Languages anyone?

[willow-chan]

i realize this thread is like two months old, but i thought i'd add to it anyway! xD

i speak english (duh) and enough spanish to (barely) get me by if i'm around spanish-speaking people -- i took it in middle school & high school. i also speak some hindi and plan to become fluent in it (my boyfriend is from india). i'd like to learn punjabi too, but i don't know that it'll ever happen (i'm worried i'll confuse it with the hindi if i try). i'm a big fan of anime & j-pop/rock, so i know a bit of japanese, too.

i know some american sign language, as well -- the alphabet and various words & phrases.

i'm also a classically-trained singer, and i've sung in french, italian, german, latin, spanish, hindi, and japanese. i can read most of these languages pretty fluently, but i don't always know what i'm saying, heh.  

[Doressa]

I always get a nice surprise when someone posts in an old thread!

You speak bits and pieces of HEAPS of languages!! I need to travel more...  

[NessaChan]

私は日本語を話して、でも私の日本語は少し経たですね。。（＾＿＾）；

In English, it says "I speak Japanese but my Japanese is pretty darn bad," more or less. I took eight semesters of Japanese in undergrad but I'm way out of practice ;__;  

[Doressa]

いしょにれんしゅうしましょうか。  

[NessaChan]

Doressa

いしょにれんしゅうしましょうか。

はい、良いでしょうね！　：Ｄ  

[Doressa]

私はかんじがへたですよ。ねっさちゃんはひらがなつかいませんか。  

[AnarKya]

My native language is french, I learned english by surfing the net and watching american TV. I am french-canadian.
I know a litle bit of german also.  

[Doressa]

I speak a little bit of French, but it's very bad! Your English is GREAT!  

[wingedorange]

I took 2 years of French in high school, two semesters of it in college, and then a random semester of Spanish my freshman year of college (which I hated). I really would like to learn American Sign Language fluently - right now I can do most of the alphabet and some random signs, like "pony," "dog," "cat," "merry-go-round"...I know mostly animals, which doesn't help me a whole lot. wink

I'd also love to learn Hawaiian. It's not very practical, but it's a beautiful language.  

[Doressa]

I've always been really interested in sign language, but have been put off learning it since discovering that every country has its own! It seems very unfair to me that a poor deaf person has to learn a whole new language when they visit another English speaking country, don't you think?  

[Teviri]

I'm currently learning Spanish and Italian on my own, and taking Mandarin Chinese at college next semester.  

[solitary_escapee]

I learnt French at school, and know enough Italian to get by, plus a few essentail Greek phrases (use your imagination here, lol)  

[Yil]

native language is turkish, i can speak german a little bit english, trying to find my spanish knowlege again sweatdrop and i can read arabian but dont understand it xD  

[lightprincess03]

lightprincess03

Doressa

Do any of you guys speak or learn any foreign languages? I'm attempting French and Japanese and considering taking up another, and maybe we could practise together?

im kinda being forced to learn spanish cuz my husband and his family who we live with are Puerto Rican and his mom doesn't speak english that well.

I'm quoting myself on this one.. still haven't learned much spanish... lol.. but my son will.. everyone speaks spanish to him... biggrin