I don't know what I really speak actually...I am only 100% sure that I speak dutch since I am a native speaker
But okay i just tell languages i learnt and stuff to get the idea
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Dutch
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German (it's better than my english, and my pronuncation is pretty good unlike my english. I mean when I speak it, it sounds actually German complete with slang etc, so I think i speak German as well)
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English, I can say almost everything i want on it, but not grammatically correct mostly, and my english pronuncation is with a terrible Dutch accent.
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French. Hmm difficult. I learnt it 5 years on school. My pronuncation is not bad but not very good either. I kind of lost it because I don't have it anymore on school, but I can still read French very well. But I can say quite some sentences in French, know about the grammar and everything, it's just all a bit gone because all my other languages ; -)
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Spanish. My pronunciation I don't know how it's like..Spanish people say I still have a Dutch accent but that will never go away, and I am understandable, they say. My teacher thinks I am very good at the writing part. Listening and reading I can do well too. I have had it only 2 years at school now, but since I speak spanish very intensively (I've been to Spain on an exchange, have Spanish people on msn, I like Spanish music..), I think it's better than my French which I had 5 years!
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Ancient-Greek.. Well, you know...just reading and knowledge about grammar, although I already lost it abit, have got it for 3 years at school and now i am already 1.5 year without it, so.
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Latin. Only reading as well and grammar knowledge, but I still have got it on school, starting my 6th year now.
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Finnish : D. I am not that good, since I still ask for translations here sometimes. Pronunciation NO IDEA really. I just learnt it at home, no course or something like that, just wanted to learn Finnish so I did it. But I have a Finnish person on msn and he says practically we can talk about everything at Finnish. So that is to say, writing, in a bit common talk, i am not able to go deep about a certain subject, but more global about many subjects. And my sentences are very often gramattically incorrect because Finnish is so difficult. And I am not even learning it anymore, because of to many languages and because I am content with the Finnish i know now : )
What I want to learn like crazy
- nothing. I wanted to learn Finnish, so i learnt it. I wanted to learn Spanish, so I chose it on school and I learnt it. Really if I would want something to learn right now, I would start inmediately
But though, I dó want to improve some languages like crazy: German and Spanish, because I just like those languages very much so I want them to be (close to) perfect : ) Oh and ofcourse I want to learn
New-Greek, i forgot that kind of : O I already have a basic knowledge, I can say some things, know grammar etc, I already started learning a bit. But since this would be my 9th (!!) language, it's kind of heavy : o
What I would like to learn in the future
Actually everything but okay. At least a basic of the language of any country to where I am going, I always find it worthless to go to a country when you don't even speak the language so
But okay I'll chose some:
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South-African, because it's Dutch, but some words are really strange and therefore funny
I really would like to speak that accent. Although it will be hard to learn, since it's just like Dutch, i mean the differences are small.
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Swedish. Because it's a bit like Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic and I speak none of them yet. And Swedish seems to me like the mayor language there, and the nicest one to speak, although Norwegian sounds very cool to me, too. And I already know some sentences in swedish so : P
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Russian, or at least be able to read the alphabet.
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Turkish maybe
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Romanian maybe, or some slavic language
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Italian, shouldn't be too difficult to get a base, since I already know Spanish French and Latin. The same for
Portuguese, I like the sound of that language too : )
And I could go on and on and on. Since i think languages are the key to cultures really.. That's why I am happy that I know Spanish, it's spoken as mother language in many countries, so a key to many countries.
It's only not the case for English because it's so wide known, unfortunately. But I learnt a lot about some countries only because of knowing their languages and reading articles and listening songs in that language.
So. Sorry this post is so long. Thumbs up if there's someone who reads all this ; )
And some question: When do you think you speak a language? That's a question I've always been wondering about. I think maybe when you don't have to think about what you are writing and saying, when it just comes out of your mouth spontaneously. But what do you think?
How many languages do you speak?
so I want to ask you how many languages do you speak?
I didn't make that avatar!I'll try to fix it...
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