| I think this thread was already made, but I can't find it. So sorry, if it's a double thread. Since it's an international website, I was wondering what are the languages MAL users speak and if anyone had tips to learn new languages. As for me : -> French (maternal langugage) -> Tamil (maternal language) -> Engrish (travelled a few times in UK, but I'm still learning) -> Italian (travelled a few times in Italia, but I'm still learning) -> Spanish (travelled a few times in Spain, but I'm still learning) -> German (beginner) -> Portuguese (plan to learn) I found some interesting video of polyglotte on TEDxxTeen : |
HooHiraiBunnyJun 20, 2016 8:41 AM
| In order of fluency: >>English >>Telugu = Mother-tongue >>Hindi = Forced to learn it by my parents. >>Japanese = Learning >>German = Learning |
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| >English (live in 'murica) >Hindi (It's absolutely broken. My parents used to force us to learn hindi back when we were kids but it's been a long while since we've used it) >Japanese (Imma start taking classes once summer is over) >Spanish (again, pretty broken, I had it in middle school) |
| My native language is Norwegian, which is more or less mutually intelligible with Danish and Swedish, so I guess you could say that I understand those as well. I also know English obviously, and a little bit of German. I also know some basic Japanese, i.e, know all the kana, some kanji, basic sentences, etc. I got bored with it though, so I haven't practiced it much lately. |
MoogJun 20, 2016 8:49 AM
| English Macedonian Serbian And I know a little bit of Croatian/Bosnian since they're really similar to Serbian. I remember I also had Italian in middle school but i'm pretty shit at it. I can read pretty good but I don't understand anything lol. I want to learn Korean/Danish in the future, so we'll see. |
| English - I usually use this for conversation with my family and brother, even though its my second language. Bengali - Mother tongue and native language. Hindi - A bit broken, but I can still speak it. |
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| English - Pretty much the only language I am fluent in Welsh - Speak a little bit of it French - More or less fluent in it |
| English (C2) German (C1) Russian (C1) Icelandic (A2) Japanese (A2) Polish (A2) P.S. |
| -> Swedish (maternal language, large vocabulary, nearly perfect language sense, 100 % fluent) -> French (paternal language, great language sense but not as good as my Swedish language sense + my vocabulary isn't quite as big. I'm still fluent though) -> English (1st foreign language, learned it about four years ago, my reading, listening and writing skills are great but I don't really like speaking the language) -> Danish (I understand most of it since it's more or less mutually intelligible with Swedish) -> Norwegian (I understand most of it since it's more or less mutually intelligible with Swedish) -> Italian (2nd foreign language, I know basic shit but I'm not very good at it so I'm gonna keep practicing) -> Japanese (3rd foreign language, very basic shit, still learning) -> Russian (4th foreign language, jack shit, still learning) -> Indonesian, Serbian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese, Icelandic (other foreign languages, I haven't even started learning them yet but I will eventually) |
Comic_SansJun 20, 2016 8:51 AM
 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: That's because it's objectively inferior to FrenchI have studied Spanish in the past, but I can't use it, nor understand it. I thought it was boring and hard to learn. |
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 |
| Finnish - My mother tongue English - Studied it more or less about 11 years Swedish - Pretty bad :p Japanese - Basics, still learning |
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| @Comic_Sans : French sucks. Even french people don't know how to speak french. |
| I only speak 2 languages, Spanish and English. Though I'm thinking about learning Korean. |
 NasalShark said: I'd love to squeeze your nipples until they look like a purple slushie, Senpai. |
| Bullshit French rules ❝Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrivé ! Contre nous de la tyrannie L'étendard sanglant est levé❞ |
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 |
| Hindi, English, Gujarati & Bengali. |
 I don't know why people write that they are approachable persons, if you were you wouldn't be on MAL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended families or lovers on MAL are a farce. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| I can speak Turkish, Persian, English and some French pretty fluently. I'm trying to pick up some Japanese (duh) and German along the way too. |
Doctors want to check me  Poke me and dissect me What do they expect? Feelings from a wind-up toy? I don't think so |
| German, Latin, Some Spanish, Some Italian, Some Egnlisch, 1 years worth of Japanese and i can insult people in french and polish (very important as a german) Comic_Sans said: Rarusu_ said: That's because it's objectively inferior to FrenchI have studied Spanish in the past, but I can't use it, nor understand it. I thought it was boring and hard to learn. french is a horrible language. every guy sounds like he offers you a blowjob |
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Nigami_Shin said: That's one of the reasons why it's such a great languageFrench is a horrible language. every guy sounds like he offers you a blowjob Can't say the same about German though |
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 |
| French people are horrible person and should be avoided at all costs. The worst might be the parisian. |
| I've always been impressed by Scandinavians and their English skills...some of you speak flawlessly. As for me, English only, just know some basic French. |
| The football field isn't the only place where you could use a good line. |
