Languages Spoken?

[The_YongGrand]

Languages? Speak?

My main language isn't English. I can only speak English, Malay and Cantonese.

I used to learn a semester equivalent of Japanese but then didn't use it much. My neighbour used to teach me how to write Russian alphabets when he was studying in Moscow. 

[Soulless]

Russian / English.

[Duck-and-Cover]

English

also took 3 semesters of Japanese, and only remember about 3 phrases 

[The_YongGrand]

I learned and got exposed to Mandarin before. Even being in a full Mandarin speaking environment for a few years, it was very hard to learn them. Some words are very hard to pronounce and some words can be a real killer. Despite being close to Cantonese, it isn't assumed that it is 100% connected.

I have also known a bit of Hokkien (another Chinese dialect) and I had never spoke much in it.

German? I had two learn Deustche language books, all collecting dust under my bed. All I ended up knowing is "Ich bin ein Mann".

And no, despite the similarities in Malay and Indonesian (I've got a few foreigners who asked me that), it isn't all similar. I can read a whole Indonesian article and guessed the meanings, but I couldn't speak or write it. The gap is much huge than the Brit English and the American English.

[Toploader]

Terrible Russian, and slightly better English.

[Soulless]

Wish i could beat the hell out of my laziness and learn german. Always wanted. Even before school i was taught a little.

[Duck-and-Cover]

Yeah I've always wanted to learn German too.  Sadly I think they stopped offering it a few years before I was able to take language courses at school.  There's always Rosetta Stone though.  Wonder how well that program works.

[Soulless]

Actually, yes. That's a good idea.

[StephenArdrey]

Rosetta Stone, doesn't work well. Really, the best way to learn a language is through emersion. I learned Russian in a county jail in Georgia. The reason why I say Rosetta Stone is bad is because of lack of reagional dialects.

[Heather]

English and a little bit of Spanish

[Fifix2]

Polish and English. Also I'm learning German and Japanese.

[hirnlego]

Czech, English with this oh so sexy Czech accent and so-so German - I used to love it and know more of it but when I finished school I was too lazy to practice since everybody speaks English anyway. Yeah, and a little bit of Norwegian, gotta love these Nordic languages. I'm planning to start learning Danish when my level of laziness drops a few meters down to a more acceptable point. In 10 years maybe. Fuck I wish I wasn't that lazy.

[The_YongGrand]

Are Polish and Czech dialects of each other? From what I heard, it sounded almost the same. My neighbour taught me a bit of Russian, and then taught myself a few words, and found some words sound very close to Polish and Czech, according to a dictionary I referred.

Is a "Vtornik" reminds you of "Tuesday"? I only know this word.

[Fifix2]

Are Polish and Czech dialects of each other? From what I heard, it sounded almost the same. My neighbour taught me a bit of Russian, and then taught myself a few words, and found some words sound very close to Polish and Czech, according to a dictionary I referred.

Polish and Czech are two different languages, but they are very similiar. Slovak language and Russian are quite similiar too.
Even though I've never learned Czech or Russian, I can understand some words or even sentences, because some of them sound almost the same as in my native language.

[fake]

English, German, a bit Spanish, some French and about 2 words of Russian lol