Post by Sanna Saltcake on Mar 9, 2018 23:00:11 GMT 10
After getting to know our members' server countries, I thought a poll like this might be interesting as well 
Hope I didn't forget anything major.
You can tick all the languages you are able to communicate in, make sure to comment how fluent you are in each! Don't forget your mothertongue
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I'm a huge language nerd. I'm a native speaker of German, born and raised here. I have been learning English since 5th grade, so... *counting* for around 16 years now. I'm in my last semester of uni, doing a double-major degree, one subject being English Studies. My fiancé is from Finland and we talk English to each other as well.
I learned French at school for almost 10 years, I can still understand pretty complex texts rather well - but speaking is... meh. During my apprenticeship, I also learned (business) Spanish, but only for 2-3 years, so it's really anything but impressive haha
I have taught myself to read Korean (Hangul) and I understand very basic sentences - for some reason I am pretty good at reading Hangul (maybe because I am exposed to them more often?). Which is weird, because I had one semester of Japanese at uni, learned from scratch, and I have already forgotten most of the Hiragana letters lol. I can understand spoken Japanese fairly better though, might be due to excessive anime binge-watching
Last year, I was at a Polish summer school for two weeks and got a LOT of Polish beaten into my brain xD I forgot most by now, but I can understand easy texts.
As mentioned, my fiancé is from Finland, so I know some expressions and words, and I can form very basic sentences - but I am very bad at it. It's so different than anything else. ~_~ One part of his family is Chinese. I can only say "hello" and "thank you" to them, so I will certainly not tick this box XD
I love languages and I find it such a pity that one loses the ability to speak them sooo easily because of not using them regularly...
I would really like to become fluent in Finnish, Korean and Chinese T_T As I get older, I really notice how it becomes harder to learn them!
Hope I didn't forget anything major.You can tick all the languages you are able to communicate in, make sure to comment how fluent you are in each! Don't forget your mothertongue
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I'm a huge language nerd. I'm a native speaker of German, born and raised here. I have been learning English since 5th grade, so... *counting* for around 16 years now. I'm in my last semester of uni, doing a double-major degree, one subject being English Studies. My fiancé is from Finland and we talk English to each other as well.
I learned French at school for almost 10 years, I can still understand pretty complex texts rather well - but speaking is... meh.
During my apprenticeship, I also learned (business) Spanish, but only for 2-3 years, so it's really anything but impressive hahaI have taught myself to read Korean (Hangul) and I understand very basic sentences - for some reason I am pretty good at reading Hangul (maybe because I am exposed to them more often?). Which is weird, because I had one semester of Japanese at uni, learned from scratch, and I have already forgotten most of the Hiragana letters lol. I can understand spoken Japanese fairly better though, might be due to excessive anime binge-watching
Last year, I was at a Polish summer school for two weeks and got a LOT of Polish beaten into my brain xD I forgot most by now, but I can understand easy texts.
As mentioned, my fiancé is from Finland, so I know some expressions and words, and I can form very basic sentences - but I am very bad at it. It's so different than anything else. ~_~ One part of his family is Chinese. I can only say "hello" and "thank you" to them, so I will certainly not tick this box XD
I love languages and I find it such a pity that one loses the ability to speak them sooo easily because of not using them regularly...
I would really like to become fluent in Finnish, Korean and Chinese T_T As I get older, I really notice how it becomes harder to learn them!
Learning languages is extremely good for your brain and mental. I don't think learning languages is a thing at German schools either though. I used to teach English and the amount of kids asking why they would ever need another language than German has always baffled me. Everything here is available in German (we have all the American movies dubbed in German too btw), so they argue that they just do not need other languages. I guess, this is probably similar to the American mindset... and, well, actually they are right- almost everything is available in English.
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