#Multilingual #LanguageLearning #Polyglot
Hey there! 🌟 Are you curious about how many languages I know and how I learned them? Let me spill the beans! 🎉
Languages I Know:
🔸 English
🔸 Spanish
🔸 French
🔸 German
🔸 Italian
How Did I Learn Them:
1. English:
I learned English from a young age through school and watching TV shows and movies in English. Immersing myself in the language really helped!
2. Spanish:
I studied Spanish in high school and college, and then spent a semester abroad in Spain to further improve my skills. I also practiced with native speakers whenever I could.
3. French:
I took French classes in school and practiced with online language exchange partners. Watching French movies and listening to French music also helped me a lot.
4. German:
I decided to learn German on my own through various language apps and online resources. I also joined a local German conversation group to practice speaking.
5. Italian:
I fell in love with Italian culture and decided to learn the language. I used a mix of online courses, language apps, and watching Italian movies to improve my skills.
Learning languages has been such a rewarding experience for me, opening up new doors and creating connections with people from all around the world! 🌍 Keep exploring the world through languages! 🌟
I hope this information inspires you on your language learning journey! #NeverStopLearning 💪
Hindi (native speaker), English (proficient speaker), Advanced Punjabi (learnt in school), Intermediate Spanish (took extra classes), beginner French (same as Spanish)
Besides native (French and creole) :
– English : traveling and an interest for translating lyrics.
– Korean : teaching books + lived in Korea so daily interactions.
– Japanese : teaching books.
– Arabic : kids books and closed ones help.
– Spanish : school.
Unfortunately I just speak English fluently. But I took classes in Portuguese, American Sign Language, Spanish, and Mandarin. I still know a bit of each. Plus I picked up a little Portuguese and Spanish since there the second- and third-most common languages spoken where I grew up, and possibly a tiny bit of Yiddish and Hebrew since I’m Jewish. I also know a tiny bit of some other languages, but by that I mean just a few words. And I can read some other scripts.
I’m obsessed with linguistics, so this is how I know a little about a lot of languages, and wish I knew more. Plus I create languages for fun, so I know a little bit of each.
German as my native tongue
Polish as my mom’s native tongue, thereby my second language
English was also taught partly by my parents and partly (mainly) at school
French and Spanish each at school
I’m a native English speaker because I’m from the US, but I grew up in small-town northern New Mexico where everyone is bilingual. You just grow up speaking English and Spanish simultaneously without really thinking about it.
I had to grow up and leave home to understand that most white Americans are not proficient Spanish speakers.
In college, I studied German since I was already good in Spanish. Since New Mexico’s German-speaking population is pretty much zero, I lost everything I learned since I never had anyone to converse with. A few years ago I decided I really wanted to visit Japan, so I decided to at least learn some conversational Japanese through Duolingo. Apparently, most of what I learned was incorrect though 🤷♀️
So, while I’ve learned English, Spanish, German, and Japanese, it would be a stretch to say I actually *know* German and Japanese.
I rambled.
Frrench and English from birth, I’m Canadian with a French Mom and English Dad. I learned German in my 30’s when we were posted overseas as a Military Family.
english, i live in the US and learned through TV and english education system
i can understand tamil, an south asian language my parents speak (one of the indian dialects), but i’m a bit shaky in trying to speak it. i don’t really know how to explain it to people who people who only understand one language but i promise you, it’s two different things to understand a language and actually speak it 😅. i feel like i have to think more about what i want to say than when my parents tell me something in tamil.
i also learned some french in high school and i remember some of it. i listen to french music and go into french forums and can read the comments on there. but i’m not great at it. if i went to france and started speaking french to the natives they would definitely just reply to me in english 😂
Native English speaker but learning Mandarin. I have been taking classes over a year and supplementing with a few apps. My husband speaks Mandarin so we try to converse. I have a terrible ear for language and envy those that can pick it up! I feel like hearing it often and using it is key. I’m so shy, so I get nervous practicing.
