Language Introduction thread!

[ginger]

Hola! Tengo veinte años.

(Hello! I'm 20.)
I can only carry basic conversations in Spanish, so I'll stop there. I'm in my third year as a university student in the USA studying Chemical Engineering. I'm also working on my thesis in a Toxicology lab. Hence, I have a minuscule amount of time to spend on art, but reading SSSS inspires me to try anyway. This comic is utterly stunning!

Ah, welcome welcome, Liquinox! That's lovely that you're studying chemical engineering. STEM fields are super cool, and though I don't plan to go into one myself, mad props to you for being in such a cool field! ^^

I agree--the comic is very beautiful! And fortunately, this forum is full of loads of people who also agree. Please feel free to make yourself at home here. There are some other language threads here (I'm sure there must be one for Spanish, though I must admit that I haven't looked for that one in particular).

So glad to have you here!

[Jerzy_S]

Hi! I know I have introduced myself in the normal introduction thread already, but I really want to do it here as well, I hope you don't mind. So...

:uk:
My name is Jerzy (George in English; I wonder if you can pronounce it) and I'm 17 years old guy. I live in Cracow, Poland and I'm starting second year of liceum (more less something like High School) in few weeks. Later, if everything goes according to my plan, I will start studying veterinary medicine. I haven't got many hobbies, but I am very passionate about them. They are: reading, linguistics, biology, animals and tea (This might be addiction, not hobby, but who cares?)
It may also seem odd, but I really enjoy some simple gardening, like weeding and so on. It's really relaxing, at least for me. I also tend to have problems with making new friends or just joining new communities. That's all I've got to say in English.

Now I will disgrace myself with this miserable attempt of using German.
:germany:
Hallo! Ich heiße Jerzy und ich bin 17 Jahre Alt. Ich wohne in Krakau und besuche Liceum (Gymnasium im Deutsch). Ich will einen Tierarzt werden. Ich mag Linguistik, Tiere, Biologie und lese gern.

That was embarassing.

Now, finally... Polish.
:poland:
Cześć wszystkim! Mam na imię Jerzy, mam siedemnaście lat. Mieszkam w Krakowie, w Polsce, i chodzę do liceum. Za kilka tygodni zaczynam drugą klasę, profil biologiczno-chemiczny (mam nadzieję, że jakoś to przetrwam, obliczenia mnie dobijają). Później zamierzam pójść na weterynarię i skończyć specjalizację - zwierzęta egzotyczne. Zastanawiam się też czy nie pójść potem na polonistykę, tak dla przyjemności, ale raczej zrezygnuję z tego pomysłu.
Teraz parę słów bardziej o mnie. Zacznę od tego, że nie mam wielu zainteresowań, za to są one dla mnie bardzo ważne. Przede wszystkim jest to literatura, zwłaszcza fantastyka (tu ukłon w stronę Jacka Dukaja). Uwielbiam też poezję, w szczególności wiersze, które napisała Wisława Szymborska; mój ulubiony to ,,Nazajutrz, bez nas". Oprócz tego są to zwierzęta, biologia, językoznawstwo i herbata. Lubię też proste prace ogrodowe, są naprawdę odprężające, przynajmniej moim zdaniem.
Przyznam się też, że mam pewne kłopoty z zaprzyjaźnianiem się z nowymi ludźmi i wstępowaniem do różnych społeczności. Są to dla mnie naprawdę niezręczne chwilę. To by było na tyle.

It's pretty much the same what in English. I only added my favourite literature authors and mentioned that I consider studying Polish philology after Veterinary

That'd be all about me. I'd also like to mention that I really like SSSS, but it's rather obvious. I am here, after all, am I not?

[kjeks]

Ohhh Krakau, what a beautiful city!!! I would love to go there again
Your german sounds fine!

[Fen Shen]

I second kjeks' verdict of your German, and I wonder if you have read the books by Andrzej Sapkowski? He is one of my favourite authors and I'd loooove to read his books in the original, but I'm afraid I'll never learn Polish (aside from some words since one of my sister-in-laws is Polish and so my niece grows up bilingual).

