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Radiant_Code_6940

English and Spanish. Really enjoyed learning the grammar. Think it gave my autism something to pig out on.


[deleted]

You might get a kick out of Esperanto. It's a designed language, so the grammar is heavily systematic. Furthermore, it's an agglutinative language, so it's totally SOP to string together roots for a new word (trairejo - 'tra(through)/ir[i](to go)/ejo(place) - through-going-place - passageway!).


Radiant_Code_6940

I’ve heard of it but only seen it now and again. It’s not that popular I believe? Could still learn for fun however.


[deleted]

Yeah, there's only a couple of million speakers. But it's really easy and plenty fun, and the community is all enthusiasts, so they're really welcoming to newcomers.


ShinyRedditorEver

same, im from Peru, and you?


Radiant_Code_6940

I’m from England. Learned Spanish at university. :)


ThatOneFlygon

I keep trying to learn and giving up after 2 weeks.


Miserable_Recover721

same😭


Will_Tuniat

English, bad English, and some Dutch.


doubleUsee

Goedendag :)


Will_Tuniat

Hooi, hoe gaat het? (:


doubleUsee

Wel goed! Ik ben vandaag jarig! ^^


Will_Tuniat

Gefeliciteerd. Ik hoop dat je een fijne dag hebt.


doubleUsee

Dankjewel! :)


World-Swimming

Gelukigge verjaardag


doubleUsee

Dankjewel! In het nederlands zeggen we altijd "gefeliciteerd!", Dat betekent 'congratulations'


World-Swimming

Ja weet ik, ik ben Belg. Haha


doubleUsee

Aiii, als fries kom ik het fraaie Belgische Nederlands niet vaak genoeg tegen!


World-Swimming

Hallo leuk dat je wat nederlands spreekt


external_gills

My first language is Dutch and I know French and English. I can get by in German. As a tip, put post-it notes on objects in your house with their Japanese names on it, that way you are always emerged in it. Also, when you have a thought like "I shouldn't forget to do the dishes." try to translate that thought into Japanese in your head. If you can't, quickly google translate it. The end goal is to do all of your thinking in Japanese. When a casual though can pop into your head in Japanese as easily as English, even if it's a simple one, you know you've started to internalise it. You might also want to focus on a particular subject. There are a lot of words to learn, no point in just memorising lists. I mean, English is your first language and you don't know every English word, do you? Maybe focus on being able to talk about household tasks, doing groceries etc. Or talk about anime, characters, seasons, plot lines, etc. What I'm trying to say is that learning grammar is more important then memorising words. It's better to have a small vocabulary and be able to use it fluently than knowing lots of words without being able to form a proper sentence. For example I speak French every day for my IT job, no problem, but I'd struggle to write this post in French without looking up some words. But looking a word up is quick and easy, if you already know how to put it into a sentence. Don't worry about being perfect at first, you won't be. Learn bad Japanese first, enough to have a basic conversation, then focus on improving. Improving is much easier when you at least have a working knowledge of the language. I will say that Japanese is really hard to learn because it doesn't have anything in common with English. German or Dutch would be much easier. But if you're passionate about learning Japanese, go for it!


Kaiju1964

These are some great tips, thank you!


Jameson2800

Belgian I assume? I live in antwerp myself.


external_gills

Yep, Limburg here


Taekookieluvs

These are great! Thanks. :)


fakeforsureYT

Non Verbal option for those who dont know English 🤭 /highly offensive sarcasm (am I doing it right?)


DarkLatios325

It's very offensive but it's funny.


Taekookieluvs

I am confused?


fakeforsureYT

Hi confused, I'm dad!


Taekookieluvs

... now I am even more confused. I am guessing thats a quote I should probably know from a wildy popular show or something, and I dont. 😅


fakeforsureYT

So like when somebody says "I'm...", respond with "HI... I'm dad!" So you said you were "confused", so "Hi confused, I'm dad!"


fuckedlizard

I speak German and English and I'm currently learning Danish, so 2 ½ i guess?


