What foreign languages does CAF know?

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I’ve been learning Tagalog (language of the Philippines) and I feel like my English is slipping too. Sometimes I can’t get out what I wan’t to say. A couple days ago a girl accidentally poked me with her pencil, blushed and said sorry. I tried saying “no problem” but all I said was “no”. Literally just no.

“Oh my gosh I’m sorry”

“No”

???
 
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Tagalog would be an interesting language to learn. Maybe down the road, right now I’m just trying to learn Indo-European languages. I do, eventually want to learn Arabic.
 
I have a friend who’s fluent. I also like going to the Melkite church, and when the priest uses Arabic, that makes me happy.
 
I’m minoring in Spanish. I’m nervous in conversation, especially with conjugating on the spot, but I can write well. I hate using the subjunctive, though.

My family is from Poland. I can carry a conversation in Polish, but I never learned how to read or write.
 
I can read and write Russian Cyrillic, but don’t speak a language that requires it. So basically, I just write in English in Cyrillic.
 
Russian and Polish sound similar and even have words for the same thing that sound the same. But the Russian alphabet is completely different whereas Polish has a few unique characters, but mostly same letters as English with different sounds.
 
I’m 1/8 Swedish, and some of my dad’s family speak Swedish. I think I’m going to skip on that one, good luck though.
 
I’m a linguist by education, and grew up in a home where Spanish, Sicilian and Neapolitan (note: these are not Italian “dialects”, and are each as far from Italian as Dutch is from English) were spoken with regularity. I am fluent in Spanish and am currently brushing up on my standard Italian and Latin. I am also highly literate, but only minimally conversant, in Portuguese, French and Catalan.
 
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It’s obviously up to you, but I’d say go ahead and learn it. Swedish is consistently ranked as one of the easiest languages for native speakers of English to learn, with only Norwegian and Afrikaans being easier. Although English is in a different branch of the Germanic language family (Swedish is Scandinavian/North Germanic, while English is West Germanic) it actually has much more in common structurally with Swedish that it does with its more closely related cousins, Dutch and German. Swedish grammar is highly regular, and verb conjugations are much simpler than they are in English. Many people who set out to learn Swedish reach a decent level of proficiency in only a few months.
 
I was completely aware of all of those things actually. It just doesn’t appeal to me. There’s nothing against Swedish, it’s just not a language I find interesting.
 
I hear you. It doesn’t particularly interest me either, but I love talking about languages.
 
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English is my native language, but I read & write German, Russian, Spanish, Czech, and Latin. Now, conversing in most of these languages is another matter: unfortunately, Americans seldom get a chance to interact with any non-Anglophones other than Spanish-speakers.
 
Spanish at home growing up, English in school, French in High School and college, and Koine Greek in Grad school. Currently trying Gaelic.
 
Passive speaker of Spanish, can read it more than I can speak it
 
Fluent in sarcasm, some Spanish back in high school and some Irish a few years ago
 
I went to university with a girl that is from the Republic of Ireland. She was actually there on a soccer scholarship. Anyway, I remember it was a public speaking class and she did something where she taught us a bit of Irish. She said that she learned it in school, but she’s not fluent but her sister teaches it and it is. I just found that really interesting that she’s not fluent, but her sister is yet they both speak it. Just, her sister speaks a lot more.
 
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