No.5488389
What languages do you know? What languages do you like/dislike? What languages do you want to learn? What languages sound pleasant/unpleasant to you? etc
>tfw only know English because Merifag
I wish I grew up speaking multiple languages, but my parents only speak English. I've been trying to learn French for about a year since it is supposed to be easy, but I find it hard and don't really even like it. Fuck gendered nouns, fuck the retarded base 20 number naming system, fuck the formation of questions, and fuck the fact that it is almost incomprehensible when listening to the language since people slur one word into the next word. I stick with it just because I want to be fluent in another language and I have put a lot of time into it already. I would like to know Russian and Japanese but they are supposed to be very hard to learn and since I have a hard enough time learning the supposedly easy French I will likely never be able to learn those languages.
No.5488397
>>5488389
>tfw only english
I haven't tried learning anything else.
No.5488404
>>5488397
>I haven't tried learning anything else.
If you are a stupid anon like me then I recommend not trying to learn one. It's a shit ton of work for little to no results.
No.5488455
I know English, Japanese, Greek, and C++
No.5488458
>>5488455
>C++
I'm even worse at /tech/ shit than I am with languages.
>tfw you will never be smart
No.5488467
>>5488404
I haven't been around people with any other primary language.
I might be wrong, but language is one of those things that is quite hard to learn in a classroom setting.
I would like to learn moonruins, so to be able to read hentai.
No.5488476
>>5488467
>I haven't been around people with any other primary language.
Same here.
>I might be wrong, but language is one of those things that is quite hard to learn in a classroom setting.
I don't know. I am a NEET trying to use my time to learn something, but everything is hard to learn.
>I would like to learn moonruins, so to be able to read hentai.
Wouldn't we all?
No.5488499
>>5488476
I do have this indie game in my Steam library that claims that it is able to teach you some basic Japaneses. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but the reviews said it okay.
No.5488538
Might be a partially irrelevant story, but I grew up in various cities in Russia, between Ufa, Bashkortostan; Moscow, Reutov (just outside Moscow), St Petersburg, and Novosibirsk (Siberian city). Mainly because my father was (and still is) in the Russian military, and moves around often. I now live in America, I was adopted out when I was 5 (I still remember not understanding why my dad was mean to me and my mom left).
I still speak Russian pretty well, I've intentionally kept up with it over the years. I still keep in touch with my father and other family (cousins), my friends from Ufa, St Petersburg, and (a few from) Moscow. Couldn't find any friends from Novosibirsk, but mainly family members. I'm 20 now, and I really want to go back to some of those cities because I remember them being much more exciting than my current city outside of Chicago. Maybe that's because I was younger, maybe not.
Anyway, to answer the questions OP,
I know English, Russian, and some Chinese. I like most European languages (Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Greek, Polish, most eastern European languages primarily ones with Cyrillic writing).
I want to learn German, Dutch, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, and Tagalog (yes I know that's weird). Most languages sound pretty pleasant to me, but I don't think I'd have time to learn most of them.
No.5488558
>>5488538
>I know English, Russian, and some Chinese.
Trade me brains.
>I don't think I'd have time to learn most of them
I am a NEET so I have plenty of time to learn, but little ability. That lack of ability then leads to a lack of motivation which leads to a lack of practice until I get motivated again. It's become a vicious cycle.
No.5488717
I fluently speak english, latin (no affiliation with the church) and german (Hochdeutsch, Plattdütsch, some others). I speak on a non-native level spanish and italian (not hard to learn once you get good at latin). Because of my family and ancestry I learned a bit of faroese and swedish here and there and I'm fairly interested in "norwegian", but didn't learn any yet (don't ask which one, because I wouldn't know the answer), but even moreso icelandic. I learned some french and japanese in the past, but got pretty bored of those, so those are quite limited. Might still be able to have very basic conversation in those.
Nordic/Norse and germanic languages generally sound very good to me and I enjoy learning about them the most, but I don't have a degree in any of them, while at this point I can say that there wouldn't be much additional learning needed to obtain one, but I'm going for a science degree at the moment.
Chinese, arabic, turkish sound pretty awful to my ears and welsh sounds really weird.
I know no /tech/ language well. I did some programming with Visual Basic, but not enough to really remember anything.
No.5488731
>>5488717
Oh and russian and similar languages sound awful to my ears too.
Especially polish is not nice to listen to.
No.5488748
>>5488717
>>5488731
>Nordic/Norse and germanic languages generally sound very good to me
I agree.
>Chinese, arabic, turkish sound pretty awful to my ears and welsh sounds really weird
>Oh and russian and similar languages sound awful to my ears too.
I am pretty apathetic towards the sound of Chinese. I like the way Russian sounds especially when qt 3.14 slavs speak it.
If I could have a super-mental-power I would love to be fluent in every language, or just be able to easily learn languages. You seem to speak quite a bit of different things. It must be pretty cool and useful.