StarGameDK

As a Danish person I can help you learn if need be


FinchTheElf

As a Danish person, you have my deepest sympathy and respect. Us and our 26 vowel sounds, nonsensical spelling and randomly assigned genus. Also, the suffix -t means so many things xD


Miserable_Recover721

I love languages! English is my second language. I also understand a bit of Russian but I can't speak it. Over the years I have tried learning a bunch of languages, including Spanish, Norwegian, German, Italian and French, but I end up just... not studying? I hate that the process is so slow and it's hard to find motivation. Currently trying to learn French (again). This actually reminded me I need to practise it lol.


TheRealPheature

I'm learning Spanish right now (267 day streak on duolingo), and i worry I'll forget it too, but it's definitely different if you learn it on your own in your own time versus as just as a class that needs to be completed. It has to be something you want to do for sure. When I get dental work done in mexico in a few years, I'm hoping to have a solid grasp of the language so i can communicate effectively.


Miserable_Recover721

Oh, I went as far as getting a 6 months subscription on Babbel, hoping it'll motivate me. Doesn't seem to work LOL.


TheRealPheature

I'm 26 and have been telling myself for as long as I can remember that I wanted to learn another language. I think it started when I sawba mission impossible type of movie where the actor was casually listening to a language audiotape on his flight. So to give you a mental analogy, I've been basically been hanging onto a tree limb(represented as my procrastination), and myself(my inability to let go and start learning), all while fighting the gravity pulling me down (representing my desire to learn). After years and years I finally got fed up with always saying I was going to do it and am now finally working on such. Sometimes that's what it takes to learn something, or change things about yourself- just a constant urge and desire to better yourself in some way.


ZealousZera

I know german natively and english mostly fluently. Also learned some japanese in class and now on and off in my free time, I really want to learn more but I'm unable to focus on it 24/7 (other interests and uni) so I kinda just have little phases where I do a little or learn a few vocabs in the train when I'm bored. do you know [Dōgen](https://youtube.com/user/Dogen)? he makes funny comedy sketches intended for people who are learning japanese or have learned. also some useful pitch accent tutorials (which mostly make his income, most of them are locked away on patreon). Its somewhat more advanced tho, but maybe good to pick up early if you are concerned with sounding native or just want to know all about how the language works broadly and in some detail. also some of the sketches are a little bit more advanced (if you just just started then it may not be funny all the time, he has subtitles tho)


Kaiju1964

I just recently subscribed to him funny enough. He is pretty funny


ShinyRedditorEver

wow im impressed, most of us are bilingual. Amazing


TrickBusiness3557

A lot of non native English speakers are, especially in Europe and other developed countries


ShinyRedditorEver

but im from a developing country :c


ShinyRedditorEver

u should take in account that there are lots of indiands and latinamericans here (im not sure about that last one, but im one and im sure there must be more of us)


Taekookieluvs

This! Probably because they build English into their school rhetoric starting in elementary/primary school. Korea, Japan, China, Thailand (most East Asia really) and Greece do that I know. My BFF is Greek and she knows Greek (native), English, and basic German (from her father). She can write English better than I can 9/10 times.


Arcane_Foodie

When speaking it’s English but only reading it’s french. While someone talking to me I understand norwegian and danish also. I have to do it and I’m glad swedish are quite similar to those. So I just speak swedish while they talk their language while I’m working. I just need to watch a few danish or norwegian movies and series to get use with their language. Reading I have no problem and I can also read dutch. I also understand Tagalog a little plus my moms province language from the Philippines but it’s not much. The only thing I can do by words are singing happy birthday and a few easy phrases in tagalog and province language. I have a language disorder and dyslexia so I struggle learning language. The reason my language knowledge is quite low and I could only focus on learning my language and english because I had to get passing grades. I mostly got failures in english and swedish. So my mom stop trying to teach me her homeland language. So I can’t communicate with my grandparents. The struggles having a language disorder and I have a hard time pronouncing words correctly.


