Have you considered or are you currently learning another language? If so, what language or languages and why? How many languages do you already speak and how fluent are you? I've been tinkering around with a few languages lately, but I seem to have a hard time thinking outside of English. Currently, I'm attempting to Learn Japanese for no particular reason other than I like the way it sounds and I'm fascinated with other languages.

I'm currently taking Spanish in school, since it is mandatory for Sophomores. Luckily, I passed the first part of it and am currently in the 2nd and hopefully final part of it. I hate it so much ha.

Also, I'm reading the title of this thread and am like "There's no way Polyglot is a real word it sounds so stupid."

I currently speak English, Spanish and Catalan. The latter is almost region-exclusive, but still considered an official language and not a dialect, so yeah.

I'm currently on a Japanese learning course in this site, and I'm also considering entering other courses in real life, mainly for German and French, and that way I'll cover the main languages.

I may leave open room for other languages in the future, since I have such an easy time learning them and they're always useful. Not sure what else I could add, my initial choices are Chinese and Russian but time will say.

I tried learning Spanish throughout grade school, but I could never get the hang of it. 
I would like to learn a little bit of Japanese for when I eventually go. But, I need to start learning the basics of the language spoke in India, as my friend is taking me this summer. 

Eh I'm kinda learning swedish casually but I don't know enough to be considered bilingual or anything like that. I will eventually though, just in due time I guess.

Lexatom : I've thought about looking into Spanish. I shouldn't have any trouble pronouncing and reading it due to being around it a lot in Nashville when I was younger, but I don't know anything about the grammar and learning to spell it might be a little tough for me.

On the word "polyglot", it's as they say: "When they're not invading your privacy, stealing your info and running a world wide, partial monopoly on technoledgy, Google, or you're preference of internet search engine, is your friend." Or something like that.

"Polyglot", as defined by The Free Dictionary.

EX Palen : I actually hadn't heard of Catalan until a few months ago, which is when I also learned that there was more than one official language in Spain. Not know much about Spanish, it's hard for me to tell. Are there great differences between Spanish and Catalan? Spelling seems to vary slightly, in what I've seen, but that's all I can tell. Also, as a side question, how much difference is there between Spanish and the variety of Spanish spoken in Latin America?

thing1 : Well, there are actually a whole lot of languages spoken in India. I don't know much about it, but I would imagine that each region has a dominant language. Among those languages are Hindi and Tamil. Hindi uses Devanagari script and Tamil uses... well, Tamil script.

Keep in mind that English is also an official language of India, so you may want to do some research to see if you even need to learn a new language for a trip there.

I'm bilingual and have been since late middle school as Swedish is my native language and naturally encountering English in video games, in general through using the internet and watching TV. Because of that I've always been surrounded by the language and was therefore able to pick it up at an early age. It helps that everyone in my close family are all fluent to some degree with my mom even having lived in Northern Ireland when she was younger (which says a lot since Sweden is already pretty advanced in terms of English literacy compared to most non English speaking countries).

I'm also taking two other languages but I wouldn't say I'm even near fluent in either. I've been taking French since 6th grade meaning about five and a half years now. It's mainly because here in Sweden everyone takes a foreign language aside from English starting grade 6. Usually the choice is between Spanish, German and French. I wanted  to take German but the school I attended at the time didn't have it due to lack of interest in the past so I ended up going with French. My reading and listening comprehension is fairly decent but I'm pretty lacking when it comes to actually communicating as I still need to look up most grammar rules. I'm just a bit above a passing grade.

I don't really like it much, the main reason I'm continuing to take it is that I get a lot of extra credit added to my average as long as I can pass it and because I want to prove to my teacher that I can do it. So after this upcoming term I won't need to take it anymore. The only other reason is that I've still learned a fair bit at this point so not using the knowledge I have would seem wasteful. I've more or less given up at becoming fluent in it though.

Other than that I've been taking Japanese since the last term and am doing very well in it so far likely because I have more of a genuine interest in it. Though my knowledge is still fairly basic. I've always been interested in learning it particularly because of the culture  and history of Japan which I've read a lot about and enjoying a lot of Japanese entertainment products. Right now I mostly know Hiragana and Katakana (sometimes I need to refresh my memory) and can basically introduce myself and say basic phrases. I'm only now getting to the part I'm learning different verbs in present tense. I hope to do an exchange year in Japan during my university time though and at least reach an intermediate level as in being able to get around on my own in Japan and hold conversations.

