Post by willsong on Dec 23, 2017 12:04:35 GMT 1
Another long post by a language geek 
Native: Frisian,
Dutch
C2:
English
B1/B2:
German
B1:
French
A2/B1?:
Ancient Hebrew > Hard to position, because I only read and translate this language.
A2:
Russian
A1:
Spanish, 
Ancient Greek, 
Modern Standard Arabic (just started learning)
Very limited reading skills:
Catalan, 
Italian
Nearly completely faded: Esperanto (learnt it some 5 years ago, never did anything with it again)
Future projects: In a few months, I'll start an extracurricular university course in Akkadian. For the more distant future, I still have
Mandarin Chinese, 
Ancient Egyptian, 
Aramaic, and 
(European) Portuguese courses somewhere on my shelf waiting to be followed. Less concretely, I would love to widen my linguistic horizon by learning the basics of languages from many distinct language families. For me, learning languages is not in the first place about communicating with other people. My goal is to make a living from linguistic research, preferably researching relations between languages and language families. For that purpose, I think it is very useful to have a working knowledge of the structures of as many languages as possible, to be less dependent on secondary sources for your data. (Although you can never avoid them completely, as having knowledge of all languages in the world is humanly impossible).
BTW, @thesirenscalling I see we share a passion for language
Native: Frisian,
DutchC2:
EnglishB1/B2:
GermanB1:
French A2/B1?:
Ancient Hebrew > Hard to position, because I only read and translate this language.A2:
RussianA1:
Spanish, Ancient Greek, Modern Standard Arabic (just started learning)Very limited reading skills:
Catalan, ItalianNearly completely faded: Esperanto (learnt it some 5 years ago, never did anything with it again)
Future projects: In a few months, I'll start an extracurricular university course in Akkadian. For the more distant future, I still have
Mandarin Chinese, Ancient Egyptian, Aramaic, and (European) Portuguese courses somewhere on my shelf waiting to be followed. Less concretely, I would love to widen my linguistic horizon by learning the basics of languages from many distinct language families. For me, learning languages is not in the first place about communicating with other people. My goal is to make a living from linguistic research, preferably researching relations between languages and language families. For that purpose, I think it is very useful to have a working knowledge of the structures of as many languages as possible, to be less dependent on secondary sources for your data. (Although you can never avoid them completely, as having knowledge of all languages in the world is humanly impossible).BTW, @thesirenscalling I see we share a passion for language
Irish (started in primary school - as it was compulsory)
Icelandic. (I'd say my level is A1 or a low A2) I'm teaching myself 
Korean alphabet Hangul but I need to practice more 
France 
And I'm good at taking in new languages and I really enjoy it.
Scottish Gaelic if I really try hard enough 
Norwegian
Catalá
Afrikaans
Japanese kawaii
Turkish
Valencian 
Catalan
Estonian
FC · 
BMF · 
YND · 
EoF
OESC · 
OASC · 
OAfSC · 
OAmSC · 
OUSC
English (My English accent is pretty much a mixture between British and American English)
Portuguese (Brazilian standard - the European one is a bit harder for me to understand, but I still can)
Galician (since it's pretty much between Spanish and Portuguese, I can perfectly understand it. Still, I wouldn't be able to write or speak it, since I'd most likely start mixing Portuguese and Spanish the wrong way)
Azerbaijani 
Turkish (Like most of my compatriots, I have never been in a need of studying Turkish, as it is mutually intelligible with Azerbaijani language as well as due to the impact of shared cultural background) 
English (I passed my IELTS exam with 7.5 score back in 2016, and since 2017, August I have been studying in English. I suppose that I still need to work on my writing skills, nonetheless) 
Russian (I have studied Russian at school and university for a total period of 4 years, and worked on my Russian independently, as well. Interestingly, the number of Azerbaijani youngsters with fluent Russian gets lessened nowadays) 
Swedish (I am studying in Lund, Sweden since August 2017, yet couldn't secure a spot for myself in the municipality's free language course for foreigners, because of the large number of applications stemming from high migration flows. Notwithstanding, I am trying to learn it independently) 
Persian and 
Arabic languages, I can understand some words/phrases/sentences in these languages.
Turkmen, 
Kazakh and 
Uzbek languages, as well, on the account of linguistical similarities with Azerbaijani. 
Japanese and 
Hebrew languages, despite giving up eventually. The reason is not that I didn't have any interest nor the languages were difficult, rather I love to discover many languages/cultures to a great extent that I can't stuck into learning a language at one time. I have downloaded an app teaching ![](https://i.imgur.com/kPhzX0o.jpeg")
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Chamorro - it's actually a required language to learn in Guamanian schools, why only does half of the population of guam know the language, I have no clue, but I really hope that doesn't mean it'll be dead one day, I can probably hold on a full conversation in Chamorro but I'd still struggle a bit.
American Sign Language - idk why I just find it interesting so I took it for my 1st year of high school and it's actually quite easier to learn than I thought it was.
Samoan - My family are constantly trying to teach me Samoan lol it's actually a very beautiful language and its soooo easy to learn, like if you're interested in learning a Oceanic language I would 100% recommend Samoan
Arabic
Swahili
Mandarin Chinese, 
Thai, 