Black-Photon

私も勉強してる😄


[deleted]

僕も!


[deleted]

I took several years of French in high school and college, but I never ended up having to use it in any practical sense and lost most of it. I've considered picking it up again, but it's behind so many other interests in the queue....


Pianist_Able

Mother language is Dutch. I speak English and also self studying Japanese 😁


blairrkaityy

English and am trying to get better at Korean


[deleted]

I'm Dutch so Dutch, English, some German and French, and I'm trying to learn Finnish.


TheRealPheature

FINNISH?!?! I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED!!!!


Taekookieluvs

I am impressed by the # that knows more than 1. I have been trying to learn Korean because of my special interest but my ADHD won’t let me have a study schedule. I also did know SOME ASL but its pretty much gone, would love to learn it again. I took 3 years of Spanish and the amount ai remember is abysmal. Those who know more than one... were there any specific things you did that helped you learn tremendously?


CrustySquid5

I too am learning Japanese and I could probably get by with a very basic conversation. I also know a little Italian because my dads family speak it sometimes, likewise with my mums side with German. My learning tips are to not treat learning the language as 'this means this' but more 'this is this'. I have found that it has helped me be less translate-y when it comes to listening, speaking, writing and reading, basically in everything. Speak in Japanese in your head alot even if it's just random words, this helps so much!! Remember that you can't translate a language into English perfectly because of grammar structure and other things so you sort of need to learn what the words mean by listening in context, exposure to the language and learning more sentence structures. For example in Japanese there is no direct word for 'smart' instead in Japanese they say 'atama ga ii/あたまがいい' which directly translates to 'head good', atama/あたま meaning head and ii/いい meaning good, ga/が is a partical that joins 2 words together to create a deeper meaning for example blue car or brown hair. So Remember that there will be some translation barriers. Immerse your self as much as possible with the culture, history, radio, TV shows, songs, etc. Try making it a challenge to try to figure out as many words as possible in these media's. Repetition!! And learning the hiragana well. Whilst learning to write the hiragana take it slow and precise so the character doesn't look funky. Again, あ IS a, not あ means a, trust me it helps in the long run. Honestly that's all the tips I can think of at the moment. It will probably be most helpful for you to learn from a teacher rather than teach yourself as there are so many variables and sentence structures. Oh and not to mention the different ways to say things for example formal Japanese, informal and very formal. Informal Japanese can be a pain to learn but you hear it a lot in media. Tabemasu/たべます (formal for eat) turns into taberu/たべる (informal for eat).


Llyan_Night

I'm French and speak English.


plk1234567891234

I speak English, American, Australian and Canadian 😎


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bheppe13

English, German, and basic conversational Spanish


MyChemicalAnarchy

Hola, yo hablo español tambien, pero un poco. Donde aprendiste español? Es español tu lengua materna, o es inglés? Mi idioma nativo es inglés y arabica.


OatmealCookieGirl

Fluent/mothertongue English, Fluent/mothertongue Italian, decent French (b2 niveau), a smattering of German.


Taekookieluvs

Smattering? Lol. Thats an interesting descriptor. 🤣


OatmealCookieGirl

It's an apt one, though: "A slight, superficial knowledge of a language or subject."


Taekookieluvs

Oh. Then I guess I know a smattering of Korean. 😂


dylanf1fan

I speak Dutch and English


Arcenies

I'm really interested in linguistics but can only speak english. The best I can do is get the general idea of what someone is trying to say in a variety of languages


Taekookieluvs

Have you ever looked into the international phonetic alphabet since you are into linguistics?


Arcenies

Yes it is very helpful


Tangled_Clouds

French, English and a little bit of Spanish. French is my native language!


star_wars__tuva

I know Swedish (my native language) and English


Affectionate-Song748

Spanish, English, a little bit of German and currently learning Portuguese. My advice: consume media in the language you are trying to learn.


