To ask if there's a language you want to learn?

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Just that really. Mine is German, hopefully one day I'll be fluent in German. If you're fluent in a language or two, how did you do it?

I'm hoping living in Germany for a year or two will do

I speak Norwegian as a second language. I've lived here for a very long time and now speak Norwegian much the same as I do English. From what I remember, it took about 6 months to become able to deal with every day life in Norwegian, but much much longer to become really fluent. About 6 years or so, I reckon. What I did was immersion (I lived here and pretty much only spoke Norwegian) and classes to consolidate grammar, spelling etc. I also read and took courses for years in subjects that I maybe wasn't 100% interested in as it would extend my vocabulary. You will stop learning at when you reach the level that you can function in a language, so I made sure that I was continually pushing the boundaries of what I needed to know to function.

I can speak Portuguese fluently as I live in Brazil and Swedish a bit from having a Swedish grandmother.
My Spanish is OK but I'd like to learn it better as I have my eye on a job where I need it and I can read it and understand about 95%.

My 6 year old is learning Welsh on dolingo, he loves it, he no longer says the number 5 in English or Portuguese because he says number 5 in Welsh is the best. He also tells everyone that he's a dragon. So I might join him in learning Welsh as well.

Just to say that Futurelearn does lots of basic language courses in eg Dutch, Korean, Norwegian, Irish, German, Italian, Spanish. They are free unless you want the certificate. I have done a few of them.

I wouldn't want to learn another language necessarily. English is my second language, and it's a good one to know. The first one is a difficult one, and what's the point of anyone learning that apart from working in the intelligence services?
Of all foreign languages, I love the sound of German most. But not to the point of learning it now.

I’m making my way through the Scandinavian languages. Currently learning Swedish and Danish.

I speak conversational French and used to be fine with German. Going to Berlin soon though and just keep remembering random words. So at present if I have to ask someone where I can find chopped tomatoes or a duck, I’ll be fine!

I love languages and I love seeing the way languages have interacted with one another to evolve into what they are now.

Cockney and Yiddish.

I go on holiday to France every year and would love to be fluent. I can say many words in French but putting them in a sentence is a different story i really struggle with their joining words

Memrise is an excellent tool for learning vocabulary

I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I've done several courses over the years which included 3 weeks of school in the Dominican Republic, but I've never used it enough to become properly fluent. I'm entranced by central/South America and would love to travel there knowing how to communicate (I'm at a good tourist level but want more!!).

My dc are, by design, all bilingual. I'd have loved that to be in Spanish from living in a native country. But we did what was best available in Scotland and our 3 teenagers are all native Gaelic speakers, having gone through school in Gaidhlig school.

I did French, German and Latin to O-level and would like them all to be as good as they were when I passed my exams 40-odd years ago.

The language I would most love to be fluent in is Italian though. It just sounds so lovely, it has a wonderful rhythm to it and (apparently) I have a very good Italian accent.

I studied German at school (to GCSE level).
We went on a school trip to Germany when I was 16, and although far from fluent I knew enough German to get around, talk to shopkeepers, make purchases, order things in cafes.

It was a lovely feeling to be able to communicate in a different language.

Although I am rusty now I have always had a hankering to study German language further.

Ooooh loads. I was born and lived in the Middle East. But came to the uk really young and totally forgot my Arabic. Would love to learn again.
Also Spanish and Russian.

I did French and German at uni. I am a bit rusty now and would like to brush up my German which was my favourite language. But first i am going to teach myself Latin. I didn't get on with it at school but I would like to have another try. I have bought the Cambridge Latin books and apparently they have extra bits on their website for people studying at home.

Then I want to learn some Italian as my dream holiday is to Sorrento with a visit to Pompeii.

Hebrew. I can read the alphabet and know a few words - enough to read sign posts and find my way around when I visited Israel, but nowhere near enough to have a conversation. I did try to learn with Duolinguo, but didn't get very far. I think I'm just too busy at the moment to give it the necessary mind space. I may try again next year, when things are a bit calmer on the professional front...

I'm completely bilingual in English/French. I also used to speak fluent German, but haven't used it in years and have forgotten a lot. I can still understand it, both written and orally, but then I can't string a sentence together to reply. I should probably make more of an effort to brush up my skills!

I'd also like to learn sign language. I'm a junior doctor in a large teaching hospital and we have sign language interpreters available, but I know this won't always be the case and I'd love to be able to communicate directly with my deaf patients.

I am fluent in Turkish and have good conversational French from A Level (many years ago but I have never fallen out of love with French). I would like to spend more time in France and really make my French great.

Russian, because I love Russian history and literature and I would like to be able to read Chekhov in Russian.

Icelandic is the main one I want to learn... I've been trying on & off to learn with memrise (more off )

Spanish - I did at uni to post A Level standard... but I have large gaps in my vocab & grammar.

Italian - taught myself a bit in my late teens as I was intending to study it at university.

Russian - seems like a fascinating language and culture and opens up realms of literature in the original.

Japanese
Finnish
Faroese
Latin
Greek
Irish
Persian

So many languages... so few years... need to get cracking

I am trying to learn Swahili using Duolingo.