Если vouz like nyelveket, ここに hay grunnan برای 你们. Linguists welcome! There are only four of us here at the moment, but if you're into languages, maybe you can help us grow the group enough to get things going.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I speak 7 languages none fluently. English, french, german, Spanish, japanese, klingon, and ancient elven
LadyAlyxandrea
Level 8
Apr 23, 2018
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That's a good, broad selection. Taihen omoshiroi! And impressive - particularly the klingon and elven.
@David_Cooper I always get an urge to learn Mas idiomas and spend like 15 hours practicing before I forget lol. One day it was ehlven
It's good to explore many languages before deciding which ones to take further, and you can take them quite a long way in 15 hours. Some day I'll have to give klingon and elven a go to find out what I've been missing.
7 languages in varying degrees of fluency, but I'm certainly no linguist.
Isn't linguistics a type of pasta?
Разве лингвистика не макароны?
evidentialist
Level 8
Apr 23, 2018
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Ай доунт ноу, бат ыт саондз эз ыв ю куолыфай эз а лынгвыст.
@David_Cooper -- Ten large LOLs for that one.
Нет, я не лингвист. Эта транслитерация выглядит странно для меня.
Pishesh pa rooskee ee angleeskee - eta dastatochna yest' lingvist. (And if you can't be a linguist, you can always eat one.)
Ken men nutsn a Eydish redner?
Jnei
Level 8
Apr 23, 2018
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That doesn't look like any language I've encountered. Is it scrambled in some way?
Jnei:
@David_Cooper אפֿשר גרינגער שפּיץ דערקענען עס אין די עבֿרית טעקסט 
@Jnei -- עס איז שטענדיק גוט צו זען ייִדיש זייַענדיק געניצט
Jnei:
@evidentialist !מזל עמעצער געוואוסט וואָס עס איז געווען
@Jnei -- Zaide gave me some when I was very young and he always conducted the Seder in it. I get an odd thrill out of knowing it's still alive.
Jnei:
@evidentialist Glad we've gone back to English - I only have a very little. I hope it survives; not least of all because it's the greatest language in history for swear words
@Jnei -- It is definitely one of the most colorful when it comes to expressing emotional ideas, that's for sure.
Eydish - I'm surprised that I've never heard its real name before. Good to see that Google Translate is helping to encourage its survival.
Jnei:
@David_Cooper Yidische is far more common - but my bubbeh always used Eydish for the language and Yidische for the culture for some reason, so I do too!
I speak 5 of them..does that count?..English, Swedish, German, Norwegian and Danish..I'd love to add Italian and Latin..
Charlene
Level 9
Apr 23, 2018
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5 is plenty (and indeed, monolinguals are welcome here too - it's sufficient just to have an interest in languages). I think Italian would be a very good choice if you want to try something outside of Germanic, and Latin isn't isn't anything like as bad as its reputation, not least because you only really need to learn to understand it without the same pressure to learn to speak it.
@David_Cooper languages come easy to me..I find the evolution of spoken word /thought extemely interesting.
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