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What language do you wish you could speak (and/or read)? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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I wish I could speak Finnish. But, actually, there are tons of languages I wish I could speak. All of them, really, but Finnish is the first one I thought of just now.

I'm in the US and English is my my primary language. I studied Russian but have forgotten a lot of it. I know a few words of German and French, but very few.

Edited to add: Please tell me what your primary language is. It would also be interesting to know what other languages you speak, if any, and where you currently live.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pitkä ja kivinen tie. 😁

I'm Finnish and besides the school English and Swedish I've been learning a tiny bit of Italian, Spanish, Latin, and enough Russian and Greek to be able to read names and other little things, slowly.

Japanese I can't get any sort of grip on. So maybe something like that. A completely alien language. No! A properly alien language. Klingon. Or Sindarin. Or Lojban. I'm going to go with Lojban. That might not be totally alien, but it might be the language I'd like totally fluency in just to know what it's like.