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Now Answer! :D (Please include your first language when you post!)

3.

Dang It! I Forgot Poll! Dang It, Dang It, Dang It!!! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :sniper: :eek: :mp5:

5

Icelandic
English
Norwegian
Swedish
German

Want to learn Scottish Gaelic.

English,Spanish,French and Arabic... Yes I grew up in America :p

Dang It! I Forgot Poll! Dang It, Dang It, Dang It!!! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :sniper: :eek: :mp5:

You can still add a poll you know...

3, including English.

One well
One partially well
Three that I'm trying to learn, but suck at.

You can still add a poll you know...

How?

what? how many languagues do we know of 'cause in that case around 30, but if you mean languagues se can speak then one

English and Spanish, though with a heavy accent. I can read it reasonably well though.
And if pointing and grunting counts as the universial language, three.

Fluently: 1 (English)
Competently: 2 (French and German)
Can get by: 1 (Spanish)
How to read the alphabet but not necessarily understand: 1 (Greek)
How to say only basic greetings: 3 (Italian, Portugese, Japanese)

In total that's knowledge of eight languages!

1.33

One well
One partially well
Three that I'm trying to learn, but suck at.

I know English, Learning German, And want to know Polish, Russian, and Chinese.

How?

The top right of the thread starting post is a thing called "Thread Tools," it should be in a drop down menu that becomes available when you click it.:)

like... 1.2
I speak english, and am "learning" spanish. High school spashish, woo

None

I know English, Learning German, And want to know Polish, Russian, and Chinese.
I know English, took four years of Spanish in school and grew up in a bilingual community in Texas, and I'm trying to learn Icelandic, Finnish, and Latin. I had a sememster of Latin, but they kicked me out.
:(

The top right of the thread starting post is a thing called "Thread Tools," it should be in a drop down menu that becomes available when you click it.:)

Thank you!! You stopped me from getting mad and killing people! Now, go have a cookie, and know you deserved it!

4 if gibberish counts as a language:p

Thank you!!

You are quite welcome!;)

English: first language, can speak it fluently (except when I'm over-tired >.>)

German: I can say 'Hey, that's my hamburger!' (strangely enough, the title of the first chapter of the german textbook...) and count almost all the way to ten. I can translate a little bit more from German to English, but that's mostly guesswork and vaguely-remembered lessons.

Italian: After seven years learning it at school I know how to count to roughly a thousand (I don't know what 'one thousand' is though), can say 'cat' and 'dog' in both gender forms and in plural, and fish. If I saw the basic colours or weather types written in Italian I could probably translate them. If I know the basic content of a piece in Italian I can usually work out some of the more specific meanings.

Latin: Laudo. Can't do any of the fancy grammar things. Learnt it for three years, this was the very first word we learnt, and it's all I can remember.

Soooo... that's 4, right?

English: first language, can speak it fluently (except when I'm over-tired >.>)

German: I can say 'Hey, that's my hamburger!' (strangely enough, the title of the first chapter of the german textbook...) and count almost all the way to ten. I can translate a little bit more from German to English, but that's mostly guesswork and vaguely-remembered lessons.

Italian: After seven years learning it at school I know how to count to roughly a thousand (I don't know what 'one thousand' is though), can say 'cat' and 'dog' in both gender forms and in plural, and fish. If I saw the basic colours or weather types written in Italian I could probably translate them. If I know the basic content of a piece in Italian I can usually work out some of the more specific meanings.

Latin: Laudo. Can't do any of the fancy grammar things. Learnt it for three years, this was the very first word we learnt, and it's all I can remember.

Soooo... that's 4, right?

I can count all the way to 100 in German. Want me to teach you?

Edit: I'm not sure if 1/4 of a language really counts, sorry..

Someone voted that he knew more than 7 languages. Aelius Hadrianus, Tell us about your accomplishment! :D

I can count all the way to 100 in German. Want me to teach you?

Will it be on my final exam? :p

Edit: I'm not sure if 1/4 of a language really counts, sorry..
Hee, I hardly think any of those count as 1/4 of the respective languages... unless Latin is based entirely around Laudo. Which, knowing the craziness of Latin, it very well might be.

Don't worry, I only voted for knowing 1 on the poll ;)

English is my native tongue, and I am pretty much fluent in Japanese. I took three years of Latin in high school, but now I don't remember a damned thing.

I took three years of Latin in high school, but now I don't remember a damned thing.

Laudo!!!

It's like... to praise... or... I praise... or... well, something to do with praising.

