How many languages do you speak? (Greek, student, pronunciation)
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I speak Filipino (first language) and English. Familiar with some Spanish from work and a lot of Filipino words are from Spanish. Picking up Russian from husband's family, I learned the alphabet and can read. I would be really happy if I can be fluent in another one or two (or more) languages.
I love Romance languages and I'd like to learn French, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese (fluently). I'm also interested in German because I lived there as a child and would like to visit again. Mandarin, Japanese, and Russian are also on my list!
My native is English and I can read, write, and understand Spanish. My speaking can use a bit more work as I'd like to be a fluent speaker.
Spanish, Russian, Dutch (including several dialects), French, English, German.
French, English and Dutch we learn at school, Russian I learned trough my parents, Spanish trough my Cuban girlfriend and extended stay in Cuba, German by self-study. (not all that hard if you already speak Dutch).
I also understand and read Italian, Catalan and Portuguese, as these languages are similar to Spanish, but am not able to speak it. Maybe I don't understand every word, but at least 80% which is enough to understand what's being told, altough not enough to understand the subtleties.
If you speak Russian you understand most of Ukrainian, Belarussian and even Bulgarian languages.
This means I'm able to communicate with nearly everyone in most of
Africa (where most people in most countries speak either English, French or Portuguese), in the former Soviet-Union, Mongolia and some Eastern European countries like Bulgaria (where nearly everyone speaks at least some Russian), in Latin and North America (either English, Spanish, Portuguese, French or Dutch), in the Philippines (either English or Spanish), most of Western Europe, (except Scandinavia).
In most of Asia this is not the case, and it's very frustrating not being able to communicate with most of the people, not understanding television or newspapers.
Top 10 Most Important Languages in the World right now
1.English
2.Spanish
3.Mandarin
4.Arabic
5.French
6-10 (Not in order):
German
Russian
Portuguese
Japanese
Hindustani
mm yes, English is spoken as a second language by billions of people, and as a first language by some 500 million people(English), French by 300 million people (French) as a first language and as a second language by some 200 million people (mainly in Africa).
Spanish is spoken by some 300 million people as a first language, but few people speak it as a second language.
Chinese is spoken by some one billion and a half people (China, overseas Chinese) but rarily as a second language.
German is spoken as a first language by +- 100 million people, and by a few as a second language (mostly in Central Europe and Turkey).
Russian is spoken by some 180 million people as a first language and some 120 million as a seco nd language.
Portuguese spoken by some 300 million people as a first language and by few as a second language.
Hindustani is spokjen by some 300 bmillion people as a first language and by another 850 million as a second language. (India and Bangladesh, suriname, Fiji, Guyana, etc.)
Arabis is spoken by app. 200 million people as a first language and another 200 million as a second language (Iran, Pakistan, ...)
It's really easy. Portuguese is a lot like Spanish. If you're interested, I can give you about 10 algorithms that already allow you to convert a large percentage of Spanish into Portuguese on the fly and successfully be understood by native speakers.
Agreed!
My father picked up Portuguese in Brazil while stationed there. We then went to Mexico, he could converse almost fluently with the Mexicans, with his Portuguese, they just thought he was speaking garbled Spanish!
My father picked up Portuguese in Brazil while stationed there. We then went to Mexico, he could converse almost fluently with the Mexicans, with his Portuguese, they just thought he was speaking garbled Spanish!
Well, I am currently learning Portuguese (actually taking classes) and in the two months I have learned a lot (fyi it's a class for Spanish speakers). Portugese is easy to pick up, however it's pronuciation can be tough sometimes. Honestly, it's beautiful to me it's like if French and Spanish had a baby together they made a beautiful language, Portguese.
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