I would also like to learn Arabic at some point for a few different reasons. Mainly the fact that it's a pretty useful language to know where I live (as many Arabic speaking immigrants live here) and it would allow me to learn more about the middle east. I'm biologically half Egyptian myself so it feels like I should at some point.

m0ssb3rg935 : Spanish and Catalan are incredibly different: spelling, writing, accent marks... You may find words or expressions which aren't quite different, but overall both languages are nearly opposites.

I think that Catalan is closer to French rather than Spanish, judging by what I know of all three languages, but it may be just a subjective opinion. However, since there's a region in France where Catalan is spoken (North Catalonia, as some like to call it) it could perfectly be the result of language evolution, given how distant we've always been from Spain.

About Latin Spanish, the differences are just slight. Some words that mean different things, sometimes even different pronouns that Peninsular Spanish has deemed obsolete over the years, but that's just it. I can only talk in general terms because each country in Latin America uses a different dialect, but still I haven't heard of great differences.

I've always thought that being bilingual, or better yet, multilingual, would be really awesome for so many reasons — and yes, I love learning things, so that adds to my reasoning for it.

Currently I'm learning Japanese, and I figure I'll spend at least a couple of years on that since I don't just want conversational fluency, but to also be on an at least adult level of reading and writing. I doubt I can achieve that in just two years, but it'll be a big jump at least. I mean it takes Japanese students all of the way through high school to learn enough Kanji to be "adult level", so if I can even cover a third of it in two years, that's a nice start.


After Japanese I'd like to learn another language, but which, I'm not sure. Part of me says Irish (or Gaelic, whichever you wish to call it), but it's a purely superficial language to learn since even the people I've met that live in Ireland not only speak English, but also don't understand even basic Irish/Gaelic. And yeah, frankly I don't want to spend years learning a language that I will literally never use (because who would I speak it to?) just so I can say I know it.

So yeah I'll probably look into either Spanish or Ancient Hebrew or Greek (if I can even find a course for those). Who knows what I'll want to learn in two years?

Oh and on a side note: after studying a bit of Japanese, I now finally believe what they say about English — it really is one of the hardest languages to learn, for so many reasons.

My native language is English,
and I've just taken three semester classes of French.

I'm interested in learning more languages, but I never get around to using Duolingo. XD

Eirinn : I wouldn't say that. English is definitely not the easiest language to learn due to all the weird rules that most people don't think about. However it's still relatively easy for someone who knows a language based on the roman alphabet and has A LOT more resources available to help ease the learning process which I think is the most important part. Finnish is usually regarded as the hardest language to learn that uses the roman alphabet because it's so different from most others, has very complex grammar, relies a lot on using different inflections and differs a ton in written and spoken form.

I would say the hardest language to learn is Arabic. Aside from it being one of the languages that's harder to actually find good resources for especially with all the controversy that surrounds it in the first place. There are so many different dialects meaning that even if you manage to learn standard Arabic you'll still have trouble understanding other people because of the dialect they use. The writing system is much harder than Japanese because it has many sounds that are very difficult for an English speaker to learn to pronounce . The vocabulary is also huge compared to most languages which coupled with the fact that all nouns and adjectives have an assigned gender makes it a very hard language to become advanced at let alone learn to the point of having a basic understanding.

Eirinn : You should be able to find some resources for learning ancient Hebrew or Greek. I would think there's a good amount of interest for learning those because of bible study and history associated with. There's a course on Duolingo for Greek, but it's currently in beta and it's probably more focused on modern Greek, as opposed to biblical Greek. I'm uncertain about Hebrew, though. If there is, it's also most likely focused on the modern language.

Also, fun facts about English that I've only recently learned: it's one of the few languages of the world that use the "th" sound and we also have an adjective order. I've been using it for a long time and didn't even know it.

Edward Dylon : I looked a little into French and the grammar seems simple enough, but pronunciation, spelling and building a vocabulary threw me off pretty hard. I've used Duolingo to learn a little about Esperanto and I know someone that's using it to learn French and Russian. It's really good for learning the basics, but I went in thinking I could come out fluent and that's far from the case. It's more of an aid or primer. Doesn't do a lot in the way of teaching a useful vocabulary.

Zlinqx : Funny how a somewhat common practice for speakers of a dialect of Arabic resort to trying to communicate using their knowledge of the historical language. I imagine that it would be a little like Spanish and Italians trying to speak to each other in Latin.

French is my first language, and I've mastered English at quite a young age thanks to TV and video games (I love RPGs, which require a lot of reading). In high school I had two full years of Spanish (and also a class in college), which proved to be useful with my in-laws, many of which only understand the language.

Furthermore, because of "Latin affinities" I can generally make sense of Italian when I read it.