No.5488752
You guys are right, it's too much work to learn a language for little results. First of all most of us are shut ins so it's not like we're talking to a lot of people even in our native languages. Second, if you're an American like me, there is no place to practice your language unless you go out of your way and join a club or something for that language. You can't just go out to the pub and meet someone who speaks a few foreign languages that you know. Your friends probably don't know other languages. You can't even drive anywhere close to meet people who speak the language. You'd have to cross the fucking ocean to speak a foreign language with anyone other than mexicans. Third, enough people speak english that it really isn't even necessary unless you're going to spend a significant amount of time in a different country. In the time it takes you to learn a language fluently, you could learn something far more relevant and useful, like auto repair or carpentry or reading the entirety of the english literary canon.
No.5488813
>>5488752
>First of all most of us are shut ins so it's not like we're talking to a lot of people even in our native languages. Second, if you're an American like me, there is no place to practice your language unless you go out of your way and join a club or something for that language.
>In the time it takes you to learn a language fluently, you could learn something far more relevant and useful, like auto repair or carpentry or reading the entirety of the english literary canon.
Please stop, Anon. You are making me feel.
No.5488817
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I decided last year that I wanted to go into linguistics so I decided to get a head start and self study languages. It took me a while but I decided to tackle German first, Hochdeutsch (high german). I taught myself as much as I could and became semi-fluent, I could hold a conversation with someone but not really go in depth about thing and a lot of the grammar still eluded me. I got bored with me making little practice and decided to give up self teaching and take my experience into a classroom when I go to college. I just recently decided to study Ukrainian and am getting familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet. Ukrainian is much more pleasent to hear, that's why it's called ‘the language of nightingales’. In fact it's in the top 3 most beautiful languages in the world. I want to learn Finnish next because it's supposed to be one of the hardest grammar systems.
Oh and btw almost every other language in the world has gendered nouns. At least in French there is only 2 (i think?). In German there is 4 and 5 grammatical cases. Meaning there is 16 different ways to say the word "The" and all of them can mean something completely different in different places. In Ukrainian there is 7 and in Finnish there is 15 >:^)
I want to learn: Arabic,Finnish,Russian,Bulgarian,Norwegian,German,Latin,Polish,Mandarin,maybe Nipponese,maybe Korean,maybe Africaans, and just for job reason French and Spanish
No.5488833
>>5488389
>Fluent level
>Spanish
Native speaker
>english
Been speaking it for almost 8 years and practice it daily, somehow i think in this language the most
>portugese
if you speak spanish this is no big deal to learn, it's really similar
>fuck this level
>Japanese
I never had any idea why i decided to learn it, just like portuguese, except i got bored really fast of this one, every sentence i write must be retarded 10 year old tier
No.5488841
>>5488817
>Oh and btw almost every other language in the world has gendered nouns.
This is one thing I like about English. We don't have the autism required to assign a gender to a table or a cup.
>tfw can't even figure out english grammar
Grammar makes no fucking sense to me. Language learning is too fucking hard.
No.5488848
>>5488833
Where are you from, Anon?
No.5488893
>>5488848
The wonderland they want to stop leaking by building the wall Mexico
I did not cover on my previous post i'd love to learn german and get back at learning japanese for real, shortly i give up on the process so this is kind of a love-hate relationship with it, here's hoping i don't screw up on german too
No.5488895
>>5488893
>Mexico
My condolences.
>i'd love to learn german and get back at learning japanese for real
I hope you can succeed.
No.5488985
>>5488748
It's fun to explore the spanish side of the internet.
Other than that I just wish I could use and expand my language skills more often.
And I definitely think I would have never understood languages so well and been able to learn them so fast without my latin teacher I had in school. He was great at teaching.
No.5489007
>>5488985
>And I definitely think I would have never understood languages so well and been able to learn them so fast without my latin teacher I had in school. He was great at teaching.
When I was in high school our language options were Spanish and German. I had no interest in either of them back then and I now regret not learning German when I had the chance. I would like to learn more Germanic languages, especially old proto german nad proto scandanavian.
No.5489061
>>5489007
I am a great fan of the languages of old too.
Try the interpretation of the Hildebrandslied by Menhir. It's really, really wonderful a piece.
It's on JewTube too, if you don't know where to find it. There are several versions of it, and the earlier ones aren't as nice.
It's so fun to learn about the languages today by reading about material like this epic poem in exemplum gratia.
It's so interesting how many similarities you find between norse and saxon/bavarian. I don't yet know why they're there.
No.5489069
>>5489061
>It's so interesting how many similarities you find between norse and saxon/bavarian
Things like this give you an insight into history that I want to have. To have an understanding of not only modern language, but old language is one of the best indirect ways to understand history and culture and how they changed throughout time. If only I had the knowledge necessary for it.
No.5489088
I speak English, Romanian and Gypsy language, now I am currently learning Hungarian and thinking about starting to learn some indo-iranian languages since they belong in the same language family as Gypsy language.
No.5489097
>>5489069
I'm just 20 years of age myself, so I'd say you surely will still have enough time to learn these things you want to learn, if you provide yourself the required discipline and general atmosphere.
Learning from a teacher I can respect worked best for me in the past. If they annoyed me as a person, I never really could follow their words.
No.5489108
>>5489088
Do you speak transylvanian too?
No.5489115
>>5489108
I don't speak Hungarian fluently so I speak transylvanian only partially.
