What languages do you speak?

[samouraï]

How many here are bi/multilingual? I know there are plenty of Spanish speakers here.

I speak Portuguese and understand some French. I can read some Japanese but don't understand much at all. Lost all that I learned in college.

I'll probably try to pick up Spanish given that I live in So Cal and once you've learned one Romance Language the rest are fairly easy.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

I can read, write and speak both English and Spanish fluently. I can understand Portuguese because my boss is from there.

[samouraï]

I can read, write and speak both English and Spanish fluently. I can understand Portuguese because my boss is from there.

Brazil or Portugal?

I can read a lot of Spanish and understand due to the similarities, but obviously can't speak it. I also think my accent might be all screwed up if I ever do learn Spanish. Still want to try though.

[Russian Crushin]

English, Russian and Ukrainian

[fight_professor]

English. I also speak basic Punjabi - but not fluent.

[Canelo Phresh]

French, Arabic, and Romanian.

[-jose-]

I speak, read and write Spanish,English and I'm fluent in Boxingscene Lounge language also.

[New England]

fluently? just one. i speak english.

i can comprehend a good deal of the simplest spanish. hablo un poco. if i'm watching boxing i don't need to translate in my head. with spanish, i'm like a toddler listening to grown ups talk. a dumb toddler to boot. i take what i can. i had an introduction to spanish in high school, but i'm almost 100% self taught at this point. spanish and english are extremely similar. spanish is mostly streamlined, of course, and english is all over the place.


i've been watching japanese media for about a year and a half now, and i'm finally starting to pick up tiny bits of it. it is very hard. japanese is humbling. i got used to listening to spanish almost immediately, much quicker than most of my peers. when i first encountered japanese it was just noise. i couldn't even tell where one word ended and another began. at first i thought that i was just too old to pick up on it. i still can't come close to understanding what's being said without subtitles, but at least i have an understanding of the character of the language now. japanese is the real deal.

if i want to make any real strides with japanese i would need to start to branch out further than simply watching subtitled japanese media. i don't even know the alphabet, how to count, etc.

there's a ton of brazilian [Portuguese] spoken in my building. i just don't give enough of a F#ck to try and pick up on anything. some of the women are good looking, but they've all got 2-3 kids by their mid 20's, and i've got no interest at all in any of that.


to answer your question, i speak about 1.2 languages. that number includes english.

that is more than most of my american, english speaking peers. americans leave the country expecting people to understand us. #ugly american.

[Mr Ehrmantraut]

English mother****er.

[samouraï]

fluently? just one. i speak english.

i can comprehend a good deal of the simplest spanish. hablo un poco. if i'm watching boxing i don't need to translate in my head. with spanish, i'm like a toddler listening to grown ups talk. a dumb toddler to boot. i take what i can. i had an introduction to spanish in high school, but i'm almost 100% self taught at this point. spanish and english are extremely similar. spanish is mostly streamlined, of course, and english is all over the place.


i've been watching japanese media for about a year and a half now, and i'm finally starting to pick up tiny bits of it. it is very hard. japanese is humbling. i got used to listening to spanish almost immediately, much quicker than most of my peers. when i first encountered japanese it was just noise. i couldn't even tell where one word ended and another began. at first i thought that i was just too old to pick up on it. i still can't come close to understanding what's being said without subtitles, but at least i have an understanding of the character of the language now. japanese is the real deal.

if i want to make any real strides with japanese i would need to start to branch out further than simply watching subtitled japanese media. i don't even know the alphabet, how to count, etc.

there's a ton of brazilian [Portuguese] spoken in my building. i just don't give enough of a F#ck to try and pick up on anything. some of the women are good looking, but they've all got 2-3 kids by their mid 20's, and i've got no interest at all in any of that.


to answer your question, i speak about 1.2 languages. that number includes english.

that is more than most of my american, english speaking peers. americans leave the country expecting people to understand us. #ugly american.

The hardest part of Japanese in my opinion is the characters, by far. I didn't find the grammar to be very difficult, and luckily English speakers have a much easier time pronouncing Japanese (it's cake) than vice-versa. It's a matter of English having hundreds of sounds Japanese doesn't.

As far as the characters go, the two main syllabaries are easy enough to learn (hiragana and katakana). I've got hiragana down 100%, and usually know katakana just as well if I see the character (I just often forget how to write them from scratch myself). Kanji is a completely different story. Those are the big fancy characters that take a ****load of effort to learn.