Speak english and french fluently. I speak a few prases here in there in probably a dozen other languages (travel much, helps to learn at least some basics).

2

English (native language)
Tagalog (some)

Will it be on my final exam? :p

I don't know, maybe. Maybe something you'd like to know?

English is my native tongue, and I am pretty much fluent in Japanese. I took three years of Latin in high school, but now I don't remember a damned thing.

I know some basic greetings from Japanese, but not enough to give me another step ahead.

English (native language)
Español (to an extent)
Esperanto (to an extent)

Western Massachusetts American English is my first langauage (I'll note for those of you who think that all Yankees speak the same that in Western Mass we know that "r" is a consonant)

I hope to learn a lot more langauges.

I'm learning Spanish both becuase it's useful, and because it's helpful to learn another langauge.

I'm examining Esperanto to see how it's put together, and in the process picking much of it up.

3

English

Russian (Russkiy yazyk)

Chechen (Noxchiin Mott)

2

English (native language)
Tagalog (some)
Tagalog?
How interesting!

English is the primary, but I do know a lot of French and a tiny bit of Japanese.

Tagalog?
How interesting!
Tagalog. Weird language. Heard it all my live and I still don't understand it.

Tagalog. Weird language. Heard it all my live and I still don't understand it.

It's pretty easy, actually.

It's pretty easy, actually.
I don't think so.

I speak 1, I speak english, I am LEARNING Latin, I have no idea what for as I do not plan on being in the medical or law fields, i just enjoy it. I can understand minimal french, but i can understand more latin than french... sad i know, since i live in canada and french is our second language and latin is a dead language... hey, i'm a geek, what can i say?

English, of course, and German.

Ich muss bald schlaffen.

I'm still trying to learn Dutch in my spare time.

I speak English and Cajun fluently, have competent knowledge of Hebrew, am learning Arabic, and want desperately to learn that African Bushman language with the clicks and grunts. Seriously.

Fluent English (naive language)
some French (a decent amout)
some Spanish (not alot)
some Romanian (basic greetings, questions, plus i can count to 99)

English, of course, and German.

Ich muss bald schlaffen.

I'm still trying to learn Dutch in my spare time.
It's schlafen. One f.

It's schlafen. One f.
A typo doubtlless.

A typo doubtlless.
uh huh.

English and Hebrew

Full Languages:

English (Primary)

Partial:

Spanish (I can forumalte some sentances or basic questions with very limited understanding.)

Fun languages:

Spanglish
"Babanksta!"
Hick
Blonde
Various other non-official languages

:)

Fluent in English

I can get by in French
I have a nice grammatical understanding of Latin
I'm learning Arabic
I'm teaching myself a little bit of Greek.

Kudos to those out there trying to learn Arabic, it's a hell of a language! :)

Fluently: Danish
Competently: Norwegan, Swedish, English, German
And some more... If you give a week or two :D

Harry "The Bastard" (English is not my native language)

Fluent: English ('Tis my first language)

Semi-Fluent: French (Four years of French class, I know a li'l bit.)

Other: Japanese (Greetings and random phrases, like "Watashi wa kawaii desu!")
Sign Language (At one point in my lfie my friend and I decided to learn sign language, and studied for a summer. We were nine at the time, and we learnt very little, but it was fun.)
Spanish (I can count to ten! :D)

Would Like to Learn: Irish/Scottish Gaelic, Japanese, French (Fluently)

Edit: Wait, I forgot! I'm also fluent in pig-latin.

Native: English
GCSEs in: Latin, French, German. (still doing Latin in America)
Teaching myself: Finnish.
1 term's worth of Italian.
Greetings etc in: Mandarin and Russian.
Swear words in: Portugese, Afrikaans, Japanese, Spanish...and could look up others in my little book.
I love:
"Ich liebe dein Kinder. Wievel kostet die Junge?"
and:
"Ich habe in etwas gesteppt. Ja, es ist dein Land."

My first language is English, I'm also thisclose to fluent in Spanish.

I'm okay with French and German as well, and have very, very basic Japanese skills.

I should have gotten my mum to teach more Mandarin than she did....she could at least have given me a Chinese middle name :(

GCSEs in: Latin, French, German. (still doing Latin in America)

I love:
"Ich liebe dein Kinder. Wievel kostet die Junge?"
Pervert.

Fluently : English and Bahasa Melayu

Can get by: Cantonese and Hokkien

Can listen but rarely understand : Japanese

Main: English
Secondary: Spanish(I live in Panama, so I can read and write Spanish very well, but I sound like an Uber-Gringo)
I want to learn: Arabic, German, Portugese, French, and Romanian. Yes, that's alot of languages, but my dad speaks English, Spanish, French, Portugese, and Bengali, so multi-lingualism runs in my veins ;).