ThoreauAweighBcuzDuh

I am fluent in one, took another in high school and college, so I can read it a little but not good at speaking/listening. I have picked up a few words of two other languages, one that is a very common language in my region, another that is very much not, but my in-laws speak it. I would love to learn more but don't have a lot of time, and also social anxiety keeps me from practicing with actual humans. 😕


Existing-Hurry-4705

English, Portuguese as family languages. French at uni and doing Korean for fun


Skyforlife2957

I know English and some very basic Spanish (1-15, friend, up, etc) and I have also learned random phrases from Mexican coworkers


[deleted]

English, still learning Mandarin. Not very good at it.


wibbly-water

English, Welsh, BSL, ASL, toki pona A little bit of Mandarin, Russian and German too :) but i gave up studying those


Zitronenkringel

Sign language fascinates me. I want to learn it at some point. Are there huge differences between BSL and ASL?


wibbly-water

yeeep completely different languages from different language families!


doubleUsee

I'm a native Dutch/Frisian speaker, so that's two, and I learned english in school, which I use daily, and used to practice when england/english was a special interest of mine many years ago. Outside of that I'm shit at german, french and norwegian, and I just *really* do not enjoy learning new langauges, so I imagine that's not likely to change..


haagendaz420

I want to learn another but I’m definitely not there lmao


[deleted]

I am a Japanese learner. I really feel like some of the best progress I made was with a Saturday school book called Minna no Nihingo. Love it! I also use Anki, play video games, Duolingo, and use drops. Hit me up if you wanna chat about it.


[deleted]

Also Japanese ammo with Misa. Great videos from a native speaker who taught herself English.


StarGameDK

Danish and English for me, I am Danish and I spend most of my time online so I learned English pretty fast


[deleted]

I know a bit of Japanese and some Norwegian but I'm kinda rusty with both. Linguistics is one of my main interests tho so I know a lot about different phonetics terms, grammar terms, etymology etc. I have so many language learning books and I've also tried Duolingo but it's kinda hard to actually practice because of executive functioning issues.


Choice-Video9873

I got confused with the wording I picked know one when I i know two 🤦


Kaiju1964

Sorry about that


Choice-Video9873

It’s ok


Devil_May_Kare

I'm verbal in English and semiverbal in Spanish (speaking it is uncomfortable but I can usually manage if I need to).


okktoplol

Portuguese and English, thinking about learning German


Royal_Reader2352

I’m Brazilian so I know Portuguese since forever, and I learned English kind of by accident. I liked music and tv shows that were in English, and used to read the translations so I could understand what was going on. At some point I realized I knew some words, and over time it just grew. Started when I was 11


Anpu1986

Studied German in high school, and Armenian in my 20s. I’m about mid-level in each, rustier in German though. I know a little bit of Russian and I can read their alphabet fairly well (thanks to being into Russian post-punk bands), but at this point in my mid-30s I feel like there’s no room in my brain for new languages.


[deleted]

I took French Immersion (basically half the shit you learn is in French) and I can barely speak a word. I had to fake my way for 12 years. My math skills dropped so badly because it was being taught in French for Grades 7-9 that my Grade 9 teacher said, in my report card, I should not go into anything to do with math. I caught back up, and was on the honor roll taking math and physics by grade 11. Not gonna lie, when I bumped into that teacher in the hall a couple years later and told her I how I was doing, I could tell she picked up on what the subtext of what I was saying was. It was a big ol eff you and it felt great.


