capriccioso 2,545 Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 I'll give this a bump. I speak English as my first language, Tamil (a Southern Indian language) and German with reasonable fluency, and I can just about garble out a few words of Sinhalese (a Sri Lankan language). Also I'm thinking about taking Italian next semester at uni, for no other reason than to be able to post better on the Napoli forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanicus 5,208 Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 I speak Russian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Croatian, English and French (only a little). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capriccioso 2,545 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I speak Russian, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Croatian, English and French (only a little).That makes you a sexlinguist. Or quintlinguist if you don't want to count French I thought I was a beast being tri/quadlingual, you showed me up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kezza 1,965 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 At school here we learn Maori. Probably the most worthless language that only about 4% of New Zealanders speak.I can say a few words in that and count to 10 Really want to learn Cantonese or Mandarin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I am fluent in Troll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesChick 1,260 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 At school here we learn Maori. Probably the most worthless language that only about 4% of New Zealanders speak.I can say a few words in that and count to 10 Really want to learn Cantonese or Mandarin.It is great that they are keeping the language alive. Mandarin is hard but worth it!! But I need it daily so I may be biased. Which Island do you hail from?I really need to learn Korean since I have a class where 9 of the 13 students are Korean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kezza 1,965 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 It is great that they are keeping the language alive. Mandarin is hard but worth it!! But I need it daily so I may be biased.Which Island do you hail from?I really need to learn Korean since I have a class where 9 of the 13 students are Korean.It is good, considering its pretty much the only thing that separates us and Australians.Mandarin would be an excellent asset! Im from, Christchurch in the south island.Thats a big %. What/Where do you teach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesChick 1,260 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I teach year 10 and year 9 science at theBritish International School Shanghai (www.bisspuxi.com) We went to NZ for Christmas but only the North Island. We only had 15 days and decided it was too short to do both islands justice. we plan to go back and do the South Island.It is good, considering its pretty much the only thing that separates us and Australians.Mandarin would be an excellent asset! Im from, Christchurch in the south island.Thats a big %. What/Where do you teach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike 12,049 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I really want to learn another langauge, but I can't really decide which one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kezza 1,965 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I teach year 10 and year 9 science at theBritish International School Shanghai (www.bisspuxi.com)We went to NZ for Christmas but only the North Island. We only had 15 days and decided it was too short to do both islands justice. we plan to go back and do the South Island.Oh that would be interesting. Im going to HK at the end of the year after going to London to watch the Blues play. Hoping to get to the Harbin Ice City in China before I leave.Do the South Island! I love it! You won't be let down! I highly recommend Central Otago (Wanaka, Queenstown, Cromwell) Milford Sound..Heaps to do =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanicus 5,208 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 That makes you a sexlinguist. Or quintlinguist if you don't want to count French I thought I was a beast being tri/quadlingual, you showed me up And I'm only 15... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesChick 1,260 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Oh that would be interesting. Im going to HK at the end of the year after going to London to watch the Blues play. Hoping to get to the Harbin Ice City in China before I leave.Do the South Island! I love it! You won't be let down! I highly recommend Central Otago (Wanaka, Queenstown, Cromwell) Milford Sound..Heaps to do =]If you make it North stop in Shanghai to say hi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero e azzurro 13 Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Italian mothertongue and I'm learning english.In September, I will go to live in Tallinn, so I hope to learn estonian and russian languages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmax 9,219 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Bump.I just completed my internship and I have a few months on hand till my exams in November so I really want to get round to learning a new language. I'm interested in German and Spanish. Which one is easier? I'm only really looking to become fluent in the conversational aspect, mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatthemata 249 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 English, Scottish Gaelic and learnt a bit of Spanish during my first year at uni!Edit: Whoops, and a little bit of French at school, but that's going down as I've forgotten some of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray 9,441 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Dutch, French, English and a bit of German (highschool Latin not counting)@madmax : I found German difficult to master with all the cases (Nominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ, ...). I hated that in Latin and it screwed up my German as well. I'd go for Spanish - a lot more people speak it and it sounds quite a bit sexier :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Roar 240 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Being an Anglo- Indian my first language is English and i speak Tamil cause i have lived in Chennai, Tamil nadu my whole life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesChick 1,260 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Bump.I just completed my internship and I have a few months on hand till my exams in November so I really want to get round to learning a new language. I'm interested in German and Spanish. Which one is easier? I'm only really looking to become fluent in the conversational aspect, mind. Spanish is easy to learn and speak. German has very specific grammar which can be hard. I still remember my high school Spanish! My husband is semi fluent. My mandarin is still painful! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorando 184 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 I'd like to learn Portuguese. but I'm too damn lazy do to something about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beepu 1,714 Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 Spanish is easy to learn and speak. German has very specific grammar which can be hard.I still remember my high school Spanish! My husband is semi fluent. My mandarin is still painful!Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HDI can speak English, Korean, Indonesian, and decent chinese in a few dialects(mandarin, cantonese, hakka)Japanese wouldnt be hard to learn for me, but ive never thought about it. French sounds interesting to me, i like the way it is spoken. Might learn that after i get my chinese fluent, those intonations are probably the hardest part about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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