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Just curious ;)

Fluently? Or at all?

let's say being able to communicate, without perfect grammar (that's allways my weak spot ;))

i know someone that can speak 18 languages...

18?! that's pretty cool! :D
Maybe when you start early you're able to learn that many languages. And I've noticed that the more languages you learn, the easier it goes.

So wich ones do you guys speak?

Me: Dutch, English, German, French

Me: English, French, Dutch.

I want to learn Japanese and/or Chinese, and I've had a go at German.

Me: English, French, Russian

And I want to get started on Euskera or Greek or summat soon.

English and Afrikaans.
And rudimentary Zulu and French.

Me: English and Japanese

I can communicate my ideas with Japanese but I'm not terribly fluent.

English, French, and I took first year Scots Gaelic, but I wouldn't call myself fluent, just able to communicate on a basic level, so I guess only two.

Wow, you guys make me feel so unintelligent: english, and horrible spanish, that's about it....oooh, and pig latin. :) (that counts, right?)

English, Spanish, Vietnamese

Arabic, English, Persian.. Tried French and Spanish.. got sick of em.. I want to learn German though, or Dutch..

fluent: English, Irish
not so fluent: German, french

Three - English, German, French

Working knowledge of Latin

Smattering of Spanish, even less Italian

3: English, German and Dutch.

English, French, and I'd like to learn Chinese

English, GCSE-level French, and enough Spanish to read road signs.

English natively.

French and Japanese at a conversational level, but not really fluent.

I plan to learn at least the basics of Russian and Lithuanian also....possibly Spanish, if my brain can hold that much info ;)

I plan to learn at least the basics of Russian and Lithuanian also....
Lol, so then can you tell 'In Soviet Russia' jokes in Russian!

Four.

Dutch, English, French, German. My Dutch and English are fine. I manage well in French with some effort. German is a little harder for me.

I even study for interpretor-translator, for commercial and business purposes. Bachelor's degree, falls under "office management" (think "secretary") in my college. It's not that easy. I'm a long way from perfection.

Lol, so then can you tell 'In Soviet Russia' jokes in Russian!

When I go on exchange to Russia, I'm so doing that.

And then they'll send me back in time to the GULAG. But it'll be fun while it lasts.

English, Spanish, French, Latin. Used to speak a bit of Dutch but that was years ago. Oh, and about five words of Maori.... :)

I have a friend who's making it his life's work to find out how to say "If you don't stop touching my bottom, I'm going to call the Police" in as many languages as possible. :p

Peace,

Ook.

Lol, so then can you tell 'In Soviet Russia' jokes in Russian!

LOL. Never thought of that :p

When I go on exchange to Russia, I'm so doing that.

And then they'll send me back in time to the GULAG. But it'll be fun while it lasts.

They'll probably throw back "In Corporate America" jokes ;)

I have a friend who's making it his life's work to find out how to say "If you don't stop touching my bottom, I'm going to call the Police" in as many languages as possible. :p

Thats a good one to learn, but I have a better one.

There was a Polish girl at my school that I fancied a couple of years ago, who wouldn't have part of me. It was pretty bitchy between us after that, and one day, I had a Croat friend who taught me how to say "When she bends over, I can see her arse crack through her dress" in Croatian, and said it one day when in her general vicinity. Turns out that just as i thought, the languages are pretty similar. My right shin had a nasty bruise for a week or so. :D

(Unfortunately, now i've forgotten how to say it :( I think I wrote it down somewhere...)

i speak english natively but also german and french and have an understanding of czech and polish, and can get the odd word out of italian dutch and spanish.

I have a friend who's making it his life's work to find out how to say "If you don't stop touching my bottom, I'm going to call the Police" in as many languages as possible. :p


Here's a present for that friend of yours: "Als je nog es aan mijn kont zit bel ik de politie" ;)

I have a road-sign in my studentflat with 'sick in the head' in about 30 languages. I still don't have any african languages on it though, so if someone could help me there :)

I want to learn German though, or Dutch.. Go Dutch! :D It's a pretty hard language to learn and only 30 milion ppl speak it worldwide, and eh oh well..

