Foriegn Languages

[Werty]

How many of you 'splosmers know another language aside from English? How many have English as a secondary language? I've always wanted to ask this since last year 'cause I first learned Spanish. I really liked it, but, my life story aside, I've always just been curious.

[ArKaiN]

Portuguese is my main tongue
then:
English - I consider myself pretty fluent, and have taught it.
Spanish - Pretty good, but not that fluent.
Italian - Been taking classes for 4 months
French - I understand like 80% of talked French but cant write or read it too well.
Russian - like 20 words :frown:

[Mobius]

Arabic was my first. English my second.

[Zaren]

English, Spanish, and Japanese, I also know a fair ammount of German, Russian, and just starting Korean. I also know tidbits of a lot of languages, I've been a lot of places.

[NVM]

I know a little German and I'm taking it in school this year.

[Scrotemeal]

English as first, and I've learnt French at school for 6 years. I've also been to France and Italy, and picked up a little but like that.

[Jiggz]

English is my first. I'm also fluent in Afrikaans, a variation of Dutch and German, mixed with local South African dialect. I can thus loosely understand some German and Dutch. But not much.

[danthelegend]

Just English now. I used to be fluent in morse code, believe it or not.

[Mirrorman]

Estonian is my first. I speak English pretty fluent i guess. Been studying it for like 9 years. I SHOULD know some Russian after 3 years of study, but the teacher sucked and I rely on Ja ne panimaješ parusski. I understand a little Finnish, because its similar to our language. And maybe a few words of German and Spanish.

[PyroOwned]

Shit, I put one because I thought you meant other languages. I know two - English and German.

[StrikeTwelve]

Dutch is my first language, besides that English, French and German.

[DamnDude]

Icelandic is my first and English my second.

I write and speak Danish, I understand most of written Norwegian because its similar to the other scandinavian languages I've learned, and I understand all Faraoe Island'ish (I have no idea what the language is called in English), because its like a bad mix of pure Icelandic and Danish, I can put everything they write and speak into context, but I cant write nor speak it myself because I dont know at which point they either use Icelandic or Danish when speaking/writing.

Im also learning German, but Im not so good at it.

[phd_55]

Shit, I put one because I thought you meant other languages.

Yeah, me too!

I speak English and can also speak French

[Beefynick]

English is my first language, Spanish is my second, and I am working on learning Arabic and French now.

[BAN ME PLEASE]

I've been taking Spanish for 3 years now, and I can say I know only the simplist sayings. My school doesn't teach Spanish for shit, and I really hate learning it, so it evens out.

I know that learning a language is essential for living in today's multicultural society, but it still doesn't excuse the fact that learning it is very boring.

[Savvy]

English is my first language but I can get by on my Arabic.

[Oofie]

English, Irish (Gaeilge) and a bit of French. I know a tiny bit of Italian but I couldn't rely on it.

[ToastmasterAlpha]

I'm pretty good with this English stuff, and I know enough German to get by. I'm taking it in high school.

[Shadowpriest]

Im puertorrican so we're born in a spanish-speaking society but we're taught english since the first grade (even though most people suck at it here...*cough*mymom*cough*..., they just don't really care about it, but im VERY fluent at it) Then there's japanese, i took classes at a nearby university when i was 14, because, you know... nintendo :P (though im not too good at it, i could say i know around 30-50 words.

[Miss Freeze]

I'm learning german in school.

[El Mojado]

I learned Spanish first, then English. I took a bit of french in the 4th grade for a month. I learned a few words, but then I stopped practing it.

[AidanC]

I speak English as my main language. I can also speak Spanish as well as Pig Latin (< please don't ban me just because I know Pig Latin, I know it's kinda stupid, but I learned it at a young age)

[I am homosexual]

I'm almost conversationally fluent in Japanese.

[TriSlash]

Dutch is my first language, besides that English, French and German.

Haha, the Dutch own everyone at languages :D

I managed a C in German, so I guess that means I can have a light conversation about what I like to eat >.<
I have to take an extra curriculum course in college, so I might take Japanese. Although, I dunno if being able to say a handfull of words from anime classifies, ranging from pirate to alchemist, as a reason to learn a launguage.

[gizzalove]

I've been taking french for about 5 years. I like to think I can speak it fairly well but I know I can't.

[Souldrinker]

English is my native tongue, but I can also have limited conversations in Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish.

[StrikeTwelve]

Haha, the Dutch own everyone at languages :D

I'm Belgian, actually. >_>

[ShadowDweller]

Iv just finished my French GCSE and failed so I know basically one language, English.

[Con-Con]

English is my first I'm practically fluent in Irish and I'm learning German

[John Travolta]

English, Spanish, learning Russian right now. I understand a lot of German and French, but I can't speak it.

