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So, does anyone hear speak any foreign languages, or plan on learning any?

Currently I'm learning German and I plan on learning Latin and another language, but I don't know what it will be yet.

I know an acceptable amount of French, and I'd love to learn latin; however I think I've got no extra free time.

[Quote=nighthawk]however I think I've got no extra free time.[/nighthawk]

I find that to be a problem too. Between learning German, playing guitar, messing with computers, learning programming languages, and teaching myself AP Biology and World History, I find that I have verry little time at all.

I was pretty good with Spanish back in high school, but I seem to have lost it in the almost 2 years it's been since I had a class. I think I'll take it as my foreign language in college... I'm deciding between that or Latin.

I know enough Japanese to get me around where I would "need" to go in Japan and enough French to say hello and find out if the guy speaks english

I would quite like to learn spanish, I really like the language but I just don't have the time. Between sport, Phoenix, Anoxs, occasionaly social things and schooling commitments I'm pretty fucked.

i've been tring to learn french for years. can remember some stuff from school and have added a few bits and peices each year, but can never just seem to make the time to get stuck into it properly. I visit france a few times each year and everytime i come back i say to myself "this time next year i'll have learnt a lot more, i promise"...as usuall i haven't...ces't la vie i suppose

I speak Danish, and I think that is really neat for being an American. I would say that Danish is one of the hardest languages to pick up. It has easy grammer and is easy to read, but to speak it correctly takes such a long time. There is a French man married to the Queen of Denmark, and he is always making mistakes in Danish on the air. I think one time he said something that came out as a bad word on national TV. It was quite funny.

well i know a bit of english and russian
im from poland

roogog wrote:I visit france a few times each year and everytime i come back i say to myself "this time next year i'll have learnt a lot more, i promise"...as usuall i haven't...ces't la vie i suppose

A couple of my friends had some french people staying with them for a while recently, the buggers spoke as good as (if not better) english than me, I was quite distraught....and the words they didn't understand you could just phrase a bit differently for them

The sad thing is, these people hadn't been to an english speaking country before.

I speak English, German and Swedish. I'm from Finland.

i can speak with English , Dutch , and i would like to learn spanish..I am from indonesia

Being Finnish, I obviously speak Finnish, but besides that, I speak English, I can get by pretty well with Swedish and French, and I used to know the basics of Spanish and Latin but I've forgotten most of that.

Tim wrote:

roogog wrote:I visit france a few times each year and everytime i come back i say to myself "this time next year i'll have learnt a lot more, i promise"...as usuall i haven't...ces't la vie i suppose

A couple of my friends had some french people staying with them for a while recently, the buggers spoke as good as (if not better) english than me, I was quite distraught....and the words they didn't understand you could just phrase a bit differently for them

The sad thing is, these people hadn't been to an english speaking country before.

Tell me about it, I have been in Europe for 3 years now and I cannot find a person who cannot speak English. It can be very frustrating to see Americans who cannot attept one more language before they are too old to remember their names. I am just glad I got at least one more in the tool box. On a side note: I hear english is the best language for business since you can bull sh#¤ the best in it.

Bugs42 wrote:I was pretty good with Spanish back in high school, but I seem to have lost it in the almost 2 years it's been since I had a class. I think I'll take it as my foreign language in college... I'm deciding between that or Latin.

?? Latin is a dead language while Spanish is the language of the future... easy decision, i think.

Naught wrong with learning latin, it's a good base for other languages, altough mostly italian.

Besides, latin's cool