What languages do you speak?

[RodrigoDavy]

Portuguese is my native language. I learned English through school, playing video games, watching series, reading and writing.
I also can understand Spanish, but I can't write nor speak properly.

Here's a poem in portuguese:

Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver
É ferida que dói, e não se sente
É um contentamento descontente
É dor que desatina sem doer

Love is fire that burns without you seeing it
It's a wound that hurts and you can't feel
It's a unjoyful joy
It's pain that maddens without hurting

I would like to learn Latin someday, so I could learn all other romanic languages

Latin is really really hard. I think you'd be better off learning Spanish, it's the third most spoken language in the world and it's actually a language that just makes a lot of sense. And it's close enough to other romanic languages, that you can at least have a sense of what they mean.

 

[GhostLatte]

English and Sarcasm

 

[VinsCool]

Latin is really really hard. I think you'd be better off learning Spanish, it's the third most spoken language in the world and it's actually a language that just makes a lot of sense. And it's close enough to other romanic languages, that you can at least have a sense of what they mean.

Spanish looks hard to me It shares similarities with french, that is true.
But I'm too inexperienced to understand XD

 

[ComeTurismO]

English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, some french, and triangle.

 

[CitizenSnips]

'murican is my only language

 

[CosmoCortney]

German and Nether German are my native language. Learned English at school and atm I'm learning Spanish in my homeschooling course. I have though myself some Japanese, Portuguese and a little bit of basic Italian. Through a few friends I have also learned some Finnish. With my knowledge in Spanish, and Portuguese I can also read some French and Latin (thinking about to learn French because if the challenging pronouncication lol). And as a native German speaker I can understand and read a lot of Germanic language like Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian... without having learned anything of them. Everytime I feel bored at Ikea I read some Swedish books that are used as decoration there
But currently I'm working on improving my English and concentrating on Spanish, C++ and Finnish
Studying language will always be a passion and a part of my life

 

[VinsCool]

Here is a french poem:

Je t'ai aimé, toujours je t'aime
Tu es, ma joie... mon poème
Mon illusion... mon bourreau
Ma destinée, mon rêve le plus beau.

Same poem, in english:

I loved you, always loving you
You are, my joy... my poem
My illusion... my tormentor
My destiny, my most beautiful dream.

Now, lets play a game, find similarities between word.
(no this isn't google translated if anyone could think so.)

 

[RodrigoDavy]

Here is a french poem:

Je t'ai aimé, toujours je t'aime
Tu es, ma joie... mon poème
Mon illusion... mon bourreau
Ma destinée, mon rêve le plus beau.

Same poem, in english:

I loved you, always loving you
You are, my joy... my poem
My illusion... my tormentor
My destiny, my most beautiful dream.

Now, lets play a game, find similarities between word.
(no this isn't google translated if anyone could think so.)

French - English
joie = joy, poème = poem, illusion = illusion, destinée = destiny

In portuguese: alegria, poema, ilusão, destino

EDIT: And I just noticed, mon = my (masculine) and ma = my (feminine)

 

[Pablitox]

I'm from Argentina, so Spanish is my mother language.

I also learned English, got a certificate and all, but it's kind of rusty nowadays, should use it more often. Better yet, relearn some of it.

Looking forward to understanding Jap in the near future.

 

[RevPokemon]

Here is a french poem:

Je t'ai aimé, toujours je t'aime
Tu es, ma joie... mon poème
Mon illusion... mon bourreau
Ma destinée, mon rêve le plus beau.

Same poem, in english:

I loved you, always loving you
You are, my joy... my poem
My illusion... my tormentor
My destiny, my most beautiful dream.

Now, lets play a game, find similarities between word.
(no this isn't google translated if anyone could think so.)

Neat I always wanted to learn French as my family is actually French Canadians who came to the states (me, vinscool, and 2hack distantly related?!?!) But maybe one day I will

 

[Sliter]

Brazilian Portuguese (Native) and english ... at least I try xD

 

[VinsCool]

French - English
joie = joy, poème = poem, illusion = illusion, destinée = destiny

In portuguese: alegria, poema, ilusão, destino

EDIT: And I just noticed, mon = my (masculine) and ma = my (feminine)

DING DING DING We have a winner! 100%
I may add: beau=beautiful (uses the same prefix- beau, full of beau, beautiful)

Neat I always wanted to learn French as my family is actually French Canadians who came to the states (me, vinscool, and 2hack distantly related?!?!) But maybe one day I will

Illuminati! We have a shared destiny

 

[RevPokemon]

DING DING DING We have a winner! 100%
I may add: beau=beautiful (uses the same prefix- beau, full of beau, beautiful)



Illuminati! We have a shared destiny

So I'm going to end up as a ball of fire

 

[DaFixer]

My native language is Dutch,I can read and speak English, never learn it from school.
When i'm was little most cartoons where in English with Dutch subtitles, so that I learn it from.
Now I speak English when i'm working becase of my Polish coworker's

 

[Zerousen]

I am an American born Vietnamese. I speak English as my primary language, and Vietnamese as my secondary. I believe I know far more than the average kid who was also born in the US, and I know enough to hold a decent conversation with an adult, so long as the subject is not too complex. I learned a bit of Japanese, actual grammar stuff, and some common/basic words because I made friends with some Japanese transfer students, and I wanted to understand them a little better when they spoke among each other, since they're more comfortable with speaking Japanese. I've also taken two years of high school Spanish, although despite passing with a pretty good grade, I have not retained much of what I've learned, and can only understand most of it.

 

[the_randomizer]

Native - English
Fluent - Japanese (living there for a while helped a lot with that)




Japanese proverb

失敗は成功の元 - Shippai ha seikou no moto
"Failure begets success" (Or, "Failure is the root of success")

A little something I remembered from 2006 back when I lived there.

 

[Vipera]

English, Italian and French. I refuse to learn anything that uses more than one set of letters (looking at you Japan).

I would like to learn German but every German I've ever met speaks English so why bother.

 

[the_randomizer]

English, Italian and French. I refuse to learn anything that uses more than one set of letters (looking at you Japan).

I would like to learn German but every German I've ever met speaks English so why bother.

You think Japanese is hard, try Mandarin Chinese or Cantonese XD It's far worse than Japanese.

 

[2Hack]

You think Japanese is hard, try Mandarin Chinese or Cantonese XD It's far worse than Japanese.

Doesn't make Japanese any easier.

 

[Minox]

Doesn't make Japanese any easier.

Japanese really isn't that hard of a language. It just takes quite some dedication to bother learning.