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

[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.

 

[Wuggy]

My native language is Finnish, I also speak quite fluent English. I've also studied French (but I suck at it) and I was forced to study Swedish (I suck at it as well), because that is the official second language of my country.

I'm not a student anymore though.

 

[])rStrangelove]

Ja, ich learned english, shank god for shat.

 

[thesilviu]

Besides my native language, which shouldn't count, I speak English fluently (from 4th grade), rusty French (the same). I understand 70% italian, 60% spanish. I also dable a little in Latin. This is just normal in our country. Most kids have two obligatory foreign language courses between 4th and 8th grade. Most of us pick a third language in college, but I didn't want to.

I now regret not knowing German. The winter is awesome in Austria and Switzerland.

 

[Rawne1980]

I speak English and drunk English perfectly.