How many languages do you speak?

[struggles_inc]

I have an upcoming certificate test for my third foreign language. I started to wonder how many languages you guys speak. Are we polyglots here? Any language-learning vents or stories?

Languages are a very important part of my life. A lot is connected to academics for me. Including trauma, of course.

 

[Cauliflour]

Well I'm English so...English.

 

[struggles_inc]

Well I'm English so...English.

I've always wanted to visit the UK. And the accent is amazing.

 

[Cauliflour]

I've always wanted to visit the UK. And the accent is amazing.

Which one, there's hundreds.

If it's the brummie accent you're referring to then uhhhhh...

 

[struggles_inc]

Which one, there's hundreds.

If it's the brummie accent you're referring to then uhhhhh...

So there are many? I'd better go search yt and research them, because my teachers always referred to British English as just… British English. I guess you learn something new every day.

 

[Cauliflour]

So there are many? I'd better go search yt and research them, because my teachers always referred to British English as just… British English. I guess you learn something new every day.

Yeah up until about 50 years ago, people tended to stay in their local area. Radio brought RP which is what people outside of the UK see as the "default" accent as it's what the telly people talk in but it wasn't until travel was much common and easier that accents started to mush. Many older people can pinpoint where people are down to the town based on accent there's that many.

British English is technically a dialect. It's the grammar and spellings and stuff.

 

[struggles_inc]

Yeah up until about 50 years ago, people tended to stay in their local area. Radio brought RP which is what people outside of the UK see as the "default" accent as it's what the telly people talk in but it wasn't until travel was much common and easier that accents started to mush. Many older people can pinpoint where people are down to the town based on accent there's that many.

British English is technically a dialect. It's the grammar and spellings and stuff.

Wow. Thank you so much! Now I'm really interested in finding a documentary about dialects in the UK.

 

[Cauliflour]

If you wanna visit the UK though, I recommend checking out all the districts that are about the place like the lake and peak district. Cause the island is small it's pretty easy to get in and out of them and there's all these little towns buried in them, it's pretty interesting if you're the adventurous type.

Wow. Thank you so much! Now I'm really interested in finding a documentary about dialects in the UK.

Then there's Cornish in Cornwall which historically was it's own thing so that's a whole other bag of worms in terms of culture and dialects and stuff.

There's a whole culture around dialects here that's interwoven into our somewhat strict class system from victorian times. RP is sophisticated, cold, intelligent, professional sounding while anything other is warm, stupider and more casual sounding but then there's the private school accents which are like the children of RP and regional accents but also still kinda their own thing and don't even get me started on the big cities that have accents within accents. London's got a fuck ton due to it's size, the class system and it being a popular place for immigrants. I don't think any other country sees accents the same way.

 

[struggles_inc]

If you wanna visit the UK though, I recommend checking out all the districts that are about the place like the lake and peak district. Cause the island is small it's pretty easy to get in and out of them and there's all these little towns buried in them, it's pretty interesting if you're the adventurous type.

Then there's Cornish in Cornwall which historically was it's own thing so that's a whole other bag of worms in terms of culture and dialects and stuff.

There's a whole culture around dialects here that's interwoven into our somewhat strict class system from victorian times. RP is sophisticated, cold, intelligent, professional sounding while anything other is warm, stupider and more casual sounding but then there's the private school accents which are like the children of RP and regional accents but also still kinda their own thing and don't even get me started on the big cities that have accents within accents. London's got a fuck ton due to it's size, the class system and it being a popular place for immigrants. I don't think any other country sees accents the same way.

Oh yeah, I had a whole trip planned before COVID struck. Hopefully I will be able to visit again. Your culture has fascinated me for a long time and thank you very much for sharing the info

 

[Cauliflour]

Oh yeah, I had a whole trip planned before COVID struck. Hopefully I will be able to visit again. Your culture has fascinated me for a long time and thank you very much for sharing the info

Get an authentic Cornish pasty while you're out. It's class that. Supermarkets sell em but the little bakers always do it better. That and carveries, that's like the British equivalent to an American diner but for the evenings.

 

[struggles_inc]

Get an authentic Cornish pasty while you're out. It's class that. Supermarkets sell em but the little bakers always do it better. That and carveries, that's like the British equivalent to an American diner but for the evenings.

Noted!

 

[_Gollum_]

Only two:

1. English
   1. Level: Native
   2. Variety: Urban Canadian
2. French
   1. Level: roughly B2/C1
   2. Variety: Québécois dialect

French is the language I live in and work in, despite still being far from perfect at it. At different points in my life I have studied Russian, Portuguese, and Italian, though I abandoned all of them and now only remember bits and pieces. Knowing how to read Cyrillic is surprisingly useful though lol

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

Native: English
日本語、十九歳から勉強しいるんだけどまだたくさんことが分からない

 

[FoxSauce]

Native: Spanish and second English

 

[Hystearical]

My native is English. I know a lot of languages though I'll distinguish that from "speaking". I've played scrabble in 5 foreign languages and beaten native speakers: Spanish, French, German, Russian, Icelandic. I've read lots of books and literature in many languages, based on self-taught skills, with the biggest achievement being all of Proust's In Search of Lost Time in the original (over 2,000 pages).

But knowledge of a language encompasses a lot of different skills and areas and it's very easy for some to be a lot better developed than others. And the study of a language is like trying to plumb the depths of a bottomless ocean.

That said I'm pretty gifted in languages all things considered. In fact I would say I'm rather like a savant when it comes to that with the unfortunate implication that I'm impaired in most other areas of regular life.

 

[shampoo sniffer]

Englishwoman who speaks English

 

[Irisse]

I speak two languages, english and my native language (not comfortable disclosing which one it is due to fear of being recognized on here). I learned german in school but I didn't have enough time to really master it. For a period of time, I learned some french but that language school was very bad and I had to quit it.

 

[trashhologram]

I speak Finnish fluently since it's my first language. My English is pretty good and I'm learning German at the moment.

 

[Macedonian1987]

I speak Macedonian, English, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian and I understand Bulgarian but I suck at speaking it.

 

[Aesthetic guy]

im persian so my native language is farsi. and i learned english from movies, video game and youtube ^-^

 

[MapleS]

2, anc can read 4 "alphabers". That's ironic

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

3, English, Dutch and German.

 

[NonEssential]

I speak Estonian, English and Finnish.

 

[DreamCoper]

1

 

[KenDuh]

Just english and spanish, I once tried to learn deutsch but I don't have enough motivation