I love that Chinese/Japanese is bundled together in the poll. Other than sharing bits of writing, in terms of the spoken language, the two are actually nothing alike. It's like someone who goes: Oh cool English & French share bits of vocab, lets lump them together 

pitagor wrote:

I'm not fluent in English, just what I learned in school (I started with English-lessons 2 years ago...)
 

2 years ago? Then you're quick at learning languages, hm? I started learning french three years ago and I would die in a french speaking forum.
 

pitagor wrote:

My english is quite bad, and I don't write good marks at school in English-with lenguages I am not really good, not at all! :-) 
Ohw. French... I'm studying it since... 5 or 6 years. And I'm still very bad in it... I don't like the Lenguage, dunno why... :-) Well English is a wonderful one, but I make too much mistakes while talking/writing it, and that's the reason why I am not a great writer in here. In fact it's my only, English-board and I'm ashamed of all the mistakes of mine... :-o 

But that's the good thing about it - you learn a lot in an english speaking forum and you can improve your skills.
My english lessons are really boring and less useful. In my case, I learn languages faster by reading, watching movies etc. So do not lose your motivation! 
 

haha funny poll :-) ok, my mother tongue is Czech /am I really the only one here?/ - and of course I understand Slovak then. and Polish. I have learned English since my childhood, then German and French at the basic school. I had to learn Latin for some exams, but those times are luckily over :-) and now I´m working with tourists sometimes so I have to get some basics in Spanish and Italian. and there we are - expressing our minds about Sherlock in foreign languages, and that it is what makes us happy 

Swedish is my mother tounge and been learning English in school since I was 7. I've started to learn French this year but I'm quite bad at it actually xD

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I wouldn't want to communicate here in Latin, either :-) it'a kind of nightmare! B-)

I'm also not sure that Latin really has the language to cover a lot of what gets talked about here. What would be the gerund form of navis, for example? ;-)

Mrs.Wenceslas wrote:

haha funny poll :-) ok, my mother tongue is Czech /am I really the only one here?/ - and of course I understand Slovak then. and Polish. I have learned English since my childhood, then German and French at the basic school. I had to learn Latin for some exams, but those times are luckily over :-) and now I´m working with tourists sometimes so I have to get some basics in Spanish and Italian. and there we are - expressing our minds about Sherlock in foreign languages, and that it is what makes us happy 

 
My father's side was Slovak (although we oftens said Czech, I suppose because it was one country for a while), and my mother's was Polish. Although both were born in the US and grew up speaking English, sometimes my mother would speak to my father in Polish (so we wouldn't understand as little kids), and then he would answer her in English. Mostly we picked up odds and ends, and, of course, a few swear words! 

My own studies went to the Romance languages -- mainly Spanish and Portuguese, with a little French, Italian, and Catalan. I only took a little Latin, but I loved it (language geek, I know). But I could not keep up on this forum in any of those languages the way you all do in English.

veecee wrote:

Mrs.Wenceslas wrote:

haha funny poll :-) ok, my mother tongue is Czech /am I really the only one here?/ - and of course I understand Slovak then. and Polish. I have learned English since my childhood, then German and French at the basic school. I had to learn Latin for some exams, but those times are luckily over :-) and now I´m working with tourists sometimes so I have to get some basics in Spanish and Italian. and there we are - expressing our minds about Sherlock in foreign languages, and that it is what makes us happy 

 
My father's side was Slovak (although we oftens said Czech, I suppose because it was one country for a while), and my mother's was Polish. Although both were born in the US and grew up speaking English, sometimes my mother would speak to my father in Polish (so we wouldn't understand as little kids), and then he would answer her in English. Mostly we picked up odds and ends, and, of course, a few swear words! 

My own studies went to the Romance languages -- mainly Spanish and Portuguese, with a little French, Italian, and Catalan. I only took a little Latin, but I loved it (language geek, I know). But I could not keep up on this forum in any of those languages the way you all do in English.

interesting! were you searching for your roots here in Central Europe?
 

Other = None?