English is my first I'm practically fluent in Irish and I'm learning German

[green rubber bands]

English is my native tounge, but I've taken 3 years of Spanish, and I could get by on it if I was dumped in Peru or something. I might also be able to understand German if it was spoken slowly to me, but that doesn't really count.

[Raxo]

Spanish is my first language then English. Entering my fourth year of studying French now.

[InTransit]

Just English for me. I used to know a fair bit of sign-language but because I don't use it I've forgotten most of it.

[Demoir]

English, been taking french for 4 years at school (predicted A* for my GCSE), been taking italian for 2 years at school (also predicted an A*) and picked up a little spanish from my holidays there.

When I say 'a little' I mean I can fluently say 'A half chicken to take away, please' (Un medio pollo para llevar, por favor) and a couple of similar, assorted phrases.

[gtrst7711]

I took Italian for a couple of years, but I'm am far from fluent. I know a few phrases here and there.

[Penis_Captivus]

I speak English, Irish, French, a wee bit of Japanese, Spanish, Bulgarian, Turkish and I think that's all.

[Spastic]

I know English, and i am also semi fluent in Spanish, i used to be really fluent in it as all my grandparents spoke was Spanish, but as i got older i used it less and less.

[alrightDARLING]

I'm fluent in English, and know basic tagalog.
Despite taking French as a subject for 9 years, I have learned nothing.

Total: 2

[jewishjosh]

Born and raised to speak English. 10 years of French and I still wouldn't feel confident if I were stranded alone in France. I took Latin for a year and a half then dropped it. Too bad they only teach you book smarts in school. I'm interested in learning several languages like Spanish and Italian and being able to speak them well, but high school isn't the best place for that, unfortunately. I'm pretty good with languages and my French allows me to take stabs at Spanish. I can phonetically read the Russian and Hebrew alphabets, and I can understand a few Hebrew words here and there but I never really had a solid Jewish education.

[StrikeTwelve]

Wow, listing that you learned Latin in a languages thread is kind of weird. Personally, I've taken Greek and Latin for 5 years now and I didn't even think of mentioning this here, after all, you're not learning how to speak the language, just to read, analyze and translate it.

[Stina_xx]

English is my first language, and I've been taking French classes in school for 8 years now. I can read, write, and speak French pretty well. I know random phrases in Italian, German, and Japanese, but not enough to count. I also know a bit of American Sign Language.

[Exodist]

I'm fluent in English and Spanish. And I know a bit of french

[RabidMonkey]

English is my first. I'm also fluent in Afrikaans, a variation of Dutch and German, mixed with local South African dialect. I can thus loosely understand some German and Dutch. But not much.

My grandmother comes from Holland, and thus speaks Dutch.
She can understand Afrikaans perfectly, she says it sounds like young children speaking.
It's like the Dutch version of Pigeon-English

Also, I can read Spanish fairly well, and write it, but understanding it is hard.

[ilovebrownies]

My native tounge is Norwegian, and I understand Swedish and Danish. In school, we start English in the third grade, so I speak English as well. And i've been taking Spanish for three years, so I guess I could make basic conversation in Spanish.

[barnesy111]

Hooray for Latin!
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2259/tatemi8.jpg
(my latin teacher)

[Audioslave]

English - I consider myself pretty fluent, and have taught it.
French - I understand like 80% of talked French but cant write or read it too well.

:roffle: The irony!


My French isn't bad. I can read, speak and understand it pretty fluently, but when it comes to writing it isn't so hot. I have serious trouble with my verbs. Sad, because I took 2 years of core French, 3 years of immersion (French, math, science, social studies and health in French) then one more year of high school French (health, French, history, science) and I still have trouble conjugating verbs.

[Googles-my-bitch]

Well, My main langauge is English, I can speak a good bit of irish (not enough to hold a conversation for long though) and a little bit of Spanish (enough to ask where ____ is on holidays)

[Lamb]

I speak my native language + English and a little German.. that makes two, right?

[afroman8675]

i started spanish so i dropped it.

[afroman8675]

cuz i sucked at it

[Red Ninja]

nope just english for me,
dont blame me for my "ingorance" i just dont give a fuck 'bout learnin languages, coz were-ever i go, someone speaks english,
just my opinion, on the subject matter

[-ƒƒ-]

Just like Strike Twelve, I'm a Belgian (but now studying in Austria for 5 months).
Native is Dutch, also speak French, English and German. I try to learn a bit Italian, although I've not very much time for it.
I also know a lot of Flemish and a bit German dialects :)

[Youssef]

where i come from there are 2 national languages.. French and Arabic (a dialect but basically the same). My french is good, ive forgotten alot of arabic but it is coming back to me when i read some.

