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I speak and write English very fluently.

Cantonese I speak I speak better than just a conversational level, but I wouldn't say fluent, since I can't write in it.

Mandarin I can understand for the most part if someone speaks slowly. I can't write it of course.

Italian I've just started learning, so I don't actually know it, but I'm studying it :D

What about the rest of you?

I speak and write English very fluently.

Cantonese I speak I speak better than just a conversational level, but I wouldn't say fluent, since I can't write in it.

Mandarin I can understand for the most part if someone speaks slowly. I can't write it of course.

Italian I've just started learning, so I don't actually know it, but I'm studying it :D

What about the rest of you?

I speak fluent gibberish. :)

I speak, read, and write fluent English, Hebrew, and Japanese.

I am also brilliant in drunken babbling.

I can hardly speak English...oh and Russian

I read, speak, and write fluent English and Arabic

I can also speak Farsi to some extent. I can neither read nor write Farsi though.

I read, speak, and write fluent English and Arabic

I can also speak Farsi to some extent. I can neither read nor write Farsi though.


I'd really like to learn Arabic.

English is the only language i speak fluently cos i've lead a sheltered life and haven't needed any others but i do know smatterings of Foreign.

(Waits for teh people to show off their Klingon or Tolkien-family talents)

Well, let's see, I speak English, English, and a few phrases in Spanish like, "No habla Espanol," "Como estas?", and "Donde esta el bano?"

English, some French, and some Ojibwe.

Looks like I've got rather standard languages under my belt:

English

French

Irish (fairly basic level)

If I could learn any language, probably Catalan. Or maybe an african dialect with lots of clicks. :)

Siljhouettes
Conas atá tu? / Cadea má tá tu?

I really wish my knowledge of Welsh and Irish were reversed

I speak English, I'm doing a degree in German, and I've got some smatterings of French, Russian and Polari.

I don't know any languages.

I speak fluent english and I also speak French and Spanish.

English as native tongue, fairly good in German (will minor in it), might learn russian.

write and read english very well, tho, speaking the language.... lets just say it's a bit rosty. ;)

Also, my native language swedish. And along with that I can understand some danish and most of norwiegan.

And I also know some german, but I really suck at it. ;)

English.

A small amount of Japanese (but not nearly enough to have a conversation).

A small amount of Spanish (same as above).

A few words in Thai.

A few words of Vietnamese.

Would like to become fluent in Thai, Vietnamese, French, and German.

I speak English as a mothertongue, fluent German, fair Spanish and French, and a bit of Arabic, Russian and Latin. (My mom insists that I learn at least the basics of 8 languages.)

German
Dutch
English

English as native language, a little spanish and a little latin, and the odd word in most european languages.

pu tong hua he ying yu dou hui shuo.

wo ye hui shuo pu tong hua! dan shi bu hui du bu hui xie... wen meng :(

I don't know any languages.
You seem to know English. :confused:

Mandarin Chinese and English... can't read or write Chinese though

I can speak, write and read Greek, English and French.

I speak and write English very good, close to fluently, I read it perfectly.
I naturally speak write and read Norwegian fluently, I also read Danish and Swedish.
I know a LITTLE bit of Italian, and I want to learn elvish. :)

My English is more fluent than my Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin).

English, Latin, German, Japanese, and one phrase of Spanish. "¿Dónde están mis pantalones?" More than likely that's wrong, but that's as far as my Spanish can take me. I should take up Italian so I can be able to speak in any former Axis country. woo.

I know a little spanish; I'll be brushing up on it in the fall
I will be learning french also in the fall as well as russian. I do know english fluently, obviously lol

wo ye hui shuo pu tong hua! dan shi bu hui du bu hui xie... wen meng :(

Na hen ke lian ah! Jiu shi nin zhi yao xuexi dian. Wo hui xie dian. Ye hui kan hao duo de zi. Zhi you xue le 75 xing qi le.

Keshi wo de xuexiao tebie de hen.

English, obviously.

Pig latin to an extent, although I have to think about it for a second or 2.
A few phrases in Maori
A little bit of french (VERY little)
A few words of spanish (counting to 3 and things)
A few words of japanese (hello, counting to 3)


so Basically I speak english.

Fluent in English, conversant in German on a basic level, and a bit of Spanish.

I know just English. But I know simple phrases in Italian, and hope to learn more languages. Among them:
-Spanish (this is a must learn for me)
-Hebrew
-Arabic
-Russian
-Japanese
and perhaps Chinese.

I don't know any languages.

