What languages do you speak/write?

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Speak/read/write English.

I can get by reading in Latin, French, some Spanish.
 
besides English, i only know enough Spanish to be able to order off a menu and have a reasonable expectation of knowing what it is i actually ordered. I’m positive i absolutely butcher the pronunciation though
 
To varying degrees: English, German, Portuguese, Italian, and French. German was actually the first foreign language I was interested in, I think Portuguese is a very unique language that is really underrated in the amount of people who study it as a foreign language, Italian is just so beautiful, and French I took in college because I always had a hard time with it
 
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My native language is English. I can also speak/read/write Spanish to a certain degree, and I’m currently learning Indonesian.
 
Indonesian, that’s interesting. My niece wants to learn Hawaiian.
 
I started to learn it on Duolingo (which BTW also has Hawaiian) about a month ago because the girl that I love is Indonesian.
 
Just English. People outside of Canada often assume we are all bilingual but I never took French in school and understand only the basic hello and goodbye.

At the same time I am finding Latin surprisingly easy to figure out. I can’t speak or write it, but I can often get the gist of a sentence or phrase when reading. So much of the english language comes from latin that I think a class would not be too difficult. But I’m 62 and have no wish to enroll. 🙂
 
7_Sorrows said:
English, Spanish and German.
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I might add I took a quiz on basic French phrases and what they meant in English and scored 96% even though I have never taken a French class. I think my
background in Spanish helped. I would like to study French, Portuguese and
Italian.
 
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I did take French in college, but I had previous knowledge of other Romance languages. Though English is a West Germanic language, it has a heavy Latin influence via Norman (which is closely related to French). I learned that if you don’t know how to say something in French, just say an English word with a French accent. Works more than you think. I had a Latin book. An Episcopalian lady (unintentionally, I hope) stole it. She borrowed it to teach some of her kids in her Sunday school class Latin. And I never saw it again.
 
I wish I was kidding. That is actually how I passed my oral interview with my French professor for my final grade in college. Although, it doesn’t always work, I won’t be giving examples of funny faux amis here, but you can look them up.
 
adamhovey1988 said:
To varying degrees: English, German, Portuguese, Italian, and French.
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That reminds me of something the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is supposed to have said. “I speak French to men, Italian to women, and German to my horses.”
 
Thing is, I sat here saying things and I can see how it would work!!
 
Portuguese and Italian I love. Spanish will help with Portuguese, but the pronunciation is really different. Italian is just beautiful, and I love it. Some of the sounds are hard, though.
 
@adamhovey1988 Yes, I had a friend who studied in Brazil before I knew her in
college and she would speak Portuguese and overemphasize some of the sounds.
We studied in Spain together. We had a lot of fun.

Is there a big difference in the Portuguese accent do you know between the
Portuguese spoken in Brazil and the Portuguese spoken in Portugal like the
difference in the Spanish spoken in Spain and Mexico?
 
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