I plan to learn at least the basics of Russian and Lithuanian also....
Fascinated. :) As I'm from Lithuania myself.
Personally, my mother tongue is Lithuanian but I am also able to speak nicely in English and not so nicely, but well anyway, in Russian. I've been learning French for about 4 months therefore now I can understand what is written on the papers but to talk...that's a challenge for me.
German... Six years of learning and I still can't understand why, for God's sake, I chose it instead of something really more interesting.

Fascinated. :) As I'm from Lithuania myself.

My grandfather is from there, and i'd like to be able to communicate with my other relatives, so thats why :)

I Speak English and bad English... ya know.. American. I know Pidgen English, a smattering of Austrailan, and a few words of Japanese.

I speak English (native tongue), and French to a reasonable degree. I tried learning Latin at one point but couldn't find the time amongst my college work and professional time-wasting to do it.

I speak English & French (français) both fluently. Plus German (deutsch), Finnish (suomi) & Japanese (nihongo) in small doses.

Does that include dead languages, such as Latin?

My grandfather is from there, and i'd like to be able to communicate with my other relatives, so thats why :)
Hmm... Well, that's what I figured. I guess not many people are interested in learning one of the hardest modern european languages, which is only spoken by not more than 4-5 million people worldwide, aren't they? :p

4 languages: Finnish, Swedish (not very well), English, Russian (slightly better than Swedish)

English, French; an embarrassing smattering of Spanish, and I can read a very little bit of Chinese - enough to navigate a menu.

Hmm... Well, that's what I figured. I guess not many people are interested in learning one of the hardest modern european languages, which is only spoken by not more than 4-5 million people worldwide, aren't they? :p

Hey, at least you guys use the latin script. Try learning Japanese if you want a challenge :p

How similar is Lithuanian to languages like Polish, just out of curiousity?

English is my mother tongue, and I can just about get away with Spanish. Been learning it for about 7 years now, so I'm not too bad at it.

Learning a language is always a lot easier if you spend time in a country that speaks it.

English is my mother tounge, I've been taking Spanish for three years, (strait A's), Esperanto, and basic rudimentery ideas in Latin. I've also tried to learn Russian, Polish, and German. So that comes to a total of four languages.

How similar is Lithuanian to languages like Polish, just out of curiousity?
The only language that Lithuanian is really similar to is Latvian (Baltic languages). If I'm not mistaking, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, etc. are Slavonic languages so, I guess, except maybe for a few words and sounds there aren't many similarities.

I can get by in English, French, Spanish and Japanese (and Latin and Ancient Greek if they count).

English is my native language. I lived in Spain for three years so I learned it but am not fluent. I also lived in Thailand for a year a very long time ago so I have forgotten almost all of it. Hey, I figure if you are going to live in a country it's nice to speak at least some of the language.

English and Chinese (mandarin) fluent
German well, i understand everything in films on tv, can communicate with ppl etc but grammar/writin needs improvement
spanish...lol well lets jus say "not so good"
but i wanna start another language in uni...any suggestions?

English, French, Ancient Greek
I can read in Spanish to some extent because of French similarities I suppose, and having friends who speak Spanish fluently (picked bits up), and I can very badly hash my way through reading German.

i wanna start another language in uni...any suggestions?

Dutch :D No seriously, i'd go for French. Really usefull if u'd ever go to Africa, and i think it'll combine nicely with the knowledge of Spanish wich you allready have.

Does that include dead languages, such as Latin?

Sure :) Though i'd be surprised to find someone who can communicate in a dead language ;)

The only language that Lithuanian is really similar to is Latvian (Baltic languages). If I'm not mistaking, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, etc. are Slavonic languages so, I guess, except maybe for a few words and sounds there aren't many similarities.

