[Oscar]

@ferdelance & @artemis1977

since both of you are insterested in improving your conversational French ; the francophone section of this forum has been created, let it begin :

https://wd.easytodo.in/dating-site-for-white-people-groups/learners-or-enthusiasts-of-european-languages/forum/topic/le-cafe-francais/

[FerDeLance]

Hello everyone!

It is so good to see others interested in languages. I have been fascinated by them my whole life and dabbled in so many. Luckily I grew up having an aunt who was an interpreter (ASL, Italian, French), who really spread the joy of language throughout my youth.

As for me, English is my mother tongue, but I grew up around French. Unfortunately, it faded as I got older (as did Italian from my Aunt), and my focus went elsewhere. As I got older, I fixated more on German and by my teens grew quite proficient. Then it faded as well without anyone really to communicate with. Later, I had a close Russian friend who taught me nearly daily and then that faded as our work took us apart. For work, it was important to be somewhat decent in Arabic/Pashto, but it really did not take like our European languages have in my mind.

Since then, I have been improving my French (slowly), and my German/Danish/Norwegian(Bokmål). I can’t declare fluency sadly, just for a lack of serious practice or someone to practice with. I hope that changes though, I learn rather quickly, but I guess it always goes really quickly for me as well.

Anyways, great to see others so interested! I look forward to reading other’s interests and successes in learning languages!

[Lorelai]

Hello there!

Your knowledge of languages is very impressive!

English is my mother tongue but I am currently brushing up on my intermediate level French. I can read French well (I enjoy the classic French literature of Du Maupassant and Zola, among others) but I want to improve my conversational French.

I also really want to add to my basic knowledge of German, in honour of my German ancestors. And to read Goethe in German is sort of a possibly impossible dream for me. 😉

I lived for a time in Spain and so have some Spanish and I find that language, for some reason, to be one I pick up on very quickly. Can I do all of these at once, I wonder?

At this point I am focusing on the French and next, the German.

[Anonymous]

Good evening to you all. I created this group last year and have not yet done much with it, but I see that it has grown by a few dozen members since I created it! I thank you all for joining and hope to be more active in the future.

As for my part in languages, I have studied Spanish since elementary school, and I can speak it conversationally and read it almost fluently. In addition, I have studied German since January of last year, and I have reached conversational proficiency and near-fluent reading abilities as well. Beyond those two, I can speak Italian and French conversationally, and I can write them fairly well, too. At the moment, I am working on learning all the concepts of Dutch and Polish. German and Polish have been the most difficult to learn because each one includes quite a few cases and advanced grammatical rules.

I would love to know what languages you all currently speak or have studied and what your proficiency level is! I truly find language as a whole fascinating, but I feel the most at home learning languages from all across Europe.

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