English is my first language. I can speak a smattering of French, Afrikaans and Zulu.

I'd like to speak all of those better, as well as Mandarin, Hindi (my 'mother tongue' in a way) and a whoe lot more...

Fluently: English and Mandarin

I know English, as I'm an American. (Yes, you Brits think it's not English, I know) And I took German in school. I've also picked up some random words from other random languages.

English fluently.
I'm becomming quite proficient in Sumerian, and in Taino.. well, the more I use them.
I can read French and Spanish enough to get by, and understand it, but can't speak it for the life of me. Same with German in many instances.
Learning Arabic (Slowly), and Japanese, can't formulate sentences yet because I'm lazy.

3 (or maybe 5 if you like to include Norwegian and Danish - or then again maybe 4 if you like to include them but leave out French because I'm not fluent... hmm... depends on the criteria you use to decide "whether you know a language"... because actually, I know of many languages, however there are not so many that I can actually speak!)

Swedish : Mother-tongue

So, therefore also a good/fluent understanding of Norwegian and Danish.

English: Fluent

French I studied this back in my school-days, but I'm not as good as I would like to be (mainly because I have forgotten so much - I think if I spent some time in a French-speaking country it would come back to me...

Estonian - First language
English - :D
Finnish - Good
Russian - Adequate
French - Good
Latin - Am able to understand and translate some, but can't speak it. Yet.

How fluent do I have to be to count it? As a result, I did not vote.

English - Native
German - Adequate
Spanish - Enough to hold a job as a bouncer in a spanish speaking nightclub

German, native tongue
English, pretty well
French, horrible, but i would survive in France
Dutch, no formal education, but i can make everyday conversations and read the newspapers with ease.
Too bad i took up latin in school, else i could be better in french or have added spanish.

dutch (nederlands), english (english), german (deutsch), french (français)

Swedish - Native language
Serbian - My 2nd language (and through knowing Serbian I also know Croatian)
English - Excellent (:D)

And I can understand spoken Norwegian and some danish, if they are nice to repeat it :P a few times.

And some german as well.

Dutch - native
English - excellent
Spanish -basic
French -basic
German - good
Irish - learning

I have a shocking announcement to make!
I don't actually know English, I'm just hitting random keys, and for some reason it's come out meaning something vaguely related to the topic every time through sheer coincidence.

Unfortunately I can only speak English and after six years of French at school I can still hardly speak a world of it.

I speak English and Cajun fluently, have competent knowledge of Hebrew, am learning Arabic, and want desperately to learn that African Bushman language with the clicks and grunts. Seriously.

"That African Bushman language" could be Xhosa. Xhosa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_language)
A language with... interesting consonants.

4, but I once knew some Latin and Ancient Greek too. Plus some random words in a couple of other languages

Just 2;

English is my first language, and I can just about understand and speak Scouse.

How well do we have to know them to claim to know them?

I have taken 3.5 years of Spanish, can I claim to "know" it?

My native language is the good old german. With its... extensive grammar, structural weirdness (p.e. in one word the same letter three times in a row) and its characterless articulation. Anyways, it's better to have german as native language than to learn it from scratch. Much easier, i think. :D
Well, second spoken language is english, learned it at school and at home (my grandpa came from America as a soldier and later settled to Germany because of my german grandma) and i got french at school for three years. But I'm pretty poor at it. Salut!

Now Answer! :D (Please include your first language when you post!)
first language: english
learned language: german (up to GCSE level, so not fluent, but am ok holding conversations with my mum & family, who are german).
hey wow, opposite to Boonien...


tried french & spanish... just couldn't get on with em. plus i hated my spanish teacher.

First language: English
Second language: Spanish

I dont speak the second one very well though, thats what happens when you don't use it.

Just English :(

I travel a lot, and can pick up languages fairly easily, at least conversationally, but within a few weeks of getting home, I've forgotten it all again. I find it difficult to practice other languages because so many people speak English so well that opportunities are limited. (When I was in Indonesia, my attempt at speaking the local language was taken as an insult as the other party assumed I was implying that he couldn't speak English and was therefore "backward"!)

Fluently : English and Bahasa Melayu

Can get by: Cantonese and Hokkien

Can listen but rarely understand : Japanese
Me not understand you.

in my life, I've learned latin, ancient greek, french, spanish and mandarin. but i can still only speak english. I'm thinking of learning russian next, as i'd like to be unable to say anything useful in russian too.