No.5489122
>>5489097
>I'm just 20 years of age myself, so I'd say you surely will still have enough time to learn these things you want to learn, if you provide yourself the required discipline and general atmosphere.
I turn 21 this month. It's not an issue of time, but one of ability. I am a NEET so I have the time to learn, but I find it extremely difficult.
No.5489129
>>5489122
Learning languages is not for you then. You have to have a certain affinity to languages to be multilingual.
No.5489131
>>5489129
I never asked to be an idiot.
No.5489136
>>5489131
We are all incapable of something
No.5489140
>>5489136
For me that something seems to be everything.
No.5489151
>>5489140
That's rubbish, you can always become an hero. That ability is in all of us, and we should all become one.
No.5489154
>>5489151
One of these days.
No.5489159
>>5489154
Kill the banksters first. Then kill yourself. Don't be a faggot.
No.5489194
>>5488389
I am a native English speaker. I have taken Spanish in middle school, high school, and college. I was an English major but took some upper division spanish to get a spanish minor. I have tried really hard for a while to get fluent and I am, I would say, fluent now. But you really have to want it and do it every day. I took a bunch of linguistics classes and I can see cognates everywhere. It's really fun, but only if language really interests you. As I have become fluent, I realize, kind of disappointedly, that all I have learned to do is talk, which I could already do. English is where it's at, though I love Spanish. I have also taken some German on Duolingo, which is a great free program by the dude that made captcha and he did it with a mcarthur grant and a national science foundation grant. That program is really easy
No.5489197
>>5489194
Oh, also if you like old languages, you should get a book of proto-indo-european roots. It's a dictionary of roots of all the languages descended from Indo-european, which is a fuckton. American Heritage Dictionary has a pie roots and a semetic roots dictionary in the back
No.5489205
>>5489194
I use duolingo every day, but all it has done is give me a bit of vocabulary. I used memrise also, but I did not help me do much that I did not already know with duolingo.
>>5489197
I will look into this. As much as I hate myself for not being able to understand grammar and learn a language, I still want to know things.
No.5489215
>>5488389
I only speak English, French and Italian.
But my mom speak English French and Spanish and my dad speak English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
No.5489217
>>5489215
Cool. I wish I had parents that spoke several languages.
No.5489231
>>5489205
Duolingo should help you get the feel of the rules of languages too, grammar-wise. I learned Spanish from charts and stuff but I am trying to get German from it alone. I want to look up the charts but I think the Duolingo approach might be more organic. One thing for sure, unless you talk with someone who you don't share another language with in the target language, it is hard to gauge how well you speak it or get better.
Get either a American Heritage Dictionary 4th ed. and it has the roots dictionary in the back, or just get this little book.
No.5489243
>>5489217
When my dad and his brother speak to each other, you can't fallow the conversation because they switch languages mid sentence it goes from Piedmontese (an Italian dialect from a specific region), to São-Paolo slang, to down right latin word there and there. Sometime my uncle will even speak japanese words, when his angry, because he know my father won't understand it, witch make him mad. It's really fun to watch, but hard to follow.
No.5489248
>>5489231
>Duolingo should help you get the feel of the rules of languages too, grammar-wise.
It has helped a little, but since I don't understand shit like tenses it can only help me so much.
I will like into getting one of those books.
No.5489250
>>5489243
That sounds like a fun way to communicate.
No.5489255
>>5489250
It is. It help when we travel a lot.
No.5489256
>>5489255
Not switching language that is.
No.5489259
>>5489248
But don't think you just "don't understand" tenses. You just don't yet!
No.5489271
>>5489259
I hope you're right.
No.5489277
English, Spanish, Portuguese. I used to know Catalan, pretty bad at it now.
I want to learn German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian.
No.5489339
>native
English
>conversational
Russian
>mediocre
French
>meh
Spanish
Honestly, learning it isn't that hard. You just have to be invested and motivated. I never practiced any of these with anyone before I stopped studying. It only took me 4 months of study for Russian, 3 for Spanish, and 2 for French. About 2-4 hours of studying every day. I studied French immediately after Spanish so my Spanish declined faster than the others thanks to that.
When you've reached the level you've wanted, make sure you either keep studying, even if it's just review, or talk often in the language, even if only to yourself. My French and Spanish used to also be conversational level but I almost never use them. Luckily I speak Russian with someone twice a week. Apparently I don't have an accent in Russian, which was nice to hear.
No.5489407
>>5488389
>What languages do you know?
English - native
Spanish - intermediate
French - intermediate
By "intermediate" I mean that I can pick up and read a newspaper without running for a dictionary every paragraph, I can hold very simple conversations about everyday things, and I can make myself understood with only moderate comic effect.
>What languages do you like/dislike?
I don't really dislike any languages. I dislike some things that are common to pretty much all languages, like inconsistency and ambiguity. That's more to do with human nature and the human use of language than languages themselves, though.
I like Spanish and French pretty well, because I have some familiarity with them. I like the way Italian sounds. Icelandic and Finnish sound interesting, too. I find Nip and Chink writing interesting.
>What languages do you want to learn?
