Oh my. I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I have been studying language for quite a long time. My aim is to become an interpreter and eventually a teacher, so the list is quite long.
I am an American-born Frenchman, and my first language is English with French right behind as my second. Beyond that, I can read, write and speak:
Japanese (quite a popular one, too)
Swedish
Norwegian
Greek (Hellenistic) <-- This unfortunately excludes modern Greek for now.
Latin
Old (West) Norse
I know some of:
Egyptian hieroglyphics (I can only read them and vaguely write/draw them; I cannot pronounce them.)
German (Just a few phrases; I can't pronounce very well at all.)
Dutch (Same state as the German. Actually, I tend to pronounce German like its Dutch, since I started to learn Dutch first.)
Chinese (Mandarin [Those tones! Most of the characters I know in Chinese I have learned through Japanese, though that sometimes creates confusing situations. No, it's "demon". No, it's "ghost". Well, they're both similar, and it is the same character in both languages...])
Russian (My vowel pronunciation = poop. I can read it pretty well, as the alphabet was largely based on the Greek one. The grammar is similar to Latin, so I understand a little, but that's really as far as it goes.)
Portugese (This and the following two only through Latin; vocabulary and grammar are somewhat similar, so my recognition of the words and meaning doesn't go very far.)
Italian
Spanish (Castilian)
Danish (While I can read and write it, I cannot pronounce it without sounding Swedish, haha.)
I aim to learn:
ALL of them!
But in the near future. =P
Arabic
Sanskrit
Indonesian
Tagalog
Malay
Myanmar/Burmese
Various other southeast Asian languages, and many more! >3
So, of course, that's why I'm here. And don't get me wrong; I don't doubt that some of you here can teach me a thing or two about every language on this list, including the ones at the top, so don't think that I'm unwilling to learn. There's always room for more!
I am an American-born Frenchman, and my first language is English with French right behind as my second. Beyond that, I can read, write and speak:
Japanese (quite a popular one, too)
Swedish
Norwegian
Greek (Hellenistic) <-- This unfortunately excludes modern Greek for now.
Latin
Old (West) Norse
I know some of:
Egyptian hieroglyphics (I can only read them and vaguely write/draw them; I cannot pronounce them.)
German (Just a few phrases; I can't pronounce very well at all.)
Dutch (Same state as the German. Actually, I tend to pronounce German like its Dutch, since I started to learn Dutch first.)
Chinese (Mandarin [Those tones! Most of the characters I know in Chinese I have learned through Japanese, though that sometimes creates confusing situations. No, it's "demon". No, it's "ghost". Well, they're both similar, and it is the same character in both languages...])
Russian (My vowel pronunciation = poop. I can read it pretty well, as the alphabet was largely based on the Greek one. The grammar is similar to Latin, so I understand a little, but that's really as far as it goes.)
Portugese (This and the following two only through Latin; vocabulary and grammar are somewhat similar, so my recognition of the words and meaning doesn't go very far.)
Italian
Spanish (Castilian)
Danish (While I can read and write it, I cannot pronounce it without sounding Swedish, haha.)
I aim to learn:
ALL of them!
But in the near future. =P
Arabic
Sanskrit
Indonesian
Tagalog
Malay
Myanmar/Burmese
Various other southeast Asian languages, and many more! >3
So, of course, that's why I'm here. And don't get me wrong; I don't doubt that some of you here can teach me a thing or two about every language on this list, including the ones at the top, so don't think that I'm unwilling to learn. There's always room for more!
