Ah, sorry, I was referring to the politicians in my country, Switzerland, not yours. They’ve got no idea about classics, and I wasn’t aware at all that classics are so important in British elite education.
Edit: @teapoweredrobot thank you, too. I replied to bugcat before I saw your comment.
Native Czech speaker. I can read and little it write and speak in English. I also know few words in German, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Quenya and Japanese.
This is a great idea, but probably it will turn immediately in a group for Japanese study rather than Go study as actually happen to me when I try to translate Japanese Go books.
The time spent trying to solve the proposed Go problem is for me a fraction of the total time spent looking for unknown kanji on the dictionary.
No one aiming to learn Chinese is a surprise for me. Also only one who want to learn Korean. In a Go lovers community they should be in some way “preferred languages” together with Japanese.
And finally a lot of Others… I’m really curious which language they are. One, I understood, is Esperanto, but what about the others?
I am a native English speaker, fluent in Spanish with a permanent English accent. I know a bit of Portuguese and French - both at rusty intermediate level. I also know a few words of German and Bulgarian. I recently learned to read “black”, “white” and “to play” in Chinese from 101weiqi.com .
Fluent is too advanced compared to what I had in mind, and learning doesn’t apply to our native language/es here. I also want to include languages we picked up and then didn’t keep learning (as most of us have posted).
Eh, it leaves out the communication element. Also, written or spoken.
I think (please native English speakers correct me), that we use the verb speak (as in other languages) for languages, with the understanding that it doesn’t exactly mean strictly verbal communication. I don’t know another verb to be inclusive and mean the same thing.