Languages!

[Fyrefly]

she's my clone + she totes stalked my timetable and we ended up in chinese together and became the bestest of freidnz xoxo

I even drawz a pikcha for her :3

For anyone who has nfi what's going on here: Furbob and I were in the same Japanese and Chinese classes this semester.
We have shared many an adventure: everything from fortune-telling gypsies to samurai guy.

Also I've decided my "fluent in a day" language would be Mandarin because I'm bad at tones.

[mikehepro]

I can speak, write and translate Chinese very well.  As well as speaking shanghainese , (local language).
Half decent at English, but I can't write essays for shit
I would love to learn Swedish, just coz there's a lot of beautiful women there

[appianway]

I speak fluent-ish French, though it's obvious from my accent and some of my phrases that I'm not a native speaker. My spoken French is a lot better than my written French - I've taken an advanced French literature class at uni, but I haven't really needed to write French since. On the other hand, I did an internship in a French speaking country, and although my work was in English, I needed to speak French in my everyday life.

I actually had a conversation with someone the other day. He spoke no English or French; I spoke no Italian. But we managed to somehow talk about life, food, literature and volcanoes.

[Mr Keshy]

I speak English and Tamil, although the Tamil I speak is sort of half and half with with English, so Tanglish if you will.

I'd like to learn either Korean or Japanese!

[pterozachtyl]

I can only speak English. There are some foundations there for French and Indonesian, but my school stopped running them in Year 9. I would love to learn fluent French, so that would be my instalearn. I'm considering picking it up at uni because I have no idea what else to do and French (and France, for that matter) really appeals to me.

[Frozone]

If you guys are actually serious about learning a language i've got a website/app that will definitely help. Its called Duolingo.
http://www.duolingo.com/

Although sadly not all of your preferred languages are on it. They offer Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian courses for English speakers, as well as English for Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speakers. They plan to offer Chinese in the near future. 

And best of all its completely free!




Here is an article about it:
http://www.fluentin3months.com/duolingo/

[meowww]

ooo yes I highly recommend duolingo^ and memrise, for free apps to learn a language.
Quizlet can be useful for revision if you're currently learning a language.

I speak semi-fluent vietnamese to my parents at home.
I learnt italian in primary school, still remember quite a bit.
In year 7 - 9 I learnt mandarin, which can be quite useful
First year uni now and learning French as a breadth subject. Probably my favourite subject too haha. Really want to become fluent in it
Also using the free apps mentioned above to learn japanese  for fun  
And other than that.. just curse words in several different languages.
Would love to be fluent in the languages mentioned above.. + spanish/latin/greek  

[jeanweasley]

If you guys are actually serious about learning a language i've got a website/app that will definitely help. Its called Duolingo.
http://www.duolingo.com/

Although sadly not all of your preferred languages are on it. They offer Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian courses for English speakers, as well as English for Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speakers. They plan to offer Chinese in the near future. 

And best of all its completely free!

Awesome link! I'm on it now.

[Frozone]

Awesome link! I'm on it now.

I knew it would be helpful. I am personally very satisfied with the amount of languages they offer. Hopefully they introduce Chinese(not sure if mandarin or Cantonese) very soon.

[Yacoubb]

I was going to complete Units 3/4 of Arabic this year but then I realised it would not have been my cup of tea. Although I was really quite good at it, and my teacher literally reminded me everyday about why I should do it, it just wasn't for me.

But I can speak, read and write fluently I'd love to learn Japanese or Chinese.

[Frozone]

I was going to complete Units 3/4 of Arabic this year but then I realised it would not have been my cup of tea. Although I was really quite good at it, and my teacher literally reminded me everyday about why I should do it, it just wasn't for me.

But I can speak, read and write fluently I'd love to learn Japanese or Chinese.

That "memrise" website/app have both Japanese and Chinese courses

[pterozachtyl]

Duolingo is amazing. All my Year 8 French is flooding back to me (and this website is better than my teacher was!)



...No offence, Mrs. T.

[yearningforsimplicity]

I can speak English and Tamil (not proficiently though loool) - and I'm pretty much illiterate in the latter Weird thing is I can understand it really well but it's just that I can't speak it AS fluently as I'd like to (I blame this on that sensitive period for language fluency)!

I would love to learn Telugu because I could watch all the curry movies I liked without relying on subtitles!!!!!!! hahaha and because some sounds and words in the two languages seem common compared to any other language >.< I'd also like to learn Sinhala because it's like SL's main language and though I don't live there, I feel like I should at least be able to understand it!

[BigAl]

Well, I'm Turkish and it's been 3 years since I've started learning proper English with my arrival to Australia. Back in my homeland, I started learning English at grade 4 to grade 10...but it wasn't proper English..some basic stuff...I guess ive made a good progress in 3 years..sometimes I can speak very good English but sometimes people don't understand a thing I say..depends on the situation...I also had French classes back in y7...I didnt learned much...I can only remember two sentences but have no idea how to spell them... I'd like to learn Japanese or Finnish..they are so similar to Turkish in structure...my second option would be Spanish or Portuguese...and my advice to you: don't try to learn Turkish..it sounds horrible with English accent

[Vermilliona]

I'd totally insta-learn Esperanto, because even though it is mostly useless, there's a community of Esperanto speakers worldwide who invite other speakers to stay with them and speak Esperanto, and I just want free lodgings for my travels... (even if most of them are probably psycho lexicology lecturers).

So far though, I speak Ukrainian pretty fluently, although I've fallen behind on all da slang since I moved, and I can speak heavily accented Russian and atrociously accented French. Can also say "I am a watermelon" in German. Tried to teach myself Latin at one stage... Hoping to learn as many languages as I have time for, their diversity and quirks are an amazing thing.