Nip. I've been to Japan, and I'll likely go again sooner than I'd go elsewhere, so it would be practical.
Pie-in-the-sky? It would be neat to learn the 10 most commonly spoken languages in the world.
>What languages sound pleasant/unpleasant to you?
Semitic languages sound unpleasant.
No.5489507
Grew up in english speaking country
Spanish speaking parents
French was easy because latin language and moved to France and now study in a french university
Learned italian in like 3 weeks because of french and spanish mostly to fuck guido bitches, fuck they are hot!!!
Studying Russian now and fuck is it hard now I realise I kind of cheated learning the french and italian. I wanted to learn a non romance language.
Don't get discouraged op keep at it!
French is easy once you get the feel for it!
No.5489609
My native is russian. Unfortunately, it's the only language i can speak fluently, because i have no friends or any people to talk with at all, even in russian. In english speech i make a plenty of mistakes because not able to improve the speech and only limited with reading texts.
Know some German, but not more than 150 words, i never studied it on purpose, learned it only from lyrics of some german bands' songs.
Learning chinese now, it was not hard for me at all, like everyone says. Learned around 2k words, can watch tv shows without any difficulties. I'm glad that learning foreign languages seems to be easy for me.
Some time ago wanted to start learning Japanese, but its pronunciation is way too boring and monotonous, also i don't like that it has too much loan english words that are not suitable for that language at all. I like expressive languages, that can help you to express every emotion only by its pronunciation. So, Chinese and German are the best languages for me. Maybe, if i have time in the future, i will certianly start learning German, and probably Korean and French.
No.5489653
i dont like languages like english and french, cuz they dont know how to read letters, i dont like languaes like chinese, japanese or etiopian, cuz they dont have letters, they have syllable notations and i dont like languages that have their alphabet based on greek, not latin, but thats arbitrary.
No.5489674
>Be german
>Only know german until hordes come
>Forced to learn arabic because diversities programs
> I now know how to say fuck me with your muslim cock
No.5489681
>>5489653
>i dont like languages like english and french, cuz they dont know how to read letters
this tbh. I'm Hungarian and we tend to write shit down the way it's pronounced. it always boggled my mind how some languages have this completely arbitrary spelling that has fuck all to do with actual pronunciation.
No.5489697
>>5488389
>English
>Less than basic French
>Much less than basic Russian
French is just a repulsive language, and Russian doesn't seem too bad once you get the alphabet. I'd like to learn it fully, but it takes time, mang.
The only other language i'd like to learn is Mandarin, just because it sounds interesting. Though I've heard it's a major ball ache.
No.5489860
>>5488389
IMHO if you want to learn lots of languages, stick with one script and go archaic if you must.
If you want to know a good variety of languages, learn at least 3 separate scripts and the languages that go with them.
No.5489869
>>5489860
Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, moon runes…what other scripts, besides weird prairienigger shit? And does anyone use Greek alphabet outside Greece?
No.5489881
i can speak deutsch,english and turkish but i want to learn spanish..
No.5489912
I speak English and have been absolutely terrible at every language that I've tried to learn.
My mom teaches latin and sometimes Italian. My dad is fluent in Arabic, Creol and French and conversational in Spanish and Mandarin. My sister is fluent in French and Thai and conversational in Arabic.
Somehow I'm just sort of language retarded. But I also just talk a lot less than they do so my English isn't as good either.
No.5490357
What are good ways to learn languages outside of classes?
I took french in school, and though I'm not interested in french specifically, it made me interested in other languages.
No.5493371
No.5493489
>>5488389
same boat, despite my father, whom I met like 5 times, being a french native. been learning latin since elementary school too, for all the good it's done.
No.5493498
>>5489697
filthy french-indochinaman. if you don't like the language, immolate yourself.
No.5493572
I would love more than anything to learn Old English, I even have some books for that exact purpose.
However, I don't have a lot of patience with reading, and I have a tendency to quit stuff prematurely. I can get stoked to do something, try it for thirty minutes and never even consider bothering myself with it again.
No.5494737
>>5489653
>that image
No, it's not fucking pronounced "ghoti", otherwise they wouldn't have to explain it and could just show you the two words. English spelling makes perfect sense in a historical linguistic perspective, it's not random.
No.5494840
I know Russian and English very well.
I learned some Arabic and Hindi because of where I live and can make small talk but I can't into deep conversations, still want to finish learning these languages when I get some time.
I want to learn Chinese, Latin, Spanish and maybe Japanese once I finished learning those.
>>5489609
Your English doesn't seem too bad, you explained everything very well, I'm sure it would be perfect if you took some lessons though, finding someone to talk to and practice with is also important.
>some german bands' songs.
Rammstein? Lol
No.5495024
>native language
American
>conversation/shitposting on /argentina/ tier
Spanish, taking classes at my school and it's p easy, just don't devote much time to practicing
>retarded infant tier
Picked up a bit of german from rammstein they're shit tbh, never use it and never will
Also know the tiniest bit of nip, know both the syllabaries and a couple kanji. I can make a few simple sentences and that's it
>dog with downs tier
I can read the Cyrillic alphabet and I know a couple Russian words
>kill me tier
I know a couple of Hebrew letters, and a basic knowledge of Chinese grammar, but no words
I often get super hype to learn a language, then quit within a week or so. Id really like to get pro at Spanish, it's actually a bit useful as I live in commiefornia and I'd like to visit argentina someday. Aside from that there's a bunch of languages that are neat, but are totally useless to me. If I could, I'd learn Russian, mandarin, and Nipponese, but again, I live in America so they're useless and difficult to learn.
