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

Urdu to help me with work

I'd love to speak Russian too, would be very useful where I live (not Russia ) Studied French and Spanish to A level and my Greek is reasonable; if you're going to learn a new language OP I'd definitely recommend something challenging with a different alphabet!

Can I please have all of them? Please!!!

I can get by in a number of languages, but if I could have my wish: Russian, Mandarin and Hungarian

Oh Hungarian! That and Finnish are just so hard, aren’t they. I have half-Hungarian cousins and when they set off speaking with their mum, there isn’t anything I can do to understand a word. They’ve taught me countless words and I still can’t get anything.

Russian or Arabic.

Welsh. It would massively expand my employment opportunities where I live. I'm learning but I can't imagine ever being competent enough to use it in a work setting.

I speak French reasonably but am currently studying Japanese which I am loving.

Going by today's meeting - English.

I have done French, German and Spanish in the past, and am currently learning Welsh, so any of those.

I'm fluent in Irish and understand Scots Gaelic. I'm also fluent in French and can get by in Spanish and Italian. I'd love to be fluent in Welsh and Cornish

Italian. Beautiful and dramatic.i also think it's fairly easy to understand as I can speak spanish a little and they are similar.

French, I've been learning for a while now but it's getting harder now we're moving past GCSE level! I can, read, write and speak ok but I've not a clue what they're on about when they start speaking 😄I've been watching spiral and miraculous ladybug to try and get used to it but I'm not sure it's really helping. I wish someone could just put that knowledge in my head for me😄

Swedish. I’m teaching myself at the minute.

I'm fluent in 4 ^^

Bit I'd love to learn Dothraki.

Another one for Icelandic here. I’ve dabbled with learning it in the past and know a fair few words, but am in no way conversational! It’s so hard, would be such an achievement to crack it!

Hard to choose but I'll start with Yoruba.

I love languages and try to learn every chance I get - usually taught by some family members, friends and former co-workers. I seem to start but never finish so I know the basics of a few languages (Hausa, Italian, Portugese, Spanish and French) and fluent in 2 others.

Hindustani for me. My late df spoke it fluently as well as French, German and possibly Cantonese.
My late DM spoke French, German, Spanish and Danish.

Me? Just French a smattering of hindi, several German phrases, a few words of Welsh and that's it. Currently learning sexting in French which is great fun and good for my self-esteem 😁

I like the way russian sounds but i think arabic because my grandpa spoke it to me a lot of the time. I never took the time to listen and pick it up.

I basically pick up vocab very quickly but get stuck on the gender thing and never progress

Today I managed to have a long conversation about waste building materials and order a skip to be delivered in German. I'm still on a high!

I'm not talented at learning languages. I love Russian, it's so guttural yet musical to me. My BF is Russian but there's no point learning. I have to stick to the ones I need (German/ Dutch) even if they arent very glamorous.

Greek. I've been teaching myself for about 4 years and can get by when we do our annual visit to Greece but I'd love to be properly fluent

Im fluent in five eu languages! Moved around a lot as a kid/teen.
Ive lived in china for a year once and tried to learn mandarin. It was too hard for me to pronounce and i gave up. I would love to speak it though!

Welsh. I am Welsh but can't speak the language beyond a couple of sentences I learnt at school.

Well done you @RickJames 🎉
I still remember the first phone call I did in German, where we could both understand each other and not just hung up the phone mid-call in embarrassment. I felt on top of the world. Then I went to the shop and the cashier had to repeat a question three times 😂

You do not need talent for languages - you need interest, motivation, a bit of time and the willingness to sometimes feel ridiculous.

As far as family languages go - for me it is Frisian, but so far I only took one course.

Welsh. It sounds lovely.

French and Japanese. I learned both at school and was rubbish at it. I really wish I can be fluent in them.