Spanish s my mother language, I think I'm fluent enough in English unless you kind people would correct me.
I can communicate in Japanese like basic stuff, asking for directions, greetings, colors, simple phrases, btw Sylph, it's Romaji, not Romanji and there are three writing languages, Hiragana, katakana & Kanji, Kanji it's extremely hard, not even Japanese people themselves are masters on it, the common writing language is hiragana.
I can also understand a little italian and french.
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I insist that I only know English... however that would not be altogether true.
Latin, Ancient Greek and Hebrew are ones I can read and to one degree or another write. Speak? most likely no. I understand German when heard (but not when written those extra letter kills me). Spanish (Mexican mostly) I understand a lot better than I let people know.
I speak english - poorly... But then I speak any language poorly.
I can piece together French, German and other related languages to english.
Formal education in Latin, Ancient Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic... the latter I never got far in.
Farsi - I can manage a few words of comprehension...
I can swear in Czech....
Understand I do have a speech impediment - finding words from any language is at best difficult. I struggle with English, which I was raised with. So mastering any language is most likely beyond my skill level.
I only appear to know English well... but then I sit here and think a lot about each sentence before I write it. Ergo I do not do chat, or instant message because I can't keep up with language at any speed.
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I speak four:
English (main)
Chinese
Korean
Spanish
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I am fluent in Swahili, have some Arabic and schoolboy French...
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English only
I took 2 years of Spanish in school and work with a bunch of Spanish speakers but can't understand any of it. I would like to have a second language but I just can't seem to do it.
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