I wish I could speak Finnish. But, actually, there are tons of languages I wish I could speak. All of them, really, but Finnish is the first one I thought of just now.
I’m in the US and English is my my primary language. I studied Russian but have forgotten a lot of it. I know a few words of German and French, but very few.
Edited to add: Please tell me what your primary language is. It would also be interesting to know what other languages you speak, if any, and where you currently live.
American with only one language under my belt.
I used to be somewhat passable with American Sign Language, and keep meaning to get back into it. I wish others knew even a little bit, so when I’m feeling nonverbal I could just sign as much.
I’m teaching myself Norwegian via apps and books, but I have no one to talk to. :(
All of them. Although the only one that I’m actively trying to learn is Japanese.
another one for the trying to learn japanese - my problem is i start and then stop. rinse & repeat so i never get very far 🤣
I also had this problem. Eventually I realized there isn’t a time limit and if it takes me 10 years to become fluent, I’ll still be fluent at the end.
Using that logic, I stopped trying to cram lessons like I’m studying for finals again and just do like 10 minutes a day. And if I miss a day or two then thats fine.
Maurugoto has free Japanese online self study courses for beginners. It has helped me commit to actually learning Japanese and I’m currently somewhere in between N4 and N5.
thank you all very much - we’ll check out the resources and recommit to doing this!
Does music count? I don’t have much trouble with languages, but music theory has always been Greek to me.
Arabic would be interesting. Or Italian. Finnish is pretty. It has a nice rhythm.
I’m in the US and speak German and Spanish. I can understand a little Romanian.
I’m trying to learn Russian, and I wish I were already fluent lol
Russian is hard! (I’m sure you already know that.) What language(s) do you already know?
Just English. I’ve tried to learn Spanish repeatedly and it didn’t stick, so I decided to do something completely different. My girlfriend speaks Russian fluently, so it seemed like a logical language to try. It’s not as hard as I was expecting, honestly.
Spanish and Mandarin. But since we’re playing Fairy Tale, I’d pick all of them. They are all so beautiful sounding in their own unique way. And they are extremely fascinating when you think about it.
I’m a German native speaker and also speak English. I learned Spanish in school but never used it afterwards and therefore have forgotten a lot. So I’d like to be able to speak Spanish again. Knowing Arabic and Mandarin would also be quite cool.
Machine code. You know, zeros and ones. With total fluency
I used to be quite conversationally fluent in Japanese and Portuguese. Now it’s difficult for me to remember either. When I hear it, I can understand a lot, but not like before. I would love to be able to speak those again. I speak English, French, and Hungarian now, but I wish my French was better… When you don’t use it, you lose it…
I minored in Japanese as an undergraduate. I kept studying it during grad school, where I got both a Masters and PhD in Linguistics.
I still really wish I could read Japanese. Conversationally I’m OK. But literacy as a non-native takes extra commitment.
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That would be so cool, though! Has your wife taught you any?
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Spanish and German
I would’ve taken Spanish more seriously in high school if I knew I’d end up living on the west coast as an adult. Besides being better able to communicate with people whose first language is Spanish it would also open up so many movies and novels that aren’t translated or subtitled. Arabic would also be cool to learn.
Pitkä ja kivinen tie. 😁
I’m Finnish and besides the school English and Swedish I’ve been learning a tiny bit of Italian, Spanish, Latin, and enough Russian and Greek to be able to read names and other little things, slowly.
Japanese I can’t get any sort of grip on. So maybe something like that. A completely alien language. No! A properly alien language. Klingon. Or Sindarin. Or Lojban. I’m going to go with Lojban. That might not be totally alien, but it might be the language I’d like totally fluency in just to know what it’s like.
Arabic speaker currently learning Japanese (N2). I wish I could speak Japanese because god this language sucks.
First gen American here, Russian and English are my primary languages and learning German. I wish I’d taken Spanish lessons more seriously so I could actually hold a conversation in Spanish. Also wish I could understand/use ASL.
