@60, what languages have you spoken bisides English?

Chinese Cantonese.

@62, that makes sence.

Why does it make sense?

Chinese was my first language when I was born, when I was four years old, I was starting to learn English.

@65, how did it go learning english then? Was it hard?

I can't remember but I think it got better when I was five years old in kindergarten the more I speek.

@66, okay.

at 67, do you still speak cantonese?

Yes I do every now and then. I mostly speak Cantonese with my grandma and grandpa.

Maybe it's a strange question but could you record something? I just heard you always speaking english and I can't really imagine chinese with your voice :D but of course if it's not difficult.

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Yes I do every now and then. I mostly speak Cantonese with my grandma and grandpa.

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I'd be curious too, but if you listen to him he does have a subtle Chinese accent. I can definitely picture it.

I speak inglesh and spanish fluently, but I'm wanting to learn a hole lot more.

mostly dutch, english and small, small bits of spanish. My english has improved since I moved to the UK, I find myself speaking english more then dutch these days.
I learned a bit of spanish from my girlfriend, since she has an english father and latina mother, she's fluent in british english and latin american spanish.

I used to be able to speak 2 languages when I was a little kid, but now I mainly speak english. As you all may or may not of already known, I was born and razed in india.
I used to be fluint in Tamil, but lost the ability to grasp it at the age of 12 or so. I still know bits and peases of that language, but I'd like to get back into relearning it again so I can start using it where it's needed most.
I also happend to have a partner who speaks spanish, so I wouldn't mind getting to know that language as well. I can only understand a few words, along with counting to 100.

Yeah same for spanish here.

This is a tricky question, what do we actually mean by "speak a language"? How much does one need to know of a language to be able to say they speak it? Putting all these aside, I usually tell people that I know three and a half languages: English, French, Romanian and only intermediate Spanish. I can confidently teach only the first two though.

Now, here's the list of what I've tried and failed: German as a child: my fmily forced me, but I didn't like it, never did my homework and stopped after two years of fighting. Italian: my Grandma made me try, I felt more attracted to Spanish at the end. Dutch: very interesting language, but the textbook I had wan't good at all, and I got discouraged; I might try again some time. Greek: very beautiful language with a long and rich written history; I couldn't figure out the alphabet, but will try again after this summer. Arabic and Persian: I've been very unlucky with languages using the arabic script; couldn't find a TTS able to guess the non-written vowels, and I gave up. Japanese and Korean: same story, for the life of me I couldn't understand how all those different scripts worked, and decided not to continue trying after a few weeks. Czech: this language has a very special place in my heart, in my opinion the most musical language, at least in Europe; I keep going back to it, I'm still a beginner but keep learning, slowly but surely becoming A2. This will hopefully help me understand Slovak as well. Talking about Slavic languages, I'd be curious about Polish and BCMS as well, I never tried to learn them seriously though. Last but not least, I would really love to know Turkish some time in the future, it has a very special charm, in addition to being the language of a very fascinating culture, not yet European, but not totally Asian either.

That's all from me, I hope you aren't all bored after reading this.

Happy language learning everyone!

I'm a belgian so I speak flamish, the belgian dialect of dutch, the thing is, when belgians speak in that antwerp dialect, dutch people will most likely not understand what we're saying at all.

That's very interesting anyway. A few days ago I've seen a videon in which they compared the standard dutch with flemish, and well, flemish sounds waaaay more like french than dutch. :D but it's very fascinating. My friend is learning dutch and I have no idea how she pronounces all this hard stuff :D


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I'm a belgian so I speak flamish, the belgian dialect of dutch, the thing is, when belgians speak in that antwerp dialect, dutch people will most likely not understand what we're saying at all.

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the french accent really depends. In for example leuven, it's very common, but in antwerp it's quite rare. Most people speak with an r sound that rolls of the tongue, kind of like the spanish/italian r but a bit rougher sounding in Antwerp.