Around the World in 80 Books discussion
Getting to Know You
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What language (s) do you speak?
Reed wrote: "I speak English and Spanish and a little bit of Hebrew"Shalom Reed! Nice to meet you! Are you Judaic?
I speak Spanish, read English, and am currently learning Japanese, Quechua, German, Chinese, Aymara and Esperanto.
I regularly read in English, French, and Spanish. I was raised in English and French and took several years of Spanish in school. I am currently learning Dutch and can read simple books, but am not conversational in that language.
I speak danish and english fluently. And i can speak spanish (though i'm very rusty) and understand german, swedish and norwegian to a certain degree.
I speak German, Spanish, and some Swedish. I'm currently studying Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew, and soon I'll be starting Basque. I took Mandarin in middle school, but that's a looong time ago ago now, and I'd like to try learning it again.
I speak English and the Indian languages Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil. I try to learn new languages on Duolingo but after the initial interest wears off, I give up.
I speak Kreol Morisien, Hindi, and French. Want to read War & Peace in Russian. Thinking about learning to read music.
Jovan wrote: "Start with something shorter in Russian, Checkov short humoristic stories could be ideal"Thanks for the pointer. I am the more determined for it.
I speak English and Spanish with a smattering of basic French and survival words for travel in a variety of languages!As a non-native speaker, I will always be learning Spanish and would like to be good enough to read novels without a dictionary! I think my reading level in Spanish is young adult - any book recommendations for me?
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is one of my favourites. He's also written a couple of other young adult mysteries that I enjoyed. Spanish isn't my first language either. Another book that I thoroughly enjoyed was Zorro by Isabel Allende. It's a fun read about the legendary masked hero Zorro.
Yap, Isabel Allende is one of favourite authors of my mother, I read The Ripper, so I should choose Zoro for my yearly challenge about Chile.
Tilly wrote: "I speak english, french and thai and am currently learning russian and korean"Serena wrote: "Reed wrote: "I speak English and Spanish and a little bit of Hebrew"
Shalom Reed! Nice to meet you! Are you Judaic?"
You are a polyglot! My native language is Russian, I speak a little English.
Nobody is mentioning the language of your pets, whether it is dog or cat. Can you understand what they are saying?
Speaking is one thing, reading is another... I read books in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Esperanto and Catalan, but I can't speak very well in any language at all :P
Jinx wrote: "Speaking is one thing, reading is another... I read books in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Esperanto and Catalan, but I can't speak very well in any language at all :P"So true-speaking is much harder than reading. I speak three languages well, English, French and German. But I can read Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.
Native: English (Midwestern USA)Basic: Spanish
Learning: German
I speak English fluently, but I'm still learning vocabulary.
Yo hablo español más o menos bien.
Ich lerne Deutsch und ich spreche fair gut Deutsch.
I love learning languages. English is my first language and I have studied in school French, Italian, Mandarin and American Sign Language in University. I have studied with private tutors for Hindi (5 years), Bulgarian with tutor for 2 years, Spanish tutor for 1 year. I am presently learning Arabic, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish. I will focus on Arabic because I plan to visit certain countries in the near future.
Indonesian, mandarin Chinese, English, then some Japanese and Korean, learnt Portuguese before but just a smattering. Would like to be more fluent in Cantonese and Japanese ^^
English is my native language, and I’m learning German as a hobby, speaking currently at an intermediate level. I’m enjoying reading books about Germany to learn more about the culture, pick up some new interesting Deutsche Wörte, and so I am more knowledgeable about the country when I visit next.
Books mentioned in this topic
Marina (other topics)Marina (other topics)
Zorro (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (other topics)Carlos Ruiz Zafón (other topics)
Isabel Allende (other topics)




























Please comment what non-English languages you speak and if you want to learn English. I will exchange English lessons for lessons in whatever you speak, especially Arabic and Hebrew. Looking forward to meeting you all linguistically!