Europe nearly everyone speaks English, except the french who are too arrogant. Lots of asians speak english too. not that much need to know much more nowadays.

[DoaJ]

nope just english for me,
dont blame me for my "ingorance" i just dont give a fuck 'bout learnin languages, coz were-ever i go, someone speaks english,
just my opinion, on the subject matter

Not that you speak English all that well, either.
I speak English, Spanish, Italian, and a tiny bit of Latin.
I also can use ASL, which I usually use for fun to piss off my friends because they don't know what I'm saying.

High School Credit wise, they count ASL as a foreign language, so I counted it here.

And I have to:
Nope, just English for me. Don't blame me for my "ignorance"; I just don't give a fuck about learning [other] languages because wherever I go someone speaks English. Just my opinion on the subject matter.

Oh, so much better. I'm so O.C.D., dammit. Haha.

[TjejKast]

I know two languages. First one being Swedish, second being English.

Learning new languages doesn't have to be boring. Heck, i didn't learn English in school, Playstation thought me.

If i got to choose another language to learn it would probably be either Japanese or how to speak Braille.

[Cock_Smoker]

Finnish as primary, English and Swedish as secondary.

[ne3]

I don't know if it counts, but I can speak all scandinavian languages without trouble, which is danish, 'cause I live in Denmark, norwegian and swedish. I also speak english, german, and a little hebrew, which I learned through the internet.

[Louis Lu]

portuguese is my main language,
i'm currently taking english and spanish classes
i dont think i need english classes anymore, i think i can say im fluent :P
about spanish....arg...i can understand and talk, but when writing i always confuse with portuguese -.-

[Oberlin]

Well, right now I'm a little rusty on everything but English. But I was fairly fluent in both German and Latin when I was in high school, both speaking and writing, not so much reading. Also since Mexicans have overrun my town, I know a fair amount of Spanish.

[Noodlie]

English is first but im absolutely crap at languages. 14 years of Irish and theres no way i can hold a decent conversation as Gaelige, 6 years of French and ive learned nothing.

[veveze]

Well, obviously I speak English. I take German, and I know sign language. So, I guess I know three?

[Couch]

English is my first language, and I've studied/am studying Spanish, Latin, and Italian. When it comes to reading and writing, other than English, I'm pretty fluent with Latin. However, I'm only good with English, and Italian when it comes to actual spoken conversations. So I guess two, and currently studying two others.

[Nurfen]

Swedish as native and fluent in reading and listen to english. Speaking with horrible accent and stuff.

[Candystripe]

French is my first language, English second. I am completely fluent in both of these, and I take Latin in school, so...haha. Nobody speaks Latin anymore so it can't be considered much of a language, but I am relatively good at writing/reading it since I have been taking it for six years.
I'm going to take German in college. And I can understand a lot of Spanish.

[MissFuckYouToo]

English, German, French, some Spanish and some Dutch.

[TheHighwaySong]

Spanish is my first language, and then I learned English. I know small phrases in German and Portuguese (Rammstein/Soulfly) but I'd love to learn them both fluently. I would take a class in Japanese if it wouldn't be full of those fucking anime kids.

[Displeased Owl]

Wow, I'm surprised at the amount of people here who know more than one language. I learnt some German in school, it was fun so it has stuck in my head. I have a weird obsession with Swedish so I'm learning that in my spare time. And I also am starting to pick up Tibetan (seems retarded; it's for better understanding Buddhism).

[Souldrinker]

I'm surprised I am the only one who can speak Mandarin. Surely with the way the world is going these days, there would be people interested in learning it?

[Shadowpriest]

nope just english for me,
dont blame me for my "ingorance" i just dont give a fuck 'bout learnin languages, coz were-ever i go, someone speaks english,
just my opinion, on the subject matter

Yes, english IS the universal language for a reason. That being that it is by far the simplest language, so its easy to learn. But learning new languages makes you feel smarter, just try learning an easy one.

Spanish is my first language, and then I learned English. I know small phrases in German and Portuguese (Rammstein/Soulfly) but I'd love to learn them both fluently. I would take a class in Japanese if it wouldn't be full of those fucking anime kids.

It is? Where are you from?

[Kenneh]

I'm surprised I am the only one who can speak Mandarin. Surely with the way the world is going these days, there would be people interested in learning it?

I'm learning Chinese at school at the moment, because I was forced to.

Other than that, I can speak English and Thai.

[JamesKPolk]

Latvian is my first language, I'm fluent in English and I can communicate in Russian and French. Oh yes, I just started learning Japanese this september

[TheHighwaySong]

It is? Where are you from?

American, where little white kids think they're the shit for knowing non-sensical Japanese phrases which probably isn't really Japanese, and thinking they're going to marry Naruto. >>

[Veeduck]

English is my native language, but I am also fluent in French, know some limited/very basic Irish, can read Latin, Italian and Spanish, but can't speak them for crap. Um, then phrases here and there in a whole ton of different languages.