As a side note semitic languages sound fugly, along with indian languages and french
No.5495292
>>5488389
Finnish, English and a bit of Swedish. Swedish is a faggot language so I haven't put any effort into learning it, but it's mandatory in Finland so fuck me. And of course japanese :^)
No.5495312
>English
>French
>Spanish
and I know the word for nigger in 26 languages
No.5495315
>>5489000
Kennedy check em
No.5495320
皆はお釜オタクで文句言っていやがりながらここの私はマスタのように日本語しているんだぜｗｗｗｗｗ
No.5495336
>>5488389
>languages
Polish (native), English (fluently), German (basics, literally)
>Like/dislike
Actually, I love Polish, what more, I really do like/love how French, English (cockney) and sort of Latin sound
>want to learn
French, definitely, maybe work more on German one day
>unpleasant sound
Chinese and Arabic languages, hell, just no. And shit-tier English accents, like typical Slavic/Asian one. Makes me cringe the fuck away.
No.5495500
>tfw I speak English Spanish Swedish French and Catalan
>tfw learning Russian ATM.
>tfw noface.
But seriously OP, best way to learn a language is to speak it. Fuck grammar classes and fuck reading exercises. Start speaking it. Find a group where they speak the language you like and go. Doesn't matter if it's vidya or fucking knitting. Languages are biological entities this is why we have "dead" languages, they evolve and change with time. Good luck there Sally.
No.5495509
>>5495320
papa frankuuuuuu
No.5499859
No.5499917
>>5488817
At least Finnish has no grammatical gender… and no articles to speak of.
"Just" wrap your head around the morphology and morphophonology.
No.5500034
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My native language is Croatian and I've been into English as soon as I could computer. Fluent at both but my English sounds cringy because I don't speak it at all, just write and read. Learning German and C++ in free time.
>english is so shitty a child can learn it through videogames
Would I recommend learning Croatian? No if you don't plan on coming to Croatia but I'd recommend learning to read it out, this will help you read any language, trust me.
Speaking only one language if fucking stupid and makes you stupider.
>simultaneously thinking in three languages is entertaining
No.5500073
>What languages do you know?
Dutch, English, a bit of German
>What languages do you like/dislike?
I like English more than Dutch, even though it isn't my first language.
>What languages do you want to learn?
I'd like to learn Russian or Japanese (No weeaboo intended, i just like the way it sounds,)
>What languages sound pleasant/unpleasant to you?
Niggertalk, e.g. "OOGA BOOGA WERE DA WITE WIMIN @?"
No.5500105
>MFW I'm a native speaker of portuguese since I live in Brazil.
>since portuguese is one of the hardest languages to learn, I can say that I've mastered something not everyone outside Brazil will ever know
>MFW I'm almost fluent in english, and once I get to learn another one (such as spanish which will be easy for me to be fluent), I'll be allowed to say I can say THREE language
good luck trying and failing learning another language other than english, americunts
No.5503362
No.5503397
>>5500105
Three things;
>We're gonna have a wall
>You are stuck in chimp eden
>Nobody cares what you can do because you're black
No.5505391
No.5505426
>>5500105
>good luck trying and failing learning another language other than english, americunts
you fucked up the grammar there, nigger
No.5505479
>ctrl+f finnish
Torilla tavataan xDDDD
No.5508909
>>5503397
>>5505426
>implying I'm black
6'1, fit, caucasian with green eyes master race here.
No.5508941
>>5488389
Luxembourgish ( not really a language but w/e) French, German and English. I want to learn Polish and Spanish. Add Russian and Italian if I ever find the time.
As for the languages I dislike, well it's not languages itself but the way people speak it. So overall I have a strong dislike for southern European languages because it's all so fast and loud, Portuguese being the worst. Maghrebi Arabian also sounds awful to me while middle-eastern Arabian is ok. Don't like the North American black way of speaking either. As for pleasant, I guess any Slavic language wins
No.5511217
No.5511222
>>5488389
>What languages do you know?
I know fuck and damn and shit and hell and cunt and and hillary
No.5511320
>>5489339
>4 months
>no accent
>no indication of having actually lived in Russia
why lie on the internet? what do you have to gain? or are you just deluding yourself? probably the latter
No.5512519
Mongolian, Kazakh, English, Tajik and Arabic.
No.5512540
>>5488389
English is a Parasite that needs to be eradicated because People lose their old language once they learn English.
BTW, has anyone noticed how much of a SJW Skullface is. He's blaring identity politics left and right.
No.5512571
I know english, frog and japanese
fight me
No.5512572
>>5512540
this is literally sjw opinion
language is a tool of communication and nothing more. Your identity politics are a manifestation of 21st century political discourse and nobody cares because language evolves, spreads, and dies according to the success, or lack thereof, of cultures. Then again, you're probably just a cuck native English speaker who wants to appear to have an edgy opinion, aren't you?
