Which languages are you fluent in?

@aurora_yuuki I am faithful to you.

Because it's how I show my affection for chu

As a child I spent four years in France and could speak French pretty good. Then I moved back home and proceeded to lose the ability to speak it as I grew older and spent more time with friends and speaking English. Can still listen, just can't speak! ;-; Currently learning Japanese and can read Spanish pretty good. I want to commit to learning Korean too :)

As a child I spent four years in France and could speak French pretty good. Then I moved back home and proceeded to lose the ability to speak it as I grew older and spent more time with friends and speaking English. Can still listen, just can't speak! ;-; Currently learning Japanese and can read Spanish pretty good. I want to commit to learning Korean too :)

@yawnaroo c'est très intéressant ! Tu peux lire ça ? haha

@floating_lily my French reading skills have almost died, but I swear that says "that's very interesting! can you read this?" I probably have the French reading skill of a 4 year old, lol

@ScaryOwl chinese is rlly hard so hats off to u.. it was required for me to learn mandarin when i was in third grade and it was sooo hard

@yawnaroo très bien ! vous avez réussi ce test. vos compétences ne sont pas encore mortes. ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶

@floating_lily thank you! or should I say merci beaucoup? gahhh it's been so long '>,<

My curiosity is the written standard of your preference. Bokmål or Nynorsk?

My old roommate grew up with Bokmål as a (non-colloquial) formal writing, however capable of grasping Nynorsk much more than she initially expected.

@yawnaroo you're so amazing ( ✧Д✧)

it's kinda interesting bc my native language, farsi, has some french words in it as well bc of Iran's modernization efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries so like merci is thank you and baba noel is santa

French loanwords in Persian

there a WHOLE ahh list too bc of how many there are (╥﹏╥)

@yawnaroo très bien ! vous avez réussi ce test. vos compétences ne sont pas encore mortes. ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶

German obviously, English, Russian. Not fluent but with some basic knowledge of Czech and French (both deteriorated heavily due to disuse).

I wish I could master German. But I'm out of my depth with German. I wish I could understand what those famous German Herrins say on S&M films

Why do so many ppl in here speak German but don’t represent their colors ts so chalked

Why do so many ppl in here speak German but don’t represent their colors ts so chalked

I'm afraid not everyone is into that type of (alcoholic) culture with the notable exception being the person I've mentioned in my previous response

@Noboru this dude is an absolute mad lad

Natürlich, I offer language tuition. I show em my bratty Wurst and they call me Herr Schlager. Call it an Einbürgerung.

But why do you ping me, buddy? I'm not in a mood to waste refined, layered innuendo on Mittelschule graduates today.

Save your Klatsch for a fish market.

Why do so many ppl in here speak German but don’t represent their colors ts so chalked

@LoveYourSmile just some casual Klatsch und Tratsch because the forum seems to have too little representation of that here

I've pinged you because it's apparently politer to do so rather than just talking about you

Don't sweat it, I'm not interested in dragging it out. Thanks for your reply and have a good evening!

As much as I respect and admire Goethe, school has significantly decreased my interest in literature, though Franz Kafka's "Der Proceß" was a much easier read. The only person that comes to mind who has actually read some Goethe works like "Elective Affinities" what I've mentioned in #110 there would be @Meusnier but they don't seem to be interested currently in talking about it or at least not with me

Not really, in practice, I'm mostly using just one language for actual speaking, but I can comprehend quite a bit from written Romance languages though with better and better automatic translations, it feels like a useless skill to me

@aurora_yuuki thanks, but imho you should do the same as well + with @Zarutaku. It's up for the latter to expand on it and explain the "why", my time and social energy is too limited for such Tsunami effects. Edit: as mentioned, wait for him to expand on it here as well

As much as I respect and admire Goethe, school has significantly decreased my interest in literature, though Franz Kafka's "Der Proceß" was a much easier read. The only person that comes to mind who has actually read some Goethe works like "Elective Affinities" what I've mentioned in #110 there would be @Meusnier but they don't seem to be interested currently in talking about it or at least not with me

Not really, in practice, I'm mostly using just one language for actual speaking, but I can comprehend quite a bit from written Romance languages though with better and better automatic translations, it feels like a useless skill to me

One Austrian former user said she read Young Werther and it sucks.

@Lucifrost I can't give any qualified opinion on it since I haven't read it yet, but it's been on my plan to eventually read list. Either way, if you are curious about something, you should read it yourself. Perhaps, the English translation or a more modern German version makes his works easier to diggest than going for the original right away

I wish I could master German. But I'm out of my depth with German. I wish I could understand what those famous German Herrins say on S&M films

@RainyEvenings German and English are closely related, but native English speakers do have difficulties with it because English moved towards a weird direction grammar wise (similar to Bulgarian compared to other Slavic languages) and had a shitload of phonetic shifts. German also had its share of phonetic and grammar changes, but nowhere near as many - I have fewer difficulties understanding the Hildebrandslied than native English speakers have with Beowulf

The "Old English" of Beowulf is completely incomprehensible to me, to the point it may as well be Euskera.