Any linguists on site? What languages can you speak/write? Was it a necessity to learn another language bar your native tongue or did you learn a new language for fun? Lets chat about languages! 8D

As for me, I was raised speaking Korean and Mandarin/Cantonese/Hakka at home. My mum would refuse to speak to us if we didn't speak Korean and my dad was the same, but with Mandarin/Cantonese/Hakka. We learned Japanese, English and German at school. 8D

(Also, I might make a poll to see all the different languages people on Subeta speak.)

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I speak english(fluent), mandarin(semi-fluent) and understand some french( I'm horrible at speaking it, low grade elementary level at reading it)

As for history.

I took French as my secondary language in high school because I needed it for college applications and it stuck. I'm planning on using it for my history ph.d since a secondary language is required.

I was born in the states so english is pretty much my first language, more or less, but my parents are originally from Taiwan so I grew up speaking and hearing mandarin being spoken around the house as well.

I understand maybe 60% of most Taiwanese(Hokkien dialect) as well, but can't speak it worth beans though, but generally I can understand it when it's spoken though. Also, a product of hearing my relatives, parents speaking it since my parents speak Taiwanese dialect usually when speaking to each other, but will usually speak a mixture of english and mandarin when speaking to my older brother and I. I do have to translate it directly from english to Taiwanese in my head though so I'm slower at intuitively understanding Taiwanese than I am mandarin.

With mandarin, I can usually switch between speaking mandarin and english at will without really thinking about it, as over time it's mostly become automatic.

I speak french, english and I understand a fair share of spanish. Speaking is another thing tho .. I was born in a french speaking home in the french part of Canada. Most of my "relatives" were speaking english with me as a toddler. My parents are not fantastic and my younger brother just started to learn at school. My mom can get away with it but sometimes I cannot understand what she's trying to say. My father knows a very basic "helper" english so everyone is counting on me. I took english as a second language in school from middle school to high school. I took my formal two classes in college and now I just don't have any classes anymore. I do mostly live in english 85% of the time. As of today, my grades in english and french are very similar.

I plan to learn japanese because english subs suck and I need to be able to get around if I want to go to Japan. Maybe spanish too ..

I'm fluent in English and conversational in American Sign Language. I really want to learn Russian because I want to go to graduate school and study Russian and Eastern European History

English is my first language, but where I live in Canada, English-French bilingualism is basically a necessity to get any half-decent job (we're the home of the government; anyone familiar with Canada can easily figure out where I live =P). French was mandatory in school from kindergarten straight up until grade nine, after which it became an elective (and I did choose to drop it). I do remember a lot of what I learned, but I wouldn't call myself fluent by any means.

My family's Shanghainese so I know both Mandarin and Shanghainese (though regrettably can no longer speak the latter because I can't get the accent right). I know Shanghainese is technically a dialect but also it sounds nothing like Mandarin? And Mandarin is also technically a dialect lol.

I'm also fluent in both English and French because I grew up in a French-speaking city and then moved to an English-speaking one.

Barely passable in Spanish, even worse in Italian, can say some stuff in Latin (all because of language classes in high school). I'd like to brush any of these up and learn ASL.

German, Fortran, Basic and some Java.

German is my first language and English & French were required classes. (Spanish, Dutch & Japanese being optional - I was a lazy kid sadly.)

I can form a sentence in French when I think hard enough, but I really can't speak it fluently. For the past 5 years or so I watched all my media in english (unless it was in a local cinema). I obviously can't know any word in English, but I do think I can speak it fluently. Though I need to read more in english - my writing style doesn't translate well.

When I'm a little bit older I think I wanna learn Polish & Dutch. Half of my family is polish and I live five minutes away from the Netherlands. I really don't get why Dutch wasn't required at our school, it would have been much more practical than French.

My first language was English (living in the Pacific Northwest US), and nobody in my family knew any other language. In high school and college I took Spanish - 5 years collectively but in college I re-took beginner's Spanish. I have elementary level skill in Spanish, I'm really not good at speaking but I can read and write fairly well, and even understand a fair amount if spoken to or around me. I have used self-teach books and language apps to learn very basic Turkish and Danish. My family history is Danish (not too many generations ago). I want to travel to Turkey and/or Eastern Europe. I would LOVE to be fluent in a second language!

i speak english, italian and spanish fluently~ and used to speak german and portuguese fluently as a kid. but as i haven't used german in almost 10 years i pretty much forgot it. q n q with portuguese i can understand and read it, but when i try speaking i get mixed up with spanish.

my mom's italian and my dad brazilian so growing up i learned both languages. also i lived in germany as a toddler and went to a german school for my first years of elementary. then i learned english in school when i was 8, and had to learn spanish when i moved to venezuela at 11.

honestly i used to speak three languages on a daily basis for most of my life lol

Born in America, so I speak English fluently. I've studied Spanish and American Sign Language before (I do not consider myself fluent in either).

I want to learn Africaans, but I'm finding it tricky to find study materials. =| (haven't gone to the book store yet, though)

you're quite the linguist! I can speak fluent English and Cantonese, medium level Mandarin (listening is better than speaking - customers hang up when I try speaking Mando to them), and I have a couple of troll phrases in Hakka up my sleeve haha (I have a couple of Timorese friends).

Waaahh it's nice to meet a fellow Canto speaker and a Hakka speaker! Hakka have the best slangs imo. XD