Also, enjoy communicating globally without a lingua franca
No.5512577
>>5512572
Wrong. I'm a native german speaker trying to be edgy
No.5513589
>>5512540
>>5512572
>>5512577
If your first language has more than a million speakers, you have no conception of minority languages.
No.5513598
Chinese, English
like Finnish very much (vitut)
want to learn Finnish (vitut)
Chinese sounds pleasant, because we will take over the world some day and make you dumb murrilards learn our master race language
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No.5513613
Portuguese (native speaker)
English
Spanish
A little bit of Italian
A little less of Romeno
Tried French, but listening is hard.
Tried German, but I am dumb.
No.5513618
>>5513607
Count me in aswell.
i speak french decently, too.! i'm awesome like that
je veux aller en france et cycler dans le francais villages
No.5513628
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>>5513589
>minority language
Speak lingua franca or gtfo
Most people are tough English when they are young, meaning it's easy for them to learn.
Speaking a "minority language" connects you with a a few number of people. Lingua franca can potentially connect you with everyone.
Fuck off if you think people should needlessly segregate themselves by means of language
No.5513638
>>5513628
>what is multilingualism
All I'm saying is that people shouldn't forget their native languages because if they do, then they're much easier to be controlled by the SJW's.
No.5513681
>>5488389
speaking: german, arabic, english
would love to learn: Persian, Turkic, Chinese (way too difficult for me tho)
BEST sound: Arabic, Persian, Generally middle eastern languages, subsaharan african,
Celtic languages, Greek
WORST sound: Nordic languages(sound fucking ridiculous) especially netherlands
No.5513696
>>5513638
>multilingualism
Sure, people can learn whatever language they want.
But people complaining about the lingua franca becasue "muh oppressed native language" and dumb and perpetuate sjw-level of identity politics
No.5513721
English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, French, some Japanese, Mandarin, Latin and Greek and enough Russian to read a newspaper article fairly slowly.
Learn languages, anons. It's fun as hell and, in a complete nut-kick to Saphir-Worf debunkers, it does color how you see the world. Been trying to learn arabic to understand what all the local thugs and petty criminals are talking about on the subway but it involves too much gesticulating. I wanted to learn a language, not take an aerobics class.
No.5513766
>>5488389
>What languages do you know?
I only know english and tagalog
>What languages do you want to learn?
I'd love to learn russian , mandarin (chinese), and japanese.
Most european-stuffs are already english translated and those three aren't when theres shitton of extensive knowledge and literary shit in there (including weeb stuff)
I'd love to learn languages from countries that have a very rich culture and historical records (like chinese dynasties and japs shogun and samurai shit)
>What languages do you like/dislike?
>What languages sound pleasant/unpleasant to you?
I hate anything islam, indian, and jew related
No.5513772
>>5513766
.. but my current top priority is to learn mathematical stuff and do assembly shit /computer language but I'm still waiting for open source processors to come.
No.5513938
>2016
>Still not learning Esperanto
Step up plebs
No.5514113
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>>5488389
Continue ton bon travail, ese…écoute pas les osties de rednecks qui te disent que s'est une langue morte…
No.5514126
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>>5513618
>je veux aller en france et cycler dans le francais villages
Je veux allez en France et faire du vélo dans un village Francais…
No.5514676
>>5494737
its a pile of cunt passed down through generations. U started off like shit and just try to make that shit-smeared face of yours be the next skin lotion.
We r not convinced
U can spell your vowels, for fucks sake.
GHOTI
No.5517642
No.5521870
What languages do I know? English, Jap.
What languages do I despise? Vietnamese. It sounds worse than fucking shit.
No.5528232
No.5528305
Russian and German sounds pleasant.
French sounds like baby language.
Arabic sounds like someone throwing up.
No.5528321
>>5514126
So many unnecessary letters.
No.5528343
>>5513721
>English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
>learn arabic to understand what all the local thugs and petty criminals are talking about
Scandifag detected. Tracking IP.
>too much gesticulating
Are they using sign language like the Italians?
No.5528369
>>5489674
>Forced to learn arabic because diversities programs
I hope this is a joke.
No.5528603
just english.
no idea, I don't have much of a basis to go on.
want to learn more 日本語, I lost my motivation somewhere. plowed through hiragana and about 20 or so kanji, a couple hours of random words and grammar, then stopped when I realized I still needed katakana to keep going. I need to find a group or something to learn/talk with, but i fear any moonrune chat is gonna be filled with pure autism
I like the way French sounds, but have no interest in learning it
chinese sounds like garbage
slavic languages can sound pretty decent, but slav accents in english are shitty.
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No.5529838
Íslenska, Norsk, Dansk, Svenska, Español, Gaeilge and English
No.5531133
Native Slovak, fluently english and russian with mistakes, of course. I tried to learn german, but it's too ugly. I want to learn some Japanese next semester.
I want to do master's degree in holland/denmark/germany so i'll learn one of these languages, based on where I'll be.
