be fluent in 3 languages
Maybe someday... 3 years ago

Actually i’d like to be fluent in as many languages as possible, but 3 is a good start.

Actually this is more or less a goal not to be lazy and just practice languages more as in addition to my native tongue Finnish i do speak at least some English, Russian and Swedish. Maybe someday i’ll be fluent in all of them.

One good thing about knowing several languages is the fact that it helps understanding languages that you don’t know. For example through Swedish and English I can understand at least some German (not much though) and through Russian some words of other Slavic languages. And of course Swedish helps me understand Danish and Norwegian too.

I’ve also studied some other languages, but have forgotten almost everything about them. Among those are French, Spanish and Arabic. Maybe someday i’ll try learn those again. Or maybe i’ll start to learn a new language someday. I’ve thought a lot about learning Estonian, which shouldn’t be too hard as it’s quite closely related to Finnish (unlike most of other languages).



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My one-language world

As an American living in China and only speaking one language (well, at least), I wholeheartedly agree with this goal. I’ve met other foreigners here who have their own language, English and Chinese under their belts. My purpose for being here IS to learn the language so hopefully I can improve on my one-language world. I speak a little Japanese and actually got to use it last night, but I cannot read or write it, so I don’t think it counts.

The more languages you know, the more the world will open up for you!


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