赫杰 Posted March 9, 2006 at 03:58 PM Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 at 03:58 PM ooooo, a fellow Wuhan student!! Hey where you at in Wuhan? Can you tell me? ahhhh languages...well since we are including languages that are all but forgotten: American English - Native Spanish - 4 years high school Japanese - 2 years Russian - 2 years Cantonese - 6 months Korean - 4 months (recently gave up) and Chinese for two years three months I think now. I've realised that I am too retarded to study multiple languages at the same time. And IMHO people should be careful using the word "fluent" in describing their level. I know lots and lots of "fluent" english speakers that are anything but... HJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yingguoguy Posted March 10, 2006 at 09:54 AM Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 at 09:54 AM English - Native French - Four years at school all but forgotten Japanese - maybe 3 years now Mandarin - 18 months Actually I'm only really posting this because I wanted to ask 赫杰, how did you find learning Korean after Japanese and Chinese? I've always been thinking of travelling between China - Korea - Japan by ferry, and was half thinking of studying it. I don't get confused between Chinese and Japanese words but learning a third language with the same shared vocab roots (yet another reading of 图书馆) could result in chaos. It also seemed that Korean grammar was harder than Japanese? Will maybe try Russian instead and travel home by the Trans-Siberian railway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishbob Posted March 10, 2006 at 01:57 PM Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 at 01:57 PM 1. English - first language 2. Irish (Gaelic) - understand but cant speak much 3. French - fluent 4. German - mostly fluent 5. Dutch - conversational 6. Mandarin - basic 7. Breton - basic i also understand some italian (because of an ex-lover) but i didnt include it cause its close to french. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-(Shell)- Posted March 12, 2006 at 10:09 PM Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 at 10:09 PM English is my first language, so I'm obviously fluent. And I am studying German at school. I wouldn't consider myself anywhere near fluent in German though.......für jetzt.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilsonFong Posted March 12, 2006 at 11:25 PM Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 at 11:25 PM 1. English - native; born and raised in Toronto 2. French - took 4 years in high school, graduated with "certificate of bilingual studies" along with my diploma, but i've pretty much forgotten all of it 3. Cantonese - my first language until i was 4. can still speak fairly well, though my vocabulary is a bit limited and i have a hard time understanding stuff like the news. also learning to read and write colloquial cantonese right now 4. Mandarin - 1.5 years, can hold basic conversations, hoping to become fluent within two years when i plan on going to china to study i'm hoping to pick up some korean because i'll probably be moving there sometime soon for a teaching stint. i could also add some taishanese but that's almost the same as standard cantonese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hong Lien Posted March 13, 2006 at 05:45 AM Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 at 05:45 AM I can only speak English. ;-; And a tiny bit of Cantonese. >__> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongtaitai Posted March 13, 2006 at 06:39 AM Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 at 06:39 AM 1. Welsh (native) 2. English (native) 3. French (extremely rusty, but was once intermediate) 4. German (advanced - also understand some Swiss-German) 5. Chinese (considering the amount of time spent studying I should be advanced, but alas...) 6. Japanese (very basic - studied a little a long time ago) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipponman Posted March 13, 2006 at 04:56 PM Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 at 04:56 PM Well, since everybodys doin it:mrgreen: 1.English- native 2.Chinese- 3 years 3.Japanese- 8(?) years (It was a long time ago) surprisingly enough, even though I have done way more studying in Japanese and probably know more words, I feel more comfortable with chinese nowadays and probably write better in chinese than I do in Japanese. Maybe that's because its so hard to start studying Japanese again, I don't know. But, three languages is pretty crappy, almost too crappy to be postin in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navison Posted March 22, 2006 at 07:54 PM Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 at 07:54 PM English (native) Czech (fluent) Slovak (Cheating, because its almost Czech) German (I get by OK). Polish (Restaurants no problem chat about the weather, buying stuff in shops) Russian (I can understand them, but they don't understand me) Hungarian (I managed a big computer translation job, and tried to learn it, but all I remember is nem todom Madgarol) Danish (It was Dansih software I was translating, and I managed 6 lessons - har du det). Mandarin (just starting) PS I saw Madeleine Albright on TV here recently, her Czech Grammar is very good, but her accent is so deep south Texas or that region, it was amazing).and if she was any thing in real life like in the interview, she seems like a very very nice