Μαθαίνω ελληνικά. - I am learning Greek.
I am at the point of being able to read Greek, introduce myself, ask and respond to “how are you” and how to say “I am still learning Greek can we speak English”. haha
I’ve been learning Russian for a few years, I’ve also started learning Serbian and Ukrainian a little bit.
I can speak Russian pretty decently, it’s my girlfriend’s first language so I’ve had a lot of regular practice with it, I don’t consider myself fluent at this point but I can hold conversations with native speakers without too much of an issue
With Ukrainian I can understand quite a bit but I haven’t had much practice speaking it with other people at all yet. I have the basic phrases memorized, things like привіт, будь ласка, доброго ранку, добрий вечір, дякую, як справи, etc. but I don’t think I could hold a conversation speaking only in Ukrainian. I’ve been studying it kind of off and on for a year or so, and I listen to some Ukrainian music fairly often
Serbian I’ve been struggling to learn, I’ve been working on it for about 5 months. I think learning Russian first made it weirdly harder since the sentences are structured fairly differently. When it’s written, I can understand quite a bit, but if someone walked up to me and just started speaking Serbian I’d be completely lost
Nederlands (Dutch), my native language is Portuguese and I also speak English.
“Hallo, ik ben Cally en ik spreek een beetje Nederlands.” probably translates to “Hello, I am Cally and I speak a bit of Dutch.”
I kinda suck at learning languages so I’m still at what I assume is A1 level, I think my pronunciation is ok, though. Idk how to speed up language learning but I have set my phone to Dutch and that kinda helps. For example, “Instellingen” means “Settings”
Lekker bezig!
I have been learning Polish on-and-off for a couple of years now.
I am learning German and I can read simple sentences with context, I still can’t understand it by listening
J’apprends le français, C’'est ma troisième langue. Il va ça va, et je suis A2 après ~8 mois, mais j’ai un amie qui m’aide aussi
Bonne chance! Avoir un ami aide toujours.
C’est quoi tes deux premieres langues?
L’espagnol et l’anglais. L’espagnol m’aide plus que l’anglais lol
Ouais c’est deux langues latines, donc ça passe bien. Je veux aussi apprende l’espagnol bientôt.
Buena suerte! Recuérdese, el español se escribe exactamente como suena, y viceversa. Francés nunca hace eso 🙄 jajaja
(Remember, Spanish is written exactly how it sounds and vice versa. French never does that lol)
Je suis en train d’apprendre le français aussi. J’espère que je comprendrai cette langue bientôt et que je pourrai écrire un paragraphe plus long. J’espère que vous passez un bon moment avec cette langue.
Bonne chance!
Je découvre que j’aime le français :) C’est difficile mais très intéressant. Mon français n’est pas parfait (et je fais beaucoup d’erreurs), mais j’apprends quelque chose nouveau touts les jours et je voudrais bien parler en français avec mes amis québécois.
Maintenant, je lis un petit livre de fantaisie sur les lieux hauntes. C’est bon et pas dur!
I just started taking Spanish classes. I had one year of Spanish in elementary school and I’m fluent in French, so it’s been pretty simple to understand Spanish but I need to keep working on speaking. I’ve also started watching Spanish language tv, to try to pick up more vocabulary.
Decided to take it to be able to speak with more people in my community, plus I love visiting Mexico and South America.
I’ve been learning Portuguese (Brazilian) off and on for a while. I’m mostly okay-ish at reading it, but it’s nearly impossible for me to understand it when spoken.
I’ve been learning Japanese for a long time now. The funny thing is that I started at the wrong end by learning kanji first and then moving onto grammar and vocabulary in that order. Avoid what I did unless you want to be proficient at reading it without understanding it!
Although not all is lost, because I’m getting used to reading news and Wikipedia articles without much aid or effort anymore, and spoken Japanese is slowly getting easier. Understanding it is still proving to be a bitch from time to time but that’s on me!
Btw, does anyone know of great websites to read Japanese? I browse Gigazine.net quite a bit and many news outlets, but I’d like to mix it up and move away from politics and news in general. I’m still a bit shy about online forums, but maybe I should do that next.
You could ask in !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz
Hmmm aku sedang belajar Bahasa Indonesia sekarang but I’m terrible at it.
I’m currently learning Catalan, doing Duolingo until I find some class (which there should be one in a couple of months). It’s relatively easy for me since I already speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese and understand almost everything in Italian.
I’m learning English and a little bit of Czech (stopped a while ago because of my lazyness but want to start learning Czech again). I think I’m still speak badly in English but I understand it very good.
I’m from Ukraine btw
(Also does programming languages count? I love Rust)
Learning Swedish now, since I already speak passable Norwegian, it’s not the hardest endeavor.
This might be a weird question, but: Did you have a particular reason to learn Swedish or Norwegian, or is it just for fun?
I’ve been interested in learning Swedish or Danish, but I haven’t been able to find a practical reason to. I hear that almost all of them speak English pretty well, and will prefer speaking English with you if you visit their country. (The curse of being a native English speaker who likes languages.)
I would have had easy access to a native Danish speaker, but sadly, my Mormor (“mother’s mother”) passed away just last night. Her English was perfect as she lived in the US for >70 years, but her beautiful accent is what originally sparked my interest in Scandinavian languages.
So sorry for your loss!
As for my motivation, I did a year of work & travel in Norway after finishing my bachelor’s and picked up enough to be conversational. Actually I tried staying afterwards but could only score student jobs and temporary stuff, so decided to build my CV a bit more before going back.
Life took a few unexpected turns and instead of returning after a couple years, I ended up working all over Africa and then Asia for 15+ years, but I still kept going, thinking I would one day return.
Now that the time might have come in the near future (= next 2-ish years), I was looking more and more into the requirements and figured out that the wealth tax would break me - I’m by no means filthy rich, but they tax you on assets above ~160k USD, and since I don’t qualify for any government pensions due to my erratic work, I’ve set aside a good chunk of investments for my retirement that’d effectively be crippled in its growth potential. The only thing exempt are a primary residence there (considered to 25% of its value) and local government pension accounts.
That pretty much killed Norway for me, so I’m now looking at Sweden instead, where there’s no such thing, and cost of living are also lower. So I decided to switch over to learning Swedish instead, it’s not far off. I was there last year and was able to have a pretty normal conversation with a real estate agent where I spoke Norwegian and he Swedish, and we understood each other just fine.
For visiting only, English is just fine. But if you plan to work and socialise long term, it’s absolutely essential to integrate.
I’m learning Esperanto because everything I do has to be esoteric. I understand the fundamentals of the language and my pronunciation is perfect i’d say. I’ve been learning for a few months and I can read and write basic sentences. I also want to learn Spanish (mostly to flirt) but it’s hard to find the time. I’d also like to learn Indonesian, German and Afrikaans.
Edit: I’d also love to learn Polish but it’s so fucking hard.
Edit 2: Oh and Finnish. I really like languages and I get excited about them.
I think you could enjoy looking into toki pona.
I’m familiar with it. I have Sonja Lang’s book on it.
I learned a bit of Esperanto, many years ago. It’s crazy how easy it is to progress in that language, compared to natural languages.
Learning Spanish 2 before learning Spanish
Interesting
I prefer Italian light
Eh, esperanto il like the family guy Noah’s ark meme, there’s a mishmash of languages. Learning volapük would be esoteric
All of Volapük’s speakers could fit on one bus.
And they may not understand each other
Curious, why is that?
Am I learning a new language? No.
How far along am I? About halfway.You’re killing it, keep it up! 💪
I’m not but I’d love to learn some other romance languages, Italian and French would be my choices right now.
