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Do you study languages?

ccj424
ccj424 Posts: 30
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
Hi! I like to study languages. Does anyone else study? What languages do you study or know?
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  • smaugish
    smaugish Posts: 244 Member
    Do ancient languages count? Haha, I'm doing my MA in Medieval Studies; part of that is being a Medieval Linguist. I'm currently re-learning Classical and Medieval Latin, and brushing up on my Old English and Middle English skills.

    I can also speak basic conversational German, and some Spanish.
  • small_ninja
    small_ninja Posts: 365 Member
    Just finished my major in Japanese last year :smile:
  • ccj424
    ccj424 Posts: 30
    That's really cool, guys!

    I couldn't major in Japanese, but I studied it. As for Medieval Studies, that's interesting. Does that include Latin? It's the only ancient language I could think of, but it probably isn't ancient. I thought about making a group for friends to practice languages with each other, since there are so many other groups on here for other things. Only, I decided not to because I thought it would be lame and unrelated to fitness. I guess I just wanted to fulfill my curiosity.
  • DMZ_1
    DMZ_1 Posts: 2,889 Member
    English & Spanish
  • cotso
    cotso Posts: 86
    I don't study languages but since I'm Canadian, living in Quebec and of Greek descent, I speak 3 languages lol
  • thebaconbeast
    thebaconbeast Posts: 560 Member
    Yes, Spanish.
  • ptak1sm
    ptak1sm Posts: 172
    i got my degree in spanish and would like to go back to school to get certified to teach. unfortunately, i havent spoken it in so long i'm afraid im losing it :( if anyone is looking for a conversation partner let me know!
  • YumemiruJin
    YumemiruJin Posts: 133 Member
    English native, Spanish 8 years in school, 2 of Japanese, currently in Germany doing immersion learning, and would also like to try out Portuguese sometime soon :)
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    latin and greek only because i had to for school, french, spanish, italian, russian, japanese. i also studied a bit of german back when i was a in a french MA program and was considering going for a doctorate in medieval lit.

    i'll soon be starting brazilian portuguese and mandarin.

    i currently work in the language industry :smile:
  • BROscience_PHD
    BROscience_PHD Posts: 215 Member
    yes, um , body language.
  • jessicae1aine
    jessicae1aine Posts: 885
    I took 2 years of German, a year of Spanish, and a year of French (which was my least favorite). I've also studied ASL and Korean in my free time.
  • MNguerita
    MNguerita Posts: 199 Member
    yes, um , body language.

    Funny! Well in addition to the language of love, I love Spanish and am fairly fluent...would love to learn Italian and sign language and maybe even French or German, but nothing is in the works at the moment.
  • YokoJ
    YokoJ Posts: 253
    English, Spanish, and Tagalog.
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    Speak english and spanish.

    I can understand some french/italian/portuguese (these last two are sooo alike spanish so its easy :smile: )
  • Poorgirls_Diet
    Poorgirls_Diet Posts: 528 Member
    English, Spanish, German, Latin, Irish and currently learning Urdu
  • NU2U
    NU2U Posts: 659 Member
    I study..

    JIVE
    BULL$HIT
    SLANG
  • stargazer008
    stargazer008 Posts: 531
    Well I did study French for school since I'm Canadian. The languages I know are English, French, Persian, Arabic and Hindi.
  • iamers
    iamers Posts: 74
    I am currently studying Spanish and German, I am a native English speaker and I am hoping to study Spanish at university :smile:
    In the future I aim to know conversational French, Italian and possibly Arabic. I love languages!!! :laugh:
  • Masterdo
    Masterdo Posts: 331 Member
    I can speak French and English at fluent level, good enough to work in both languages (and I do :p ).

    I know Spanish and have been trying to learn Korean for a while now. I am trying to go for one language per decade. Apparently it's pretty good to keep the brain "healthy" and active. It's lots of fun at least :)

    My main Korean resource, should people be interested. Works only in IE for some odd reason :
    http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/korean/
  • gombolyu
    gombolyu Posts: 136 Member
    I speak Italian, English and my mother language: Hungarian. I understand some French. I even studied Japonese for a year about 16-17 years ago. But I totally forgot it.:(
  • Missmissy0003
    Missmissy0003 Posts: 250 Member
    I love languages. I have studied French in school and Spanish in my free time. I would like to start studying them again and plan on it soon.
  • HenryIsTheMan
    HenryIsTheMan Posts: 8
    japanese and chinese =]
  • DAMNCHARLIE
    DAMNCHARLIE Posts: 569
    I am working on my Spanish (I have a lot of Spanish friends and I want to know what thier talking about), and after I have always wanted to study sign language. I think that's so cool.
  • lissymae11
    lissymae11 Posts: 71
    I can speak English and Spanish, and a fair amount of German. I took one semester of ASL (honestly I only remember a little bit) but I'm hoping to learn Portuguese next :)
  • Turtlehurdle
    Turtlehurdle Posts: 412
    English and Spanish.

    Took Greek and Latin in high school.
  • selana
    selana Posts: 2
    I am German and as you can see fluent in English. Right now I'm working on being a certified translator for English. Apart from that I studied French and Spanish at school ages ago. I still can kind of read both languages well enough to get an idea of what a text is about, but due to lack of practice I can't really use either of them any more
  • lika50
    lika50 Posts: 140 Member
    I'm studying Spanish right now and love it. Would like to master French next... :smile:
  • sfuller911
    sfuller911 Posts: 63
    Studying Spanish now!
  • QuietImperfections
    QuietImperfections Posts: 57 Member
    I'm studying Japanese ^^
  • NNAhuja
    NNAhuja Posts: 669 Member
    I studied Spanish and know it pretty well. After living in PR for a few summers, I better know that ish!
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