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Quote Lamp Replybullet Posted: 03 May 2007 at 9:01am
Native: portuguese
Secondary (with reasonable fluency): English, latin
Languages to study: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Classical Greek, Classical hebrew, Classical Arabic and Sanscrit
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Quote jplaine Replybullet Posted: 11 May 2007 at 4:02pm
Iam married to a Finn and struggling with Finnish I would love the text books for the FSI language courses in Finish.
Main Stack   PH135.R981 1987
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Finnish: graded reader Main Stack   PH137.U6
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Quote CornFlower Replybullet Posted: 12 May 2007 at 7:49am
Hi I'm Polish. I can speak English, a little Spanish, Russian and Turkish. I hope to get higher level from these languages.

Good luck for everyone!
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Quote Anatoli Replybullet Posted: 15 May 2007 at 2:02am
Let me introduce myself.

I speak Russian and English, used to be fluent in German.

My strong long-term interests are Japanese and Chinese. I added Arabic to my hobbies a year ago but I am not winning as I never had a teacher and I find it difficult to use any of textbooks, although I covered first large chunks of:

Mastering Arabic
Teach Yourself Arabic
Ultimate Arabic
Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic (dry but probably the best in consistency and makes it possible to learn on your own).

Can help someone with Russian.

I am not fluent in Chinese or Japanese but I have no problem continuing to learn, have enough resources, just need more time.

Анатолий - أناتولي - 阿纳托利 - アナトーリー
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Quote helene23186 Replybullet Posted: 16 May 2007 at 12:29pm
Hi - I just recently found your website.  Thanks so much for doing all this!  At this point, I only speak English (pathetic isn't it?).  All the classes I took in school were for dead languages. Dead
 
I can read Latin fairly well, and have had some training in Ancient Greek and Old English.  I also taught myself to read German for grad school.
 
I finally decided that I should learn to speak languages as well as read them, so I'm starting with German, figuring I have a head start.  Eventually, I'd also like to learn to speak Thai, Spanish, and Italian. 
 
My list of languages I want to be able to read is *way* too long to ever complete, and contains mostly either dead or old/classical forms. 
 
Again, thanks for providing this great resource!
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Quote jalabi99 Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2007 at 3:33pm
Wow Linas I get tired just reading that impressive list of languages that you know or want to learn! You make me look like a slacker! Smile
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Quote rmikura Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2007 at 4:51pm
English - native
Chinese (Mandarin, w/ Taiwanese accent) - conversational (used to be fluent two years ago...), no reading (can only read about a fifth or sixth of most things)
Japanese - conversational (used to be fluent), with reading ability for most things
 
There are too many languages I'd like to learn to list, and not enough time to learn them...
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Quote EddieN120 Replybullet Posted: 21 May 2007 at 5:07pm

The only language that I speak, write, read and understand fluently is English. I learned French in high school and so can still read it pretty well, and can speak it a bit (lack of practice); my Spanish is also pretty weak now too.

I want to learn Hindi -- I have many Indian friends, and love the people and the culture -- and become fluent in it as well as Spanish and French. If I can read, write, speak and understand all three of these languages in the next few months, I will be quite happy (it should not take me much to get my French back to its formerly very high level).
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Quote leon Replybullet Posted: 23 May 2007 at 11:40pm

I am  Chinese .chinese -native ,I want to learn hungarian because of work.I  am glad to communicate with you !!Embarrassed

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Quote gentlemanjack Replybullet Posted: 25 May 2007 at 2:19am
I am currently studying Norwegian. Could you post the Norwegian FSI courses? Thanks
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