| I only know English, but I'm interesting in learning other languages. I've tried before and I also have a bit in school, but I havent gotten too far into anything. |
| I only can speak English.... I'm always super impressed by people who know multiple languages, I know for a lot it's because they grew up in an English speaking country and their parents spoke a foreign language, but it's still impressive.... It always blows my mind when people criticize someones English online when it is clearly not their first language. How about you learn another language before you criticize people! |
| I took three years of Spanish in high school and was getting to the point of being semi-fluent, but I haven't used the language since and I've forgotten a lot of it. So, English and some Spanish for me. |
| I speak english, spanish and dutch fluently. I know german too, though I can't speak it as well as I would like to. I basically think in those 3 languages, depending on the situation. |
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mayukachan said: I know Mandarin and English, but English is my first language. I also think in English. However, I speak in mixed with my parents. I also read/say numbers in Mandarin because it's quicker. Yasssssss. I think in Mandarin when I'm in China though. |
| Hungarian is my native language and i know German and English, my Serbian is at about 40% and my Japanese at about 3-10% but i haven't made much progress in those last two recently, and at some point i attempted to learn Italian but i quickly gave up. I mainly think in my native language and sometimes in English. |
| Language is my weakest subject I've been studying Vietnamese, Mandarin, French, and Spanish for years but it all leaves my head within a given year. Doesn't matter anyways, English is objectively the superior language. |
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| I know English, Greek, and school educated French |
| Personally, my native Language is German and to some Degree Romanian. With the latter however, it's stuck on the Level of a small Child. I would say that I'm decently fluent in English and I do think in this Language as well (but only when I'm writing or speaking in English, though the latter is very seldom), it's just that my Vocabulary and phrasal Expressions are lacking. Other than that, I know French, in which I used to have B1 Niveau, but it's been several Years and I can only read French Texts nowadays, since Reading Comprehension has been my strongest Point in all Languages. Spanish is a similar Story, minus the B1 Certificate. Basically, only English really stuck as a Foreign Language, because it's the one Tongue everyone is using and most interesting Media (Anime, Manga, Visual/Light Novels) are getting Translations in the first Place. Rarusu_ said: Yeah, too bad that assimilated Men from the North in Northern France aka "Normans" had been responsible for this Mess~CommanderCaim said: Doesn't matter anyways, English is objectively the superior language. So objectively superior that it steals words from other languages, and bearly is English anymore. Back in the days of Old English, good times. |
Rarusu_ said: Actually it's not the Words only that make English seem "strange" compared to other Germanic Languages, but how the Grammar changed as well. English is very radical though when it comes to be a language whore. More than 50% of all words comes from Romance languages and Greek. Pretty much every (major) Germanic Language has V2 (Verb Second) Word Order with the big Exception of English, which has mostly strict Subject-Verb-Object (SVO). The Normans were troublesome indeed. They betrayed us übermensch. Yeah, and our Cousins from our common Grandfathers from the Saxons and Angles betrayed us as well. |
Rarusu_ said: Native Swedish speaker. I speak, think and dream in Swedish. I understand other mainland Scandinavian languages as well like Norwegian and Danish. What about Finnish? |
Ben-Hur said: Finnish is not a Germanic language, in fact it's not even an Indoeuropean languageRarusu_ said: Native Swedish speaker. I speak, think and dream in Swedish. I understand other mainland Scandinavian languages as well like Norwegian and Danish. What about Finnish? It belongs to the Uralic language family along with Estonian and Hungarian Unless you've actually learned Finnish it's completely impossible for a Swede to understand a Finn speaking the language and vice versa Example: "The cat caught the mouse" Swedish: "Katten fångade musen" Danish: "Katten fangede musen" Norwegian: "Katten fanget musen" Finnish: "Kissa kiinni hiiri" See? Completely different |
Comic_SansSep 29, 2015 2:06 PM
 Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| Spanish and English. I think in the language I'm speaking at that moment. no I finish my sentences in the language I started. |
| I can only assume that the majority of people who are fluent in all these languages are really not fluent at all. Then there's the case of people saying they speak like 5 languages but only speaking two fluently. Lies are too be expected. Anyway, English yes, as that's my native, but I'm am almost fluent in Japanese(I haven't lived there) & this is 3 years in. I'm trying to learn Spanish, which is fairly easy, especially living in California where there are so many mexicans to practice with, also that my best friend's family is from South America. Not asked, but I'd like to know at least 4 outside of English, Chinese for practicality and another latin based language like French or Italian. |
