What languages do you know?

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Only English, but I am learning Spanish. I learn languages out of use, not for fun or heritage. English and Spanish are probably the only languages I'll need. But since I am learning Spanish, I can also read Portuguese and understand it - to a lesser extent. Galician comes pretty easily. I can get the basic idea of French and Italian texts. Due to the massive amount of English loanwords and all of the cognates with Spanish.

ah yeah...it very much is.

i'm trying to shift my hebrew focus onto gaining lots more vocabulary at the moment, though i find that much harder to focus on compared to grammar.

What I realized while learning languages is that I have great difficulty absorbing vocabulary until I reach a point where I comprehend the grammar. And when I'm finally there the vocabulary sneaks itself into my brain even without trying. It's a strange thing. I used to get very upset when I couldn't remember the new words I'd just learned but now I have a more relaxed attitude about it as I know that I will reach that point sooner or later if I continue studying .

I can speak some German, but I am still learning the language in school.

I speak German too

I also speak some Russian and am learning Spanish.

English is the only laguage I seak fluently - yet I wrote the WP discussion-thread 'The Confounding Subtleties Of The English Language' in the 'Social Skills and Making Friends' Forum.

EXCERPT: It's refreshing to find words in other languages which seem to do a better job than the English language in defining those elusive concepts. After awhile, defining those well........hard to define concepts in the English language becomes a seemingly increasingly futile exercise of semantic gymnastics.

It's believed that understanding other languages is important to developing critical thinking skills; which may in some small ways boost social skills.

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Anybody feel inclined to learn a few words/quotes in other languages?

I know a bit of Portuguese, thanks to Duo Lingo and Google translate lol.

Mandarin Chinese and Wu Chinese (native)
English(advanced) Dutch Finnish and German (not so fluent hahah). I hope I can learn a little Low Saxon?

I'm making an effort to improve my ASL through an app named ASL Bloom.

I can read novels in French and Spanish. I’m working on Italian off and on, but I’m not very serious about it. It’s mostly for musical purposes.

.i la .varik. cu baupli la .lojban. je le cmacybau je le glibau

VARIK uses Lojban, mathematical notation, and English.

· Spanish (Native)
· English (B2. I'm fluent and I started to study it from kindergarten to high school)
· French (B1. I have been studying it since 1 year ago. It's easy because of Spanish)

I studied in the past Japanese and Esperanto. I stopped studying Japanese when the only teacher in my college returned to her country during the pandemic.

About Esperanto, it was self-study. I lost interest in studying it, but I keep enough interest in it to use an Esperanto username.

My username "niktereŭto" is Esperanto for racoon dog (tanuki). Also I used in other sites the Esperanto "version" of my last name.

English (native)
Polish (A2)
Spanish (A1)

Native level: Spanish and Catalan
B2 Level: English (passed the Cambridge FCE test years ago).

I took a Latin class in high school as well, but didn’t keep up with the studies after graduation.

I read quite a bit of French literature at school in the mid-1970s, and understood pretty much every word of it. Maupassant, Balzac, Sartre, Racine, Moliere, and the author of a charming story called 'L'Enfant Et La Riviere', whose name I cannot recall. I think I might struggle with those works now, even with the aid of a dictionary.

Aside from English? Well...I did try to learn Italian, Spanish, Japanese, German, Huttese, Dwarvish, and Sindarin, but I've only could learn a few vocabulary words from them.