Not even English? :p

You seem to know English. :confused:

Grr... who gave you permission to use MY joke?:p

I speak English (and quite fluently).
Can speak Spanish well enough to hold a conversation (also I need it to talk with my wife, who speaks almost no English).
And-ay I-ay an-cay eak-spay ig-pay atin-lay etty-pray ell-way oo-tay.

I speak...umm...English

and VERY limited Spanish

but I need to learn Spanish...
In case the whole mandatory service thing happens in the US

english, and some elvish, quenya not sindarin

english

German

some main frazes in Japanese

I wish to learn some Korean

German - mother tongue
English
tiny itsy bit French

Some Americans on these forums can't even speak English that well...

English and Italian (Sicilian Dialect)

English and German fluently, French somewhat. I can read a couple other languages that are related to those three if the vocabulary isn't too complicated.

English, fluently
Spanish, pretty much enough to get by, but not used it for a few yrs so would take a while to get back into it
Basics like yes, no, please and thank you in French and German, prob a bit more than that, but not enough to hold a proper conversation
Can just about maybe work out the gist of written French and Italian
A few words in Welsh (lol, u can learn to count in Welsh if u're stood at a train station waiting for a delayed train! :p)

English
Spanish - I can talk in spanish if the other talks slow, can write it, but I suck at the grammar despite how simple it is

Planning to minor in German in College.

English is my mother tongue.
In the last two years I have learned Portuguese.
I can read and understand Spanish, Italian and a little Romanian (basically all very similar Latin based languages).
Unfortunately I am dyslexic so spelling totally escapes me, thank goodness for spell check.
If you want to learn one Latin based language, learn Portuguese. It is much harder than the rest but once you have Portuguese you can learn the rest very easily.

English, obviously
German, mother tongue
Tiny bit french, never liked it so i didnt pay attention in class
Latin, reading/translating skills, though the leave me more and more without need for practice
Enough Dutch to follow a conversation and some times participate, but my accent is horrible and i just picked it up in the belgian family, so no formal education

i am fluent in Hebrew and English.
i speak (very bad) french and very little because six years worth of french lessons in school can only take you so far. (and i forgot it the moment i left the school:)
few words of mandarin (hello, goodbye, thank you etc...)
few words dutch, arabic and italian.

and a bit of latin

I can speak Croatian, my mother tongue and I can also speak fluent English (will "major" in it).

I can also "communicate" in Italian, although not too well, an I know some German and Spanish.

One interesting fact - my friend learned to speak excellent Spanish just by watching Mexican soap opers.

English is my native language. I know a little bit of Thai (enough to get by on), I can understand it more than i can speak it. I know a little Japanese, a smattering of Spanish, and a smattering of French. Someday I would like to be fluent in Thai, Mandarin, and Japanese.

I speak English and Malay fluently and I can also speak some Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin and Hokkien. And when I say some...I mean very little..(though I do understand faintly when spoken at in French and some of these languages)

I also plan to master Japanese and Spanish by the way..very soon :)

Im canadian and i speak english but i can speak french aswell. Also i can speak some italian and armenian

english and cajun-french

English, some Spanish, and one phrase of Arabic. lol

pu tong hua he ying yu dou hui shuo.

TRANSLATION: I can speak standard Chinese (Mandarin) and English.

I have the native tongue of Digipigeonese.

wo ye hui shuo pu tong hua! dan shi bu hui du bu hui xie... wen meng :(

TRANSLATION: I also (know how to...the translation of hui) speak Mandarin!

But I don't know how to write it.......dunno the last two words though...I think the last word is "crap" though .

Well, I'm a Chinese-New Zealander (New Zealand born and raised) and my English (which I'm fluent at) is better than my Cantonese (can understand it better than speak it) .
Learning Mandarin at the moment.
I can introduce myself in Japanese, and know a few words in Spanish, German, can read French alright and a few words of Maori of course since I live in New Zealand.

I'm 16 :P

peck peck zzt tweet peck chirp tweet pzz ztt zzt zzzzzt peck peck zzt chirp

Obviously english :rolleyes:

But i'm conversational in French and Japanese.

I'm fluent in English and French, and have an adequate arsenal of Yiddish swear words. I learned Mandarin for a few years, but ultimately found it beyond my abilities. I can only remember a few words now- although I can say "May I please go to the restroom" perfectly.

Nederlands
Frans
Engels
Duits
Beetje Italiaans, klein beetje Roemeens.

Spijtig genoeg geen Spaans noch Portugees :(

I can speak Latvian,English,and Russian fluently.My German is pretty rough,but I know enough to survive.