I put down 3. English is my first language. I'm barely conversational in French and Japanese...I know a few words of Lithuanian, but that doesn't really count.

10, although 1 is dead.

English, Spanish, Portugese, Latin, French, Italian, Cantonese, Farsi, Urdu, and Russian.

Eh, I know how to say "Hello" in French, German, (English of course)... I also know how to say "Yes" and "No" in Russian, German, English, and "yes" in French...

I know a few basic words and sentences from German:
"Wo Wohnst Du?" = Where do you live?
"Du Sprichst ____?" = Do you speak (insert language here)
(For instance, Du Sprichst Russich, or Do you speak Russian)
"Ich heisse _____" = I am called (insert name)

I also know how to say "Oh no" or the equivalent in French, English, and maybe Spanish...

I also know the German phrase "Deutschland uber alles", if that counts...

Sprechen Sie Deutch mir, baby?

I said I can speak 3, but not necessarily well!

English is my native language. As for the 2nd, French, I can speak it when necessary and once I'm in a French-speaking region for a bit I pick it up again. My 3rd is Spanish - I can read it and understand it quite well, but my spoken/written grammar and vocabulary is atrocious. However, I have no doubts that if I spent a couple weeks in Spain or Central/South America, I'd get along just fine. :)

Irish fluent
English fluent
German conversational

Me not understand you.

Nan des ka? :D

English, Spanish, Cree...working on French, pretty good but not completely fluent yet.

i can speak any language, or die trying, if the guy is hot enough.

To all you folks who answered Latin, who exactly do you speak it with? Just curious.

i can speak any language, or die trying, if the guy is hot enough.
:D It's amazing how much communication can be helped by a little show and tell...

I can speak English and Spanish.

I should have wrote three, cause if you know Spanish you are going to be pretty fluent in Italian.

What? Nobody here is speaking Quenya or Klingon? What kind of an INTERNET message board is this supposed to be. ;)

Fran

:D It's amazing how much communication can be helped by a little show and tell...
so true....so true...... :)

I have a shocking announcement to make!
I don't actually know English, I'm just hitting random keys, and for some reason it's come out meaning something vaguely related to the topic every time through sheer coincidence.

Really? :D

If people are putting down all the languages they have knowledge of, then:
1. English (First Language)
2. French (Competent)
3. German, Japanese, Greek (Very Basic)
4. Chinese, Spanish, Portugese (Barely more than greetings:P)

Three language in which I am competent:
English--Great Lakes US, native
French--Parisian, fluent
Spanish--South American, not quite fluent but get on pretty well

I'm not counting Russian and Polish. I have studied both but have lost much for lack of use although when I get around people who speak those or related
languages I can understand a lot and pick back up. For instance my Polish was a great help in Slovakia, as the languages are close. I have fragments of a few others from travel and exposure (German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese) but not enough to claim that I really speak them.

I can speak 3 languages: Hungarian (Mother Tongue)
English (2nd Mother Tongue)
French
Yet, I want to also learn German, Greek, Latin, Portugeese, Dutch, and Thai.

Note: Raised in America, but BOTH parents are 100% Hungarian (came from there)

I can speak 3 languages: Hungarian (Mother Tongue)
English (2nd Mother Tongue)
French
Yet, I want to also learn German, Greek, Latin, Portugeese, Dutch, and Thai.

Note: Raised in America, but BOTH parents are 100% Hungarian (came from there)
Dutch??? Are you insane!

Dutch??? Are you insane!
Obviously the third world language

Obviously the third world language
Naah, the fourth. You forgot Luxembourgian.

Naah, the fourth. You forgot Luxembourgian.
:fluffle: Silly me

Two: English and Japanese.

My first language is English (seeing as I live in America) and I'm learning and can do rather well in French.

russian german fench english

5

Icelandic
English
Norwegian
Swedish
German

Want to learn Scottish Gaelic.

You know five different Germanic languages. You're disqualified to at least 4 (Swedish and Norwegian are mutually intelligible), and possibly to 3 to account for the similarities especially between Icelandic and the Scandinavian languages, even if no single language is *that* close to Icelandic that it'd disqualify itself all alone.

Personally, I know three. Finnish is the mothertongue, and that's a language totally unrelated to the other languages I know, English and Swedish. Of these, English and Swedish are so close that they mix very well to "Svinglish". (Finnish is unrelated to the other European languages, except - of the EU official languages - Estonian and Hungarian.)

