[Gwen]

What languages do you like? Is there any language you'd like to learn, or that you speak, or just think sounds pretty?

The ones I have interest in:

--Gaelic-this has grown on me since my older sister started taking it.
--German or French: I just like these. Maybe because their similar to English and they strike me as interesting...
--Japanese-I've wanted to learn this for a long time. (Though now I might take Gaelic...)

I speak some Spanish, but that's about it. And that is slipping out of my brain since I quit taking it because I couldn't keep up. I'm a bit concerened about taking another language since my first attempt failed...

Anyone else?

[bare24601!]

I absolutely love French. I took it for three years and have studied it on my own as well. I really want to learn to speak it and travel to France.

[theatre_grl]

I think French sounds gorgeous. I'd love to learn.

[Angel-of-Music*]

I take french and german.

but i despise speaking both of them, mostly because im rubbbish and was forced into it.

i do, however, adore the sound of italian.

[Xack]

I love German and Italian. I speak German decently, but know no Italian.

[blue wind]

i've wanted to take japanese forEEEEVVERRRR!!!

i'm taking spanish right now and i hate it because i'm so terrible at it. after this year i'll have fulfilled my language requirements so i'm quitting spanish and i'm starting latin......

[mezzo_soprano]

My favorite .. . . . English

jk

I speak a Little spanish( My spanish food vocab is amazing though)

[~GertrudeMcFuzz~]

I took Spanish from Kindergarten-Freshman year, and I didn't particularly enjoy it. Maybe it was my specific class, but I never liked learning it. The language was pretty, though.

Italian is SUCH a pretty language, and although it's similar to Spanish, I think I'd like it more. I had to learn some Italian for a song I was singing in voice last year, and now I really want to teach myself some more.

[Cake_in_Song]

Oh my Sondheim, I've been studying French forever. Ten years, I think. And I'm still miserable. I'm reading Jules Verne's Le Chancellor in the original French, and I can understand it quite well, but it was in the Childrens lit section of the library, so I'm not terribly proud. My speaking skills need major work. I can't think in French yet, so I can't have a fluent conversation. Which means I lied TO THE MAX on my application for the historical interpreter job, but I want it so badly!
I love singing in Italian, too.

[The Next Ten Minutes]

I love French! I've taken it for five years now and am almost fluent

[bare24601!]

I speak six languages... and I can say hello in at LEAST seven more.




JK

[The Next Ten Minutes]

^Bahahaha :]

[PappyCat]

ASL is my language of choice.

[ilovebway]

[Joshua]

[lesmisloony]

I'm a French major because I'm happiest in French classes, and I figure even if I end up holding out a cup on the street corner, at least I won't have spent four years of college in misery. I'm currently in French lit, and we've read Le Tartuffe, La Cantatrice chauve, and a bunch of poems by Hugo and Baudelaire. I'm more or less in heaven.

I wanted to take Italian freshman year because I adore it (and want to understand most operas without reading those giant subtitles) but all the Italian classes were full, so my love of Die Zauberflote forced me into German. I can't yet speak it very well, but I have a decent ability to gist.

[Orestes Fasting]

I have heaps of fun studying anything that's related to English, just deconstructing how they're similar and the weird paths things took to get where they are. I was the terror of my first-year German teacher because I had unconsciously figured out all the consonant shifts in the first two weeks of class and had a knack for guessing vocabulary. So French, German, Gothic, Latin--all fun. (Anglo-Saxon and Italian not so much, but more because of awful experiences with the professors.)

I'd really like to study Arabic under a competent teacher who could explain the tri-consonantal word roots, which seemed really cool in the slow, muddled class I took in college. I wish I'd asked the professor more about it.

I'd also be interested in learning ancient Greek, and Finnish or another agglutinative language.

This is why I need to go back to school.

[Jeronimus]

Maybe weird, but I do like my native language Dutch. I'm not sure how difficult it is for people of other nationalities, but it's somewhat similar to German.

I also like German, and I'm in my first year of it at the moment of 3 hours a week. We're in a very small class, so we progress decently and we can get enough explanation. I love some of the crazy and funny sounding words that don't exist in Dutch like "Wiedereinsteiger" (which means "someone who starts doing something he hasn't done for a while")
I'm taking Spanish as well, and it's my first year too, but 2 hours a week. It's a fun language as well. Not that "beautiful" or anything, but I can imagine it being fun when I have it all figured out. Vocabulary is harder, because most words don't look anything like any other language. Slightly similar to French, but perhaps even simpler at the moment (although we haven't seen any difficult grammar, so that's possibly it.)

I've had French for 7 years, and I'm still not very good at it. I just completely get lost with all those strange exceptions. French might possible be the language that has the most exceptions I know. Though perhaps Dutch doesn't work according to rules either.

English on the other hand, is quite simple to me, and there really aren't that much crazy exceptions (for as far as I know).

Now when it comes to languages I still want to learn next to those 5, I'm not sure why, but I'd love to be able to speak Swedish. I know how to say, like, one sentence in Swedish, but that's it.
Perhaps something crazy like Russian as well, or just a bit of basics.

[Orestes Fasting]

Just for fun, languages I want to study--or have studied and want to go more in-depth.

- German (I speak it really half-assedly, and would like to learn more)
- Norse (The first of many dead languages that will show up on this list)
- Anglo-Saxon (I don't want to talk about my History of English class. And we didn't do that much with Anglo-Saxon anyway)
- French (I speak it competently, and would like to progress to fluent)
- Old French (Not that different, but I'd like to take a History of French course to see how it evolved)
- Italian (Had a really bad semester of it, would like to learn it properly and get some coaching to get rid of my French accent)
- Latin (Had a totally frakking awesome semester of it before I left school, want to learn more)
- Attic Greek (The logical progression from Latin...)
- Arabic (Ideally Classical Arabic, but Modern Standard will do too... would also settle for Classical Hebrew in a pinch)
- Some agglutinative language or other (Finnish, Hungarian, Basque, Turkish... I'm more interested in the grammar than anything else)
- I might also be interested at some point in dabbling in Koine Greek, Aramaic, Old Church Slavonic, or Anglo-Norman--but since it's not terribly easy to find courses in them, and I do want to study other things besides languages, they might have to wait. Though you never know; I took Gothic as a college freshman.

Yes, I have a heavy bias towards dead languages. This is partly because they tend to be taught systematically--nobody pretends you'll ever need to know how to say "Good morning, my name is ____, how are you today?" in Latin--and partly because anyone who's studied them enough to teach them probably has a mind that works the same way mine does. I had a couple of rather difficult languages ruined for me by teachers who would rather have the class memorize useful colloquialisms than teach us how the language actually worked. The phrasebook stuff is useful if you're going to be visiting the country, but it gives you absolutely no basis for in-depth study and eventual fluency.

[UniquePerspective]

Pig Latin.

Enough said.

[blackbird_fly]

I'm thinking of taking languages in college because I'm fascinated in how they evolve and in what ways they're similar to each other.

Currently I'm taking French, which I'm mildly proficient at. I'd like to study Italian or German (German particuarly since I've only ever taken Romance languages.)

[actor]

I love French. It's pretty. But I SUCK at it.

I love listening to familiar musicals which have been translated into French.