Rarusu_ said: Yes, it is – almost all Indoeuropean languages are as far as I am concerned – but it's also a V2 language, like Noburu saidI think Swedish is also a SVO language :P For those of you who don't know how it works, here's an example: "Yesterday I drove to Malmö" ----> "Igår körde jag till Malmö" -----> "Yesterday drove I to Malmö" We use this in dependant clauses and it's almost exclusive for the Germanic languages |
Comic_SansSep 29, 2015 2:17 PM
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
Rarusu_ said: Well, from that Point of View, you could also count most German Sentence as Subject-Verb-Object, unless it's really that uncommon to not start with the Subject in Swedish.I think Swedish is also a SVO language :P Yeah, vocabulary-wise, Swedish has preserved their own Words better than English, but grammatically spoken, it's similarly bad as English in that Regard. Wasn't only recently a new "gender-neutral" Pronoun introduced and weren't the three Genders (male, female and neuter) abolished? |
| I suppose I've gotten to the level where I can say I 'know' Japanese, as I'm now able to read books in the language. Certainly still a long way from fluency, though. I'm not against learning Chinese or French at some point as well but I've already got my hands full with JP at the moment. |
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| Spanish is my first language, and I also speak English but I'm still learning and I have to improve a lot yet, especially on speaking. |
| I think and speak in Dutch and English most of the time but I know some more languages. |
lemonymint said: Dear MAL users, I'm curious, is there anyone among you bilingual/multilingual? What language do you think in? Do you switch languages mid-sentence? Do you have problems translating some words? I can speak French and English. Even if my vocabulary in French is pretty wide, sometimes i just think about a word in English and block on it... Sometimes i just can't translate and have to look up in a dictionary. Now it happens more from English to French, even if my native language is the latter... Pretty funny. I dream and think both in French and (basic) English. |
| l speak Spanish and English, Spanish being my first language. l speak/think more in English though. When talking in Spanish and l don't remember how to say a word in Spanish l say it in English. l rarely speak Spanish and l find it hard to speak and write sometimes. |
 Look alive sunshine! The future is bulletproof The aftermath is secondary Its time to do it now and do it loud Killjoys! Make some noise! |
| I'm fluent in English and Spanish and am learning Italian. |
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Rarusu_ said: NEJ FÖR I HELVETE"Igår, jag körde till Malmö" sounds almost poetic. It sounds grammatically incorrect since you can't hear the "," and it's fucking disgusting |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
Rarusu_ said: So objectively superior that it steals words from other languages, and bearly is English anymore. Rarusu_ said: bearly Rarusu_ said: Maybe you'd know the superiority of English if you knew how to write it fluently you uncultured swine.bearly |
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Rarusu_ said: Ok maybe that particular sentenceComic_Sans said: NEJ FÖR I HELVETE It sounds grammatically incorrect since you can't hear the "," and it's fucking disgusting I natt, jag drömde något som, jag aldrig drömt förut It's a classic But not "Igår, jag..." CommanderCaim said: I like bearsRarusu_ said: So objectively superior that it steals words from other languages, and bearly is English anymore. Rarusu_ said: bearly Rarusu_ said: Maybe you'd know the superiority of English if you knew how to write it fluently you uncultured swine.bearly |
Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| I'm Spanish and I know English although I'm still working on getting better at it. |
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Rarusu_ said: Ben-Hur said: What about Finnish? It would be cool if I could speak and understand Finnish, but I can't. I believe it must be pretty hard to learn since it's not even an indo-european language. I found langauges that is not Germanic to be hard. It was difficult for me to learn, but living in the country helped a lot. Tycker inte att svenska är så hemskt komplicerat, påminner ganska mycket om engelska. |
Rarusu_ said: Retreating huh?You're right, bärly is correct  CoNtInUe LiViNg In BaRbArIsM |
PeenusWeenusCaimSep 29, 2015 7:10 PM
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Jessica said: I only know English, but I'm interesting in learning other languages. I've tried before and I also have a bit in school, but I havent gotten too far into anything. Yep I can't remember much about French except for the basics. |
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| I speak English, Riffian, Dutch and Arabic(currently studying). I usually think in Dutch since that's the language I use most. |
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| I'm studying Spanish in school right now, but I'm definitely not fluent. |
| My first language is spanish but I can speak fluent english and italian. I was raised speaking spanish and english, while I started taking Italian classes when I was 6 years old. |
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| I'm a native English speaker but I can speak fluent Spanish too. I know quite a lot of Chinese as well, but I'm definitely not fluent at it. It's quite useful when I can't find anything translated/subtitled in English, I just have to search for them in Spanish or Chinese. |
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