Native English speaker bros, how many languages do you know? Do you intent to learn any other?

so your french retreated?

Yes, surrendered to English

I started out bilingual, but because of my environment & a couple other reasons I almost forgot the other language while winning spelling bees for English. Now I'm trying to recover and increase my grasp of the other one (which is not taught in many places) as well as learn a third language.

That's a valid question. Out of curiosity I guess. It feels good. But I agree that there's no practical purpose and almost zero opportunities to practice it. So your curiosity will eventually wane and that will be the end of it. Oh, and google translate works really well in a rare case where you do need to translate something.

Just English, if I ever live in another country I'll learn the language there.

English is the master language, I see no reason to learn another.

This "you already know the lingua franca and therefore don't need any other language" excuse is bullshit. Despite English is broadly spoken all around the world, other languages STILL exist and there's material being produced with them, what it means that they will need to be translated to English if you want to get in touch.with. And it happens that only a superficial part of what a country with a different language produces is translated.

1. 2, English (native) and French (fluent)
2. No, I don't have the time anymore

French as native
English as second language, started considering myself fluent around 15 years old
Spanish as third, I'm starting to feel fluent as of this year after multiple travels to Spanish speaking countries
Russian is my fourth, I started studying six weeks ago so of course I can only mumble some introductionary sentences, but defo plan to learn it by 2020.

What province are you in? You a Métis?

It sucks feeling like you are imposing your language to someone. It also sucks being the only anglo surrounded by people that can converse between them in another language, you always feel like they are plotting against you.

You fluent in all 3? if so your my nibba

>This "you already know the lingua franca and therefore don't need any other language" excuse is bullshit.

No it isn't. Some bits of obscure media that English speakers would likely never know exists for their entire lives doesn't justify any necessity for learning a language.

I can read French at a near-fluent level, though I'm not nearly as skilled at speaking it. I go back and forth between determining to become fully fluent and not caring in the slightest. I'm in the latter state currently.

As a pure-blooded anglo (I count the Dutch as anglo), I only see language as a pragmatic thing, and not something to be desired in itself. Beyond French, I see little practical value in learning any other language. Reasons:
>I don't want to move to a non-anglo country
>It's not worth my time to learn a language solely to avoid miming my way through interactions during my travels outside of the anglo realms
>My career prospects wouldn't be any more advanced than if I had spent that same time training a more direct skill in my intended career
>I'm unlikely to ever be able to master that language at a level rivalling my own native tongue, meaning that I couldn't express my thoughts with any greater clarity or art than I can with English now

>Some bits of obscure media that English speakers would likely never know exists for their entire lives doesn't justify any necessity for learning a language.

Just if you wish to be stuck in this universe of English material. Yeah, it is huge, but there're others, and they are as important as the English's, even without your approval.

i know a small amount of spanish because it was the easiest option back in high school. looking back i wish i chose french instead, i thought spanish would be useful but i've never really used it and french sounds so much better

Here's an interesting finding from an EU survey about languages, but it's only representative for EU citizens aged 15 and over living in the European Union.

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Can speak Spanish decently, as all of my family and friends can speak it. I plan on learning French to a decent level, and know very basic German. I always want to be learning some language but I don't know where to go after more practice in German.

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>and they are as important as the English's
Are they? Maybe some historical shit. In the modern day if someone releases media that doesn't have any form of English translation then they are simply missing out on a staggeringly huge market and there's simply no good reason to do that.

Well, you could say the same about Mandarim and Spanish.

And I bet there's not much that isn't translated for Spanish speakers.

Chinese is a bit different since they're so isolated.

In Alberta.
native, m8

>And I bet there's not much that isn't translated for Spanish speakers.
And a huge public is being lost, so what?

What?

>In the modern day
I'd say it's the other way around, there isn't that big of a gap between anglo countries and the rest of the world that now any kind of media producers can have the luxury of not appealing to anglo audiences, especially if it's something that they are not interested anyway, the English language isn't as dominant as anglos think, especially if you're a monolingual anglo not really interested in other countries or media produced in other languages.

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You said that if something has no translation to English, it'd miss out a huge market, and equally with those other two languages.
My point is that there're always things which are only to a specific public of speakers of one language.

as an example, there are way more K-Pop albums and singles that are released in Chinese and Japanese and not so many in English, a lot of Korean artist are more competent in those languages than in English and another trend that is seen in the K-Pop industry is that they may release a music video with Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese lyrics, but no English, I've even seen a couple of Korean dramas in some streaming sites with Korean, Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles but no English

Well it pretty much supports my original point that for English speakers, learning another language isn't going to impact their lives in any meaningful way since I honestly don't even know how much media could be out there that isn't in English since I'll simply never encounter it.

Music isn't quite relevant, it doesn't necessarily need translation since the meaning of the lyrics can often be such a small part of it.

>I honestly don't even know how much media could be out there that isn't in English since I'll simply never encounter it.

deal with it, languagelet

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I am, have and will continue to do so successfully for my entire life.