I speak English, my native tounge, enough to have made my english teacher mad in high school.

ia peasay iglatinpay ellway

english and some french, and a line of spanish.

aubruin

English

Spanish

Drunk
Gibberish

And most fluent of all of them
Computer geek

english
nederlands
deutsch
français

fluent English, French and Spanish

a bit of German and Latin

i've just started learning Polish and Slovakian and am going to start Japanese in September

i can say i love you in about 12/13 languages

native speaker of English,

enough Spanish and Italian to live somewhere either is spoken.


and I won't starve in France, but that's restaurant French, not conversational.

Swedish, English and my Norwegian's not bad, as it's so similar to Swedish. Danish as well, but that's a little harder. ... And, when I'm drunk it's hard to tell which of these I am speaking, if any of them at all!

Siljhouettes
Conas atá tu? / Cadea má tá tu?

I really wish my knowledge of Welsh and Irish were reversed
Tá me go maith, ceapaim.

english, and some elvish, quenya not sindarin
Quenya? This means you are 1337, doesn't it?

does anyone else out there speaks an asian language that is neither Chinese or Japanese?

does anyone else out there speaks an asian language that is neither Chinese or Japanese?
I can say "Stop" and "Cat" in Japanese, but that's about it.

I know quite a few insults in Chinese though.

However I speak English ('fluently'), French (badly), and Latin (Die dulci fruere).*

And also, 1337, which isn't exactly the harddest thing to do. Anyone vaguely clever can figure it out quickly.







*OK, I lie, I have a Latin Phrase book. In case I invent a time machine I suppose.

i speak german, english and very bad french

i said...other than chinese or japanese.....what happened to Laos, Hindi, Thai, Indonesian, Bengali, Pashto...etc.? french, dutch, german, spanish, and english are becoming redundant

German (my native tongue), English (fluently in speaking and writing) and I forgot my French. Though there wasn´t much to forget, hehehe. I can understand a bit though.

i said...other than chinese or japanese.....what happened to Laos, Hindi, Thai, Indonesian, Bengali, Pashto...etc.? french, dutch, german, spanish, and english are becoming redundant
i can say i love you in Thai

And also, 1337, which isn't exactly the harddest thing to do. Anyone vaguely clever can figure it out quickly.
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Is this suppose to be a British joke? Anyway: what is that supposed to mean? The begining of the French-English war?

I used to speak French and Spanish ok and read Latin, but it has been so long since I've had a need to use them, probably I couldn't get by so well in either any more. :(

I speak:
Dutch (native language)
English (when I worked in the European support center of a US company, some people of UK offices actually thought I was Brittish :) )
I can read (and utter some simple sentences and understand sentences if not spoken too fast):
German
French (a little bit)

I did Latin in high school, but can only remember vague poems like (from my mind and translated quite freely):
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior
(I hate and love you. Why am I doing this, you might wonder.
I do not know, but I feel it happening and it is hurting me.)
(Catullus, De Lesbia)
And frases like:
"Quidquid id est, timeo danaos et dona ferentes"
(Whatever may be, I fear the Greek, even if they bare gifts)
(Vergilius, Aeneid)

I speak English, Bahasa (Indonesian), and Latin.

I speak Americanized English fluently, obviously.

I'm also capable of forming mildly coherent sentences in French, Spanish, Italian, and German.

I'm learning Greek.

English as a native language. With a bit of brushing up, I can speak Spanish and Russian.

i can say i love you in Thai
how DO you say "i love you" in thai?

This is from another thread

My native tongues are West-Flemish dialect and Dutch.

They are similar, but different. They have some common roots in the languages spoken by the Franks and the Saxons.

I learnt my first English from TV when I was six. What subtitled cartoons aren't good for. (Thundercats, some Hanna-Barbera stuff, etc. ) English classes didn't come until 8th grade.

French since I was 10 or so. (mandatory from 5th grade on)

German, still learning. Now at college level, for commercial purposes.

English- my native tongue, fluent

Spanish- also fluent- grandmother and other family members taugh me I am 1/4 hispanic blood while my mother is half and my grandmother is full

I speak some french and japanese but am not yet fluent in either

A little korean

I should work on taking some latin and hebrew classes

I

- speak German and English fluently (both my native tongue, I'm a so called 'TCK - Third Culture Kid', that's when you belong to neither one culture 100%)

- am able to translate Latin (with a little help from a translation dictionary)

- understand Lëtzebuergisch

- know a tiny bit of Italian

- remember a few words and phrases in Spanish, French and Japanese

- can order beer and say 'I love you' in Polish :D

- understand Lëtzebuergisch




What the..... :confused:

I

- understand Lëtzebuergisch


But you aren´t from Luxemburg??
Well, I shortly watched it in TV. It is something between German and French. And they didn´t had a translator for it. I understood a bit though.

