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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Do you speak a second language? If so, when did you learn?

I am trying to learn french, I’m not finding it easy!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Swahili after a few on a weekend

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you speak a second language? If so, when did you learn?

I am trying to learn french, I’m not finding it easy!"

Second?

I am still struggling with one!

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I can have conversations (to a greater or lesser extent) in two languages other than English.

I'm less proficient in two additional languages.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am fluent in french. Bilingual since childhood

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spanish well, German and French basic. Was fortunate to learn Spanish while living there for several years, the others I did at school and evening classes.

Don’t be afraid to try different methods, not everything works for everyone. Evening classes (when we can) are a big help. Otherwise try listening or reading the language every day, even if just for a short while - in the background while doing something else, in the car, etc.

Bon chance !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I speak toddler, I can understand full blown yam yam and I speak whale.....Hellloooooo, I am Ivvvyyyyyyy

So good enough

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

There's a surprising amount of help on YouTube, although I'm wary of the polyglot community.

Apps useful but not by themselves

Oddly, Reddit is useful

Various websites and social apps to connect with native speakers

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By *hilledGuerillaMan
over a year ago

In the monkey house

"I speak toddler, I can understand full blown yam yam and I speak whale.....Hellloooooo, I am Ivvvyyyyyyy

So good enough"

Proper yam yam?

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By *estcountryDadBodMan
over a year ago

Exeter

I speak English, American and Australian

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I speak toddler, I can understand full blown yam yam and I speak whale.....Hellloooooo, I am Ivvvyyyyyyy

So good enough

Proper yam yam?"

Yep, I married one and my kids are

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By *iss DevilWoman
over a year ago

Bedford

English is my second language. Tried to learn some Spanish during the first lockdown but decided I prefer classroom learning to online learning.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

I speak Spanish (started learning at school) and taught myself rudimentary Dutch (Mr KC joined in on that one). I also learned German at school but I'd need a bit of revision to hold an especially complex conversation.

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By *hilledGuerillaMan
over a year ago

In the monkey house

"I speak toddler, I can understand full blown yam yam and I speak whale.....Hellloooooo, I am Ivvvyyyyyyy

So good enough

Proper yam yam?

Yep, I married one and my kids are"

Just don’t say he’s a Wolves fan.

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By *hilledGuerillaMan
over a year ago

In the monkey house

I can translate dr*nk to English, learnt as part of my job.

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By *isAdventure69Woman
over a year ago

Hampshire

French is my native tongue but I prefer English , less fussy

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By *oelDorianMan
over a year ago

vanaheim

I speak a bit of french, Italian and German but if you count count computer programming languages I also speak c#

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

English is my second language. I used to be at moderate level Russian, but would need to refresh.

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Did French and German at school, bit like anything you need to practise.

Did 6 weeks of intensive Spanish in Guatemala but I was rubbish.

Think deffo need to start young.

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By *uzie69xTV/TS
over a year ago

Maidstone

"Proper yam yam?"

Is that Brummie? My bf can speak yam yam then! Lol

My mother tongue is Chinese (Hokkien). I had to learn Malay at school but my first language is English.

The only language I've acquired as an adult is BSL... British Sign Language and I'm proficient to level 3. My Deaf friends encourage me to get level 4 and to be an interpreter but it's funny... Once I can communicate in the language, I've kinda lost interest to "learn" it...

I remember my first dream in BSL, it was so weird...

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By *..FirstMan
over a year ago

london

Grew up in SA so Afrikaans and English.

Lived in Paris and tried French... failed.

Lived in Germany and learnt a little German... easier to link to Afrikaans/Dutch in structure vs the Latin origin of French

Also live in Middle East and so know how to swear in Arabic, order tea and say please and thank you....

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Two languages other than English - one fluent, the other passable. I know basics in another, enough if I ever got stranded there to get some cheese.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Two languages other than English - one fluent, the other passable. I know basics in another, enough if I ever got stranded there to get some cheese.

3 Meli, you also know "seductive"

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

American English, working knowledge of ya'll's english english, and can order a beer in maybe two other languages

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

"Two languages other than English - one fluent, the other passable. I know basics in another, enough if I ever got stranded there to get some cheese.

3 Meli, you also know "seductive" "

Steady on Princess, you'll make me blush. My seductive is ab initio atm, lockdown is making it piss poor. Can you do a video on how women should flirt with men next please?

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Two languages other than English - one fluent, the other passable. I know basics in another, enough if I ever got stranded there to get some cheese.

