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[DarklighterFreak]

Russian native, Spanish second, English third. 5 years ago i would also mention French, but lack of practice...

[Finlandiaprkl]

Finnish>English>Swedish>German>Russian

[Stahlhammer]

1. Serbian
2. Russian
3. Some English too i guess

Kenadian wrote...

Are Scandinavians born with English dictionaries or something?

I've been asking myself the same thing 

[Yana Montana]

Russian/Belarusian.

[rosniak]

Bulgarian.

[Fredvdp]

Abraham_uk wrote...

Okay to all you people who can speak many languages what is your secret?

I live in the Flemish region of Belgium where the official language is Dutch. I speak English because we watch movies with subtitles and play video in English, which is the best way to learn a language. In fact, I learned English by playing Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis at a young age. I also speak quite a bit of French and some German because both are also official languages in Belgium and are taught in high school. I understand a little Old English because I followed a course on that at university. No, it's not a useful skill.

So the levels of proficiency are:

Dutch/Flemish > English > French > German > Old English

Modifié par Fredvdp, 29 décembre 2012 - 12:04 .

[Fixx21]

Portuguese

[punkzed]

1. English/French (Dual Nationality)
2. Some Italian/German/Russian (Crazy mixed up family background)

[Chala]

Spanish...

Modifié par El_Chala_Legalizado, 29 décembre 2012 - 12:09 .

[Ramsutin]

Abraham_uk wrote...

Okay to all you people who can speak many languages what is your secret?

Start young. Keep talking. If you keep on talking it it is less likely that you will forget everything. Nobody to talk to? Go to a forum where they speak that language. Also watch kid's shows. Muumins tought more (practical) Swedish than my teachers did. 

[dragaaan]

serbian, german english and a bit of french if necessary

ima li nasih ovde

[Karon41]

Italian here, but i know also english, a very little bit of german and can understand spanish

[Stardusk]

Abraham_uk wrote...

Native language:  English (I bet you saw that one coming)
Second language: French




Okay to all you people who can speak many languages what is your secret?

I speak English, so I should be fluent in most Europen languages since English overlaps with:

Greek
Latin based languages
Celtic
Gaelic
Nordic languages
Germanic languages


English covers at least 2/3 of Europe easily.
Yet I can just about manage a conversation in French. Shamefull really.

Uhm, Gaelic IS Celtic (a Q-Celtic language whereas Welsh is a P-Celtic) and Nordic is just the Northern variety of Germanic, which is divided into West Germanic (English, Dutch, Frisian, German) and North Germanic (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese) and East Germanic (Gothic, now extinct)/

If you believe that is how language acquistion works, your reasoning is highly flawed. How does English cover 2/3 of Europe? Ireland and the UK do not comprise 2/3 of Europe? You are basing your reasoning exclusively on the existence of lexical cognates and loan words. This is but a fraction of what is involved in language acquistion as an adult (L2).

[Zardoc]

Stardusk wrote...

Abraham_uk wrote...

Native language:  English (I bet you saw that one coming)
Second language: French




Okay to all you people who can speak many languages what is your secret?

I speak English, so I should be fluent in most Europen languages since English overlaps with:

Greek
Latin based languages
Celtic
Gaelic
Nordic languages
Germanic languages


English covers at least 2/3 of Europe easily.
Yet I can just about manage a conversation in French. Shamefull really.

Uhm, Gaelic IS Celtic (a Q-Celtic language whereas Welsh is a P-Celtic) and Nordic is just the Northern variety of Germanic, which is divided into West Germanic (English, Dutch, Frisian, German) and North Germanic (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese) and East Germanic (Gothic, now extinct)/

If you believe that is how language acquistion works, your reasoning is highly flawed. How does English cover 2/3 of Europe? Ireland and the UK do not comprise 2/3 of Europe? You are basing your reasoning exclusively on the existence of lexical cognates and loan words. This is but a fraction of what is involved in language acquistion as an adult (L2).

I think he meant in general, not just native language.

[ThePinkFoxx]

Australian English.

I say this because we have weird names/slang for things and sometimes people don't understand... .

I also know some Italian as a secondary language, I can understand it better than I can speak it but I'm not half as good as I used to be - I've forgotten a lot of it. ;-;

I also learned French for a year... but I was terrible at it and remember nothing, so I don't count it as well as bits and pieces of Japanese.

Modifié par ThePinkFoxx, 29 décembre 2012 - 01:06 .

[Stardusk]

Zardoc wrote...

Stardusk wrote...

Abraham_uk wrote...

Native language:  English (I bet you saw that one coming)
Second language: French




Okay to all you people who can speak many languages what is your secret?

I speak English, so I should be fluent in most Europen languages since English overlaps with:

Greek
Latin based languages
Celtic
Gaelic
Nordic languages
Germanic languages


English covers at least 2/3 of Europe easily.
Yet I can just about manage a conversation in French. Shamefull really.

Uhm, Gaelic IS Celtic (a Q-Celtic language whereas Welsh is a P-Celtic) and Nordic is just the Northern variety of Germanic, which is divided into West Germanic (English, Dutch, Frisian, German) and North Germanic (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese) and East Germanic (Gothic, now extinct)/

If you believe that is how language acquistion works, your reasoning is highly flawed. How does English cover 2/3 of Europe? Ireland and the UK do not comprise 2/3 of Europe? You are basing your reasoning exclusively on the existence of lexical cognates and loan words. This is but a fraction of what is involved in language acquistion as an adult (L2).

I think he meant in general, not just native language.

No, I think he meant that English being somewhat related to other languages in Europe should automatically endow him with proficiency in said languages. This is incorrect.

[Zardoc]

Stardusk wrote...

Zardoc wrote...

Stardusk wrote...

Abraham_uk wrote...

Native language:  English (I bet you saw that one coming)
Second language: French




Okay to all you people who can speak many languages what is your secret?

I speak English, so I should be fluent in most Europen languages since English overlaps with:

Greek
Latin based languages
Celtic
Gaelic
Nordic languages
Germanic languages


English covers at least 2/3 of Europe easily.
Yet I can just about manage a conversation in French. Shamefull really.

Uhm, Gaelic IS Celtic (a Q-Celtic language whereas Welsh is a P-Celtic) and Nordic is just the Northern variety of Germanic, which is divided into West Germanic (English, Dutch, Frisian, German) and North Germanic (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese) and East Germanic (Gothic, now extinct)/

If you believe that is how language acquistion works, your reasoning is highly flawed. How does English cover 2/3 of Europe? Ireland and the UK do not comprise 2/3 of Europe? You are basing your reasoning exclusively on the existence of lexical cognates and loan words. This is but a fraction of what is involved in language acquistion as an adult (L2).

I think he meant in general, not just native language.

No, I think he meant that English being somewhat related to other languages in Europe should automatically endow him with proficiency in said languages. This is incorrect.

Oh...yeah, I just reread his post. Reading comprehension fail <.<

[Chewin]

Swedish. Then comes Finnish and lastly internet's "lingua franca".

[estebanus]

Main language is danish. However, I'm fluent in speaking english (because my mom is american) and german (because I was born and grew up at the border between Denmark and Germany).

I also know a little italian, but not fluently.

Modifié par estebanus, 29 décembre 2012 - 12:53 .

[Laamaa]

My native language is Dutch (Well, Flemish actually ^^), otherwise I can also speak English, French and a little bit of German (although I mostly understand the last one, not speak)