Yes, we had to study it in school, but I am currently in the American public school system and have not received any education in the Russian language in many years. I cannot speak or read Russian fluently.
I took one year of Spanish in my Freshman year but didn't retain much of it. The thing I remember the most of Jugo de Naranja. Which is sort of a random thing to remember lol
Four - English (native), French, German and Spanish
My route was almost fully academic. I started in secondary school: French aged 11 and German and Spanish aged 12 (if you don’t count the pretty elementary French and Spanish lessons I had in primary school).
I did all three for GCSE (national exams you take when you’re 16) and A Level (national school leavers’ exams when you’re 18 which are used to determine your university place). As far as I’m aware, I’m the only person in the history of my secondary school to take all three at A Level.
I then got a First in a triple honours degree studying all three at the university. As part of my degree, I did a year abroad in Lyon (French has always been my strongest anyway).
I also spent time teaching French in a primary school in Scotland and all three in a secondary school here in England.
Without meaning to sound arrogant, language learning has always just been something that comes naturally to me.
My mother's tongue is Croatian. I'm not willing to argue whether Serbo-Croatian is one or four separate languages, but I can understand people from different parts of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to various degree. I actively speak English and Slovene to some degree, and I learnt German for years but kept forgetting much of vocabulary. Latin was mandatory in my high school and is omnipresent in my profession. Now I'm learning Slovak and once I hopefully get better at it, I'll give a try to Romanian (although I'm already aware of some serious obstacles in that language).
English (my first language). I can get by in French, Italian and German, plus a few words in Spanish. I am nowhere near fluent in any of them, some would also say in English. I am OK with menus, and for directions, but that is about it.
I know a few swear words in Polish, Greek, and Dutch !
- Spanish from 7 years of Spanish through middle & high school; a trip to Costa Rica really helped fluency
- Bengali, since my family is from West Bengal; strangely, while I can understand it fluently, I struggle to speak it, always selecting words adjacent to or rhyming to the one I intend
E.G. house = "bari" & car = "gari", but I'll mix them up when trying to formulate a sentence
I like languages a bunch, so I can recognize them & like spotting patterns, plus some similarities (e.g. Portuguese & Spanish, similar words in French, German) but those 3 are the ones I know best. Would love to learn some more!
English is my native language, and the only one I'm actually proficient in speaking. I've been learning French for 7 years, but I'm much better at reading/writing than speaking, and I can understand a bit just listening. I started learning Irish last year, and that's a work in progress
I know English (from the time I was in an English medium kindergarten at the age of 2 1/2).
I know a Marwadi dialect ( Rajasthani) since that’s technically my mother tongue, though I hardly get to speak that since most of my relatives talk to me and each other mainly in English.
I know Marathi (the local language in Maharashtra) and Hindi ( the national language spoken by much of North India), and a bit of Russian ( I can read it and write it and understand a bit of it) since I learnt a bit of that in college but have had no practise. :). Did a year of French in school so I know a bit of that.
I can understand bits of and know a few words of other Indo-European and Asian languages as well like Spanish, Gujarati, Turkish, Punjabi and Italian.
Born in Armenia, Armenian is my first language, learned English by immersion into American culture, and learned Spanish in high school
I took one year of Spanish in my Freshman year but didn't retain much of it. The thing I remember the most of Jugo de Naranja. Which is sort of a random thing to remember lol
My route was almost fully academic. I started in secondary school: French aged 11 and German and Spanish aged 12 (if you don’t count the pretty elementary French and Spanish lessons I had in primary school).
I did all three for GCSE (national exams you take when you’re 16) and A Level (national school leavers’ exams when you’re 18 which are used to determine your university place). As far as I’m aware, I’m the only person in the history of my secondary school to take all three at A Level.
I then got a First in a triple honours degree studying all three at the university. As part of my degree, I did a year abroad in Lyon (French has always been my strongest anyway).
I also spent time teaching French in a primary school in Scotland and all three in a secondary school here in England.
Without meaning to sound arrogant, language learning has always just been something that comes naturally to me.
English (learning at school but I have all ly parameters in English. Objective: be bilingual before 2027)
Spanish (at school too, Tengo muchas dificultades)
I know a few swear words in Polish, Greek, and Dutch !
- English, from living in the US for 14 years
- Spanish from 7 years of Spanish through middle & high school; a trip to Costa Rica really helped fluency
- Bengali, since my family is from West Bengal; strangely, while I can understand it fluently, I struggle to speak it, always selecting words adjacent to or rhyming to the one I intend
E.G. house = "bari" & car = "gari", but I'll mix them up when trying to formulate a sentence
I like languages a bunch, so I can recognize them & like spotting patterns, plus some similarities (e.g. Portuguese & Spanish, similar words in French, German) but those 3 are the ones I know best. Would love to learn some more!
English, Azerbaijani, Russian - Native proficiency
Turkish - Full professional proficiency
Japanese - Elementary proficiency
Urdu - fluently(native).
English - Not so fluent.
Pashto - Struggles a little bit.
Punjabi - Can understand completely but hard to speak.
I am trying to learn Gurmukhi and Devanagari script to unlock Hindi and Punjabi for myself.
I know a Marwadi dialect ( Rajasthani) since that’s technically my mother tongue, though I hardly get to speak that since most of my relatives talk to me and each other mainly in English.
I know Marathi (the local language in Maharashtra) and Hindi ( the national language spoken by much of North India), and a bit of Russian ( I can read it and write it and understand a bit of it) since I learnt a bit of that in college but have had no practise. :). Did a year of French in school so I know a bit of that.
I can understand bits of and know a few words of other Indo-European and Asian languages as well like Spanish, Gujarati, Turkish, Punjabi and Italian.
Polish (N)
English (B2/C1)
Russian (B1)
German (A2)
French (A1)
Polish
English
Russian