[Dennis]

My native language is Dutch, and I speak English and French pretty good. My German sucks, however I understand it when spoken.

[Ozz]

Dutch
English
French
German

[sneffels]

in order:
Portuguese(Brazil)
English
Spanish
Japanse(a little bit xD)
and i can understand a litte bit of Italian, coz its simillar to portuguese and spanish, and both came from Latin

[0rg4sm]

My first language is Russian followed by Dutch (which I speak fluently) and English (I ain't so bad in it)
I also learn French (now for almost 7 years) and German ,since last year.
Last but not least : Interntz Slang :D

Last note: Don't ask me to speak in French or German, cuze I think you're granny could do beter.

[DarkManX_BG]

Fluent:
Bulgarian (native)
English (perfected through the magic of movies and the internet)
German (been living here for 6 years now)

Know a fair bit:
French (I understand pretty much everything, but I'm totally out of practice so I can't speak a lot... I just need a few days in France to get back on track and I could do fine in everyday life)

Understand a big part of:
Russian
All the South Slavic languages (they're really close to each other)

[Diderot]

My first language is French, since I am a Québécois and my English is getting better everyday.

I'm glad to see so much people trying to learn French since it such a difficult language.

[Slanski]

Spanish as my mother tongue. English as second language. Then, enough French to survive in France and German, improving and better than French. I'm also learning Japanese and I'm already able to hold basic conversations. I didn't learn it at school or anything, but I can hold basic conversations in Catalan too.

And I know a few words and greetings in Polish and Hungarian, learnt from friends.

American, where little white kids think they're the shit for knowing non-sensical Japanese phrases which probably isn't really Japanese, and thinking they're going to marry Naruto. >>

So true... hateful.

PS: How can you possibly speak Braille? :eyebrow:

[b1wsatan]

1. English-Native
2. Korean
3. German

[the_alpha_male]

I know English and sign language, if you ever want to learn an easy language go for sign language

[Sera]

Chinese, Japanese, English, and a bit of German (WHich doesn't count xD)

[crowey]

English, French, Nepalese and Chinese, plus bits and pieces of Russian, Korean and Japanese.

[Ishabaal]

I'm a fluent English and French Speaker and Writer. Can speak Ukrainian but can't write it for the life of me.

[SirMangina]

english is my second language...spanish is my first o_O

[LagFish]

I know Mandarin Chinese. However you have to watch out because a lot of the stuff you learn as one word, often has been turned into slang. My friend and I were on a plane flying in China, and my friend calls out "Xiao Jie! Xiao Jie!" thinking it meant "Miss, Miss!" as he was trying to get the attention of an air hostess. We got really dirty looks from this group of old people. The lady sitting behind us snickered and whispered over to us that Xiao Jie is slang for prostitute now.

[hoLLow TeaRs]

English, native language.
German, 3 years highschool, 1 year college so far.

[koots]

English is basically all I can speak, I took french for awhile and understood some estonian when I was younger, I'll probably always hold that against my dad for not teaching me estonian when i was young.

[BurgerKueen]

1. Turkish 2. English

& slowly mastering French

[natalie137]

I'm studying Teaching English as a Foreign Language at university so I learn snippets of a lot of languages when we are doing practise teaching. This is my list:

1) English (Mother tongue)
2) French (2nd year degree level)
3) German (A level)
4) Spanish (Beginner/Elementary)
5) Polish (snippets)
6) Portugese (snippets)

I'll be learning a bit of Greek in the New Year to add to that

[Nimmy]

English is my first language , I speak Irish fluently , I can understand a good bit of French but I'm shit at speaking it. I'm currently slowly learning Japanese

[Krabby]

I'm fluent in English, and know basic tagalog.
Despite taking French as a subject for 9 years, I have learned nothing.

Total: 2

How the hell do you not learn anything in 9 years of french education? :x

Anyhow,
Dutch as main language
French second, near fluent in it
English third, fluent
German fourth, I understand them and they understand me, so it's all good.

[igorus8]

hmm
english as a first language
but ive lived in Mexico for 4 years now, so i consider myself fluent enough
none of that "i have 3 years from high school" crap, everyone forgets that after a year if you dont use it..

[Besh]

i know two, bosnian and english..well..actually bosnian,serbian,croation, yugoslavian are pretty much the same language so i dont know if that counts

[sliver]

Hebrew main, Russian first to actually speak, even tho I'm not near fluent in it
And English, fluent (way better then Russian to me..) :)

[Fugga]

1.Spanish(can't write)
2.English(read, write, and speak :D)
3.French(can read some, write some, and speak some. i take in school. french 3 as sophmore)

[DEATH TO AMERICA]

I used to speak dutch really well when I was like 4 but I forgot it. It was my first language too.. I can say stuff like "where's the bathroom, hello, bye, thanks and some random nouns like sheep or farmer or monkey. Bird was my first word

I obviously speak english and I'm fluent in french. So 2 languages.

