Let's have a Language thread!

[ReloadPsi]

I speak English (that's a given) French (fairly fluently, more on that later) and German (with obvious signs of rust) and can more or less read the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, but can't speak any of the languages that use them. That in mind though, I usually have fun pointing out things like that one film being called The Cherpobyl Diaries (the used the upper-case Pi instead of an N, so it says Cherpobyl, not Chernobyl) as it's always gotten on my nerves when people use Greek/Cyrillic letters that look similar to Roman ones that are pronounced entirely differently. I dunno, I just find it stupid.

I've had some on-and-off efforts to learn Japanese, but due to a major crippling weakness I've always had in my language learning, I'm determined not to learn to read it until I've gotten plenty of experience hearing it and speaking it. See the problem I have with French and German is that I cannot understand them being spoken out loud; I even struggled with spoken English until I was about seven years old. Despite speaking them with varying degrees of fluency, and despite being able to understand and translate them perfectly well when they're written, the foreign languages I CAN speak become complete gibberish when spoken to me. I have absolutely no idea why this is, and as such have never been able to get over that wall :/ My approach to Japanese may not necessarily fix that, but still...

That said, I'm told I can hide my English accent very well when I speak French, so that's a plus.

I'm obviously fluent in Swedish, but I consider myself almost as fluent in English thanks to the fact that we are taught English from like first grade in Sweden and then are constantly bombarded by it in various media.
In fact I frequently find myself actually forgetting that I'm even listening to a foreign language.

Ooh, jealous of you! I would love to be able to have that level of familiarity with a foreign language! I get it somewhat when reading French (like where I understand the words in front of me to the point of not needing to translate in my head) but that's as far as it goes.