thexguest · 8 years ago
Chinese, and a few other dialects, mainly Hokkien and Cantonese.
ecumenicalmatter · 8 years ago
Learning Irish, I can have a conversation that will last about 10 seconds... Hey, it's better than nothing
ruinedeffect · 8 years ago
I've been taking Spanish for 4 years and I'm in IB Spanish. On Monday, my class had to do our individual speaking exams and I was the only one with an A so I'd like to think I can speak at a conversational level
notsosure · 8 years ago
Spanish and French! My French is good enough to hold a conversation.
deleted · 8 years ago
Dads Kurdish from Iraq so I speak the Howleri dialect (city of Kurdistan) Kurdish. Mom is mixed with both European and Middle Eastern nationalities, but coz she was born in Romania and I lived there til I was 3, I speak, read, and write Romanian. Did French and Mandarin in highschool but French was for GCSE and Mandarin was for fun.
Am now going to Arabic class at uni since dad knows it and wants me to learn also.
nickelaz · 8 years ago
So dzrosex did you grow up hearing Howleri and Romanian or did you have to learn them?
deleted · 8 years ago
Yes I heard both languages from a young age. But because I lived in Romania and was surrounded by that culture I knew Romanian perfectly. Kurdish I could understand some words whenever my dad spoke on the phone to family or to my mom when he didn't want me or my grandma (mom's mom) to understand. My dad learnt Romanian for my mother and my mother learnt Kurdish for my father. I was taught English since they knew they wanted to move to London, England a little while after turning 4. I didn't learn to speak Kurdish til I was 7 or 8. It's a difficult language being a mix between Persian and Arabic. Also when children hear too many languages they start to mumble or can't speak because of the confusion. I was the type to mumble.
At home we speak all 3. Ex if my dad asks me a question about uni work he'l ask in English. I might answer in Romanian. My mom might talk to my dad in Romanian and he will answer in Kurdish. Its a little confusing but it feels like one language.
sammi_totoro · 8 years ago
I speak Japanese, German and Spanish
nickelaz · 8 years ago
So do you guys have people to talk to in that language? Cause isn't it hard to retain if you can only really talk to yourself?
sammi_totoro · 8 years ago
I literally just sometimes speak random German or Japanese, usually cursing at someone or yelling at them. I also talk to my dog and snakes in German.
deleted · 8 years ago
I'm fairly fluent in American Sign Language. I actually want to go into interpreting someday.
loveless · 8 years ago
Spanish, some Italian, some words in Japanese, some words in a dialect spoken in Central America.