[Con-Con]

I speak Irish fluently

Are you from Connemara or somewhere or did you just learn it really well in school?

[Lynley]

English is my native language. I took 4 years of German in high school. I can still remember a lot of stuff cause I use it every now and then (my best friend is a German major). I can write it better than I speak it and I speak it better than I understand it while listening. If people talk slowly in it, I do fine. I've been able to hold in-depth conversations online with native Germans.

[Taschentucher]

Dutch, french, English, German, and i can understand written Greek and Italian
probably other roman languages too as they have many words in commmon.

[lollercaust]

I'm in my fourth year of Spanish. While I wouldn't expect to be able to carry on a conversation with a native speaker, I feel I could hold my own in a Spanish country as the majority of my education in it has been learning how to be able to do that.

[Tempest]

English is my native tongue, and the onle one I can really "speak". I took Japanese my freshman year of high school, but I hated the teacher so that's the only class I took of that, and I've long since forgotten most of what I learned. I've been trying to learn Latin for quite a long time, but I can't find any classes for it up here.

[jewishjosh]

Try Latin by correspondence. I studied Latin for half of grade 8 and all of grade 9. The course was very straightforward, we just went through the Cambridge textbooks chapter by chapter and my teacher gave us a bit of grammar enrichment and translations from the text and other stuff like projects about Roman culture. My teacher learned by correspondence and teaches a few students by correspondence, so I'd say it's a viable option and definitely worth looking into, especially now with the ease of the internet.

I don't know what level of Latin you're interested in or how much you know, if any, but here's the wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Latin_Course) for what I did, with links to the official site.

[julio]

Spanish is my native tongue, but I've been speaking English for quite a few years now.

[Lady Who]

Spanish as my first and English as my second.
I've just started Italian, but i understand a Portuguese, French and German when reading. I'm willing to learn other lenguages including Latin, but that will have to wait until i'm off to college, as i live in a very small town and don't have much learning options.

[Titan_Torin]

English as my first but I can speak French fairly fluently because I've taken French Immersion in school since kindergarten. Plus I've been to France and I guess talking to the locals helps a bit. I wanted to learn some Gaelic just because I have Irish and Scottish roots and because it sounds sweet! :D

[Conspiracy]

I'm fluent in Arabic and English, and I'm on my 3rd year of learning Spanish. Like "lollercaust" said: "While I wouldn't expect to have a normal conversation with a native speaker, I feel I could hold my own in a Spanish country as the majority of my education in it has been learning how to be able to do that."

[UnknownAnarchy]

I'm learning french right now, and it seems to be going well. My first language is english.

[McNasty]

Norwegian is my first, and I consider myself fluent in English.
My German is pretty good, although it could be much better.
Being Norwegian, I automatically understand Swedish and Danish (even though the latter sounds like a bird who's getting strangled while eating food that is too hot and wrestling a kangaroo with explosive diarrhea). I know a few French and Spanish word, too, but I can't like have a conversation in any of them.

[bored procrastinator]

fluent in english and tagalog

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[PYRO73]

english - fluent
german - 5 years worth and all i can remeber are the basics and "Do you have diarrhoea?"
various languages - little bits just to amaze and confuse people

[petro]

Finnish is my first, english is my second. And as I live in Finland(two official languages, finnish and swedish), I have studied swedish now four years, and don't know shit. I also started to study german last year, but know it very little :P. Soo, I'd say I speak and write two languages pretty good.

[bolotvok]

Serbian and english...and very very little of Russian (still got some knowledge from elementary school), german and spanish.

[Pisano]

I speak english and a little spanish.

[crisis]

My first language is Romanian, and I think it's the best! Now, because I live in Italy I have to speak Italian, and I'm good at English...Italian people suck in English :D and I really have fun in classroom hearing all the shit they say..OMG..I also understand French & Spanish if someone speaks slowly. I'm now planning to learn a little Japanese :D

[Nickynamo]

My first language is Swedish, but then we are forced to learn english. ( I guess it comes quite handy at times....) I am also learning spanish. ( Whoa. I know sooooooo much spanish. Not. )

[Chakvetadze]

I speak English, Dutch, French and a bit of German

[MaxAlcolo]

I am a french Canadian, and my english is becoming pretty good I think. My mom's boyfriend, who's been around since I was 3 or 4 years old, couldn't speak french at the time. So by listening to him all those years, I've learned my english.