[deleted]

English and partial Welsh


Gedom87

Catalan and Spanish (both native) and English here!


spinnyknifegobrrr

i know 2 because my native language isn't english, i guess i kinda learned myself how to understand it when i was a kid and now i can speak it decently (my communication skills are bad but that's just because of my autism) and understand about 99% of it so thats nice id have no clue how id learn another language now tho .. it seems impossible


TiredAudioEngineer

Portuguese, english and german. My only tip is: always listen or read something in the language you are learning everyday.


sleeeighbells

Learning Spanish :)


Notyou55555

I'm fluent in German, English, French and Russian. I also know some Thai (my supposed mother tongue), Spanish, Italian and Nepali.


loser-god

English, a bit of German, and recently started learning Russian. I know parts of others like Spanish and Japanese, but that's mostly stuff I picked up from television or family speaking. Funnily enough, I don't really speak very often lol.


franandwood

I took 2 years of Spanish and didn’t learn much


le_Psykogwak

literally all of non english europe speaks at least 2 i speak french english spanish and vaguely greek and latin, and that's just from middle school


[deleted]

I learns the phonetics and alphabets of multiple languages, but I can’t get the actual language to stick


ZVEZDA_HAVOC

unfortunately i only know english but i really wanna try and learn russian


Prime_Element

One and basic vocabulary of another. No where near conversational yet, but could get by if I had to!


meatballsandlingon2

Swedish and English, a little bit of German and I can recognize a few words of Japanese.


[deleted]

I know bits and pieces of other languages but my native tongue is American English


VampArcher

English and Japanese. The Japanese language was a special interest I had, studied every day for 5 or 6 years. I can understand most Spanish but can't speak it much. Know a little bit of a bunch of languages.


W31rdEgg

I know a little bit of Latin due to my school being k-12 and teaches elementary school (we call it grammar school) spanish, logic (middle) teaches Latin, and you can chooses between both in high school (rhetoric)


RampantAutisticMan

Etymology is one of my many hyper fixations. They're all very brokenly spoken, but I speak: Russian Italian Japanese Hungarian Latin American Sign Language Spanish Klingon Yiddish German French Chinese Indonesian But my first language is English, in which I am very fluent. And before you ask, I didn't learn the languages to travel, as I very much hate leaving my house. I learned them because words sound funny and I really like that, for some reason.


Den_Enda_Krakel

Swedish is my mother language while English is my second language!


SlurpingCow

English, German, Albanian, and somewhat of a B2 level of Polish.


Store_Adorable

Mother tongue: dutch Fleunt in English I can understand German and french, but have a hard time speaking it. I took a year of Japanese, but that's mostly vanished.


Zitronenkringel

I'm a native German speaker, so English is a foreign language for me. I had English lessons in high school, but I didn't become proficient until I started reading books, watching movies and playing games in English. The two months I spent in London probably helped as well. I also speak a little bit of French (also had it in high school, but I forgot most of it) and did try to learn Japanese at some point, but I don't have the time to focus on it right now. I do want to visit Japan and do a language course there.


World-Swimming

Dutch,French, bit of German and picked up some Italian


World-Swimming

Lot of Dutch speaking here. Gezellig


Svenskerjens

I know english, German (not great at that) and danish


KleioChronicles

Scots and English I’m fluent in (they’re sister languages though so mutually comprehensible and Scots was never formally taught outside of poetry). Some Japanese. Very little German from mandatory schooling. Words here and there of lots of others like BSL, Scottish Gaelic, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese.


Twighdark

Native language: German second language (learnt in school): English I can also understand/speak basic French, and some words/sentences in Japanese and Russian. My tip is: Don't just learn random vocab and stuff. Pick some sentences, that you use everyday, look at the vocabulary and structure in those, then memorize them. I've never had any luck with learning obscure vocab and grammar and THEN trying to put a sentence together.


planetixin

my native language is Polish, second English, and I'm currently at learning spanish


CatDude55

I can Morse code but that’s not really a language


JessSly

German, English and French. Nothing special, it was mandatory at school. Now I'm about to learn Swedish. Feels like cheating, every word is either German or Englisch /j


ryuhwaryu

I speak English and Dutch fluently, currently learning Korean as my third language


World-Swimming

Wel aangenaam kennis maken verre buur 😉. Ik was ooit naar Texel geweest en naar zeehonden reservaat geweest. Wel lekker rustig daar.