I speak Cantonese and English fluently. mandarin is ok, can hold out short conversations, but cannot keep the english and Cantonese out of it.

Spanish, English, and rudimentary Latin

I speak Cantonese and English fluently. mandarin is ok, can hold out short conversations, but cannot keep the english and Cantonese out of it.

Haha, sounds exactly like me.

Anyways, I'm actually relatively impressed. Most people on here seem to be able to speak at least 2 languages fluently and know a bit of several other languages.

Most the people I know can only speak English and a little bit of French... (since it's mandatory to take it for 6 years here... )

English
a little Spanish
a little German
a couple of words in French

and I want to learn Arabic or Russian

Only English. I'm going to learn Latin in college...that or Greek. Although, I'd say I have a pretty good grasp on Latin for not having any classes or studying the language just from what I pick up on in the English language.

I was born and raised in Australia, but I spent many years working in Hong Kong and China over the years. So I'm fluent in Cantonese and Putongwa ('Common Speak' AKA Mandarin). I don't use pinyin 'words' though, there are several important subtilties that it fail to address, and misunderstandings can occur very frequently.

I can read in it like any Chinese native, even their Classical Literature ('Romances of the Three Kingdoms' and 'The Water Margin' are my favorites). But whenever I try to write in it, people say 'it just doesn't look right'.

Hope to learn Russian one day. Then I'd be quadlingual.

JiangGuo <-

I speak English, and I'm pretty literate in French (I've had eight years of classes in school), I can speak basic Russian, just conversational because my Baba is from Russia, and I just started taking Japanese

What's a Baba?

English. A bit of Japanese.

A lady who used to take care of me.. We treat her like family...
Baba in Russian kind of translates to Auntie

English, Latin, German, Japanese, and one phrase of Spanish. "¿Dónde están mis pantalones?" More than likely that's wrong, but that's as far as my Spanish can take me. I should take up Italian so I can be able to speak in any former Axis country. woo.

You said, were are there my pants, no n necessary.
I speak english and understand spanish because I border on Mexico. Unfortunately here in the U.S. we border Canada and Mexico so they tell us to just pick any language to learn. Most of us choose spanish and don't commit. We end up learning just english and spatterings of other languages because we lack any real conversational environment.

Mexico survival kit
donde esta el bano....where is the bathroom
donde esta el fiesta grande...where is the big party
que es su nombre...what is your name
donde esta el choche...where is the car
Yo tengo dinero...I have money (for the police when they are arresting you for wandering streets drunk looking for your car)
Yo necesito el telefono...I need a phone
hahahah

i speak dutch, english, french and german and i can read latin and greek (ancient).

You said, were are there my pants, no n necessary.
I speak english and understand spanish because I border on Mexico. Unfortunately here in the U.S. we border Canada and Mexico so they tell us to just pick any language to learn. Most of us choose spanish and don't commit. We end up learning just english and spatterings of other languages because we lack any real conversational environment.

Mexico survival kit
donde esta el bano....where is the bathroom
donde esta el fiesta grande...where is the big party
que es su nombre...what is your name
donde esta el choche...where is the car
Yo tengo dinero...I have money (for the police when they are arresting you for wandering streets drunk looking for your car)
Yo necesito el telefono...I need a phone
hahahah
Chupa me...You look beautiful.
Hijo de puta...I don't agree with what you are doing.

German, English and moderately good French over here. Would like to learn Spanish as well

English, some Spanish, and one phrase of Arabic. lol

If I dare ask.. what might that one phrase be? :p

Chupa me...You look beautiful.
Hijo de puta...I don't agree with what you are doing.

hahahaha.

don't forget

Que te folles un pesce. = where's the fish market
Una polla como una olla = I don't believe you

english
french
spanish
some italian/portuguese/Norwegian/Catalan

Dutch, German, English & some French (when I'm not too drunk)

Flemish
English
Limburgs

And i can understand french and german.
if a german understands flemish and a belgian understands german,
why the hell should i learn german then ?

Flemish
It is not a language on its own. Stop confusing the foreigners.

Limburgs

if a german understands flemish
As much as I understand Danish yeah :rolleyes:


and a belgian understands german,
Half the Walloons speak as much German as the ordinary Frenchman. Which is none. And the rest of the country is not so good in it either.

why the hell should i learn german then ?

Because of economic interests, and because it's the third official language.