/tech/ languages - mostly OOP, favourite is c++ and python. I'm trying to learn LISP this semester, and maybe some Haskell in near future.
>>5490357
>What are good ways to learn languages outside of classes?
imo going on trip to that country is the best way. Another good way should be watching movies and reading books.
No.5531187
>>5488389
English, learning German and Japanese
No.5531344
I know English, Finnish and Swedish.
I have no strong feelings on any of them whatsoever. I would like to learn Japanese or Chinese though, to use as a business language. Unfortunately I'm too lazy to do that.
No.5531497
>know
Arabic/French/English/German
>dislike
french/german
>like
Arabic
and no I am not a refugee.
No.5531517
>>5488389
>Russian
trying to do that as a Arabic/English/German speaker. It is almost impossible. They slur their words and have 6 word cases. Alphabet is pretty easy. I would recommend torrenting Jewsetta Stone
No.5531527
>>5531517
Wait where are you from?
No.5531549
I wish >>>/spanishclass/ had more visitors/helpers :(
No.5531572
Only Polish and English.
I might also come back to learning russian soon, they used to teach it back in poland, but i only know the alphabet.
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No.5531948
>>5531517
>recommending Rosetta Stone
is this 2008?
No.5532785
>>5489154
Remember to kill George Soros before become an hero
No.5532799
>>5489869
The closer is the coptic language
No.5532834
>>5488389
English mainly as an American
Had German in high school and college. I think it is probably one of the easier languages for English speakers to learn.
I also took a couple semesters of Japanese in college. And it is tremendously difficult to learn. I only learned basic shit and could only write at an elementary school level, using only hiragana.
I also know many computer languages, if that counts for anything. Mainly C and PHP.
No.5532862
English / German / Arabic / Greek
ASK ANYTHING ANOUNS
No.5533929
>tfw languages are fucking hard to learn
>tfw you can't speak a language without talking to people who speak the language
>tfw you can't read in a language and have to translate the sentence into English while reading
>tfw computer languages are too fucking complicated for you
Why am I retarded? I was the smart kid in school, but now I am too retarded to learn anything.
No.5534119
Spanish - Native
English - Advanced, still not fluent
German - Basic, actually learning
When I finish learning german and getting fluent in english, I would like to learn French.
I really like how Russian sounds, and Hangul looks cool.
For an unknown reason, I really hate Portuguese, Arabic and Italian. And I think Japanese sounds gay even though I like anime.
>>5533929
It's not actually that hard, you just need time, dedication and enjoy it. Practice every single day and you will get it.
Most people can't learn a language because they simply think they can't. Just give it a try, give your best, have fun and you have the 'talent'.
No.5534741
>>5488389
Estonian (native), English and Finnish.
Had lots of Russian classes in school, but they didn't have too much effect, due to the way it was taught. Though I can read and comprehend fine, my Finnish is a bit rusty, since I have no one to practice it with in person and I don't know any good places for that online. Studied arabic for two years, but since I eventually stopped, I'm not even at a conversational level.
In the long term, I'd like to get my Russian and Arabic to useable levels and perhaps add in Japanese/Chinese or maybe German/French.
No.5534753
>>5532862
What dialect of arabic?
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No.5536290
native -spanish
2nd- ingles, portugese, italian
learning -deustch
future-korean
No.5536295
>>5534119
Ok, I'm confused about being 'fluent' in a language. Does it mean you know the grammar rules and such like in english? If so, 80% of americans are not fluent in english. Isn't this true in all societies?
No.5536332
Norwegian, Danish, Swedish & English
I can also read some Old Norse & German
I had Spanish for two years in junior high school, but it didn't stick with me…
No.5536455
>>5536332
nice. What is your native lang.?
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No.5536487
I know French and English, I'd like to learn German and Spanish.
No.5536596
>>5536295
Well, I consider someone fluent when he can speak effortlessly, in a natural way, in that language. Almost like a native speaker.
No.5537163
>>5536596
Oh ok. I've been confused here lately on the definition of 'fluent'. I seen one polyglot vid where he stated that an 'advanced' speaker should know the grammatical breakdown/rules of said language which I think is BS.
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No.5537745
>Native:
Danish.
>Fully fluent and mastered:
English.
>Can converse:
Swedish, Norwegian.
>Broken but understandable:
German.
I'm learning Russian at the moment. Not that difficult once you learn the Cyrillic alphabet.
No.5537812
>>5488389
I know a smattering of German and Spanish, and a few words in Russian. I like German and Russian, and would like to learn more of both.
I dislike most of the Asian languages, because they're annoyingly complicated (especially Japanese and Chinese, fucking hell). Japanese in particular is the language of weeaboos and other detestable autism-riddled people, so it merits some extra dislike.
No.5537869
>>5488455
>implying computer languages can be compared to human languages in any way or context at all
No.5537900
>>5489339
I have never met a native English speaker who could pronounce ы correctly. Your post makes me skeptical of your abilities.
No.5538148
>>5537869
Programming languages can be compared to spoken languages in a wide variety of contexts and ways. Defining relationships and contrasting one thing with another are key abilities for programmers. Anyone who says they can't be compared to spoken language isn't cut out to code.