3 Meli, you also know "seductive"

Steady on Princess, you'll make me blush. My seductive is ab initio atm, lockdown is making it piss poor. Can you do a video on how women should flirt with men next please? "

I have hidden my vids for the time being. People are getting on my nerves with the new lows they go to in getting your attention so all face stuff is tucked away for now.

It'll be on my hitlist for when I'm feeling more people pleasey

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By *uietlykinkymeWoman
over a year ago

kinky land

English is my second.

My French and Spanish are poor so I would list BSL as my third.

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

I have enough problems trying to speak English.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Can speak passable French, although it's rusty currently, but comes back to me with use. Fairly basic German and beyond that have a knack of picking out enough to make an educated stab at translating written word in other languages that are either Germanic or Romance in origin

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By *edGrayCouple
over a year ago

Swindon

I have been trying to learn Portuguese. Like all the Latin based languages, the posh words as we would call them are easy to learn as they are entwined in our language. Its the freaking verbs that are difficult to master, they change too much and don't get me started on the masculine and feminine ending of words...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well im bengali..so bengali is my 2nd language...i really wana learn spanish.. i find spanish soo damn sexy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can speak Italian as well as an Italian 4year old and can understand about 40% of what's going on if it's spoken slowly..lived and worked there for 4 years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spanish pretty fluent, I can write well In Japanese and English being my first language

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can speak chinese, at school i found french spanish hard as fuck. However because of my picture memory im very good at the symbols they usr and the time i was living over there teaching the kids football they taught me. Chinese is actualy easy to learn just tones.... how the world is going and for children to learn that is the language english and chinese

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

I'm excellent in C, passibly good with C++, can struggle through C#.

Python and Java I've got the basics of, but at BASIC I'm more advanced. When we get to the weirder languages with funny syntax I studied a bit of Lisp, and I did some real work with Forth. APL is all greek to me. In 1978 I was using Fortran IV, by '83 I was using Fortran 77. 1986 to 1990 I was doing all my writing in Coral 66. I tried out Pascal, meh. Occam never really caught on, but good when you want to hold several conversations all at the same time. I can read VHDL but not really my thing for writing. On the other hand, when some Assembly is required I've done the i86, M68000, H8, SH2/3/4, ARM, PDP11, 6502, TMS9900 and Atmel dialects. In the dim and distant past I did a project on F8 while at university. Recently I've started looking at RISC V, but I don't think I'll be using that for another year or two. Last year I found I had to speak some Lua, as a stepping stone towards some work in JSON. And in the summer I needed to use some ASN1 but the support for that also required learning a little F#.

SQL I don't rate as a real language, it's more of a pigin english, and not very expressive at that. ADA - far too verbose. Linda, the other Lovelace - too deep for me.

Anything I've forgotten? Oh, Ratfor, read the book, very archaic now. XML. HTML. Couple of times I've had to make up my own languages for special purposes - well really more like limited vocabulary tiny grammars, but useful enough to get a message across. I'll have a go at most anything though, give me the textbook and a couple of weeks, and I'm usually able to get by...

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By *lint-EverhardMan
over a year ago

Perpignan and cap

I'm getting along in French but can't get my GCSE German out of my head. What's with this guy?

Presumably computer speak.

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

I speak Welsh - not fluently, but well enough to use at work, and listen to TV and radio

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you speak a second language? If so, when did you learn?

I am trying to learn french, I’m not finding it easy!"

Being half Spanish I also speak French and being a humble builder I struggled unlike the rest of my family.

For the first 8 years here I was only a very very basic speaker mainly chatting badly about football in the builders merchants or them teaching me bad words.

Things changed when we opened a restaurant and now as the French say “I speak French like a Spanish cow”!!!

Op try finding a French speaker to chat to maybe on line as my wife does that for people learning English.

Best of luck.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can still speak some Esperanto

My school continued with it for some reason

my Latin now is probably 2/10

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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago

Solihull and Brentwood

Double Dutch and English.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I little french only to the point of ordering food, directions ect just gcse level.

Greek im fairly fluent.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I really wish I had paid more attention in my french lessons at school.

I go to France several times a year for my hobby and not knowing the language makes things really difficult at times, hence trying to learn. I’m using apps and listening to podcasts but it just doesn’t seem to stick

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By *heGateKeeperMan
over a year ago

Stratford

I’m currently trying to learn Brazilian Portuguese and BSL. On top of everything else

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By *heGateKeeperMan
over a year ago

Stratford

"I have been trying to learn Portuguese. Like all the Latin based languages, the posh words as we would call them are easy to learn as they are entwined in our language. Its the freaking verbs that are difficult to master, they change too much and don't get me started on the masculine and feminine ending of words...