[AdmiralTrask]

English is my primary. I only really speak a smattering of French and Japanese. I'd really like to learn more of French though.

[Dresden]

I can speak a very tiny bit of Spanish, thanks to 3 years of it in high school, but not enough to count as being able to speak two languages. So, alas, just one... Unilingual? Haha...

[zugzug]

Umm, Ukranian was my first, but im starting to forget it slowly.
Then i learned Russian, and still speak that fluently.
Then english, also fluent.
Now about 60% of french, although i can read and write it.

[fcon]

English, fluent as 1st language.
Irish, should be fluent, can speak it read it and write it, just slowly so i understand it all.
German, done a few years of it in school, was good at it when I left school, can't remember most of it now

[VanillaKilla]

i can speak the usual bit of spanish. i'm pretty fluent in french from school, and the only reason i take it is cuz all the girls are in my class. o yeah!!!

[Margarita Sunshine]

English - First Language
German - Kinda First/Second language
French - Only a few phrases and some vocabulary
Spanish - Second language

[Criss]

Portuguese is my first
My English is very fluent
I can speak some Spanish
And very little Dutch

[John Travolta]

Most of you who believe that you're fluent in English should edit half of your posts to compliment your statements.

[Warfox]

Bosnian is my first and english is my second. i spoke german fluently but i havent used it in a long time but i still get the jist of convos but i can read and write it.

[Kaylee_08]

My first language is English I also am quite fluent in Spanish and German. More so Spanish than German though. I'm getting quite better at German since I'm just finishing my last year of German.

[SEELE-GEIST-VERSTAND]

High level:
German
English
2nd language-level:
Latin
Russian
Learning at the moment:
Japanese
French
Italian
Turkish

[Triple J]

I'm just an American kid. I know like 30 spanish words and some German words but not enough to get by.

[Xambesi]

I speak English and rudimentary hebrew
But there are about four Jews in my entire country so I'm very out of practise

[rockthebox]

My 3-ish languages: fluent in English, kinda fluent in French, & almost fluent in Tagalog

[noodleman]

Swedish is my first language, and I've been speaking fluent English since i was four (I lived in Texas for 3 years), i studied French for one year, so i speak a tiny bit, I've been studying Spanish for three, so I'm pretty good at it now, I know almost enough Chinese to get by, and I know tons of Korean swears :D

[cosmosforest]

English is my first language, and I'm fluent in Irish too. I have a bit of French and German and such, but only what I picked up in school, so I only clicked on 2.

[LostDragon]

Russian is my first 'n' native language. Now I learn English 'n' German. I have gone on your forum for learning will be well. I hope that make not mistakes.

[LostDragon]

я говорю по русски

[Queenbutt]

Estonian is mother tongue.
English secondary
Russian and French came later.

Also, I know tidbits of German.

[Irve]

German is my first language.
had english 8 years as a secondary language.
also learned french 3 years, but forgot almost everything.

and latin, if that counts as a foreign language....

[Cristo]

English and Danish.

I can understand German, and speak it brokenly. Same goes for Spanish.

I'm hoping to go to Italy in my gap year, and learn it fluently.

[Pyro]

Estonian, English and Finnish. Almost kind of grasping Russian now.

[Corcho]

main language spanish, I can speak also english and a little of italian

[Quatroking]

Main language Dutch, and I learned English trough gaming and stuff. I speak it for about 5 years now.

[Rui]

My native tongue is Portuguese
Very fluent in English
I can hold on my own speaking to French people
I can insult the Spanish like a champ
I'm currently in Italy so I'm grasping the very basics of Italian, which basically consist in opening up your vowels while talking very loudly and making broad hand gestures.

To the guy that said he only bothered with English because wherever he goes someone always speaks a bit of English: you should come to Italy, buddy! NO ONE speaks English!

[stagger_lee]

I can only speak English, and very poor Spanish. I would've been able to speak Spanish fluently if my mom had taught me, but apparently I wasn't learning to talk fast enough so my parents stuck with English.

[Baani]

English
Punjabi
Hindi

Little bit of french, I need to learn two new languages for my course requirement.

[swefag]

I am Swedish, so it's obvious I would know how to speak it.
I also know Norwegian and Danish almost as well as Swedish.
I am also fluent in English and I can get by in Spanish.

[Pareidolia]

My native language is dutch, speak french and english. I can understand german for about 90% but I'm bad at speaking it myself, if you get what I mean.

I also just started taking spanish classes :).


Main language Dutch, and I learned English trough gaming and stuff. I speak it for about 5 years now.

The simpsons taught me my first english

[JQHA]

I know English, Dutch and German fluently. I also know a little ancient greek, latin, french, russian, japanese, norwegian, finnish and swedish, but I don't know those languages so good that I will calculate them with my choice. So it's three.

