8558391
Three: English, French, and German
I know bits of other languages, but I can't speak any of them well at all.

>> No.8561476

>>8561389
Ass-blasted monolingual detected

>> No.8561503

German
English
Italian

>>8558398
>I refuse to ever learn Spanish or Portuguese. Dirt monkey languages.

This

>> No.8561598

The only one that matters. English.

>> No.8561636

>>8558391

1.2

I'm giving myself a .2 for my current level of Russian, but really I'm probably giiving myself too much there

>> No.8561763

Danish
English
German
Portuguese

Fluent in all. Know a bit of latin aswell.

>> No.8561782

اينجا زبان فارسى كيست ؟

>> No.8561804

Learning Spanish (in which I am somewhat proficient, although it is still very difficult for me to get through serious literature), German, and Latin. Learned a little Hebrew a year ago, but I'm sure I've forgotten virtually all of it.

>> No.8561817

>>8558391
English
Russian
Spanish
Some Biblical Hebrew from childhood

>> No.8561821

Si tu ne peux pas lire cette phrase, tu es un pleb.

>> No.8561826 [DELETED] 

One
Dos
Drei

>> No.8561844

Everyone should speak

English

1 Romance Language
1 Asian Language

>> No.8561901

>>8558391
Tantummodo linguas loquor duas: Anglica et Latina. Me Latinam "loqui" dicere significat me de rebus cotidiernis ac aliis quibusdam colloqui posse. Semper melior fieri cupio, quamobrem vos, O /lit/igosi, voco ut mecum colloquamini!

>> No.8561910

>>8561901
*Anglicam ac Latinam, ignoscite mihi

>> No.8561932

>>8561844
>says random anon

>> No.8561938

Just English.

>> No.8562168

>>8561503
Las mejores obras están escritas en español.

>> No.8562225

American
British

>> No.8562276

what languages should I learn?

>> No.8562307

>>8558391

>German
>English
>Spanish

next will be:

>French
>Japanese
>Arabic
>Russian/Chinese/..

>> No.8562315

>>8561821
Je n'ai pas pu la comprendre

>> No.8562327

>>8562276
French
Spanish
Russian
German
Italian
Greek
Latin

With no specifical order

>> No.8562353

>>8558399
underrated

>> No.8562386
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8562386

>>8558391
Five

English
Spanish
Polish
Portuguese
Legalese

>> No.8562402

>>8558397
Where's your ¡ ?

>> No.8562408

English Hindi Sanskrit Marathi Gujrati and a can understand Bengali.
Sorry no foreign language.

>> No.8562410

>>8559707
>People tend to overexaggerate how hard /learning/ it is
Really ? I'd like to learn it, but all the noun cases are intimidating as fuck. How do you go about learning it ?

>> No.8562419

>>8560173
I don't know how far being fluent in Cornish is going to get you in life.

>> No.8562472

>>8562419
Languages aren't parts for robocop.

If you became good at Cornish, you would need to develop a disciplined study routine, research effective methods of memorizing vocabulary and grammar, and have a high level of resourcefulness with the limited resources available for learning it.

Then you can literature, have easy access to all other languages, especially Celtic ones.

>> No.8562546

Portuguese, English and learning French

>> No.8562581

Currently English and Russian.
I can barely read in Russian, though I'm beginning to improve that.

Once I get decent at reading Cyrillic and can read much Russian literature easily, then I'll be learning Ukrainian.

"Why Ukrainian?" I hear some ask.
Well, that answer is evident in the existence of the base of the quality of Ukrainian literature throughout the ages, and to disregard most of it when I'm within reach of it is such a waste.


By all that, I mean that there's a girl I like who speaks Ukrainian and I'd sure need to improve myself so to get to her level. I, at the time of writing, have a pretty good physique on my side, though I feel that I've spent much of my youth in a wasteful manor while she seems to have developed into so much better of a person than me, and as it stands, I feel that she's out of my grasp. Though, I'm hoping to change that in the coming months as I have lots of free time and isolation away from work and friends.

>> No.8562587

>>8562276
Well, what's your intention?

Find a motivation for a language, then go out and learn it.

>> No.8562625

>>8560408
The alphabet is by far the easiest part, it takes a couple of hours to learn at most.

>> No.8562696

>>8559490
Same

>> No.8563319

>>8561503
speak the same three exactly. which is your favourite? best?

>> No.8563381

Dutch, Croatian, English, basic German, learning French right now.

>> No.8563489

>>8560408
You get used to the script's fuckery.

If you don't want to be shat on, learn Lebanese Arabic senpai. Cleanest of the bunch

>> No.8564880

English
German
French