I, too, am trying to learn French. Everyone where I live speaks Spanish, and I figured a Spanish course would be so dreadfully boring, that I'd try French instead. I did take one year of Spanish, though.
What I'd really like to learn, though, is Arabic! Any Arabic speakers?

Sorry ChristProclamer I don't speak Arabic, although I would also love to learn it
I speak two languages fluently, Russian and English

That is so cool De_De! I wish I was at least bilingual.
Nope, I don't speak Arabic. I've got a friend who's learning it, but I just shy away from languages with an entirely different alphabet. It's intimidating. I do like the look and sound of Japanese but it's just not practical for me to learn (I'm probably not going to get a job in Japan). It's a lot of information that I will likely never need, so I decided to save that space in my brain for something more useful.

I have been learning Latin for the past 3 years. It's frustrating at times since Latin's a dead language and no one speaks it so it's hard to immerse oneself, but it has its benefits. It's great for philosophy and theology because those sciences are founded on the tradition of medieval scholars who wrote pretty much exclusively in Latin. Also, many languages (Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Catalan, etc., to say nothing of the English language) stem from Latin, so I can use fansites over the world like MundoNarnia without much trouble.

Well, first and foremost, English is the only language I speak fluently.

For a few years now, I've been learning Gujrati (an Indian language, very close to Hindi but differing in print and some letters), and Swahili (I think it's pretty known, but it's mostly spoken in Kenya, where I was born, so it was decided that CS and I should learn it.) The latter has been a little bit easier to learn because the alphabet is English letters.
I can read, write, and understand (well, I can understand it to a certain extent) both, but I can't fluently speak it on the spot.

And for an additional high school elective for language, we've been doing Spanish. It's going pretty well--we've decided that we're definitely going to be fluent in this one gradually, so we're taking it a little more seriously than the former two. (*wanted to take French, though*)
Then of course there's a small, small bit of French, German, and Italian for Music. I think it should count as a small percentage, because my curriculum requires me to memorize a lot of it.

I'm learning French, like some of you guys! It's such a beautiful language, n'est-ce pas?

French Class is really fun and my teacher is great. I can understand little bits of German and Spanish (and a bitty bit of Italian) but not much!

That is so cool De_De! I wish I was at least bilingual.

Thanks
Although, being bilingual can be tough sometimes because you get this in between language which we call it Runglish. That is when you mix two languages in the same sentence. It's ok when we talk like that amongst ourselves, but it sounds kinda weird to other people.

being bilingual can be tough sometimes because you get this in between language which we call it Runglish. That is when you mix two languages in the same sentence. It's ok when we talk like that amongst ourselves, but it sounds kinda weird to other people.

I'm bilingual myself. Fluent in spanish and in english.
And we also have what we call spanglish, it's so easy to mix both languages without even noticing it.

Wow! It's nice to see some people who are bilingual!

I speak English and Korean. I was born in South Korea, and my mother is Korean. So of course, I learned both! But not many half-Koreans speak Korean fluently. I can read okay, enough to kind of get by. I'm working on it, though.

It seems like a lot of people are starting to learn French!

I, too, am trying to learn French. Everyone where I live speaks Spanish, and I figured a Spanish course would be so dreadfully boring, that I'd try French instead.

Lol! I took French in middle school for pretty much the same reasons, but in order to graduate high school I had to take at least one Spanish course, and since it was so easy, I took the second part also. Later when I came home and attended a community college, I took a semester of Spanish. My teacher told me I should get an Associate's in Spanish. But I don't really want to because it doesn't seem to challenge me.

I have been learning Latin for the past 3 years. It's frustrating at times since Latin's a dead language and no one speaks it so it's hard to immerse oneself, but it has its benefits. It's great for philosophy and theology because those sciences are founded on the tradition of medieval scholars who wrote pretty much exclusively in Latin. Also, many languages (Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Catalan, etc., to say nothing of the English language) stem from Latin, so I can use fansites over the world like MundoNarnia without much trouble.

I took two semesters of Latin in college. It's helpful for understanding some English vocab that stems from Latin. I also love music that uses Latin words like Pie Jesu, In Trutina, and Dies Irae. It's cool to be able to figure out what I'm singing! And like you said, it is helpful when learning the Romance languages.

Although, being bilingual can be tough sometimes because you get this in between language which we call it Runglish. That is when you mix two languages in the same sentence. It's ok when we talk like that amongst ourselves, but it sounds kinda weird to other people.

I know what you mean. In my case, it's called Konglish.

I do like the look and sound of Japanese

Me, too! I am also trying to learn it. I guess it would be a little more useful in my case since I am part Asian and would likely have a chance to go in that direction. I've been watching a Japanese anime called Detective Conan with English subtitles and have picked up bits and pieces of Japanese. It was really cool, when my mom was watching a Korean news piece about Kim Yu-na. They played a short clip of the Japanese news broadcasters' reaction to her free skate. It was so funny because the two phrases they said I could actually understand!

I think learning Russian would be cool, but I've heard that it is really challenging!

~Wunder

Ooh, I love languages-- they are such a beautiful part of God's diversity, and a music to my ears.

I speak Spanish fluently, after a year of intense immersion that took me from upper level 1 on the ILR language proficiency scale to level 4 (which is fluency, but means you don't yet speak like a native speaker.) It's fun to see how surprised people are when a gringa starts speaking Spanish or can understand their conversations.

I also speak Farsi (Persian), although I'm far better at reading and writing it than speaking it, due to having gotten most of my practice via the internet. Farsi uses the Arabic alphabet, so I'm able to read it, as well as read in Arabic (although with almost zero comprehension of the words. ) I hope to be fluent someday, as well as to finally learn Arabic.

Those are the only languages I know beyond the basics, but I can exchange greetings in 15-20 other languages, basically just enough to break the ice in a conversation with a foreigner who speaks at least limited English.

I did French for a year in middle school but dropped it after that. I would like to pick it up again sometime. I liked it alot, it was my mom's major in college.

I can speak Spanish pretty fluently, though sometimes I mess up in the masculine/feminine words and I'm not that good at spelling, though I can read it pretty well. It helps that my mom is Hispanic so she only speaks Spanish to us.

I took Latin for a few years, but that was a long time ago. I did Greek too. I remember a lot more from Latin then I do Greek. I would like to further my knowledge in both as well.

narnian1 and Wunderkind_Lucy

I do like the look and sound of Japanese but it's just not practical for me to learn

I completly understand you. A couple of years ago we had a Japanese friend over and he taught me and my sisters Silent Night in Japanese. But then he left and that was the end of my Japanese-speaking

I took two years of French in high school, and then two more semesters here at university. So. . . I guess you could say that I'm fluent. Put it this way. . . I was able to understand about 90% of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics (the french part that is. . . obviously I was able to understand the english part )

I've always wanted to learn French, I can count up to ten and say a few words like, Key, Bank, Door, nothing major though. I'm half Mexican but have never had any desire to learn Spanish it has never been very appealing to me. I was wondering has anyone ever used Rosetta Stone, Is it worth buying?

^^I have Rosetta Stone. It's really great. It costs alot but it works well and it's not boring or annoying to do. It's pretty fun and interesting . Btw, why don't you find Spanish appealing?