I love the Greek alphabet, and Greek is pretty useful in a biology field because a lot of scientific names come from either Latin or Greek.
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Oh this is EXACTLY up my alley! I’m actually a language teacher.
American English is my native language. I’ve got some Mandarin Chinese, Quebecois French, Spanish, and a smattering of Russian and Japanese. I’m learning Korean right now, and some ASL.
I also studied Tolkein Quenya long enough to confidently translate some things, but it’s rusty.
I use a plethora of apps, and then immersion learning. Survival driven language learning has got me far in life. Can’t say my reading and writing is great, but I’m pretty confident ordering food.
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My native language is American English and I’m learning French, Spanish, and Irish on Duolingo and Japanese on Rosetta Stone.
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Yeah! I’m mostly excited to read out loud great works of text like The Iliad and The Odyssey in their original tongue. The way they were meant to be ridden. The college I’ll be attending has Greek as a mandatory language for two years, then after that two years of French. So I finally get to redeem myself.
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Thats a really good set of words to know to be able to get around in any language. You do also have to know how the language is structured of course, though sometimes just sticking the words together can get your point across in a tight situation
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Learning languages is my favourite hobby! I’m Scottish, so fluent in Scots and English (native tongues). Fluent in Spanish too. I’m working hard on Polish at the moment, I’m about A2 level I think. My French is pretty decent, I’ve been learning it on and off since I first learned to read! I also have basic Russian, Norwegian, Finnish, Scottish Gaelic and German. Still waiting for Finnish to be added to Duolingo so I can really get my teeth into it, resources are scant.
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Hey, sounds a lot like me. If you ever want to practice Polish I’m around B1-B2 level at the moment.
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Świetne! 
sounds good.
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I can speak a decent amount of several kinds of English and Castillian Spanish. My German is new and my Korean is newer. I don’t have many people to practice with at present but I’m always happy to learn more communication and meet more people!
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I do know a fair bit of German if you feel like trying to chat sometime, feel free to message me.
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native english speaker here, and learned a bit of japanese when i was a kid when japanese family married in. i’m a little better at reading/conjugation, but i’ve forgotten a lot over the years. i probably have super basic conversational responses down, but can read a little beyond that- i would probably hazard i can remember maybe the first hundred or two basic kanji, and hiragana and katakana. it would be super cool to study with someone at some point!
i also started studying french and romanian for funsies, both of which are a little strange to me but i can at least remember as i go- although i’ve only really got like bare minimum in understanding, though!
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Hellooo, my original language is English and i can speak and hear very basic Catalan. I want to learn more and spanish as well! I’ve just finished a course for teaching English as a foreign language and loved it. Language learning has opened so much knowledge about my own language as well as others!!
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Woof, I’m a bit late to this! I’m a native English speaker (US), but I’m close to fluent in French! I’ve been learning French since 2012, and I actually just got back from a semester abroad in Senegal. I also speak some German (though my university just cut our program, sp I’ll have to find other ways to learn) and a very small amount of Wolof. I’m planning to start learning Scots soon, though!
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What kind of language is Wolof?
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Hey! What course did you take for TEFL? I’m an ESL teacher as well!
I use the acronyms interchangeably tbh.
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I did a CELTA, completed it about a week ago and cannot wait to finish my degree and work!! What did you you?
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Nice!
I actually went the long route and got a Bachelors in TESL. I’d like to get certified to teach in the states, but that’s a long ways off.
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That’s so cool!! I want to do a masters in TEFL and applied linguistics when I finished my degree because my celta was too short and I want to learn more!
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I’m a native Scots speaker, so if you ever need any help, let me know! I recommend trying to get your hands on copies of Oor Wullie and The Broons comic books, or Irvine Welsh novels, they will help immerse you in the language!
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