Language Learning / Bilingual / Polyglot Thread

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Second, third, fourth... (any omniglots out there?)

I didn't check whether there already was one, but I think no off-topic forum board about autistic manchildren is complete without a languages thread!

Anyone learning another language? Or anyone want to discuss the only language that matters?

Hell, I wouldn't even mind analysing the finer points of lolcow dialect.
 
I only speak English, but I can usually figure things out in Spanish due to the three years of it I took in high school. I took a semester of Japanese in college but I've forgotten most of it. I'm also learning snippets of Tagalog.
 
I took Spanish and French in high school, 3 semesters of Spanish in college and I took some Mandarin Chinese lessons on Saturdays for free in college.

I'd like to learn all of them if I can.
 
I speak French fluently and mostly without accent; my parents are French and spoke it as a first language.

It has no practical benefits; it's most useful in pretending to be a foreigner who speaks no English when people bother you on the street. (I've thought about pretending to be French for awhile but I'm pretty sure something Costanza-like would happen to me, like I'd get a $1m/year job offer or be recognized as the authoritarian leader of a new cult under condition that I pretend to be French forever.)
 
The Hunter said:
Uuuuuuuuuuh... hey, this is funny...

I forgot how.
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Welp that means I'm going to post about my languages again!

I know English of course, and had been taking Spanish classes since middle school. But I switched my college major from Spanish to Environmental Studies so I don't know Spanish as much as I'd like. I took French 1 and 2 in high school. I took beginner's level Arabic in college. I know smatterings of Portuguese, Russian, and German from my foreign language obsession in high school, and I know smatterings of Japanese from my middle school weeaboo phase.

I'd like to learn as many foreign languages as I can, but especially the Indo-European ones I already mentioned, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese.
 
I took three years of Japanese in high school and... I've forgotten pretty much half of it. Only thing I know now is the odd phrase here and there like "omelette au fromage" and stuff like that.
 
Marella said:
Brooo' I think there's already a thread like this one.
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Oh drat. :S My bad. And it wasn't even that old either...

I've been learning Italian for a bit, another one that, on reflection, has no practical benefits. My father and grandmother both spoke a kooky dialect of Italian (pretty much pidgin, considering they were from the south, and moved to Australia a long while ago), which really got me interested into the variations/dialects of languages.
 
I poorly know Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Enough to be able to read some words and take a wild guess at what it's saying.
 
Took Spanish in high school but only remember enough that would help me very little.

My girlfriend and I have been looking into learning German together because we both have German ancestry and because it sounds badass.
 
Well...I think I speak English and Hungarian well. My German skills are alright, I just unfortunately barely use it and my Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin) skills are pretty basic.
 
English is my native language, and I understand a little bit of Spanish as I took classes in the language (and it also helps that I live in a town with a large Latino community).

Mandarin Chinese was a language I studied for a few semesters, but because I haven't practiced it in a while, I forgot a few things. I can still understand a few phrases, written or spoken, in Mandarin.

Lastly, I took Italian as a freshman in high school, but I've completely forgotten the language as I haven't studied it since.
 
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