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English and basic Spanish
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Just English. I took French for one year in High School but haven't used it in about 5 years.
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I'm only fluent in English...but I do know a bit of French(took it in high school) and Spanish(live in an area with alot of Spanish-speaking people)...
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I've actually learned more Japanese on my own as opposed to the Spanish I learned in the three years I took Spanish class. I guess it all depends on what you're most interested in.

I'm hardly fluent in Japanese, but I do know enough to get through most of the unsubtitled anime I watch. I also have weird thing for Japanese pop music. I can probably sing any Japanese Sailor Moon song you could throw at me.

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English, but also enough German to get me by (especially if I want to buy fruit).
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English, Korean, and Japanese. Level of fluency runs in that order. ;)
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English is my first language. I studied French for about 2 years and am finishing up my last and fourth semester of American Sign Language.

I want to learn Italian next.
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Just English
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I speak English, trying to learn Japanese, and I HAVE/NEED to learn Spanish, soon. -_-;
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English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Serbo-Croat.
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English, Italiano, Castellano, and very little german (I took it in middle school) also want to learn french! :)
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Hmmm........Let's see.....

I speak English, I took French....can't speak it. I took Spanish. Can sort of speak it........I took Swahili. I can speak it!

SO I guess, English and Swahili.


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English and Japanese. I'm currently learning Spanish.

I also graduated from Loomis School for Loomis Speak, but I'm not sure if that counts...
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Just English. I took 2 years of French in high school, but I can't remember much of it anymore.
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I would also like to learn Japanese. I had so many Japanese friends once and they told me I was quite good writing it and pronouncing (funny thing since the sounds come almost exactly as Spanish ). 8)

How much time does it take to learn at least the basic of it? and is it too hard?
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Evil Genie Jafar wrote:I would also like to learn Japanese. I had so many Japanese friends once and they told me I was quite good writing it and pronouncing (funny thing since the sounds come almost exactly as Spanish ). 8)

How much time does it take to learn at least the basic of it? and is it too hard?
Two-three years to learn enough to be able to speak it well. Another year to be fluent. If you plan on learning how to write and read it as well, you could learn the hiragana and katakana in about a month. For kanji, you need to know at least 5000 to read a newspaper, so that could take up to five years. Fortunately, you'll find hiragana symbols next to the kanji a lot, but that won't happen all of the time.

I would suggest to not waste your time learning it unless you need to. :wink:
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My native langauge is French I am fluent in english and talking a bit japanese also not much but I can sing the card captor sakura song in japanese :)
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I speak English and a little bit of Spanish, which is sad since I took 4 years of Spanish in high school and 2 in college.
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Sekaino Jasmine wrote:
Evil Genie Jafar wrote:I would also like to learn Japanese. I had so many Japanese friends once and they told me I was quite good writing it and pronouncing (funny thing since the sounds come almost exactly as Spanish ). 8)

How much time does it take to learn at least the basic of it? and is it too hard?
Two-three years to learn enough to be able to speak it well. Another year to be fluent. If you plan on learning how to write and read it as well, you could learn the hiragana and katakana in about a month. For kanji, you need to know at least 5000 to read a newspaper, so that could take up to five years. Fortunately, you'll find hiragana symbols next to the kanji a lot, but that won't happen all of the time.

I would suggest to not waste your time learning it unless you need to. :wink:
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I Speak Brazilian, English, Spanish, and the basic of Japanese
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