person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraldc Posted March 22, 2006 at 08:24 PM Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 at 08:24 PM English: Native Cantonese: Had it spoken to me since birth, I can understand a romantic comedy on TV, but the news and period dramas confuse me. I need to speak more to improve/stop the decline. Mandarin: HSK level 6 on a good day French: GCSE level (and I've got an AO level, an exam no longer recognised by anyone) Latin: GCSE level, completely forgotten, although I still remember the first lines to all the translations of poems I had to remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhenhui Posted March 23, 2006 at 05:25 AM Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 at 05:25 AM Wow...many multilingual folks in this forum! English - since I was 5 years old Mandarin Chinese - since I was 5 years old Bahasa Indonesia - since birth (but loosing this skill, mom speaks in Bahasa when she's pissed at me as her vulgarities vocab in Mandarin is limited, parents speaks to each other in Bahasa) Korean - basic Japanese - basic And vulgarities in Hokkien and Cantonese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Language Guy Posted March 25, 2006 at 05:37 PM Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 at 05:37 PM English: Native French: since grade school, stopped at intermediate to advanced in college Italian: studied a compressed year, would like to continue it later Spanish: 2 years so far, still going strong Mandarin: soon to start In the future: Japanese, Italian(again), Portuguese, maybe even Vietnamese LG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp11141 Posted April 16, 2006 at 07:56 PM Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 at 07:56 PM Native: greek Fairly fluent: english Used to be fluent: french Beginner: chinese (studying on and off) Just started: russian, german Plans to start: spanish (but quite easy to read already) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrinkDrankDrunk Posted April 18, 2006 at 01:53 PM Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 at 01:53 PM Ningbo hua/Shanghainese: native and fluent(at least I'd like to think so). Mandarin: native and fluent although I can't read or write. English: adopted 'native' language. Spanish: eight years later and I can finally sing Mi Aguita Amarilla. Russian: Da and Sbaseeba. All you need to order perogies with sour cream! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runehh Posted May 22, 2006 at 01:15 PM Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 at 01:15 PM I'm a native Danish speaker, which also means that I speak/understand Swedish and Norwegian (most Scandinavians will be more than happy to point out the differences between these languages but honestly, it is one of those cases where politics decide that they are independent languages instead of variants of the same language) Also, German, English, and obviously three or four naughty words of about a million other languages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antares Posted May 23, 2006 at 05:58 AM Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 at 05:58 AM - English (duh, lol) - Cantonese (native) - Mandarin (since 4) currently studying: - japanese (advice: u would wanna kill urself if u study japanese without a strong interest, ppl in my class r like failing, not me thou) - french (dun really wanna learn it, but for the following reasons i had to: - Canadian - Not really hard once u speak eng - If i kno this, i can pick up chicks way easier (my goal is oriental girls, dun try on any1 else)) a little bit of korean (dun really study it, currently i just learning it from TV shows n my friends, but if i become fluent in french/japanese i would spend time taking a korean class) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted May 25, 2006 at 01:31 PM Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 at 01:31 PM How is French going to help in picking up Oriental girls? I think English is a better language for that, combined with an Asian language of your choosing, in case her English runs out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanhql Posted May 25, 2006 at 01:43 PM Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 at 01:43 PM native languages(since young): 1st language: english mother tongue: mandarin/chinese foreign languages: japanese(learning at school) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antares Posted May 25, 2006 at 05:14 PM Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 at 05:14 PM my friend used it in china n it worked..... since most of them now are like sick of eng besides, i need french in the place i live in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doumeizhen Posted May 25, 2006 at 09:26 PM Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 at 09:26 PM English German Chinese Learning French 4 Years of Jesuit Latin Enough Spanish to get into trouble and buy 8 eggs Enough Farsi to thoroughly confuse people, as I can't keep the things I know straight Enough of a Chinese dialect used near Shanghai to serve tea Enough Cantonese to make people groan and tell me that they speak Mandarin Enough of a German dialect to understand people in Holland when they tell me that it's not cute that they sound like a funny version my relatives in the ol' German village What a mess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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