What languages do you know?

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I just started to learn a couple new languages, so I was interested in what other people who play WoW speak.

What country (state) do you live in, and what languages do you know?

What is the next language you would WANT to know?

And for those who have learned other languages, what is the best method to learn a new language (that doesn’t involve moving because I am a poor.)

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Canada. I know English and French. I intend on learning Finnish one day.

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Did you learn French in school or do you live in Québec?

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Brazil. I know English and Portuguese. I want to learn German one day.

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From school. Not a very popular language in Alberta, but it’s nice to know.

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I took a year of German in college. It’s pretty fun! Some day I will get back to it and learn it more thoroughly.

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I live in Connecticut, U.S.A.

I know English
Latin
Classical Greek
German

I can function competently in
Spanish
Italian
French

I know a tiny bit of
Portuguese
Russian
Polish

I’d like to expand my ability in ALL of them. The next language I will seriously try to learn is the next one I’ll need to function in a country I’m visiting.

If you really want to master a new language, you have to live it. There’s no other way. You have to roll up your sleeves, get into the language and use it to function. Obviously living in a country that speaks the language is the best way to do that, but I realize that’s tough for people who can’t travel or afford to live somewhere else.

For programs, I understand Rosetta Stone is pretty good.

[Edit to fix mis-spelling of “English.” How ironic!
/facepalm]

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Malaysia.

Chinese, Bahasa Malaysia, Indonesian, English, BIM (quite similar to ASL), a little bit of Tamil, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Japanese and Spanish.

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That’s quite the list!
What methods have you used to learn them?
What strategies do you find to me most/least effective?

I’m from Iowa, so native English.

I know decent amounts of Spanish and French,
Some German,
And I just started Arabic, Russian, and Japanese

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I know English. And Bad English.

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I took Spanish during school but hated it and struggled with it a lot. Then I took French and enjoyed it and did well. Though…That’s been, so long ago. I’ve forgotten most of it but I still know a little.

Also, in Georgia. If that matters.

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New South Wales, Australia, and I know English, Japanese, a tiny bit of Vietnamese, and a tiny bit of Korean.

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Mandarin, Hindi, and Korean are on my list to learn, but I want to get “fluent” in my current list before I add more.

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Also, in Georgia. If that matters.
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I assume Georgia the state and not the country :wink:

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English and Google Translate.

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I learned Latin and Greek in school. I minored in German, and my Dad was native German, so it was fairly easy and natural to pick that one up.

All the Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese) evolved from knowing Latin. Initially I began to be able to read them. I developed spoken ability by traveling in-country.

Any others I just looked at casually. But once you start to understand how a few languages work, it becomes easier and easier to get “the pattern” down.

My Dad was like that. He knew a smattering of every European language. A true polyglot.

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Why use Google when you can use Bing. There is also Klingon. Well, had.

EDIT: Still have

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Not to mention Tolkien’s Elvish.

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North Carolina.

1.English native.
2. Spanish intermediate level
3. Portuguese novice
4. Took modern Greek but lost most of it.

And I speak WoW with its 10,000 acronyms, short hand, and memes

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No other reason than I had a guy come to the door the other day. He did not speak English but he had google translate on his phone. It worked well.

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I’m from Texas. I allegedly speak English as a native language. I learned German in high school and Russian in college. I’ve picked up a smattering of Spanish more or less by osmosis. I know a few words, but only a few, in French and Portuguese, via watching the Tour de France and listening to bossa nova, respectively.

The best method? Find something you’re interested in that happens in another language, then try to make sense of it. Failing that, there are relatively inexpensive online courses you can take.

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Orcish and Thalassian.

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