With having so many people from different places all around the world on here, I was wondering what languages you all know.
What’s your first language, what did you learn in school, what have you always wanted to know?
For myself, German is my first language, and I learned English and French in school. My English has been massively improved with immersion online and by reading and watching things in the language. My French is quite good too because I did a semester abroad when I was sixteen and I can understand nearly everything even though my grammar and spelling is atrocious
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First and primary language is English. Took a year or two of Spanish in highschool, but remember very little of it.
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My first language is English, and I’m trying to learn French, but I’m really struggling with tenses.
Maybe one day I’ll be fluent.
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My first language is English and German is my best second language though I am not very conversational in it. I learned French in school though I remember little of it now, and I know basics in Japanese, Welsh, and Norwegian Bokmål too.
I would love to get my German up to a better standard, and I think it would be useful to learn Spanish also
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My first language is Mandarin. Can’t speak any dialect of Chinese 
I learned English in school, and it’s like the only subject that I was good at. I can also understand quite a bit Japanese. I’m able to read novels (very slowly), listen to news (and understand 70% or so), amd watch anime (without any difficulty!). Well, I learned nearly all of it by watching Doraemon, Detective Conan and One Piece etc. Can’t speak it without sounding like an anime character, though. 
I can read some basic Spanish. Really basic. It took me too long to find materials that I can absorb and I keep forget to study it because my mental health condition has been… trying.
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Oh, and I’ve been meaning to learn Russian since one of my best friends is, but I kind of stopped practising when I started studying, so all I know is how to read the letters and like five phrases
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First language - Russian.
I speak English fluently and currently have a B2 German. Slowly learning. I personally think that I’m not the best, but everyone says I’m doing a good job 
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First languages Swedish and Finnish. I have grown up speaking both languages, Swedish with my father and Finnish with my mother. I have attended all my schools in Swedish and most of my friends speak Swedish as well.
I started learning English in third grade and consider it my second language since I pretty much use it daily these days.
I have relatives in Germany and have studied German for many years at school, but since I rarely use it I am very rusty. I understand written German pretty well, and I can speak some of it too, at least so that I can get through basic social situations.
I started learning French at university, but never had the motivation to learn it properly and failed the course. I know a few words.
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French tenses are really weird. In school we used to joke that whoever made them up was drunk at the time.
But eventually you do get a feel for them and their implicit rules, and for what you really need to know, so keep at it 
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Learning German as a secondary/later language is really hard, so I’m sure you are doing great!
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English is my first language.
I could speak a little Russian in my pre-teen years, and a little Serbian. They are all gone now. The odd word I will recognise in spoken, but it’s few and far between.
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Thank you very much! I’m still not great in reading in German or watching films in German, but I do occasionally understand German memes
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English is my first language.
At school I took French, German, and Latin 
I’m just really bad at remembering everything though so I only know a few words and really can’t do anything useful with them at all.
I am really amazed by people who learn lots of languages. I just don’t think I have the right kind of brain for it!
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which is obviously much more important 
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English is my first - and only - language and the members of this forum shame me daily with the fact they all speak multiple languages with English rarely being their first. Writing posts in anything other than my first language is impossible so I honestly am jealous of so many of you.
I learnt German for GCSE and I was pretty good but I haven’t used it since holidaying in Austria with my family.
My wife is pretty good at Latin and my eldest is doing it for GCSE. They dropped French as soon as they could but weren’t too bad at German. My youngest learns French at school but does find it tricky.
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That’s one of the reasons I never learned French; I found it a bit too complicated and didn’t have the patience to learn the grammar.
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Danish is my first language.
Started English in 4th grade when I was about 9. (English starts in 1st grade now)
Started German in 7th grade and had that for 5 years, but it is a bit rusty since I rarely use it.
And I have a 57 day streak in Swedish on Duolingo 
(My youngest sister and her family live in Sweden, and while there are plenty of words that are similar between Danish and Swedish there are some differences, so it helps a bit 
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How anyone can speak and understand Danish is beyond me - it sounds like someone was drunk and tried to speak while having a hot potato in their mouth!
And I’ve never understood the strange and needlessly convoluted way the Danish like to count - I’m rubbish at maths, and I would be even worse at Danish maths!
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What? Danish people being drunk? The very idea 
The counting thing is needlessly exaggerated in memes and the like. It really is just memorising the name of the different “tens”, and when counting, after 20 you say the “one” before the “ten” (like in German).
It seems like the French way of counting is much more convoluted 
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