[Jerzy_S]

Thank you! German is much easier to read than to use actively
Also: yes! I love Cracow too, not only for how it looks. Actually, being Cracovian is a state of mind

And yes, I have read some books by him. Entire The Witcher series, Narrenturm, and, right now, I'm reading Boży Wojownicy (Warriors of God in English). It's not much, but always

[Auxivele]

...Darn it, now I have remembered that I wanted to learn Polish. Adding that to the list of definitely-over-twenty-at-this-point languages I particularly want to learn. I should prolly try to actually narrow that down, but narrowing it down got it to the twenty-something languages it's at now. XD

And I could actually understand a pathetically small amount of your German, woo!

[Jerzy_S]

I'm really glad to hear this. Not many even consider learning Polish!

Also, what do you guys think - should I start Polish thread? It might be quite unpopular, useless, I fear.

[Haspen]

Nie widzę takiego powodu, skoro jest nas (chyba) tylko dwóch

[Jerzy_S]

Niekoniecznie. Poza tym ktoś może się uczyć i mieć jakieś pytania. Albo zainteresuje się i zacznie naukę?

Translation: Not necessarily. Besides, someone might be learning and have some questions. Or will get interested and will start learning?

[heiteru]

I love all different ways of language exchange, so I can't pass this tread !!

:russia: : Приветики! Меня зовут Валера, я из города Екатеринбург, Россия :> На сей момент (09.10.2016) мне 19 лет, я учусь на втором курсе ортопедической стоматологии в медицинском колледже. Я с пяти лет играю на фортепиано, а сейчас так же освоила классическую гитару и укулеле (хотя, приобретённое в музыкальной школе среднее музыкальное образование позволяет мне худо-бедно играть на любом инструменте. гармонь везде одинакова х) ). Я вегетарианка :з Лет в 13-14 влюбилась в Исландию, ииии в принципе из-за этой любви я и начала читать SSSS и теперь пишу это здесь, на фан-форуме!!

:uk: : Hello everyone! My name is Valeria, I live in Ekaterinburg, Russia :> At this moment (09 oct. 2016) I'm nineteen years old, I'm in my second year of Faculty of Dentistry Department of Prosthetics at Medical College. I was five years old when I started play on piano and now also mastered classic guitar and ukulele (although, acquired in a music school the initial musical education allows me play on any instrument somehow. harmonic sounds the same everywhere x) ). I'm a vegetarian. When I was 13-14 years I fall in love with Iceland, soooooo because of that love I began to read SSSS and now I write it here lol
I started learning English in kindergarten, then at school, and now it means that I learn that language more than 14 years ohmygodreally 8___8 But I still do a lot of mistakes because I'm not most diligent student XD

:iceland: : Sæl allir! Ég heiti Valerie, ég bý í Ekaterinburg, Rússland :> Ég er nítján ára gamall, grænmetisæta, getur spilað á píanó, gítar og ukulele. Í raun, ég skil betur en tala eða skrifa, afsakið fyrir það х) ! Ég þarf meiri æfa!

:finland: : Moi! Minä tietää 150 sanaa, wow!  :'D

I know my grammar sucks EVERYWHERE! So I would be very grateful if you find any mistakes and show me them

[yaboku]

:uk: Hello! My name's Álex and I'm 20 years old, living in Spain. I'm studying Illustration and I want to one day make comic-making my career! I've been studying English since I was 5 years old, since it's a mandatory subject all through school here. Around five years ago I started doing almost everything in English - from being on english-heavy social media like tumblr to watching anime with english subtitles. I want to believe I'm fluent in it now, though I still make silly little mistakes every now and then. One day I'd like to move to Wales with my girlfriend and start learning Welsh!

:spain: ¡Hola! Me llamo Álex, tengo 20 años y vivo en España. Estudio Ilustración y algún día me gustaría dedicarme a hacer cómics. Llevo estudiando inglés desde que tenía 5 años, ya que es una asignatura obligatoria hasta bachillerato aquí. Hace como cinco años empecé a hacer casi todo en inglés - me uní a redes sociales con muchos anglosajones como tumblr, y empecé a ver anime con subtítulos en inglés. Me considero bilingüe, aunque aún hago algunos fallos torpes de vez en cuando. Algún día me gustaría mudarme a Gales con mi novia y empezar a aprender Galés.