Things like articles and that barking, creaking, schwa-saturated Germanic pronunciation are a challenge. "I hear a bear drinks a pint of beer on the pier." Analyticity ("when I had been running around") is sometimes a nuisance, like "jack/jack off" or "rätta/avrätta". The other way ("juoksenneltuani") it's much more difficult =P

3

English

Russian (Russkiy yazyk)

Chechen (Noxchiin Mott)

Cool, are you Chechen? What kind of a language is it, much consonants and little vowels?

No, I am ethnically Great Russian. My mother is Bulgarian, and my father Russian; I was born in Arkhangel'sk. Chechen is an interesting language-kind of musical I guess, kind of guttural as well. Hard to speak in some ways. I picked up Chechen during time with the services, because of the ongoing war in Chechnya and it being useful for at least some federal forces to be able to understand the language.

Decently, two: English and French.

Learning: Latin, Italian, German, Japanese, Welsh

I speak one language. 'Merican.

English, Japanese, and French, in that order. I'm not conversational in Mandarin (although on good days I come close), but I decided to count it anyhow, since I've got comfortable reading knowledge, and can decipher classical texts at a reasonable rate (although my complete lack of a good Confucian education means that most of the cool stuff goes over my head anyways :()

Fluently: English
Decently: Spanish
Enough to swear at/offend people: German, Russian.

I didn't count German or Russian, so two.

English fluently (being that I'm English and all), Spanish pretty well, French and Italian well enough to get by. So 4. I want to learn Dutch, and improve my Italian, but I'm just too lazy.

1. Flemish

2. Laonekers
( Dialect but dialects are the best languages for social life )

3. English
( Even Bush can use it, so everyone can learn it )

4. French ( Understanding : merveilleux speaking : terrible )

I want to learn Russian. :)

But i counted 3 instead of 4. Dialect for 50% and French for 50%. ;)

it just occured to me that beyond my wise ass answer before, i did not answer.
english.
conversational norwegian. i suck at the writing.
rudimentary romanian
i have an allright grasp on italian.
latin- a bit.
bartalkian. if you get that, you get a years supply of fluffles.
but i really suck at foreign languages.

4

English
German
Hindi
French

I answered three, not including different dialects are:
English (English)- Native
Espanol (Spanish)- Almost 2 years HS level
Ivrit (Hebrew) - Enough to get by (unless speaking to an Israeli - my gosh, they speak English faster than I can understand)

In dialects, I can speak American English (American English) and New Jersey English (New Joi-see English). I can speak Chilean Spanish (Espanol Chileano), some Mexican Spanish (Espanol Mexicano), and Spanish Spanish (Espanol de Espana). I can speak Modern Hebrew and some Ancient Hebrew.

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈!

I guess 3 would be an answer. My German isn't for boasting, but..
I'll copy this form..
Fluently: Serbian :p ; English
Decently: German

English
Français III
Deutsch III
Español II

english, learning german, and ebonics.

'choo claimin' dawg? ;)

English as my first language, pretty good French & very rudimentary German.

I guess 3 would be an answer. My German isn't for boasting, but..
I'll copy this form..
Fluently: Serbian :p ; English
Decently: German


Govorish le Srpski? Sorry for bad spelling, my old girlfriend/best friend is Serbian, but she never really taught me much of it. Are you from Yugoslavia?

Fluently: Polish, English
Competently: Spanish
Enough to get by: French
I understand Czech and Slovak
Very Rudimentary: German

Sa polacy tu na forumie?

3:
german is my mother-tongue
english is quite fluent
spanish is ok

and some self taught stuff of "Interlingua", "Esperanto" and French!

:)

What? Nobody here is speaking Quenya or Klingon? What kind of an INTERNET message board is this supposed to be. ;)

Fran
I want to learn Finnish before I try Quenyar. It should help.
I used to be able to read dwarven runes.

To all you folks who answered Latin, who exactly do you speak it with? Just curious.

eh..well, don;t speak it cept to my old latin professor, but i could speak it if the need arose.

English primarily, have taken two semesters of Spanish (From which I mostly got "Yo tomo sangre.", which got me dubbed "El Vampiro").

Currently on my second semester of Japanese, but I'm doing really really badly right now. Barely managed an A last semester, but that this semester we have to write entirely in hiragana.. can't finished the damned tests fast enough because I'm horrible at writing English by hand, much less the hiragana.


Watashi wa screwed desu.

I only know English... but then again i know parts of

German
Vietnamese
Spanish
Chinese
Indonesian

But they don't really count cos i just know stuff like "hello" etc