Yeah, I'm aware that they're different language families. But then, Poland and Lithuania have a common history, so I thought there would have been some mixing of the two. Thanks for clearing it up :)

French, Danish, Dutch, and English be mine.

English and German.

I want to learn Russian and Latin at some point, and maybe Gaelic if I haven't died yet.

I can speak english
und Ich spreche Deutsch
А Я ивграю в футбол.

English, Deutsch, Francais. I also know some basic Danish, but it's very rusty and I doubt I could actually talk to a Dane and have them understand what I'm saying. I could probably write it, but that's not speaking it.

А Я ивграю в футбол.

I didn't know this forum supported cyrillic :) I'd like to learn the cyrillic script by the way, but eh are there different versions of it or just one?

English is my natural language, and I can converse in High German if the other person goes slow enough, although the dialects of the different parts of Germany are beyond me. I can read French, but can neither write it reliably nor speak/understand it when spoken, so it really doesn't count.

English, Polish, Slovak and Spanish, though it is usually possible to understand Czechs, Slovenes and Ukranians.

I also speak "tourist" German -- I can navigate Vienna with my ~250 word German vocabulary. :D

English- what i was raised with
American Sign Language- some may say this is not a language, but i can tell you ASL is not signed english... it has it's own structure and there are six parts to communicating through ASL
I also can speak enough French to get around.

I want to learn Tibetan and Arabic.

I speak American English, Teen American English, Spanish (well, sort of, I'm learning it), and I know the letters in sign language.

I speak:

English and German (both fluent)
Spanish with both Spaniard and South American accents (half-way fluent)
A little bit of Italian
A tiny bit of Dutch and Swedish
A smattering of Turkish

Oh yeah, I had 7 of Latin at school with a average grade of D ;)

Swedish (duh!)
English (have to know this if you want to pass school in Sweden)

and... *drum roll*

Serbian! Yeah! A friend of mine taught me, and I can actually speak it, ;)

And oh, I can communicate in norwegian as well, I cant speak it although I do understand it and like most norwegians understand swedish too so,..

And oh, I did German in school but that went to h*ll, but still I can understand parts of it, ;)

So, about uh, 4 (5), ;)

I might be able to remember Spanish...
I'm learning ASL in school...
American
English
Teen
1337
AOL
Black (a little, anyway)
White
Smilie (you'd be surprised how well you can communicate with only smilies)
Male (gruntese)
Stupid (stupid people seem to have their own language..I speak it well enough to communicate the basics)

And I think that's it :D


Oh, and I know random bits of like, Romanian, Czech, German, and Italian.

А Я ивграю в футбол.

Hmm, that seems to be russian, no?

But I can see something about, uh, football?

My guess would be; "I also play football"? But I am prolly way of..

Swedish
English
Spanish (not fluently)
Norwegian and some Danish (I live in Sweden so i don't know if that counts)

English
Very little Spanish
1337

And I was playing in football. That's what it means, no??

I might be able to remember Spanish...
I'm learning ASL in school...
American

English
Teen
1337
AOL
Black (a little, anyway)
White
Smilie (you'd be surprised how well you can communicate with only smilies)
Male (gruntese)
Stupid (stupid people seem to have their own language..I speak it well enough to communicate the basics)

<sigh> I would like to think he didn't answer the poll taking this into account, but with 6 (SIX!!!) people answering that they know 6 or more languages, it's futile... :(

Anyhooooooo.... My native language is spanish, I speak/read/write english fluently, and I can perfectly communicate (with enough time) by reading/writing Italian.

I can speak, write and understand spoken and written German and English. I can understand spoken Sweedish. Can't speak it or write it though. Nor can I understand it written either.

AOL-speak and text speak aren't really separate languages in my opinion. They rely to heavily on English, and are therefore little more than strange, strange dialects. If you know english, you can basically figure out most of these two.

I'd consider street languages, such as Ebonics and Cockney Rhyming Slang to be separate languages though. Chiefly because the average person can't figure out what is being said.

