Poll: Do you know/are you learning a second language?

[MurderousToaster]

I used to know some French because I took it as a course, and I took German while it was still compulsory at my school. After I dropped German and only took French, I forgot almost all of the German I knew and now that I've dropped French I'll be damned if I could string together a coherent sentence at anything other than the most basic level imaginable.

I'm also learning an outdated version of Visual Basic (just regular old Visual Basic from 1998, instead of the more recent Visual Basic .NET) at my school because they're too goddamn cheap and/or lazy to actually upgrade to the most recent version because it would involve having to actually buy a license for it.

 

[Monochrome]

POrtuguese(as a native language, and therefore I also speak a decent amount of Spanish), French and English.
Willing to learn Japanese, Italian/Latin

 

[Whalebranch]

My primary language is Swedish. I speak good, GOOD (compared to others around my age), English. And I know a few words in German (If German is a virus, then my brain is a damned good firewall ).

 

[Avalanche91]

just consider most european escapists bi-lingual for speaking english. My first language is dutch.

I do speak a bit of german as potential third language, but Im pretty shit at it

 

[similar.squirrel]

I can speak fluent English and Hungarian, and semi-passable-if-you-squint-with-your-ears-somehow German and Irish.

I'm still waiting for the unlikely scenario where this ability will somehow save the day.

 

[MetalMonkey74]

I know English, Italian and Maltese fluent.

My French needs some work.... its been a while

 

[Custard_Angel]

No... I've never really seen the point.

I live in Australia and don't plan on moving to any non-English speaking countries so any knowledge of other languages would just be token.

 

[Fraught]

I'm constantly gaining new knowledge into my English arsenal, the language being my second language. My native language being Estonian, of course.

At school I also study German, French, used to have Russian in elementary school (first year of high school here), Latin, and in one of the free-choice curriculums that I chose, named Linguistics, we also take a bit of Welsh (or Cymraeg, as it's called in that language).

 

[TehCookie]

I'm attempting to learn Japanese at the moment. I can understand a lot of it spoken, read some of it and I'm terrible at speaking it.

 

[Monsterfurby]

Mother tongue: German
Mandatory second language: French
Mandatory third language: English (although I consider myself to be at least rather close to native speaker level here)
Fourth language needed for my Bachelor's degree: Chinese ("Mandarin")
Currently working on: Welsh
Picked up bits and pieces: Japanese, Latin, Spanish

Yeah, quite a few.

 

[BiggDoggJake]

Getting back into Deutsche with Rosetta Stone. Actually a really good software suite.

 

[dvd_72]

I used to speak flemish allot better than I do now, mostly from a lack of use since I've started studying in england and have found -no- use for it what so ever. Still, I consider myself bilingual, but have absolutely no interest in learning a new language. I'm just no good at it, and would rather stick to the sciences. Just the way my mind works I guess.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

fluent in both dutch and english.

 

[DannyJBeckett]

I'm learning German through progressive use of Rammstein. No seriously, I've learned more German from listening to Rammstein than I ever did from 2 years of GCSE lessons.

 

[Pat8u]

Im good at programming languages if that counts and I believe it does
other than that I learnt really bad indonesian but I think Im not to bad.

saya suka Komputer (it should say "I like computers")

and I used to know a little korean but thats been wiped of my memory for a while now

 

[thahat]

native language : dutch
second: english
third: german (understanding 90%, speaking .. well enough to get by )
i can decipher SOME french, if they go DEAD slow. but an 8 year old with an interest can do better. oh and i know the elder fulthark alphabet

english cause i want to
german cause i had to.
fulthark cause of THE AWSOME.

Wieso müssen Sie denn Deutsch lernen? Ihre Elter, oder Sie wohnen in Deutschland, oder?
And what's fulthark? lol

because of school. i live in the netherlands. and its either german or french in school. and germany is awsome and has GERMAN ENGENEERING lol. while france is .. well. france.. XD
fulthark is anchient nordic runes.

 

[Ammutseba]

Actually, I know 3 languages.

 

[xdiesp]

A second language is barely entry level, you should think about a 3rd in the very least. And don't go to particular schools to start out, find friends abroad.