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[tzechuk]

I studied latin for a year at school ... we were the last to do it, it was pretty hard. We were never taught it orally, though. I mean, we were taught how to read the words and stuff, but we never held conversations in it. We just learned it to learn grammar.....

[prideofidaho]

I also studied Latin in high school and all I can manage is to sing the third declension to the tune of Jesus Christ Superstar and to say semper ubi sub ubi.

I'm impressed when people manage to be fluent in Latin.

[Ash Devereaux]

Spanish (Used to be intermediate, but years of not practicing.)
Japanese (I can get by/get in trouble.)
Polish (I can get by.)

[Interested]

French - fluent
German - basic conversational
Mandarin, Korean, Indonesian & Arabic - basic market/survival skills

And I can meet and greet in several other languages.

Latin is a wonderful language to learn. It gives you a new insight into the English language, as well as other European languages. Latin is something I've studied for fun now and again, and I've regularly sung in Latin too (various kinds of Latin, at that).

[ennoncha]

english - native
french - native
spanish - intermediate

[Vox_Populi]

English, Russian & Spanish, plus passable Esperanto and a smattering of Korean and Japanese.

[Thiuda]

German and English native like, Korean...well, it's getting there.

[littlelisa]

English - Native
French - Fluent
Mandarin - conversational (but getting rusty from lack of use)
Korean - lowish conversational
Spanish and Italian - conversational

I don't count these because it's only random bits/haven't learned enough: Arabic, Hebrew, Classical Chinese

Easiest to learn was Italian (by the time I was learning it I had a bit of background in Spanish, plus fluent French). Hardest to learn hands down was Classical Chinese. Compared to Mandarin, it's got different grammar, some characters mean completely different things, etc. Plus you have to use traditional characters instead of simplified ones. Hardest spoken language (can't count classical chinese as a spoken language, it's dead) has been Korean so far.

[giraffe]

french mother tongue
english completely fluent ( started english at the same time as french)

and Korean is low intermediate. My listening is much better than my speaking.

[Stones1962]

English-native
Spanish-fluent
Portugues-intermediate
Russian-fluent
Czech-fluent
Slovakian-near fluent
Ukrainian-near fluent
Bulgarian-near fluent
Korean-low intermediate

Bulgarian and Ukrainian are so close to Russian it's almost silly to include them as are Czech and Slovakian, but there you are.

[roll_eks]

English, good old American English, Canadian, Espenolo, Californian, and Nevadese. (Because I am from Nevada)

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Dreaming in Spanish and Italian after many months of studying both. Back in uni many moons ago.

These days I can still cobble together the odd conversation with speakers of both languages, complete with Konglish.

[rchristo10]

Wasn't going to reply but just found this so funny....I have no clue what many of these distinctions mean (native, near-native, fluent, conversational, and so on...but enough with the unnecessary enema).

1. English (American)
2. French (force-fed as a child; can understand but usually cower in the corner when it sounds either like whining or yelling--blame my mother)
3. Chinese (HSK--National Proficiency Test High Level 10)
4. Korean (TOPIK Level 6)
5. Japanese (JPT Level 1--first time in 1997; only Level 2-the second time on the JLPT in 2008)
6. Esperanto (I still think this one is funny...)

Strange...I dream in Chinese and Korean more than English. That's just weird.

I also had a major problem when I was getting busy in China....The next day I was seriously accused of having another love named "Jo-ah." Puhaha....it took me some time to figure out what the problem was...

Anyone else have that mistake?

[roll_eks]

[roadwork]

Is anyone fluent in Jive?