I'm fluent in English, because I am English, a good knowledge of Spanish - Spain is my favourite country, been there 13 times, including working there -, some French, learnt it at school, had to, Korean, tried to complete a 12-month contract teaching in Seoul, South Korea, didn't last that long, too homesick, a bit of Russian, learnt how to be polite to people when I visited there, that's about it.
But I suppose we all learn words from another language from a young age, like Karate (Japanese), Glasnost (Russian), & C'est la Vie (French).
Welsh and English. I have a gcse in french and a qualification in Spanish. I am trying to learn Italian so I know some phrases. I have spoken Italian to my psych (he is Italian) & he understands me so my pronunciation must be fine.
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I'd like to go to Italy one day, but apparently it's quite expensive.
I went to Spain twice recently, & only 20 for a hotel room a night, & the staff were friendly, about £17, I paid £100 for a night in my last stay in a hotel in England.
Food's cheap & nice, the Spanish love seafood.
I've heard though that Italy is a great country to visit, most of them speak English well, are friendly, depends were you go, Naples is a bit dodgy apparently.
Suprised Latin died out as a language, was spoken throughout Europe in the medieval ages, like a universal language bit like English is nowadays. People do still learn Latin though.
Can read and understand German - having lived 10 years there
Can speak, read, understand spoken French - studied it up to A-level then as an extra course at uni
Can speak, read and understand KiSwahili from my time working in Tanzania
Studied Latin and can read / write some although that's getting rusty now.
I know and understand a little sign as my friend is deaf, but I seriously need to improve. Especially as she finds it funny to invent signs that don't exist, watch me use them and then I turn around and she's signing 'ha ha funny, stupid'. SO I make a rude sign back :P
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I can understand a little Finnish, German and Korean. I'm trying to learn Korean now so hopefully by the end of the year I'll understand more, but I'm doing it alone as college is really expensive.
And English, obviously :P
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I can read French enough to get the gist of things. French has a lot of English cognates. If a word in French looks like a word in English its often similar in meaning. I think of French as English with e's and l's on the end of words lol. Now Italian is the opposite - it has a lot of false cognates. A word in Italian can look like an English word and be very different. It was from taking a year of Italian at uni that I got better at reading French oddly enough.
Currently, I know enough Spanish to get around a construction site with a lot of immigrants
I understand Japanese (read, write, speak intermediately), and I am know picking up on Korean. Right now I only know how to ask for things in korean and can read and write, not so much as speak it.
I like storms
They let me know that even the sky screams sometimes
I'm fluent in English and I can get by in Spanish and I can read German but struggle to speak it.
I'm going to Berlin on Valentine's Day, I want to move to Germany one day but the language is a major barrier. I should probably just move to England instead.
I did a German course in uni although it focused more on translation than spoken German. English is my native language and I can translate some makaton because of work.
Suprised Latin died out as a language, was spoken throughout Europe in the medieval ages, like a universal language bit like English is nowadays. People do still learn Latin though.
Strictly speaking, Latin didn't die out: if evolved into the Romance languages Europeans speak today, such as French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. This is why Italians have no trouble understanding Spanish and vice versa, even if they've never studied it.