I’m glad it’s not just me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

English is my second language. Think and converse in Welsh first

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By *ornyandmasseurCouple
over a year ago

new forest

English as a second language for one of us and speaks German and Italian too as foreign languages. The later you learn in life the harder and nothing can beat total immersion.

Which is trickier when older as commitments/family,etc...

OP if you are serious about learning French, carry on with the apps, etc, get the best basic level you can and when you have holidays, go to France for however long you can (less than 2 weeks wouldn’t make a difference).

While there try to minimise interaction in English.

Probably not enjoyable at first but only way if you want to progress and see a difference

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can get by in Spanish & German

I struggled with Portuguese

I just found it an odd language

I can't get my tongue far enough back in my head to say half the words

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By *ealthy_and_HungMan
over a year ago

Princes Risborough, Luasanne, Alderney

i speak welsh, english and spanish. i can get by on dutch which has come in extremely handy in the far east funnily enough. i have some punjabi and hindi that i can get by on. some cornish and irish. a smatering of flemmish and walonian too. and a bit of west african arabic and swahili.

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

I am Greek Cypriot born and raised in London so I speak Greek all the time at home as well and a mixture of Greek and English when I am with Greek family or friends.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I only speak English, but I can read some Latin and Old English, but no Middle English.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Learned bsl at a young age but never used it so forgotten most of it. Know a little Cantonese but only swearing and gambling terms

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So to some varying degree I can communicate in the following languages

English

French

German

Urdu

Spanish

Italian

Would love to learn portuguese (brazilian) and russian and dutch (dutch simply because it is similar to german)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don’t speak a second language but I’m keen to learn BSL

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

French- been learning for a few years now and starting to grasp it

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By *ollbiMan
over a year ago

newcastle

A little tourist french,guess most have.we all need to up our language skills.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I done French and German at school. French I found difficult but German I loved and thrived in. It's a bit rusty now but can remember the basics. Picked up Spanish over the years but that has now got a bit rusty too. I also know a small amount of BSL.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I really wish I had paid more attention in my french lessons at school.

I know how you feel as my wife is fluent and I speak it but when we ended up a few years ago in San Sebastián for a day more by accident then planned we were double fucked as between us we just about hag “hello goodbye and thank you” which we were very embarrassed by but thankfully the head waiter in the hotel spoke French.

We find that here if you make the effort most French are very forgiving!!!

Podcast “coffee break French” is good.

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By *ealthy_and_HungMan
over a year ago

Princes Risborough, Luasanne, Alderney

personally i have found from my travels that the ability to pick up slang is paramount to communication. you can attempt to speak a language locally but nothing breaks the ice or raises a smile more than chucking in some local slang.

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby

i speak fluent French , Spanish , English and Portuguese

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By *rongstantineWoman
over a year ago

hull

I speak French and Italian fluently, started learning Spanish in the first lockdown and Welsh in this one.

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

"I speak French and Italian fluently, started learning Spanish in the first lockdown and Welsh in this one. "

Da iawn

There’s definitely some Welsh speaking groups in Yorkshire. Big county overall, though, I realise!

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

I speak Italian and keen to meet others

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By *uzie69xTV/TS
over a year ago

Maidstone

"I don’t speak a second language but I’m keen to learn BSL

BSL is easy if you have a visual brain... Mine is and I picked it up easy. My ex-bf has more of an audial brain so good with languages but crap at BSL.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rusty Spanish, rustier French, can translate some Latin, speak some very basic Italian and can understand a bit of Portuguese. I’d like to improve my command all of the Latin languages, but don’t devote enough time to it.

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Delphi, Pascal, Cache Object code, Fortran and a smattering of Java.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am fluent in Spanish, and to a lesser extent in a few other languages. Keen to meet someone who likes languages!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I speak Austrian, Swiss, Canadian and Belgian.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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Bollocks.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

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Bollocks."

You speak bollocks?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"[Removed by poster at 24/01/21 07:22:52]

Bollocks.

You speak bollocks?

And Australian, North American, New Zealand and Canadian.

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By *nna WulfWoman
over a year ago

Wandsworth

I can get by in French because I lived there on a gap yaaaar.

I thought I could get by in Spanish until I went to Cuba.

I can speak a few words of Welsh - beautiful language.

I'm currently obsessed with Turkish series on Netflix and I can say 'tamam'

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"Do you speak a second language? If so, when did you learn?

I am trying to learn french, I’m not finding it easy!"

Good moaning

I spick fluent officer Crabtree French, it mit be worth you giving it ago

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