Fluff: If you could speak 4 languages, which ones?

English is my native language.  I took French in high school and college (3 years) but never was anywhere near fluent.  We have lived in two French speaking countries which helped more than any lessons did.  So the first of my 3 extra languages would be French, followed by German and Italian.  

Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish and French. No more for me. I have enough!

I can speak French pretty well, more than just travel French but not quite fluent. I used to be fluent when I lived in Africa, but of course that's a bit rusty now.  I would like to improve my writing ability, because you can get by without accents when you speak French... but when you write it the lack of accents is a spelling error.

So I'd say French as number one because there is a lot of improvement that I could make.

Spanish would be next because so many people speak Spanish in this country. And I'd say that I know the equivalent of about one year of Spanish study. I'd love to be fluent, or at least have the level that I have in French.

Arabic would be third, because so many people around the world speak it. I came back from Israel determined to learn some Arabic but all I've managed to teach myself is vocabulary. I'd need a teacher to learn more than that.

I speak a few languages. I would like to speak English, French so I could talk with all my relatives, Spanish, and Manadarin

I will be honest...I giggled when I read this part.  Arabic speakers are SOOO loud.  Many of the sounds are spoken from the throat, is the best way I can describe it.  I would describe myself as clumsily fluent.  I have A LOT of vocabulary, but meshing the sentences together are still difficult for me.  Arabic has masculine and feminine tenses as well as having different words for if something is singular or plural.  Also, there are maybe four or five sounds that you use in Arabic that do not exist in English.  

My first language is English, but I can speak Arabic.  French...I cannot speak it very well at all, but I understand what I hear and can read it reasonably well.  

I understand some Spanish.  I don't speak very much, but can understand somewhat if the person speaks slolwy.

I do wish that I could speak French very well, but if trying to remember the verb tenses don't do me in, the pronunciation DEFINITELY will.

Other than my native tongue English I took Latin in HS and French in HS and college. Obviously Latin is out but I would definitely want to improve my French. I’d also take Spanish and something impractical like Gaelic because I think it’s a beautiful spoken language. I was reading an article last week about how Covid has killed a large number of people who spoke Cherokee and that the language is in danger of dying out. Someone’s developed a program link to try to educate people and preserve it. If I had the opportunity, I think I’d like to learn Cherokee.

My grandparents both spoke Slovak & Polish. My mom only a little. I wish they had taught us both but immigrants didn’t want their kids to speak non-English.

I took 4 years of Spanish in hs. My teacher was from Spain so I learned that Spanish rather than Latin American. I can understand words but not as much as I used to.
I made all my kids take Spanish in hs because there are a lot of Hispanic people here. DD #2 is an English teacher at a hs with a large Hispanic population. She busts them all the time because they forget she understands them.

So I’d like to be better at Spanish & speak Slovak, Italian and Mandarin.

I took Latin and French at high school and was pretty hopeless at both - however I did enjoy the Latin and found it interesting.

So my list:-
Latin
Maori
Russian

Latin and Maori are for interest only (Maori is an official language here and is becoming more widely spoken among the Maori people, and I thin’ it would be interesting, as a pakeha (non-Maori) to study it.
Russian because I have always been fascinated by Russia.

I wish I had more of an aptitude for languages. I will never forget the cruise director on the cruise of the Greek Isles I did decades ago. She did the opening welcome address in seven different languages, fluently. I was blown away!

The languages I would choose:

Woi wurrung (the traditional language of the Wurundjeri people, traditional owners of the land in Melbourne)

Italian - I learnt it for 7 years and would love to go back to it.

Spanish - I work with lots of South American people, mainly from Peru and Colombia, and they’re probably sick of me speaking Italian to them hahaha. It’s similar so at least they have a rough idea what I am saying.

Vietnamese - love the country, love the food, love the people. And we have a big Vietnamese community here.

I took 3 years of High School Spanish and 2 years of high school Japanese. In college. I took Spanish and French.

I still understand some Spanish and can often figure out some Italian because of that.

I think I would want to master Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin. Or French. Idk lol

Italian, French, German and Spanish

Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Gaelic

These. I took French in high school but remember only a little.  I've picked up a tiny bit of Spanish teaching English Language Learners from Mexico but I understand a lot more than I can speak. 

If one of those comes off because we count English as 1, then I would drop Japanese. Or maybe French.  Spanish and Mandarin for sure I would keep. 

ASL would be #1.

French would be #2.

Not sure on the other two. Or one? I was thinking 4 in addition to english.