What languages do you speak?

[londonlassie]

Oh my word, this is the perfect thread for me, since I'm a language nut and all I seem to do in my spare time (when I should be doing college work) is learn languages, and read Hobb.

OK so...

English: Native speaker. I don't like English much, because for me it's too easy and quite boring.

German: Been learning for seven years, and was fine up until the last year, when I took it at college and promptly ended up embroiled in half a ton of really complicated grammar and got totally lost. My understanding has now probably gone down about three years or so.

Spanish: I love Spanish, I started taking it at college and the grammar is just so uncomplicated and understandable.

Russian, Hungarian, Estonian & Polish: Very basic, I'm trying to teach myself off the internet with varying degrees of success.

Finnish: Also teaching myself off the internet, I don't know a whole lot but I listen to heaps of Finnish music and it's my favourite self-taught language and I spend the majority of my internet-language-teaching time learning Finnish. It's such a beautiful sounding language. <3


Also tried Egyptian Arabic at one point but gave it up while still only having a very basic understanding of it, because I would never go to Egypt since I don't get on with the heat or the food.

And I know how to say "My hovercraft is full of eels" in every language that Google Translate offers, because it's summer holidays and I've spent the last eight weeks with nothing to do.