Can you speak or are you learning another language other than English

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if so how are you learning the language or how did you learn it

I speak a bit of French. More factually, I understand quite a lot of French and can scrape together some spoken French.

I’m learning Swedish on Duolingo. I’m not sure I’d describe it as helping me to speak Swedish. I can’t imagine a situation in which my ability to say ‘I like everything but turtles’ and ‘the moose lives in the forest’ will come in handy.

Other languages I speak well are French and Dutch. I know some German and am currently learning Welsh via Duolingo/online class and Swedish via Duolingo.

I've been learning Russian on Duolingo for a couple of years. I started after a fantastic holiday as preparation for another trip but who knows when or if another visit will be possible, sensible or desirable. 🤷‍♀️

It's tough using Duolingo as your only "teacher" and I miss the more rigid methods of language learning I had at school which really drilled in the basics, verb tables etc. I learned French and German at school and brush up on them in Duolingo when I don't have the energy for another Russian lesson but want to hold onto my 850+ day streak!

Swedish, Danish and Norwegian (they are all very similar!). Through living in various parts of Scandinavia all my adult life.

I grew up bilingual then did another language at school and continued that language plus picked up another at university.

However, as worth all things if you don't use it then you lose it and both my non native languages are seriously rusty.

i spoke french reasonably well (got an A at A Level) and my vocabulary is still pretty good but my grammar and pronunciation is shocking.

Been doing Spanish in Duolingo for a year and yes, my sister is very intelligent and I eat apples, since you ask.*

im hosting an Italian at Christmas and really ought to have spent some effort learning Italian…

*phrases that repeat theirselves frequently on Duolingo…

I'm good but not quite fluent in British Sign Language. I learnt by doing in-person courses, including Level 3 which is equivalent to A Level. I also use it daily in my job so get lots of practice.

My French, Spanish and Italian are all a bit rusty now. French from A Level at school and Spanish and Italian using Duolingo.

I learned French at school and became fluent when I lived and worked in France in my twenties. Even French people thought I was French at one point. Bit rusty now.
I learned German in school. not very good at speaking it but can understand a lot.
I speak tourist Italian from having worked there for a few months. I learned how to order in restaurants and ask directions etc.

I should try Duolingo to get better at German or Italian.

I can speak four languages, english, french, the local language of the tropical island I lived on and german.
I was taken to live abroad at a young age and put in a local school where I was the only white girl so I had to learn the language and of course french which was the islands official language. I loved the girls in my school, they were so kind to me and I was never bullied or anything.
Then I lived in Germany for a while with my exH and had to learn the language because I didn't know any other english people. Its much harder when you are older.
Europeans seem to be much better at it than we are. I took German lessons regularly as well, watched a lot of tv and read German childrens books understanding a bit more each time.
Learning lists of vocabulary is very important too.

I studied French and Russian at uni but don't use them a lot every day unfortunately... Try to keep up listening to radio and reading but need to speak them more. Lots of great resources online like Duolingo/italki and even following other language groups on Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / YouTube etc...

I can't get on with duolingo at all. I have my own method.

I studied French and German to A level and my degree is French and Spanish. I've lived in Italy for almost 30 years. My Italian is, of necessity and circumstances, fluent, but I've never studied it. I can understand Spanish and French but can no longer really communicate.
I dabble in various "interesting" languages on Duolingo. But, as others say, it's only useful really for vocab and phrases. (I'm currently doing Latin, Greek and Danish on there)
I teach languages and the one thing I see that makes a difference out of the classroom is watching films and TV shows in the foreign language. I can tell from their pronunciation and range of vocab which of my kids do it.

I love learning languages. My French is completely fluent, I also speak enough German and Spanish to get by. A little Dutch, also Arabic (formal). I'm currently learning Hindi on Duolingo.
Duolingo is good, but I'm not sure if it's really enough to learn a language to the point of fluency- for the Hindi I have often needed to look on the net to understand the grammar rules!

