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If yes, how easy were they for you to learn? Do you have any favourites? Any recommended apps/resources?

I'm currently learning Japanese. It's my first time learning a language and the progression from "what is that, where are my notes" to "oh I can just read/write that now" is just so rewarding and satisfying. I'd love to learn more languages if I can.

Well? No. But I can watch a Nick Jr show in Spanish and mostly follow along. Learned from Duolingo and coworkers.

I wish. I've taken years of Spanish and I still struggle to have a basic conversation. I really wish languages came easy to me.

This is also me!

I can definitely read and understand better than I can speak.

I did have better luck picking up American sign language. I think having something visual I can recall is what made the difference for me.

No and that saddens me.

I used to speak broken Spanish (meaning when I was in Spain I couod converse in very simple ways with locals but it was not great. My understanding both vocal and written has always been better.) but it has been years since I used it and it is lost except for random vocabulary.

Currently I am trying to brush up on basic French (I learned it eons ago in High School) and again, I know vocab but can barely use it properly with grammar in a sentence.

My memory and retention is kind of shot so it is not going well.

Nope. Took Spanish and Italian in schools but I can only manage a few phrases here or there. And I guess I can pronounce words better than nonspeakers, though nowhere near as good as a native speaker.

Tried some Japanese self-study and made better progress than when I was learning other languages in school. Unfortunately, life got in the way and I stopped and lost most of what I learned, and haven't picked it back up.

Yes, and they were hard to learn, but it feels great when I notice I've improved. It's a little bit easier with multiple languages, I find, because I can compare and understand how they work a little bit better. When I only spoke English and I came across a concept that English doesn't have it was a steeper learning curve.

One thing I really wish is that people wouldn't think that they don't have a "talent" for languages and that it's not worth trying, because it is difficult for everyone, so no one should get discouraged or feel bad about themselves. It just takes a lot of time.

I’m bilingual and English is my second language. I learned it when I was really little and don’t remember the specifics, but my mom said I learned it through Sesame Street. I took four years of French in high school and it was difficult, but fun because I love how French sounds. I understand it better when I read it, but can’t speak more than a handful of phrases and can’t really understand it when it’s spoken. I like to watch stuff dubbed in French so I don’t completely forget it.

I speak my own language and then I learned English in school.

I've taken lots of aptitude tests that all said I was supposed to be really good at learning languages. I didn't do well in any foreign language classes I took.

Speak, no, but I used to be quite good at reading Latin and I could probably pick it up again if I put time into it.

Yes. My language, English, German (a bit I am quite shit at it). Sadly it's been difficult learning anything lately and I don't enjoy apps

Yes. I speak and read Russian, Spanish, and English. My advice is to keep on trying, because a lot of people try one language and then find out it is too hard or doesn't click, and give up. I tried French in High School and it never clicked, I still can't speak it, same with German and Farsi. They just didn't click with me. I kept on sampling languages until something did though.

Yes, my native language, English and a bit of Spanish. Spanish was easy to learn because it's a Romance language like my native one and I only had to learn a few new phones but lack of practice means I can read it well now but hardly speak it. English was also easy to learn because I found it so much simpler than my own language but it has many more new phones that took a longer time to get right.

As for resources, I think it depends on what you want to learn and how. I like learning about grammar for example so resources which focus on learning phrases aren't really my thing.

I'm bilingual. I speak English better than my native language. I've been learning English since I was a baby I'm much better at English. I can read and write English but not my native language.

I can speak my native language decent, I've gotten better after a few years of speaking it daily at home and at work, but I still get things messed up. Emphasizing tone in the wrong places, mixing up past/present tense, speaking words out of turn, etc.

I was decent with Spanish when I was 13/14 (could watch things in Spanish and understand enough not to need subtitles) but my family's xenophobia at home made me stop watching/listening to media in Spanish. When I tried relearning it in high school, my new teachers weren't as effective as my middle school teacher so I never tried to pick up Spanish again.

I'm bilingual in my native language and English. Plus I'm fluent in Japanese (C2) and a semi beginner level (B1) in Russian.
I also understand simple Spanish and I've learned (but almost completely forgotten now) a bit of esperanto for fun.

Me being bilingual in English is not because I was raised as such but because of the internet. I really got around learning it when I was around uuuuh 15-16 years old? could understand almost all kind of text around 20 years old (I have higher text comprehension that the average native English speaker now) and became confident in talking with native people from all around the globe and listening to podcast etc without subtitles around 23.
This all without really studying English. I was just reading books/fanfictions and watching TV shows and wasting time on the internet.

I hate the saying that you can only become a real bilingual if you start when you're young. That's bullshit. What you need to learn languages is PASSION. And not only passion for the language itself, but passion for something else you do/learn using that language.
For the vast majority of people, learning a language just for the language's sake is a recipe for procrastination and "failure" (IMHO even knowing simple words and nothing else is cool, but you know, for argument's sake let's call it failure to meet higher fluency levels).

Anyway. I studied Japanese at university and lived in Japan for 5 years. While I never really applied myself in English, I studied Japanese very hard. I think I reached B2 in uuuh... 3 years? And then C2 in 7 years of studying + staying there. Now after 13 of being graduated and now living outside Japan, I need to study kanji and words almost every single day because the vocabulary is immense and I keep forgetting stuff. I have very bad memory so it's kind of annoying. :/
Still, Japanese is possibly my favourite language in the world. It's just needlessly complicated yet fascinating. I love kanji with all my heart and the phonetic are NNNNGH

BTW I'm not very intelligent and have problems with memory retention due to "ill brain stuff lol" and I can say that learning a language is something that ANYONE can do with the right incentives and methods. It's just repeating the same stuff everyday for years until it stick... The majority of humans know at least two languages and it's such a shame that English native speakers don't really have the need to speak/write anything but one.
When you learn words and thus customs different form your own it really enriches you like nothing else, imho.

I hope you'll have a great time with Japanese! It's so much fun learning to write kanji! Very relaxing, too. :)))
Just take it easy. My recommendation is that if you can, push yourself to learn and average of at least 3 new words any single day. In a year it will be more than 1000 words! And if you have time and energy to do better, do it! Just have fun and don't take it too seriously.
Oh and write hiragana/katakana/kanji by hand!!! It'll be easier to memorize the words and you can treat it as passive exercise, too. (beck when I was in university I watched Merlin while filling PAGES with kanji exercise to train my hand)

Duolingo sends out squadrons of green hench owls just to spite me!

Don't ask me about how many virtual keyboards I have installed just to overcompensate!

I signed up for Latin classes a few days ago.

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