[The Fetus]

I can speak Turkish. I still speak it with my mother sometimes. I used to know Yugoslavian. I learned Turkish and Yugoslavian before English. I translated stuff to my grandmother and father when I was like three.

[I_Smell]

I took a course on Modern Foreign languages a couple years ago. It turned out quite well.
I speak English n Irish n Scottish n Welsh
Polish, Swedish n Chinese
Russian n German, Norweigen n French
Spanish, Finnish, Portugese

Danish n Czech, Turkish, Slovak
Italian and Portugese
Ukranian, Latvian, Georgian and Basque
Lithuanian and Japanese.

Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi and Min
Korean and Vietnamese
Punjabi, Marathi, Bangali and Wu
Ukranian and Burmese

[Maserthous]

In alphabetical order: Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Beothuk, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Chinese, Cree, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, Egyptian Arabic, English, French, Fur, Ga, Gayo, German, Gothic, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Ho, Hopi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mohawk, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.

[CCCP_Guy]

Russian is my first language, but since i live in canada, i have kind of lost it. I understand russian fluently but i cant speak it, i always end up using the wrong words for thing or not conjugating the verbs/nouns right, but i can still read it. English is my second language i know it fluently and better then russian, my third language is french i know like 30% of it because it's my country's second official language.

[Wackomyjacko]

English is my main language, but I speak a tad bit of French on the side.

[jewishjosh]

In alphabetical order: Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Beothuk, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Chinese, Cree, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, Egyptian Arabic, English, French, Fur, Ga, Gayo, German, Gothic, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Ho, Hopi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mohawk, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.

I don't believe you.

[AgentElectro]

I speak English as a first language, and I know enough Spanish to be able to communicate decently.

[blltmssgy]

If I were to pick a third language to learn which should I,

German, Polish, or Russian?

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[theirishbottelcap]

I can bearly write english so i have 50% of a lagswich

[DarknessEqualsMe]

Dutch is my main language.. I also speak English, French and German (with accent =D). I still want to learn Italian, Spanish and Greek.. maybe even more, but we'll see about that..


I took a course on Modern Foreign languages a couple years ago. It turned out quite well.
I speak English n Irish n Scottish n Welsh
Polish, Swedish n Chinese
Russian n German, Norweigen n French
Spanish, Finnish, Portugese

Danish n Czech, Turkish, Slovak
Italian and Portugese
Ukranian, Latvian, Georgian and Basque
Lithuanian and Japanese.

Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi and Min
Korean and Vietnamese
Punjabi, Marathi, Bangali and Wu
Ukranian and Burmese

You said "Portugese" twice.. :P

[Beefjerk]

Romanian is my first since it's my freaking native tongue. Fluent english, somewhat fluent german, not so fluent japanese, since I've only just begun to actualy study the language after countless amounts of anime, their writing is so hard to make out*barely know hiragana writing* and also basic spanish and italian.

[Con-Con]

I took a course on Modern Foreign languages a couple years ago. It turned out quite well.
I speak English n Irish n Scottish n Welsh
Polish, Swedish n Chinese
Russian n German, Norweigen n French
Spanish, Finnish, Portugese

Danish n Czech, Turkish, Slovak
Italian and Portugese
Ukranian, Latvian, Georgian and Basque
Lithuanian and Japanese.

Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi and Min
Korean and Vietnamese
Punjabi, Marathi, Bangali and Wu
Ukranian and Burmese

Dia Duit?

[MrDoctor]

I can only speak English, but I wish i could some other languages.

[withmypistola]

English is my first, I'm studying Russian now (going on 3rd year), some Spanish, a very small amount of Japanese and French, and Amharic (I can understand a lot, but I don't really speak it).

[Swordfish]

English is my first, and I studied French and Spanish up to A level standard. I can also speak small amounts of Welsh, Dutch and I'm beginning to learn Slovenian.

[UncleDuck2]

My main tongue is Dutch (flemish)
But I also speak French, English, a little bit of spanish and some japanese words (thanks to manga)
In Belgium, you need to speak French, because it's also an official language here

[TangerineOrange]

I speak just English, despite the push to get kids to take buttloads of language classes/be bilingual (at least where I am). However, due to my proximity to Canada (more specifically French speaking Canada), I can understand a lot and say enough to get by in French.

In the commencement address at my university this past weekend, they started by welcoming everyone in English and French. And job postings for another school in the UMaine System (which I happened to see one day)? The letter head/stationary shit for that university says everything in English and French. Oh, we also have some highway signs in English and French.

[AnnaNemyss]

Learned el Español first, then English, and currently learning German. I'd ultimately like to learn French, Japanese, and Russian as well.

