How many languages do you speak?

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emm

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Random but it would be interesting to know how you learned the languages you speak as some of the combinations seem quite random? To begin I had a South American friend in primary school and was always desperate to learn and finally had the chance at high school, I then have spent lots of time in Spain and then picked up italian as a second language at uni but mainly learned when I moved there (easy to pick up because of spanish )
 
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Campagne

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English and Fluent French (cos I live in France)
Can manage a bit of Italian with the help of Google translate for the harder vocab!
 
Anjels

Anjels

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FishFlaps said:
Marry a Greek, live there and watch American soap operas on tv with Greek subtitles 😁
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LOL I do live in Greece and watch American shows and series with sub titles, but I just can’t get to grips with it. I might be too old to learn ☹
 
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idk2

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I speak 3 languages but can understand 4. It was an absolute pain in the ass learning the other 2 languages but as they're spoken by my grandparents, I decided to learn at the ripe age of 19. Its funny because I can understand all 4 languages fluently and had been surrounded by them my whole life but ask me to put together a sentence and I'm either a stuttering mess or completely blank. Thankfully, I've overcome that now!
 
SpiceWeasel

SpiceWeasel

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English and American English - trust me, you must learn many different words for things to get by living/working in the US and not have people looking at you like you’ve just been beamed down from space when you ask for a plaster (bandaid) or if there is any coriander (cilantro) 😂

Wouldn’t say 100% fluent yet but getting there with the Spanish. Learnt at school, then went there last year and came back frustrated with my limitations so have been having weekly online lessons since 😊