Foreign Language Study

[Jaxb]

Just out of curiosity, which foreign languages have you studied? Did you obtain a high level of proficiency in any of them? I took two years of Spanish in high school and two years of Japanese in college. I had a civilian job at an air force base and I studied biblical Greek with the chaplain. We went through the book Fundamental Greek Grammar by Voelz. I also studied some French on my own.

[Jedidiah]

I took a couple years of Spanish in high school, and could bumble through in a visit to Mexico years ago. Never proficient, lost most of what I had at that time. Did a semester of French and began a semester of German. Never had any degree of proficiency in either.

[Truthseeker]

Dictionary German.

[robrecht]

I learned French while living in Montreal and Paris, learned German living in Cologne and Würzburg, learned Dutch living in Belgium. Started learning Greek in college, continued it in graduate school, along with Hebrew, Aramaic, Moabitic (basically Hebrew in an older alphabet), and a little Latin. Can read some Spanish and Italian but not speak them.

[Jaxb]

I took a couple years of Spanish in high school, and could bumble through in a visit to Mexico years ago. Never proficient, lost most of what I had at that time. Did a semester of French and began a semester of German. Never had any degree of proficiency in either.

I lost most of what I learned as well.

[fm93]

Just out of curiosity, which foreign languages have you studied? Did you obtain a high level of proficiency in any of them? I took two years of Spanish in high school and two years of Japanese in college. I had a civilian job at an air force base and I studied biblical Greek with the chaplain. We went through the book Fundamental Greek Grammar by Voelz. I also studied some French on my own.

I've studied Spanish and Chinese. I can maintain some simple conversations in Chinese, although no native speaker would mistake me for a fellow native speaker. I used to be able to maintain simple conversations in Spanish, but my command of that language is too rusty now.

[KingsGambit]

I studied a couple of years of French in high school and college; mainly because I wanted to be different from everybody else taking Spanish. I showed an aptitude for it but without any reason to use it I've lost almost all of it.

In a perfect world I'd learn Koine Greek.

[JonathanL]

In a perfect world I'd learn Koine Greek.

Does that mean we can blame you for this being an imperfect world?