Spanish at home, English from living in the states since I was a kid and a little Japanese as a 6 year ciriculum at my elementary school
Native one aside:
French, on a native level, because of the french school I attended since I was five.
English: at school, plus a tutor I had as a teen in order to get the Proficiency certificate (C2 level)
Spanish: Cervantes Institute (B2 level)
Italian: Foreign languages school (B2 level)
German: Duolingo, A2 level now
Russian: beginner, Duolingo
6
1. Bosnian, and all Balkan related languages – native
2.English – movies, music and school
3. Arabic – was married to an Arab, spoke with in-laws
4. Spanish – I used to study while my grandma was watching telenovelas and I just picked it up (I need background noise due to ADHD)
5. German – 4 years of high school (I’m very bad at it tho)
6. Latin – 4 years of high school (I can understand lots of Italian because of Latin and Spanish)
I guess 5 that I can speak fluently or at least decently. My native language, two languages from countries I lived and worked in, English through mostly music and video games, and the last one mostly from listening to music, watching game shows and similar, but latter also through friends from that country.
I am good in English, Hindi, Punjabi, knows bit of french germany and spanish i mean like few good words (tho i dont know really sure those are good or bad lmao)
English: native speaker
German: lived in Germany while my father was stationed there
French: studied in school since 13
Spanish: spent two summers in South America
Seven-ish. English, classical Greek, Latin, Syriac, German, biblical Hebrew, modern Hebrew. Native English speaker, Duolingo German, Syriac in my PhD program, and everything else was learned in undergrad.
But, I’m only really fluent in English. Everything else I’ll need time and a lexicon to work through.
Native: Macedonian
Fluent: Serbian/Croatian/ Bosnian/Montenegrin, English
Advanced: Bulgarian
Basic: Spanish, French, Norwegian
The ex Yugoslavian I learned because of exposure and are very closely related to my native language
English I learned in school also exposure to songs and movies and the general internet
Spanish because of the telenovelas I was exposed to when I was young and they were very popular at that time, plus I love the language for some reason
French was my second language throughout middle school and highschool but to be honest I don’t like it very much and basically I can understand what I’m being told but I can’t reply in French
I also started learning Norwegian through Duolingo but kind of stopped since I can keep a habit going for too long.
English, French, and Hebrew with fluency in that order. English is my native language. I learned Hebrew in elementary school as a kid and then took French in middle and high school.
korean, born there
english, raised here since elementary
Finnish (native), swedish (second native, but i’m conversational at best), english (fluent), japanese (tourist-y), russian (beginner), spanish and chinese (some basics). So seven-ish?
English was mandatory in school since age 9, swedish since age 13. I studied japanese in middle school as a dweeb-hobby (I also used to watch a ton of anime then, so it made learning super easy) and russian in high school to fill my classes. Spanish was a short lived thing, we had exchange students so the group studied some basic spanish. Oh, I also studied some french in high school to fill classes, so I know some basics. Chinese I’ve learned from tv, so I guess it doesn’t really count, but some vocabulary and phrases just stick after a while xD
farsi, dutch, english, french. Used to take classes in german and spanish but barely remember anything
Six languages currently:
English – Native
Spanish – I grew up in Texas
French – learned for a trip to France; language books
Italian – learned for a trip to Italy & for reading recipes; language books and recipes
Hebrew – learned in Sunday School for my Bat Mitzvah
German – learned to impress my boyfriend; Duolingo
I’m currently learning Japanese on Duolingo.
My mom was Polish-French, my grandma Serbian-Latvian, my Dad is Mexican-Italian, I was born on Russia, I’ve lived in France, Spain, Portugal and the frontier of Belgium/Germany, you learn by basically communicating X3
The current languages I’m actually studying are Korean, Japanese, Spanish and English 😀
Austrian German: mothertongue High German: School, books and TV
English: children’s books first, then necessity since my middle school was mostly English and then sheer passion for 19th century literature and all the accents.
Intermediate Hindi: Expat Kid in India for 6 years, first private tutor, then regular school, also local friends and being surrounded by it everyday, although I have a bad accent.
