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| FailArtist Aka ’Akao’ Newbie United States Joined 5309 days ago 34 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 113 of 204 18 May 2010 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
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Mandarin: A week, very thin line of knowledge Spanish: A month, took a break for two months, and now I am going to start back up again after I get a little more knowledge of Mandarin. I have about a kernel of basic Spanish information, enough to walk down the street and understand most of what people are saying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5586 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 114 of 204 18 May 2010 at 3:53am | IP Logged |
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Name: Jordan King
Age: 18 English: Native (Would be willing to trade for Russian or German :D) Spanish: Started at 14, manditory "American" schooling language, horrible teaching, but I really worked with a foreign student from venezuela when I started out. Self study got me to where I am today German: Less than 2 months ago, I can read anything and understand at least 50% of it (Pretty good in my opinion) slowly learning the cases and idioms :D I love German. Portuguese: I know it pretty well, in between intermediate and basic fluency. I can watch TV and read and stuff, understanding around 70%-75% of it. (Learned it because of a girlfriend from Brazil last year:D) Japanese: I WAS OBSESSED WITH CARS (still am) I got a free street racing DVD with a magazine I bought, in Japanese with English subtitles. I loved it haha! I know the basics and a little sentence structure. Not much however. Italian: First Assimil Course, and it seemed fairly easy to pick up. It's another Romance language, and I haven't really started yet. I understand a good bit, but I need a lot of work. Shouldn't be difficult to master. French: Haven't started, but it's another Romance language, how hard can it be. Russian: Friend from Russia showed me a Russian rap video. I love the language, especially the writing. I hope to master Russian, German, and Spanish in my lifetime. I'm talkin' advanced fluency :D German and Russian appear "gangster" My friend Yulian speaks both Ukrainian and Russian with his parents in front of me, and I love it. (They could be saying I'm a fat potato for all I know, but it sounds so cool!) Edited by datsunking1 on 18 May 2010 at 3:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 115 of 204 18 May 2010 at 7:14pm | IP Logged |
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Name: Athene (would rather not put my last name here)
Age: 18 English: Native; and according to the standardized testing we did in school, by 3rd grade I had a college-level reading ability, so that's probably been a big help to me in the language-learning department. Esperanto: Started a year or so ago, but picked up seriously again about six months ago. Intermediate fluency (about B1 I think). Japanese: From age 15. Took two years of high school classes, then read up on self-study methods because I wanted to continue on my own, which is how I found this forum. Took me a while to find a good method for me. Currently a bit less than A1 level. French: From age 6! I had this every year from first grade to fifth grade, but sadly we only covered the basics over and over every year. In 6th and 7th grade I did some of my own studying and got a bit farther, but not by much. Since then it's been neglected until about a month ago I started doing the occasional Pimsleur lesson, and as of now I've officially started it again. I'm definitely at a beginner level. I also have a bazillion things on my hit list, but the ones at the top are ASL, Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, and Hindi. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6529 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 116 of 204 18 May 2010 at 10:48pm | IP Logged |
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Spanish: native English: since I'm 5. I "finished" when I ended up the highschool (at 18), but continued by self-teaching for 2 more years. C1 German: 16. Assimil, other books, grammars, tv, radio, the news, audiobooks, etc. Between C1 and C2 French: 17. The same. C1 Portuguese: 18. The same. C1 Italian: 19. The same. C1 (I love it) Swedish: 20. The same. Between B1 and B2 (it was a total random choice -I threw a dice and Swedish won-) Dutch: 21. The same. Between B1 and B2 (I wanted to flirt with the language, but ended up learning it) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6343 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 117 of 204 19 May 2010 at 3:16am | IP Logged |
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Age: 20
Canadian French: Native English: Fluent Mandarin: I guess I could call my level intermediate. I have been learning it on and off since I joined this forum but I will study it very intensively this summer and hopefully be at an advanced level before the end of this year. Cantonese: Started around 2 years ago. I would say it's at the same level as Mandarin. However, I have a lot of troubles watching Cantonese movies without subtitles. It was difficult to practice with other people since most locals insist on speaking with me in English. Shanghainese: Started a few months ago. My level is around lower-intermediate. I plan to live in Mainland China once I am done with college so learning Shanghainese made sense to me. I also wanted to learn the Chongqing dialect but I could not find any good resources. Edited by Asiafeverr on 19 May 2010 at 3:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Iris-Way Newbie United States Joined 5577 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 118 of 204 19 May 2010 at 12:10pm | IP Logged |
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Age: 16, almost 17
English: Native Spanish: Intermediate, started right after I turned 14 as a freshman in high school French: Beginner, started this year at 16 as a junior 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 119 of 204 19 May 2010 at 1:43pm | IP Logged |
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I am 38, but in truth, on most days I only feel 83.
Years of beginning new languages: 14, 36, 38, + others to be added! I'm a late bloomer in this way, I guess - if you can call what I'm doing "blooming"! Some general forum demographic statistics would be a nice site feature, if that's possible. Obviously there's interest in this information. I know that you can already find out how many people speak/learn a particular language, but it's good to see ages and locations of forum members, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| altito425 Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5961 days ago 65 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 120 of 204 19 May 2010 at 3:41pm | IP Logged |
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Age: 19
English: Native Spanish: Advanced(ish) Fluency. I started studying when I was a Freshman in high school (14). French: High Intermediate. I'd say I've spent about five to six months all together on this language, but I've taken several long breaks to focus more on Spanish, so I've actually been in contact with it for almost two years. I can read pretty well (probably because of my knowledge of Spanish) and my writing isn't bad. German: Beginner. Very basic vocabulary and grammar. I only took it for a semester in college. Edited by altito425 on 19 May 2010 at 3:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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