Languages - opportunities, choices, favorites?
How many languages do you speak?
Which languanges did you have a chance to pick at school - and why did you make those exact choices? In my time we only had the opportunity to choose between french and german.
I started learning french in 8th grade, but gave it up after one year because I thought the pronunciation was so difficult.
Then I moved on to german in high school. I found it easier than french, but still it was not something I really enjoyed. Today, 15 years later, I have forgotten almost all of it.
Now I am trying to learn spanish on my own using different learning materials, and I enjoy it a lot. I think this is the language for me!
Do you have any favorite language?
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portuguese, as dandi says, is a gorgeous language. the way it sounds always makes me think in the country's geography... vast and beautiful, with beaches and green mountains. greek is also one of my favorites since i listened to it since i was a child, but did not get to pick any because only my mother spoke and not at home. german... do i really have to say why? it's just terribly enchanting! how many languages i speak? fluently three, though rough-ly some 5 more. i love languages! wanting to learn? armenian. and russian are high on the list. go languages! more people to talk to! more possibilities!
I started with Spanish in middle school because it was available and continued on into high school. In high school I added French because I wanted more language ability, but dropped it because I had Spanish AP for first period and French II for second period, and I took my first French exam in that class in Spanish! In college, I took Italian. I've picked up a smattering of German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean from here and there.
Hey!
I speak English and Hebrew fluently, and am conversational in Portuguese and Spanish. I don't have a favorite, but I think French is really beautiful (I've just started learning it)
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Back in my school days I learned French and English and Dutch. When I started higher education I learned some Spanish.
My favourite language would be Spanish although I don't know it that well yet
I have been learning German autodidactically since eighth grade (well, that's only two years) and I can't imagine not speaking it. Who wouldn't love the language of poets and thinkers?
Anyway, I've been reading a lot of Italian literature (in English) lately and I would love to someday learn that.
I have ambitious goals of being a polyglot by the time I'm an adult.
Spanish is of course my favorite, yet it is the only one I know. 
I love the way Portuguese sounds and I hope to learn it one day.
German, Russian, French, Vietnamese...oh, I wish I could learn all the languages.
I'm a native (American) English speaker. In elementary school, we were exposed to some Spanish, but it wasn't optional. In high school, we got to choose whether to take a language or not, but the only language offered was French, so I took French. The language that is most natural to me is mathematics. . .and there is always music, but I've never approached it seriously.