[Claite]

I was born in brazil, and though only lived there for three years, my parents are born and raised to they speak portuguese at home. I learned that through them at the same time as learning english. I took spanish in middle school but its too easy since I know portuguese, but I still consider it knowing 2 languages. I also took Japanese in high school, and though not phenomenal at it, i'm still "fluent" to a degree...

:3

[frescoSteph]

I know English. I took Italian for a year in high school, but just cheated my way through that class. I might learn spanish, but thats because if you dont know spanish in California you're pretty effed.

[who_farted]

I can speak Turkish. I still speak it with my mother sometimes. I used to know Yugoslavian. I learned Turkish and Yugoslavian before English. I translated stuff to my grandmother and father when I was like three.excuse me, but what exactly is Yugoslavian language??
There were Serbo-Croatian (Serbian and Croatian now), Macedonian and Slovenian...

My mother tongue is Serbian, but I'm fluent in English, and can comprehend and read Spanish, I just need some more practice to become comfortable speaking it

[Meli-G]

English is my first language, even though I am Russian, which is my second language. I am currently learning French and Japanese, and i can say thank you in 10 languages: English, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Serbian.

[El Travo]

English is my first language. I learned French as I was taught it from grade 4 to 9, I stopped in 9 though. I am beginning to learn Dutch because my grandma immigrated from there so it would be cool to learn.

[Vin]

I can speak English and French fluently. I can speak some German and I can translate Latin to English. Otherwise I only know the smallest fragments of other languages such as Spanish, Afrikaans and Arabic.

[The Fetus]

excuse me, but what exactly is Yugoslavian language??
There were Serbo-Croatian (Serbian and Croatian now), Macedonian and Slovenian...


I'm told Serbo-Croatian is the Yugoslavian language. Unfortunately, I don't know a WORD of it anymore.

[GirlsChoize]

I speak native german and learned english in school.

[Ureshii]

English is my native tongue. I've been studying Japanese the point where I can just about think in it (which is actually quite annoying when you're trying to write English essays ect.) I also know a bit of Maori, the compulsary primary school stuff anyway.

[Mycroft]

Dutch (native), English (Fluent), French (not so fluent) and German (a bit fluentlike).

[Ercoledi]

I was brought up with both English and Cantonese (a dialect of Chinese) and can speak both fluently. I can't read or write one of them, though.

Guess which?

false edit: I also did Italian for a few years in school. I guess I'm not too horrible at it.

[Fischante]

Turkish-my native language.
English-been studying it for 7 years now.
German -trying to be more fluent every day.

[Jasian]

I guess my first language would be Korean, since I born there, but I'm much more fluent in English now (since I've lived in Canada for 12 years). Its so weird when I go to Korea to visit relatives and they say that I have a Canadian accent when I speak Korean.

I also have to learn French in school, but I doubt I could ever talk to a Quebecois or a real French person.

[makemeshiny]

My first language is Norwegian, I speak English pretty fluently, I know the basics of Spanish and I pretty much understand Swedish and Danish (except when Danish people speak. But that's impossible anyways). I also had French for three years, but I hardly remember anything. Oh, and I know two phraces in Japanese.

[Greger]

First language is Swedish, I also speak English fairly well, both in oral and verbal form.
Also know some German, but not really that great, but it works for when you're in germany :)

[MistyTehMoose]

I am teaching myself Japanese, I can now read it, and I am slowly beginning to learn what those words mean. Learning the symbols and how to read is quite easy and only took me about a week, because their sounds don't change depending on the circumstance (ie- in english vowels sounding different if placed together, or 'ph'). Except for 'wa' which is also pronounced as 'ha'.

I imagine English would be a difficult language to learn if you aren't European.

[Xubble]

English is my first language, Spanish is my second, and I'm taking classes for Mandarin Chinese.

[Paozits]

Three... I'm Brazilian, so I speak portuguese, I speak english very well (i'm not a master but I can get around) and a little bit of spanish.

[Gubzmanna08]

I talk three languages, English is my first and then Afrikaans is my second and then Portuguese is my third (I'm part Brazilian) but I talk all three fluently enough.

[Mirrorman]

After my last post here, I've learned german for a whole year, so that goes on the list.

[Hitman44]

Arabic: my mother language
Hebrew and english

[Hats of!]

First language is Swedish, I also speak English fairly well, both in oral and verbal form.
Also know some German, but not really that great, but it works for when you're in germany :)

Hah, I know that you were a Swede, considering the name.

I don't know if I've answered this thread, but I can speak two, Swedish and English. And I can understand Danish and Norwegian to some degree (they're very alike Swedish though).

[SpamMeHarder]

English- given.
Spanish- classes sucked, but I got a language out of them.
Latin- classes were awesome.
German- heritage. I took it upon myself to start learning.
Russian- boredom. Only a few words though.

I really want to add Finnish to my inventory because I think it'd be fun.