A2 Italian: did an intensive course to support a friend.
Random Latin: High School elective, chose it because it’s needed to enter lawschool in my country, got an A and everything, but only remember when I read it.
A2 French: University crash course, just for funsies and ECTS points.
A1 Mandarin: Rosetta Stone app, Youtube Videos and Chinese dramas. Also just for funsies, and so I can watch the dramas without reading subtitles.
English, native language. Presumably fluent
Conversational in French and Italian; I have college minors in both.
Latin, decent. Wouldn’t call it conversational because it’s Latin so I can pray a lot, talk about old Roman battles, and realize how Harry Potter spells are just badly mutilated Latin- but I can’t order lunch
Spanish- I can understand a lot more than I can speak. I can ask and answer basic questions
I grew up learning 4 languages..
English – native language
Konkani- native local language in Goa
Portuguese- native, since Goa was a colony
Hindi- we had to learn it in school
Norwegian- since I went to study in Norway for a bit and ended up loving the country and language (A2 Duolingo)
French – I know veeery basic (beginner’s level Duolingo)
– Native Dutch
– Near native English : learned from TV, school, and fanfiction. And trips and university.
– functional German : six years in school
– less functional French : five years in school
– minimal Spanish : learned on trips and visiting my friend who lived in Spain for years
– even more minimal Portuguese : learned from duolingo and through visiting family who lives in Portuguese
– minimally functional ancient Greek : five years in school
– minimally functional Latin : two years in school
I’m proficient at 3, and can only read French (making it the fourth-ish, and even then I can only read half of it) Learned them in school.
(Dutch, English, German, French.)
Only 2. English (home language) and fluent Afrikaans (my mother’s native language). Because I speak Afrikaans I can understand Dutch and Flemish
I speak four different languages.
1. Finnish: my native language
2. English: I started learning English as a compulsory language when I was 9 in the third grade and learned it for almost 10 years at school. I’ve also learned a lot by simply being surrounded by and using the language, like using social media and watching movies.
3. Swedish: I started learning Swedish as another compulsory language when I was 13 in the seventh grade and learned it for 5 years at school. I do have family in Sweden as well and I’ve visited Sweden multiple times so I’ve always known a little Swedish.
4. German: I started learning German when I was 14 in the eighth grade and learned it for 4 years at school. I’ve also consumed German media and I did participiate in an exchange student program in high school.
Did anyone learn a language using Duolingo? I’m learning Italian right now and find it dumb that there are no explanations for grammar rules
English (native), Japanese (lived there for years, used Genki textbooks/Minna no Nihongo textbooks/duolingo/Kanji Ninja/flashcards/community center classes/lots of tv immersion/etc). I would still say my reading level isn’t great.
English: 🇺🇸
Spanish: Peruvian family.
French: 7th grade a little.
Italian: College.
Swedish: Duolingo.
English and Korean. Home and school.
I’m a native English speaker. I feel like I know a fair bit of Spanish, enough to communicate with my students. I never had the confidence to speak it to their parents though!
I’m currently learning Italian through Duolingo for a trip to Italy this fall. I’m also trying to learn American Sign Language but it’s tough to find a platform where I can learn it.
Next on my list is German! My brother in law’s fiancée is German and I want to learn for her. She’s fluent in English but I still want to learn!
Portuguese: native
English: lived in the US
Spanish: books
Italian: godfather
German: Duolingo
Thai: trying to learn through YT videos, TV shows and music, but damn, it’s hard …. Open to find an online teacher btw
Dutch is my native language. I learned English through school/music/movies/games, and I’m still trying to learn Italian through Duolingo/Instagram/music/movies
Spanish (native)
English (learned in school)
German (had to live there 🙁 )
I’m currently learning Chinese because I moved to China.
I speak English and French, picking up Italian and Hebrew!
English (native), Italian (can comfortably communicate, I take lessons and am starting to take it in college), Spanish (learned in school and practiced with friends and their families), Swedish and French (self taught and beginner level)