If you could speak another language fluently

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What would it be?

I think I would choose Spanish. It sounds so musical to me

German - I love the sound of it! I can speak a little, but I'd love to be fluent

I'd love to be fluent in Irish. Sadly despite doing it in school from the age of 6 , I only have a very basic command of the language and it makes me sad as it's a beautiful language .

I misread the title title as 'flatulently' 🤣🤣🤣

German/Austrian (we go on lots of holidays in austra) and maybe Chinese but I think they have a few different languages so can I have all of them as counting 1?

Oooh Welsh! Love listening to Welsh it's gorgeous

Russian, because I’ve been studying it for about five years and in the time have birthed a baby who is herself now fluent in Russian, but I still can’t get my head around the sodding case system. If someone could just implant russian in my head that’d be grand, спасибо большое.

Italian as I'm a huge Opera lover plus I just think it sounds pretty.

Scottish Gaelic ❤️

...and something wild like mandarin.

I already am fluent in several eu languages and it is my superpower 🤩

French. I can basically understand it when written and make myself understood in speech and writing, but I can’t speak fluently and I definitely can’t follow a conversation when French people are talking at their normal speed. I would like to.
I’d also like to be able to speak Russian because I love the sound of it, at the moment I can only say yes, no, etc.

I managed to get a C in German but apart from knowing my numbers 1-10 and the odd phrase, I couldn’t manage to converse with anyone in it. Which is a shame as I remember being on holiday in the Caribbean once as a teenager, and I made a friend who only spoke German. I was fluent enough then to be able to create a friendship and converse with her. Now I would be stuffed

I’m fluent in French after marrying DH (French) and living in French-speaking Switzerland for 10+ years.

However, so many people here have 3 or more languages they are fluent in, so DH and I feel a bit left out with only 2. I guess for practicality I’d say Swiss German as it’s the main language of the country. Otherwise Spanish (I’m intermediate and would like to be fluent but am not holding my breath!)

Mandarin, I lived in Beijing for a couple of years and it really frustrated me I couldn't pick up the language, beyond the basics. those tones, so hard!

I honestly couldn’t choose! Language fascinate me, I learned French and Spanish up to A level and did one year of French in uni, but honestly I’d love to learn a language with a different alphabet, and just get to fluency in any other language.

I am half Greek but my dad never taught us any at all which saddens me.

French would be really useful to properly master. I speak several languages and if your English/German/Spanish/Swedish/Russian etc is not totally perfect, people will still try to understand what you might be trying to say. Not so in French. You can literally stand next to box of apples, point at them and ask for one, but get the article wrong or have the tiniest bit of imperfect pronunciation, and they pretend they can't understand you. I've only encountered the same when trying to learn Hungarian. French is generally more useful though.

Icelandic, it sounds so beautiful and other-worldly. I've taught myself a bit, and my proudest moment was ordering a cake in a café, whose name was several syllables long and complicated, like the names for volcanoes, and being complimented on my pronunciation by the server 😎

German. It’s my seventh language and I’m struggling a lot - I can understand 90% of it and I make myself understood when needed, but I’m a long way off fluency and leaving those cringy, embarrassing moments behind.

Already quite fluent, but I’d love a perfect French accent. Then I could speak proper French.

Spanish, I think it would be the most useful. I am terrible at languages, failed at GCSE.

I speak Danish and English. I think I would choose Russian. I’d like to be able to read the Russian Classics in their original words.

Or French. Or Korean.

Spanish for travelling, Urdu to speak to my extended family or Finnish because it sounds so lovely. Am I only allowed to pick one?

I've been learning Mandarin for years now (very infrequent classes/don't do my homework often enough, so have limited my own progress !). But I don't think I'll ever be fluent unless I spend time living there.

Danish. 6 months here and I’m no closer to having even half a short conversation!

Scottish Gaelic.

I was once fluent in several languages but sadly, lack of use has killed that stone dead.

I think Polish would be a useful one to learn too

Especially with many Polish speaking people who work with me. They are fluent in English but it’s very heavily accented and as I’m deaf, I struggle to understand them. I might understand better if I was able to speak Polish

I am fluent in 4 languages, but I'd love to speak Russian or German!

I’m in admiration of all you talented women !