Polyglots

"My name is Francesca and I am an Italian native speaker. I live and I work in Rome. I am 27, and I work for an international law firm. I can speak swedish and spanish, but I am not fluent! I would like to improve my language skills! "

"Hi! I'm Al, polyglot at heart."

"Hi, I speak French and Spanish and can understand and read a bit of Italian and Portuguese. I'm hoping to begin Japanese and/or Hindi soon. I'm also a graduate student in linguistic anthropology and a language teacher."

"Organizer for New York French Meetup, am interested in learning new language and interested in the process of learning new languages."

"I work at a language school and am an absolute language and linguistics nerd. I speak fluent Portuguese and French, having lived abroad in Brazil and France, good Spanish, decent Farsi (app. Kindergarten level), and am currently learning Hindi."

"I'm a foreign policy editor, and love studying foreign languages. I spent my junior year of college in Geneva (long time ago!) and have traveled a lot in Europe, and in Morocco and China."

"Hi, My name is Rivka. I am fluent in Yiddish (mother tongue), Hebrew, have studied German, and am currently studying Polish. This sounds like a wonderful idea and a dynamic group. Would love to meet other lang. enthusiasts and polyglots here."

"Hi, I'm Deborah, I speak English, French, Spanish, and Basic Arabic. I am the Owner and President of The Language Shop, a translation company in New York. I'm the organizer of the NY Language Translator Meetup Group"

"I have already been to two meetings and have really enjoyed them. I look forward to more!"

"Hi, my name is Sarah and I am 26 years old. I have lived in France, Spain, and Mexico, and have now been in NY for just over 3 years. I would enjoy meeting up with others to practice my languages!"

"Hi! I speak German, Korean, Spanish, and a little French. How well I speak them remains to be seen!"

"Ich spreche Deutsch. Je parle Francais. Hablo Espanol. I can read an Italian newspaper and understand 75% of it, but I can't pronounce it. When I lived in Germany, I began to study Mandarin Chinese - am now trying to improve it. Ni hao ma?"

"Am 30, live in Brooklyn but work in the city, look forward to meeting some new people."

"Hi, I'm a 36 year old architect living in the UWS. Born in Colombia to a German dad and Colombian mom, and grew up in Guatemala. I went to Notre Dame for graduate school and lived in Italy for 2 semesters. I'd enjoy practicing German and Italian."

"Lived in Germany and China and am sad that my language skills are wasting away..."

"I'm a law professor now, 63, and in a former life I was a linguist of the Sanskrit and indo-european sort. I have been trying for some time to connect the two with comparative (foreign) law and international law, in part to put my modern languages t"

"I love languages. I learned French and German just because... I haven't spoken them in a while though, so I'm a bit rusty. I welcome the opportunity to practice and improve. Also, I would love to learn Italian."

"Hi! I adore the world of lit. and languages. I guess being European makes things easy for language lovers. I would love to bring to your club my language expertise, while learning from others."

"Hello. I'm new to this site."

"German and Russian are my two best languages, also un peu de francais, un poco de espanol..."

"I'm passionate about learning other languages (can at least get by in 8), but my biggest challenge is finding opportunities to converse. In constant search of collocuters. Check out my languages and let me know if you'd like to practice/exchange!"

"Hi, I speak Spanish fluently. I took Italian and French a long time ago but I have not had the chance to practice. Also, I'm learning Japanese. I look forward to meeting everyone in the group."

"I recently graduated from Pace University with a BA in Political Science. Now, I am actively looking for a new job and looking to better my foreign language skills, paticularly French. I love traveling and my hobby is international ballroom dance."

"My name is Nelda Nelson-Eaton. I teach a French Class at Jersey City University. I am a native Spanish speaker and I speak Italian as well. I used to speak German as I sang opera in Heidelberg. I want to revive my languages so I can teach them!"

"I am a elementary school teacher in Queens, and I have a great interest and background in foreign languages. I've lived in several countries in Europe and moved back to the United States from Australia eight years ago after living there for nearly 1"