No.5538156
>>5537812
>on an imageboard
>complaining about autists
wew lad smh fam
No.5538183
>>>/spanishclass/
we need more anons here
No.5538184
>>5513938
Do women ever learn things like esperanto or lojban? Honestly I would love if it became more of a universal language than English, it's less complicated and no fucking gender on non-pronouns.
No.5538190
>>5489339
you can barely see her
No.5538195
>>5538184
is lojban still a thing? is the board still up
No.5538890
>>5513938
Sometimes I wonder why isn't Esperanto the universal language. I strongly believe that it should be taught in all schools.
No.5538938
>>5488389
>>5488389
I know a bit of Chinese and German. I can understand/interpret Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian and French to limited degree.
All languages sound discernible to me. I don't focus on grammar but I listen/read international news with a dictionary and guess the contexts. This means one day when I do study the grammar I will be able to start speaking more swiftly.
by order of skill focus on:
1. Listening comprehension
2. Reading comprehension
3. Speaking ability
4. Writing/structure
first 2 mandatory and second 2 optional.
pick up a phrasebook and practice greetings/counting and the who what where when questions. don't get hung up on grammar principles, babies don't either :)
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No.5541746
>>5541737
Three. Fucking. Hours.
Whenever you think you're sad, this /int*/elligent specimen has done nothing but post that .gif of Tomoko spinning in a chair for three hours in every single thread on /b/.
No.5541769
>>5541746
Let him waste his precious time however he pleases, not our business
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No.5541836
>>5488538
Flipfag here. I can try teaching you Tagalog if you help me learn Russian.
>>5488389
I only know Tagalog, Ilocano(another flipland language), English, and very little of Swedish and French. I'm trying to learn German right now.
No.5541877
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>>5536455
Norwegian – with a thick dialect no less. You could compare it to Scottish against the Queen’s English when it comes to English. I think that is very helpful when it comes to understanding other dialects in my country. I use mainly Norwegian bokmål when I read and write, but I’m OK with Norwegian nynorsk as well. Supposedly, you get the same benefits (better memory, less risk of dementia at old age) from knowing both forms of Norwegian, as someone who speaks another lanuage.
I grew up watching a lot of Swedish TV shows and films, so that helped a lot, as well as UK and US TV and films as well. Got a PC with Internet at a young age, so I got exposed to English online.
No.5541928
>>5488389
>What languages do you know?
Norwegian (native), English.
>What languages do you like/dislike?
I like esperanto, german and germanic languages.
I dislike arabic, african tounge speak and other useless languages.
>What languages do you want to learn?
German, esperanto, french
>What languages sound pleasant/unpleasant to you? etc
Pleasant: German, japanese, australian english, french, italian
Unpleasant: Arabic
No.5542063
i know python, java, c, R, VB, bash, javascript, php, ruby
No.5542092
>>5488389
>Know
American English
>Want to learn
English English, Australian English, Scottish English
>Like
German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Swiss, Russian
>Sound unpleasant
1. Chinese. It sounds like they say "Shit-shit-meow" all the time.
2. Spanish, because they have to go back.
3. French, because they sound like fancy gorillas saying "uhh uhhh oooh ooh" all the time.
4. All Semitic languages, because it sounds like they're hocking up loogies.
5. Canadian English, because they have to be conquered and their women raped and impregnated with American babies. Trumpahu Ackbar.
No.5542842
>>5538938
it just sucks that some people talk very fast..
No.5542866
>>5541877
It seems like everyone in Norway, Sweden-akbar, Denmark, Switz. etc speak English. Is it mandatory in schools there? Also its seems everyone there knows multiple languages.
No.5542872
>>5541877
It seems like everyone in Norway, Sweden-akbar, Denmark, Switz. etc speak English. Is it mandatory in schools there? Also its seems everyone there knows multiple languages.
this fucking server
No.5542877
>>5542092
>>5542092
Are you from the midwest?
No.5542897
>>5542866
>>5542872
I can only speak for Norway, but I suspect it is similar in Denmark, Sweden and possibly Iceland, the Netherlands, etc. as well. Here in Norway we start pretty early in elementary with English (UK), then in junior high we get to pick another language as well: French, Spanish & German, or we can decide to take extra classes in English.
In high school we switched to focus on US English.
No.5542990
>>5542897
So do you like that fish that is in its own brine that is a couple years old? Can't think of the name/\
No.5543133
I speak spanish natively and semi-fluent in english (most of it self-taught by direct exposal to carcinogenic content).
I want to learn most of the romance languages (portuguese, italian, french and what not), russian, german, arabic and have the ability to at least read chinese or waponese
No.5543160
>>5542990
You are thinking of Surströmming, and that is a Swedish dish.
No.5543206
>>5488389
russian, english, some german
lots and lots of computer languages, the best one is lisp
No.5543233
I'm Norwegian. The only language i can speak fluently is English, and some German. I would like to learn Russian, but apparently its hard to learn if you don't already speak a slavic language.
No.5543304
>>5542092
Upper South. Kentucky/Tennessee.
No.5546353
English, french, german and luxemburgish. I hate french because it's shit.
No.5546365
>>5514126
french village bicycle?