:japan: どうもはじめまして！私の名前はアレックスです。スペイン人です。20歳のスペイン人です。いつか漫画家になりたいから、美術学校で勉強します。3年前ぐらいから日本語の勉強を始めました。アニメと漫画が大好きだから、ずっと気があったんだ。聞くことがわかりますが、練習のチャンスがあまりできませんから、話すとかはまだまだダメですよ！それと漢字はぜんぜん読めない。。。もっと日本語を勉強したい！もっとよくなりたい！がんばります！

[Redheaded Beijinger]

大家好，新朋友来拉 ！ 英文就是我的母语，不可用的 ，所以用第二个语言来自我介绍。 已经学中文六年多，虽真不流利，还想炫自己微不足道的能力。男，23岁，来自美国，现在住在北京学汉语。再说，今年大学毕业，而不知道要做啥，所以决定拖延了“真正的未来。”    什么别的语言都不会，就是英语和汉语，非常羡慕多言有才的同志们！由于我金发碧眼的样子，给家人写信时签名写成“红发夷”，但是在这儿那看起来不适合。  写完了，我已经浪费太多学习的时间。最后，要问问，怎么把那种表示语言的国旗在这边儿？

trans. Hello all, a new friend has come! English is my native language, (but it) can't be used, so (I will) use a second language to introduce myself! (I've) already studied Chinese for over six years, although (I'm) really not fluent, (I) still want to show off my too-small-to-be-spoken-of ability.  Male, 23 years old, from America, now living in Beijing to study. That is to say, this year (I) graduated from college but didn't know what to do, so (I) decided to put off my "real future."  I cannot speak any other languages, just English and Mandarin, (so I) very much envy/admire (you) talented and multilingual comrades!  Owing to my gold-hair-jade-eye (an idiom indicating a typically Nordic look) appearance, when I write letters home I sign them "the red-headed barbarian", but here that does not appear appropriate. (I am) finished writing, I have already wasted too much study time.  Finally, (I'd) like to ask-ask (doubling a verb in Chinese makes it "cute"), how does one put those little flags that indicate languages at the bottom here?

For those wondering, in Chinese you can freely drop pronouns and conjunctions whenever you think the context allows-- note that there is no conjugation of verbs whatsoever in Chinese, so there isn't even a grammatically implied subject or object, just a contextually implied one. 

Wow, I apparently use a lot more smilies when I write in informal Chinese, I never realized that until just now.   And I'm a lot more modest, in a way my American English speaking brain would never do.  Strange, that.

[Auxivele]

Yee, new people! (Though I'm a bit late to the party...) Hiya, heiteru, yaboku, and Redheaded Beijinger!

yaboku, I could actually understand basically the entire first half of your introduction in Spanish and then you went beyond how much I actually know... XD I am proud that I could understand that much, though.

[Naess]

Alright, I'll start off with my native languages:

Igbo: (I can't believe they don't have my flag but have the North Pole's..) Kedu aha m bụ Birgitte. M na-amụ Computer Science na French. asụsụ obodo m di Igbo na English. Mgbe ahụ, ihe m na-amụta French na Swedish, ma m na-ele anya na Icelandic na Serbian n'oge ruo n'oge.

:uk: Hello, my name is Birgitte. I'm a University student and I major in Computer Science and French. My native languages are Igbo and English. At the moment, I'm learning French and Swedish, but I also look at Icelandic and Serbian from time to time.


And the ones I'm learning:

:france: Bonjour à tous! Je m'appelle Birgitte. Je suis étudiante et je me spécialise en informatique et en français. Mes langues maternelles sont l'anglais et l'igbo. Maintenant, j'apprends le français et le suédois, mais je m'essaie à le serbe et l'islandais de temps en temps, aussi.

:sweden: Hej allihopa! Jag heter Birgitte och jag är en universitetsstudent. Jag studerar datavetenskap och franska. Mina 
modersmål är engelska och igbo. För tillfället är jag lär mig franska och svenska men jag sysslar med serbiska och isländska också.

[Auxivele]

Eee, welcome welcome Birgitte_! I'd never even heard of Igbo before now. It's nice that I got to learn something new, though. If you want to introduce yourself in the main introduction thread you can head over there, or you can stay over here in the language board. It's not the most active now, but there's a lot of nice people here.