I speak what I describe as ‘chatty’ Dutch, can follow Dutch news on TV but couldn’t read a Dutch novel. It’s enough for me to have a conversation with Dutch relatives (they speak Dutch and German but not English - border folk).

My Spanish is very good as I used to live there and I’ve had lessons for 20+ years to keep it going.

Currently learning French (have gcse) using duolingo and watching French people cook or talk about French life on YouTube. I replay and copy phrases until I’ve learnt them by heart.

Fluent French and Dutch, middling Spanish, and very rusty German. I wish I could speak all the languages! It feels like a superpower to be able to just switch constantly between one and the other without batting an eyelid and I find it incredibly frustrating to go somewhere where I can piece together the odd word but can't break through to properly understanding and being understood. It's like crosswords when an answer is just out of reach, and for me language learning is satisfying in the same way as really big jigsaws, piecing it together bit by bit until things become clear. I wish I had time to properly study more languages, especially and where I live/work there would be plenty of opportunities to use them day to day!

I’m fluent in Urdu and not too shabby in English, I’m fairly fluent in Shina, my BSL also continues to improve. Urdu and Shina are the languages we spoke at home, I started learning English when I was about eight.

I’ve done some basic Spanish and German, quite a bit of the German has stuck and I can hold a basic conversation, read enough to get by etc. I’m learning Swedish from my husband, my Swedish is okay as in I can be very to the point etc, but I can’t manage the subtleties etc yet, but it does keep getting better.

Did 7 years of latin and 8 of French at school. When I was 48 I discovered that French was my first language. Been living in France for 16 years. Sadly have a very English accent.

I'm so grateful to know another language, my grandmother used to live with us and couldn't speak English. Unfortunately I'm struggling to teach my own DC as I just naturally default to English the other language no longer comes naturally to me as I never speak it anymore

I'm learning Greek, I find it fascinating.

Did well in French at school, so have tried to keep it up by reading books. Have been doing German on Duolingo.
I started learning Polish, as I had an idea about applying for citizenship, but it is so difficult I’ve kind of given up!

I studied French and German to A level standard. My German is very rusty now. I could still read a literary classic book in French, though my aural French has never been great. I’ve got a good spoken accent, and French people think I’m French, at least initially… My main language is Italian, and I’m more or less completely fluent. I lived in Italy for a number of years and that’s how I learned it. I can easily get by in a conversational level in Spanish by adapting from Italian. I have basic Russian -perhaps A level standard. And very basic Polish. Both self-taught from books/courses. I’ve a smattering of other languages for basic tourist reasons - Thai, Dutch, Greek, etc. I could order drinks and a meal, or buy tickets, or buy things from shops, for example.

I’m interested in grammar and how languages work, and I do prefer a grammar-based approach, which is very out of fashion these days.

I’m doing Spanish on Duolingo. Can’t exactly say I’m fluent yet but I was able to ask the Spanish taxi driver if he drinks water, inform him the hospital was HERE, and ask him for a ticket to Madrid. So ya know. The useful stuff 😂

The taxi driver was however mildly impressed as he confirmed it was the most Spanish anyone had spoken in his taxi that day (Benidorm 👀😂)

Learned French at school to A-level, then had a French partner for a while.

Learned Spanish on my gap year with a private tutor.

Learned Italian at night school.

Learned Mandarin living in China, with intermittent private tuition.

Learned Hebrew from Israeli husband.

Mexican nannies when I was little, Mexican friends at high school, 4 years of daily Spanish lessons at school, some University level classes (in Spanish literature).

I was never truly fluent & have lost a lot, but it could come back if submersed. I tend to be able to read French (studied in school) & Portuguese (didn't study, but is written much like Spanish).

English is my first language (I'm British,) studied German for 5 years. Not quite fluent but can hold a conversation. It takes me time to translate in my head and then reply back. I can read German a LOT better than speaking it.

Started duo lingo recently to dust off my old bilingual habits!