| Arabic and English fluently. Used to know French and some Persian. An old geezer like me can't remember much. |
HooHiraiBunny said: French people hate Parisians too so that doesn't say muchFrench people are horrible person and should be avoided at all costs. The worst might be the parisian. |
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 |
Comic_Sans said: Nobody likes the Parisians, Parisians themselves hate the Parisians.French people hate Parisians to so that doesn't say much |
HooHiraiBunny said: Spot on, ma chère HooHiraiBunnyComic_Sans said: Nobody likes the Parisians, Parisians themselves hate the Parisians.French people hate Parisians to so that doesn't say much <3 |
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 |
| French - Mother tongue Dutch - Technically second language, since I studied it for 11 years at school (it's Belgium second official language), but I'm still not fluent English - Much better than my dutch, mandatory for scientific research Japanese - just starting to study @HooHiraiBunny : Agreed, it's painful how most French people suck at their own language. I did a student job correcting articles for a newspaper, even journalists can't make three sentences without a grammatical mistake even though it's their job to write. |
YarrowiaJun 20, 2016 9:23 AM
| EDIT: ^wtf with all this french hate ?! All these "vikings" listing all these norwegian languages, like wtf its all the same shit. , stop cheating !! @OP: French, English, Aarabic (all 95 variants of it), Turkish and a dash of Espagnole :V Portuguese and German (coming soon). HooHiraiBunny said: French people are horrible person and should be avoided at all costs. The worst might be the parisian. LOL, i hope you're just joking. |
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Rarusu_ said: I can even figure out the meaning of some sentences in written Dutch, because it's quite similar to both English, German and Swedish. i've head people say this before. i know english and especially german are similiar to dutch, but swedish.. i cant understand a single fuck of what you guys are saying. not even one word. completely diffrent language to me. ot: really only dutch and english. i'm not a nerd. |
| M.P.D.S./F.O.A.D. |
| Mandahiling, Minang Kabau, Jawa a little bit, Indonesian and English. Yeah I have plenty and qualified to list mine here too. Still working out with my English though, can comprehend almost everything written in English and quite good at writing but not that good at speaking, cant spell one word correctly. |
UpperCatJun 20, 2016 9:27 AM
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ZA_WAYD said: EDIT: ^wtf with all this french hate ?! All these "vikings" listing all these norwegian languages, like wtf its all the same shit. , stop cheating !! @OP: French, English, Aarabic (all 95 variants of it), Turkish and a dash of Espagnole :V Portuguese and German (coming soon). HooHiraiBunny said: French people are horrible person and should be avoided at all costs. The worst might be the parisian. LOL, i hope you're just joking. jajajajajajajajaja no one likes you :^) |
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| @ZA_WAYD : Are you French or something? |
| portuguese n english... also a bit of french but its just rlly.. basic.. as heck, i wanna learn korean n german in the near future tho |
| I speak only English fluently. Because I am English. I know some German and a little Icelandic but that's about it. |
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| Portuguese (European): Native speaker English: Fluent German: Intermediate Would like to achieve fluency in German someday and then learn French or Dutch. |
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| I can speak : - French (Mothertongue) - English (First language) - Polish (A little bit) - Czech (As well as Polish, but I have a bit more vocabulary) - German (Well, I can say few sentences and understand some stuffs) I can read : - Latin (Still, I'm not good at it) - Spanish (Can understand it well, but not good at speaking it) That's something HooHiraiBunny said: French people are horrible person and should be avoided at all costs. The worst might be the parisian. <3 <3 How I love generalizations ~ |
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| But it's so true! Don't tell me that you actually like them? :< |
HooHiraiBunny said: But it's so true! Don't tell me that you actually like them? :< I'm not fond of Paris, and what I could see and hear about Parisians was not very glorious .. But there are still decent people living there, some of them helped me when I was in need, well I didn't get the same help as abroad but I still met some nice persons. Lets say that the general mentality of French persons doesn't seem exactly nice, and I could myself see some of it, but I admit I myself tend to criticize Parisians Haha Few days ago, my flatmate said that people from my region were said in other regions to be a bunch of asses, which was a big surprise to me. Apparently, even the Starbucks leader said shit about us (Has he ever come here? O__o) since for years they didn't want to build one here Lol I never really agree with generalizations since those things really depend on people, even if the envirnment influences in such way that we can find some of those things that are similar. |
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| I speak Dutch and English fluently. My German is also very good but nowhere near my Dutch or English. I also learned French for a while and I felt at the time I could have a normal conversation with someone while now all I can remember is some basic sentences and cursewords :(. |