I am fluent in Russian and English and I can order a taco in very broken Spanish if the need arises.

Swedish English and Swedish sign language fluently.
Can understand Norwegain and Danish (being a Swede, it aint that difficult)
Can understand German, but have problems writing/speaking it.
Know enough American Sign language to at least communicate.
The same with Finnish and Norwegain sign language. (And Brittish sign language, if they sign REALLY slow to me. )

And Bodhis (and everyone else wondering).. Sign languages have been proven to be real languages. We have 2 proffessors in the subject Sign language here, (one deaf) and they have been able to prove that sign languages are real languages, with own grammar, words and syntax (and all that boring stuff ya have to study, when ya study languages *lol* )

(I work as a S.L interpreter, so.. i'm kinda interested in all that stuff :) )

<sigh> I would like to think he didn't answer the poll taking this into account, but with 6 (SIX!!!) people answering that they know 6 or more languages, it's futile... :(

Anyhooooooo.... My native language is spanish, I speak/read/write english fluently, and I can perfectly communicate (with enough time) by reading/writing Italian.


Actually, I haven't done the poll at all lol.

The only real language I speak fluently is English.
I can communicate in Spanish...I think...
And I could probably get by in ASL with a LOT of fingerspelling.

English, and I'm currently in my third year of French.

Actually, I haven't done the poll at all lol.

The only real language I speak fluently is English.
I can communicate in Spanish...I think...
And I could probably get by in ASL with a LOT of fingerspelling.

Ahhh... thanks for putting my mind to rest... :p

I can speak, write and understand spoken and written German and English. I can understand spoken Sweedish. Can't speak it or write it though. Nor can I understand it written either.

Do you know English? Seriously you can speak Swedish but you can't spell the language's name in English.
I know Swedish and English fluently. An O.K. French and I'd like to learn Latin because then you get French, Spanish, Italian and a hell of a lot of other languages for FREE (the basics at least). My friend who knows great latin just had to live in countries for a few weeks and then she understood the language, she even learnt Chinese and Japanese (though I don't see a connection with Latin there she said Latin helped).

AOL-speak and text speak aren't really separate languages in my opinion. They rely to heavily on English, and are therefore little more than strange, strange dialects. If you know english, you can basically figure out most of these two.

I'd consider street languages, such as Ebonics and Cockney Rhyming Slang to be separate languages though. Chiefly because the average person can't figure out what is being said.

Cockney was used by merchants before to be able to communicate prices etc with each other without anyone else understanding what they were saying. It was their secret language (thats why nobody gets what people say when speaking in Cockney).

My native language is English. I also speak Spanish well enough to be asked on a semi-regular basis what Latin American country I'm from.

How many do I currently know? Sadly, one. I take Latin in school, but they must be bad teachers there, because I don't know any of it. But I plan to learn Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese sometime in my life. Maybe a little French, but French is easy. All you have to do is grunt and groan, and you got the language down-pat. jk :).

I speak both English and bad English.

dutch
a bit french
a bit english
a little bit finnish
one word :confused: hungarish
some words spanish

:cool: :D

Fluent English
Pidgeon Spanish

and of course latin ;)

Me: English, French, Dutch.

I want to learn Japanese and/or Chinese, and I've had a go at German.
I speak japanese
it is a lot of fun but judging by the languages that you know
It would be a challenge

I only count the languages I can speak fluently, which would be 2, English and Polish.

english, l337 :p :D :rolleyes:

English, Slightly less than fluent Italian, Enough German for a tourist to get by.

Fluent in English and Russian

English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Urdu

French, English and American ;)

Fluent: English, Afrikaans
Less Fluent: German, Dutch
Barely Able: Swedish

English and French

English and Hebrew. Go Jewboy!

Fluent: Polish, French, English
In the process of learning: Icelandic, Persian/Farsi, and Japanese

I would LOVE to learn Italian, Latin, and some more Swedish!

Fluent: English.
Working knowledge: German.
Trying to learn: Basque.