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its not really an excuse. Most english speakers aren't ashamed of not knowing another language because most don't. It's a motivation thing. You investing thousands of hours so unless you're getting good value for it people aren't gonig to do it.
For the decent spheres theres what, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Arabic.
Most of them i really don't give a shit about. Probably only French and German. And you're pretty unlikely to be economically better off unless you're in a very specific job.
Australia especially because we the only non-english speaking neighbour is Indonesia and they have thousands of languages anyway.

I only know English but I hope to learn a language in the future, maybe Mandarin or Korean

I know two, English and Korean. (Korean because of muh heritage.)

I want to learn Japanese in future but probably not very soon.

more people actually learn Spanish in the United States than people in Mexico learns English.

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>learning another language isn't going to impact their lives in any meaningful way
yes but you have to understand that applies to other languages groupus not something specifically intrinsic to English-speakers

How did you manage to be able to read French, was it just by vocabulary being the exact same as English or you studied?

How was French Second Language in Canadian school? Mandatory?

Tu habites où?

soumets-toi au français, l'empereur te l'ordonne !

If i wasn't lazy I'd learn french just so i could understand the 70s-80s titty movies

not worth it, there are english subs i guess.

Alberta. I retained much of what I learned from my non-immersion, completely-optional French language courses (grades 5 through 12), and for my masters thesis, I had to read hundreds and hundreds of dense, untranslated Quebec judgments on constitutional and human rights issues to better flesh out a comparative perspective (common law/civil law). But I never had to write anything in French itself, nor have I spoken French in years.

what a torture, i learned english on my own watching unsubbed lost seasons back then, it was more efficient than years of school lessons, i guess you can only become good if you find an interest in it, surely the reason why most english native speakers lost it.

Do you watch New Wave films?

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i did watched some but not anymore, they are boring, maybe it was relevant and fresh back then but with perspective it's kinda meh. i watch cinéma de genre tho.

kek, based french
I personally love them. I watched Breathlees (1960) this month and it was one the cutest films I've ever seen. You should appreciate it more.

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>interested in grammatical structures
>only learns (((western))) european languages

I'm learning Russian right now. Ideally, I'd also want to also learn Japanese, but I doubt that is going to happen. If anything, I'd probably try Chinese, French or German, as they are all easier to learn.

I am trying to learn French.

bebel movies (belmondo nickname) are well known and appreciated here, i could recommand you 'un vieux fusil' 1975.

OH NO NO NO NO NO

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I really wish I had a reason to learn another language as it's hard to justify the time required to learn one if it's just for fun.

this whole thread. KEK/1000
saged

Please learn Estonian

I had four years of French at high school, and I'm not even at a conversational level. All we did was play bingo with French numbers and eat pain au chocolats.

I started learning Portuguese in my spare time, but likewise I can barely hold a conversation at present.

>What makes you wanna learn those languages when you already know English?
jealousy in my case. I love languages and the fact that I can only get by in one makes me feel inadequate because most people know another language in addition to English. and yes it's true that most material is translated to English, but it doesn't really feel good knowing that I need to RELY on that.

I'm a native English speaker and I also speak Mandarin

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4. Fuck stupid west.

I speak English, very good French, poor German and I have a qualification in Arabic but I'll be damned if I remember any of it.

Tried to learn Russian, didn't get very far.

Currently dabbling in Spanish, Polish, Mandarin (all actually useful languages) and a bit of Italian for a coming holiday.

Fun Fact: Women don't give a fuck if you speak a foreign language, gf doesn't get why I learn languages. Even french.

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I used to be able to speak Spanish relatively well, but I haven't spoken or heard it in years

Native English speaker, I only speak English.
I have just started learning Spanish the other day, not that I much much interest in Spain or Latin America, but because it is so damn useful a language and meant to be easy for English speakers to learn as a first second language.
I hope to use Spanish to learn Italian which I have more interest in.

Any bros got tips for Spanish?

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learn latin american Spanish. It's more global than Spain's

based yank

you want to learn Japanese? why?
Japanese is useless language I guess

Is there any substantial difference? I thought it was like American English vs British English.

I heard Spanish's pronunciation is easy for Japanese
Is that true? I want to learn it

Some verb conjugations are different as well as some pronunciation.
Biggest difference is their usage of vosotros (plural you) and vuestro (your), stuff that we don't use in Latin America.

Yes, mostly. I have no trouble speaking Japanese because it's a phonetic language like Spanish is

Casa (house) = カサ
Gato (cat) = ガト
But you're going to get your ass raped by rolling Rs and Ls, shit that is very difficult for you people.
>Ferrocarril

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Learned english and hindi at the same time (born in the USA - parents spoke hindi at home). Learned Punjabi living with grandparents and in Delhi/punjab. Just picked it up as a kid.

Fluent in french because learned it in school in Geneva.

>how many languages do you know?
2
Do you intent to learn any other?
learning a third