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My first language is Dutch.
Speak 4 languages though,
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My first language is Kannada.
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English is my second language. I tried hard to learn it but I’m loosing the battle due to ageing. My first language is Chinese.
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Your English seems fine.
To me you have won that battle.
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Which languages do you speak?
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Thanks for your encouragement. You are so kind.
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Dutch, French, English and Spanish.
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Ok, cool!
I speak Finnish, Swedish, English and a tiny bit Arabic.
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inshallah Seems to be the most popular Arabic word I hear around here.
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I would love to be able to speak Mandarin or Japanese. But I don’t have the discipline to learn any language. I’m just too lazy.
Also I’m getting too old. It’s harder to learn new languages as we age.
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I know people who have studied sinology at university and don’t speak fluently Mandarin. And that is after 4 years of full-time study!
Took me even a couple of years to have a good level of Spanish.
Dutch, French and English are thought in school in Belgium.
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We could choose either French, German, Spanish in school. I chose German but I at that time I started skipping school.
These days you can also choose Mandarin in some parts of Sweden.
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Here you start in elementary school with French and in secondary school English. It’s compulsory.
If you study languages you also get Spanish and German, but I studied Mathematics in High School.
I do can say some sentences in German and understand it somewhat, but I can’t engage in a conversation so I don’t count that one.
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English is the only language that I can speak and write fluently. I took 4 years of spanish though.
Unless you count the language of love… 
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Wow, you must be very intelligent and disciplined. I sucked at math. I hated school because my peers treated me like sh-it and I was a sleep apnea sufferer. I was always terribly tired in school. Couldn’t focus at all.
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Pre-sz I was good in Math, Statististics etc. I studied Math in High School and did Economics at Uni.
Now I’m not interested in those fields anymore, but am happy they took me in a short career that payed for a trip around the world 
Now I’m interested in the body mind with a bit of Spanish in the mix.
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I’m always surprised when I met Americans who sometimes had several years of study of a language in school but can’t hold a conversation in that language.
I think language teaching is up for improvement in a lot of US schools.
That being said the Mormon missionaries who are often from Utah are fluent!
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We have a lot of economists in Sweden. It’s a very popular education because the pay is good.
I loved biology. But there are no jobs after you get your degree. Otherwise I would read biology at University.
I find medicine being interesting too. But those are for straight A students and as I said I suck at math.
It’s cool that you changed your path in life. Having a more holistic approach.
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I actually noticed I mistyped. I had 2 years of spanish, I believe. One of my sisters had 4 though I believe and still couldnt speak fluently.
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