Which languages are you fluent in?

I'm not fluent in it, but im B2 in Chinese.

English, Chinese, and some Latin from 8 years of school :(

I'm currently learning Spanish since it's basically required in the medical field down in the southern states.

English Spanish and Nahuatl. I can speak French enough for a simple conversations.

Just English. Alas.

But I want to learn French. I love Michel Foucault.

English (native). I have a good degree of fluency in Japanese because it's what I studied in university (though I'm slightly out of practice nowadays). I know a little Mandarin but it's very broken. But I would like to improve on it.

I used to know how to speak Thai as a kid since my mother is Thai. But after my parent's divorced and I lived with my dad, I forgot everything except how to count.

@auroraloose nice! what do you love about him?

@DeN11 woahh medical field? are u in it? thats so coooool i am debating on going into either med or law idk which to choose.. what do u think?

@floating_lily

Applying to medical school with pretty strong stats. But I've worked in healthcare for a couple of years so I've learned the importance of Spanish.

I feel like medical school is more safe than law school. Only lawyers who make it into a T-10 law school generally earn 200k+. For doctors, the salary doesn't seem to change based on school prestige.

As for undergrad, I spent most of my free time studying, volunteering, and working. Compared to Pre-Law students, I had a worse life-school balance as the course load was much more demanding. So law school is definitely better if you want to have fun.

Also take into account law school is 3 years and medical school is 4 years, 3-4 years of residency, and 1-2 years of fellowship. Soooo you'll basically be a student till your 30. Although, both require you to constantly study for exam well off into the career.

@floating_lily I've read The History of Sexuality, Discipline and Punish, and parts of The Foucault Reader, and I'm working on The Archaeology of Knowledge right now. I love how expert he is at employing historical analyses, how deft his writing is, and how his theory of what it means to be enlightened is basically to be like Foucault. I found a YouTube video of an interview with Foucault, and his voice is deep and impressive.

The language of no-bullshitery and wisdom.

Technically zero I have zero clues how to be fluent in English so my only good language is my native French.

my native language filipino and its one of the easiest language to learn anyway especially how we spell words like we spell ball as bol, stick as istik, anime as animey, etc you get the point so sometimes i wish spelling in english is that easy too

I'm native in Polish and I'm fluent in English. That's it. I learned some German and French in school, but only few specific words, numbers and phrases stuck in my head so I certainly won't be making any conversations in those two haha

@deg that's one of the languages i want to learn lol

yes i agree spelling in english can be very annoyinggg

@Szczelajo native in polish is sooo cool i want to learn polish bc i have a family member who is polish and i want to communicate better with her.. is it worth learning? lol all i know is that motyl means butterfly

@floating_lily

HAHAHAH why motyl? Out of all the words haha, It's so random, I love it XD

Well if you want to better communicate with your family member then learning some of it is surely worth it! I won't do any discouraging even if Polish is not the easiest language to master.

Let's see

- Chinese. Fluent in Mandarin, closer-to-mid-level fluency in Gan (essentially Hakka with different vowels and tones; thanks, Dad and Grandma!), low-level fluency with several southern Chinese dialects, some of them are common in Southeast Asia, like Hokkien (common among Southeast Asian countries), Shanghaiese, and Cantonese.
- Quebecois French. Due to my English language education, I'm completely illiterate in standardized French.
- English. General North American like an old school evening news anchor. I could have gone to a French language elementary school, but it was so far away.
- Korean. My official 2nd language and I switched to using the pronunciation closer to North Korean standard speech because I don't want to sound like a dead person. For anyone who don't know, Standard Korean spoken by South Koreans doesn't generally have a strong presence of intonations, so the speakers sound like they are always out of breath or running a marathon. And I don't want to be friendly towards South Korean men, so speaking like a North Korean is more than OK to me.
- Japanese, closer-to-mid-level fluency but only for reading. Just accidentally being capable of reading Japanese slowly as the Japanese writing system is "Chinese with 2 native writing systems with most of the Korean grammar".
- Russian, closer-to-mid-level fluency but only for reading. Reading Russian is easier than listening for me these days. My other grandfather was a Russian language instructor and a freelancing interpreter for the police.
- German, now low-level fluency. My French-Canadian grandmother (now can't talk due to old age) was fluent in German as she used to be a working mother who served as an assistant secretary for a German company in Quebec.
- Tagalog, now currently tourist-level beginner level. Long story when I was in university.

Yeah, at the price of being incapable of understanding and not being interested in topics pertaining to STEM, science technology engineering mathematics.

Only in two, finnish as it's my first language and english as that's the only other one I use. I learned swedish in school but forgot about it years ago for the fact that I never use it. Also I'm too fucking lazy to learn languages as I'm not that interested in learning them compared to just understanding other stuff about human communication

I am fluent in Mandarin and English. Sounds good enough?

I speak some Spanish and French, but I'm soo far from fluent. That's one of my biggest regrets, not dedicating more time to learning languages. And I am working on it now, over the last year, but it's not going as fast as it used to...

@auroraloose that seems interesting! is he your favorite author?