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nieuk
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Quote nieuk Replybullet Posted: 10 March 2007 at 7:32am

Welcome back Linas... I'm sure I'm not the only one that has missed your input on here and the How-To-Learn~ forum :)

Incidentally, I may as well answer the question for myself...

Currently study (highest to lowest): English, Korean, Tok Pisin, French, Indonesian, Malay, Polish, Arabic.

Future plans: Russian, German, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Hungarian, Farsi, Greek, Catalan.... maybe my interests will change though.
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Quote raincrowlee Replybullet Posted: 10 March 2007 at 10:25am
Might as well.

Languages I can currently speak comfortably: English, Mandarin Chinese

I can read comfortably: French

Have good knowledge of basics, but not comfortable speaking or reading: Spanish, German, Russian, Indonesian, Latin

Have studied, but still missing essentials: Japanese, Swahili, Taiwanese

Have studied, but not have almost no grasp of: Irish, Turkish, Greek, Persian

Future plans: I would like to learn at least one language from each of the Indo-European language families. I also want to continue studying Mandarin, and get a good grasp of Japanese. I'd also like to study Arabic, but I'm not sure there's enough time in this lifetime. :) Oh, and Indonesian, because that's what my girlfriend speaks.
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Quote zolmi Replybullet Posted: 17 March 2007 at 5:01am
my native language is persian.
i can speak english ,hindi and swedish and im studing german
in the future i would like to learn spanish ,


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Quote nzyyang Replybullet Posted: 24 March 2007 at 4:57pm
i want to learn hungarian... becoz its exotic!
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Quote Umbria Replybullet Posted: 07 April 2007 at 11:16pm
Hi,
 
My native language is Turkish. I can English and German.
 
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Quote Exocrist Replybullet Posted: 09 April 2007 at 11:04am
I speak English and German, and am slowly learning Spanish from FSI Programmatic and Basic on my bike rides to school.  For some reason, I want to  learn Scandinavian (Danish + Norwegian + Swedish).  I also want to learn Korean and Chinese.   Those are the "big ones" on my list.
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Quote fbsmith3 Replybullet Posted: 11 April 2007 at 6:59am
I speak English.   I can read and write basic French and know some Quebecoise French.  I love Quebec City.

 

I desperately want to learn Thai.  I have been trying for 3 years now.

 

I have a Thai wife and I am trying very hard to learn Thai.  My wife tried to teach me Thai.  Unfortunately my way of learning and her way of teaching do not match.  I am using Pimsluer right now, but without a transcript it is hard for my wife to help. 

 

I am so happy to find this FSI web-site  I have downloaded the student text and a few lessons.  Hopefully I will learn passable Thai to impress her family and friends. 

 

I also have a toddler son who my wife is teaching Thai.  I want to make sure I can at least keep up to him. 



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Quote sakhmet Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2007 at 3:56am
I speak English fluently. I understand Hindi very well, but can't speak the language (very frustrating, my parents spoke to me in Hindi as a child but I never started speaking it myself!). I study French at uni and hope to work on my Arabic - a language that I was schooled in for many, many years, but the great rift between classical/MSA/spoken Arabic I think prevents me from communicating properly in it. I'm finding the FSI Arabic course book excellent. :)

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Quote dalaohu Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2007 at 9:32am

Hi,

My native language is Russian and I can speak and understand some other Slavic languages, viz Polish, Czech.

My second languages are English and Deutsch, these two languages let me understand written texts e.g. in Swedish etc.
I have master degree in Tibetology and Sinology, but I don't think that a possibility to master these "exotic" tongues can be achieved with the same easiness as European.
I would like to speak Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Mongolian and Vietnamese. To tell the truth I would like to be able to speak a language from every language family and group. I'm not quite sure that human life is long enough for such an object.
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Quote irish Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2007 at 9:37am
I am a native speaker of English.  I am at a conversational level in Mandarin.  I live and work in China.  I have studied Spanish for many years but do not get many chances to use it now.  I now find it easy to understand and read but difficult to speak.  I am planning on brushing up my Spanish in the near future.  I just started the FSI Thai I program and love it.  I get to travel to Thailand annually for work so Thai is something that I've become interested in.  The languages I'd like to learn in the future are: Thai, Indonesian, Hakanese, Greek, and Hindi.
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