Elysian Shadows

• Scandinavian (with a Swedish dialect/idiolect as my native language) is obviously number one.
• English would be my second-best language.
• Icelandic definitely takes the third place; I've been studying it for about four years, and I got around just fine when I went to Iceland recently.
• Portuguese and Spanish kind of well, but I'm a bit out of practice. I need to write something soon enough. I know Portuguese better by now, and I managed to have a little conversation going during a dinner and a walk with a Brazilian woman once (even though I learned European Portuguese). That experience gave me a lot of confidence, since I had spent the previous two weeks almost exclusively studying Portuguese, and didn't know too much before then.
• Hungarian is my main language of studies right now, and I enjoy it a lot. It's very nice to work with, and I learn more every week.
• Faroese wasn't too hard to pick up on, knowing Scandinavian and Icelandic, but my vocabulary and some essential stuff are still missing.
• Modern Greek is supposed to be one of my main languages right now, but I can't say I'm even half as devoted to it, as I am to Hungarian. It's kind of hard to find good resources on inflecting words, and since verbs are so miserable in this language, that can sometimes stop me. I've been getting back into a bit more lately, though.
• Scottish Gaelic is also supposed to be one of my main ones at the moment, but I almost haven't gotten started on it yet, and I'm barely beyond the phrase stage yet; the orthography is starting to make a little more sense, though.
• French is probably my best Romance language that I haven't actually tried to study, but have simply picked up on to some extent, unlike Italian (although I gave Italian an evening once). I find it pretty easy to understand written French to a certain extent, at least.
• German grammar and perhaps also vocabulary I know better than that of Dutch, even though Dutch is actually what got me started with languages in the first place; I've simply forgotten most of what I ever learned about Dutch, since that time is probably about seven years ago now, and I never got very far. Either language can be kind of easily understood when written, at least. I need to get me some practice with both of them...
• Finnish I spent a few hours with lately, and solved some of the mysteries, and tried to form two sentences. I haven't gotten much feedback yet, but in either case, the grammar is indeed very similar to that of Hungarian, and I might continue studying it.
• Japanese I don't know much about, but I can write and read all of the kana characters and a few kanji, at least (which is sadly enough to handle an iPhone or an iPad at least; almost everything is English written with katakana). I do know a few things about grammar and pronunciation, but I couldn't construct a very useful sentence. I have no interest in Japanese culture, and I don't like their formality system (I don't like the fact that there are lots of formal registers, because to me, nobody deserves a more formal address than anyone else), so I would probably have a hard time learning it, since I'm not interested in delving too deep into that stuff, and that stuff is as important to the language as it is to the speakers. Maybe in the future.
• Mandarin, on the other hand, isn't too extreme in this context, and the writing system is obviously easier to handle too. I know a few basics, and a handful of characters.
• Like a lot of other equally interested people, I know a handful of things about this and that language, like Italian and Russian, but not much.

Inlinevoid wrote:Jokes aside, what interests you about learning all of these languages and how do you go about learning them?

szdarkhack wrote:-Greek (native)

Skomakar'n wrote:

szdarkhack wrote:-Greek (native)

Πρέπει να μάθω περισσότερα ελληνικά.

BugInTheSYS wrote:

Skomakar'n wrote:

szdarkhack wrote:-Greek (native)

Πρέπει να μάθω περισσότερα ελληνικά.

Hem? Por que não falas em inglês? Não sei ler isso.

The lamdas reminded me of Half Life. :P

dandymcgee wrote:I'm not good at learning languages from books, I'd much rather learn it in practice if the necessity / opportunity ever presents itself.

• English: native
• Japanese: about 2 years on and off, I have a decent grasp but I don't have enough vocabulary yet
• Latin: 1.5 years, learning in school
• Greek: just barely starting to dabble
• Swedish: about the same as Greek

• C++: (NATIVE) This is the only language I can speak fluently, I consider it far more elegant than spoken languages as well.
• English: This one I also speak mostly fluently though I find myself failing as I was taught it here in America, by teachers who are either too old to make sense or are (obviously illegal too) immigrants.
• Hebrew: I spent some time learning the grammar as well as reading the foreign characters, but really can't remember most anything I read except for pronunciation and maybe 10 words.
• German: I've dabbled here and there and can pick out words and their meanings, in general I find it a language easy to learn when you know English. I don't know why but it seems easy enough to me. I listen to lots of German bands and it has also helped as I've wanted to know meanings of some phrases and what have you.
• Chinese: I really want to learn Chinese fluently for philosophical (Tao Te Ching) and religious reasons, as well as it's just awesome.