Foreign language, anyone?

[Genesis Kyland]

Forgive me if there is a thread about this already-- I checked the first page and saw nothing, but if there is I shall delete this thread.

Just curious, are there any foreign language speakers out there/what languages if so?

I'm sort've a dabbler in several languages and have picked up a bit of Spanish, Russian, German, ASL, Bulgarian, Korean, and a wee bit of Chinese, Elvish, and Hebrew (in order of how much I learned/retained).  However, I'm only somewhat fluent in Japanese, which I've been studying almost two years now.

Your turn!

[Lucy Clayton]

I'm a native swiss german speaker! Of course i also know formal german. I've learned French in school, but i can't really say that i still know it very well. Oh, i speak english fairly well.

[Genesis Kyland]

Awesome! I know someone else who also speaks Swiss German natively. It's a beautiful language. ^.^

[Deleted]

I, uh.....speak English. Obviously.

On the more serious note, I'm also semi-fluent in Japanese and semi-fluent in Spanglish. Which basically means I can pretty much hear and read the language, but my Spanish speaking skills suck.

I'd love to learn German, Russian, Chinese, and Korean someday though.

[Genesis Kyland]

Hurray for Japanese! Do you know the alphabets? How long have you been studying?

[Deleted]

Lol. I've been studying for about ten years. So I can read the kana, but I only know a few elementary kanji. That is to say, about 3rd or 4th grade kanji.

[Genesis Kyland]

Wow, you've been studying a while. Way to make my two years sound like hardly anything. XD Anyhow-- good to meet a fellow Japanese speaker.

はじめまして！どうぞよろしく！

[Deleted]

よろしく。　

There's a couple others on site that also speak. You'll meet them in due time.

Edit:  I also have a couple of characters that speak Japanese.  You can check them out on my plot page. There's a link at the bottom of my posts.

[Kailin Bishop]

I speak Spanish, though I only use it when I have to (Which is most every day, given where I live). I much prefer listening and then responding in English, but I've been forced to do otherwise xD

[Genesis Kyland]

Nice! That's awesome. ^.^ I didn't realize this website had such diversity in languages...

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Coz I'm from England, I speak English. Yup. As if that wasn't already expected.

But I am kind of able to speak French. Need a little help some times with the vocab but I could probably order a crossiant and keep a conversation going. And I know simple parts of BSL (I.e. numbers, the alphabet, 'My name is...')

Other than that, I am language-less. Wanna learn Korean though *.* But yeah, you guys are like whoa, languages

[Deleted]

Native Dutch speaker for me! And French if I really need it (it's supposed to be my second language).

My study at high school was Latin-Modern Languages, so add German, English and Latin.

So, from best to worst:
Dutch
English
German
French
Latin

[Devon Wentsworth]

Native English speaker here. I am semi-fluent in Cymraeg but I am hilariously out of practice, thus my reading and writing are far better than my speaking. I studied French in high school and got a B, but that was a LONG time ago and I remember very little of it.

[Carleigh Davidson]

Well, I'm a native English speaker.

I also (am about to) graduate high school as officially bilingual in French. Certified from the French and Canadian government so yay.

As for languages I'd like to learn, the next one on my bucket list is Italian and probably Spanish. Apparently they're similar to French so hopefully!

[Thomas "Monroe" Montgomery]

I studied spanish for a total of five years, and was going to minor in it for college--but I'm too scared to travel abroad at this point-- so I decided not to. But Ican understand spanish really well and write in spanish fairly well. Speaking fluently is a nono though.