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Nyarlathothep said: HooHiraiBunny said: But it's so true! Don't tell me that you actually like them? :< I'm not fond of Paris, and what I could see and hear about Parisians was not very glorious .. But there are still decent people living there, some of them helped me when I was in need, well I didn't get the same help as abroad but I still met some nice persons. Lets say that the general mentality of French persons doesn't seem exactly nice, and I could myself see some of it, but I admit I myself tend to criticize Parisians Haha Few days ago, my flatmate said that people from my region were said in other regions to be a bunch of asses, which was a big surprise to me. Apparently, even the Starbucks leader said shit about us (Has he ever come here? O__o) since for years they didn't want to build one here Lol I never really agree with generalizations since those things really depend on people, even if the envirnment influences in such way that we can find some of those things that are similar. been to Paris twice myself. Never had any problems. And despite the stereotypes, yes store owners and such actually did speak English to me. Even the ones who struggled at it tried to communicate in English with me even before I've opened my mouth. Everyone has their own experience. |
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| German (native) English (fluent - learned it for years in school and I use it often in the internet) French (learned it for 3 years in school but forgot everything already because I never needed it and I am too lazy to learn ... more complicatd they have those accents ^´and `which makes it harder to memorize vocabulary Japanese (only little bit/beginner - too lazy to learn mainly because of the Kanji and I do not only want to learn how to speak but also how to write and read) Since I am from an area in Germany where we speak dialect that is similar "Pennsylvania German/Dutch" I can understand those people a bit. It is a mix of English and that German dialect (even though a lot of people call it "dutch"). But I can't speak it myself - I don't know where to use the German dialect words and where to use English (for stuff where there did not exist German words they use English). Also feels weird cause in German I try to avoid speaking dialect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_German_language |
| Klingon Elvish Dothraki And whatever nonsense language Ewoks speak. |
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| English (Native) Spanish (Fluent) Chinese (Almost fluent, been learning for years) |
| Finnish - native language. English - mandatory subject since 3rd grade. It doesn't really feel that foreign language anymore, since it's in daily usage. French - studied it voluntarily since the 4th grade and all through high school, but never really got immersed in the language - all the entertainment I watched/listened/read was mostly in English. But if my life was at stake, I guess I could muster up a few sentences. Swedish - mandatory subject since the 7th grade. I like Swedish a lot more than French, since I actually feel like I can comprehensively speak it. And learning it felt a great deal easier because of its relation to English (both Germanic languages). Japanese - it's a wip for life!I know the most common phrases and also a small vocabulary thanks to all the anime. I feel like the pronunciation and speaking are relatively easy, but the writing system... might be too much for me :P |
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| - Spanish (Native language) - English (Fluent. Grew up speaking it along with Spanish so it's my second language) - Italian (Fluent. Lived in Italia some time so I had to learn.) - Korean (Fluent. I've been taking classes for some time now) - Serbian (Intermediate, can speak more than write.) |
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| As far as only Speaking is concerned, I'm using in over 80% of my Time only German, which is my paternal Language and the de facto official Language of the Place where I live. The Rest includes to ~17% Romanian for which I'm not fluent and have basically just the Vocabulary of a small Child and very seldom, possibly broken English on a theoretically fluent-sounding Level. Since I'm not Asian, I can't speak Engrish, but it's very possible that my English contains Corruption, even if it's far from being broken English, since I try to imitate the Recieved Pronounciation (RP) as much as possible, whereas Mixes because of Americanisms are bound to happen. I'd like to graduate my English to more Anglish, the purer Form of English. ZA_WAYD said: It's true that the Nordic Germanic Languages are "Ausbausprachen" (= Languages, that differentiate by their Development), but when asked about the spoken Language, naming other Standard Varieties within the Dialect or Language Continuum (depending on whether you view them as as Languages or as Dialects, since "A language is a dialect with an army and navy") don't count either Way if it's about the Language(s) one speaks.All these "vikings" listing all these norwegian languages, like wtf its all the same shit. , stop cheating !! |
Noboru said: ZA_WAYD said: It's true that the Nordic Germanic Languages are "Ausbausprachen" (= Languages, that differentiate by their Development), but when asked about the spoken Language, naming other Standard Varieties within the Dialect or Language Continuum (depending on whether you view them as as Languages or as Dialects, since "A language is a dialect with an army and navy") don't count either Way if it's about the Language(s) one speaks.All these "vikings" listing all these norwegian languages, like wtf its all the same shit. , stop cheating !! Aye, aye i get what you're saying fam , but i was mostly joking |
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| Spanish- Native language Galician- Native language Portuguese- I can understand most of it because of its similarity with the Galician language. English- I can understand it pretty well, but I'm not really fluent. |
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