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Poll coming.

if I misspell anything, please tell me.

Italian, very little German, English, and of course, Pig Latin.

Me Egnlish no so good.

But Spanish, Cree, and some French.

Italian, very little German, English, and of course, Pig Latin.

Parli Italiano? che buono. (This is only my 1st year [out of 2])

And bring on the Italian...I can understand it and Portuguese, even if I can't compose a grammatically correct sentenece in those languages:).

fluently- english and somewhat irish and spanish
lenough to get by- italian
little or nothing- french and german

Me speak good Arabic.

English, quality of speak not same-same like Arabic, but good.

:rolleyes:

I speak both languages fluently.

English, with a 3 years of french and spanish from high school

english of course, french, a little spanish, and some portuguese

English and Italian fluently (well, poor Italian, but good enough to have conversations in it). French, Spanish, and German a smattering of phrases (maybe enough to get by as a tourist in those nations). Polish, a few words, and Latin purely academically.

english, cuz im in the US..

chinese, because i AM chinese...

cantonese, because im from hong kong...

spanish (some), pero no me gusta hablo nada

very very very (cannot stress very enough) little, but im planning to switch to it from spanish.

Russian- DLYA ZEMLI MATIRI!*For the motherland*
English- I live in the U.S.
German- Required for school
Arabic- Lerned this in North Carolina, they don't teach it in yankee schools. ;)
Latin- also required.

God bless the American school program. :D

And who would wanna lern French? Kind of a stupid laguage if you ask me... but maby I'm missing something...

English -original language.
Spanish -fluent, but quite rusty since I haven't used it regularly in 8-10 years or longer.
Hebrew -mostly academic, but came in handy in Israel several years ago.

Languages I can pronounce well enough to sing (in addition to the above):
Italian, Latin, German, and limited French (although I can sometimes guess the gist of these when I see them.)

Luxembourgish (mothertongue)
French, German, English (fluent)
Spanish (well..not as fluent, but good enough for the exams I hope)
Latin (already forgot everything)
Chinese (a tiny little bit)

German, Spanish, English and of course....Romanian

And who would wanna lern French? Kind of a stupid laguage if you ask me... but maby I'm missing something...
Yeah...like the fact that your northern neigbour is a bilingual country, and if a Canadian wants a government job, they'd better learn French.

But Canadians also speaks English. And English has more uses then French.

*But Arabic and Russian really don't... :( *

My mother tongue in Dutch (it is "Nederlands" by the way)
I speak quite some english.
French, a bit
German, easy to understand, hard to speak
I can read some Latin textes
And last but not least, the international language, I speak Esperanto.
You should all learn it, it is way easier to learn than any other language I learned before, it's spoken by about 2 million people all over the world so wherever you go, there will always be an Esperantist nearby to help you communicate with the locals. For more information about this beautiful language, go to our region "Esperanto" where the language is really spoken. If you want to learn it, go to www.lernu.net

Nico

By the way, English isn't an option, yet everyone speaks it. (Or do we?...Peut-être je me suis trompé.)

I also speak Russian, French, Macedonian, and about two words in Albanian.

2 Million people isn't that manny...

There are 290 Million in the U.S. alone...

I'm fairly fluent in Spanish.

I know some Italian (Spanish and Italian are very close... if I ran out of Italian in Italy, I used Spanish and was understood at least vaguely), less French and German, and a very little bit of Russian, Japanese and Czech.

Japanese: Wa ta shi Tom des. Konichiwa. etc.
Czech: Dobry den; noskladanno.
Russian: Sto eto. Ja dipa loobloo.

Dutch= Nederlands

EDIT: ow

Mainly English. Well, nearly entirely English.

I spent five years at school learning French, so naturally I know one sentence and can count to six.

I also failed at learning German, Italian and Turkish.

Does Makaton count? You don't speak it, you gesture it, but with my limited skills I have to run with the little I've got.

I speak English, Spanish, very fluent in Klingon and know enough entmoot to get me by Fangorn forest.

Trying to learn Swedish by reading the Swedish news

Trying to learn Swedish by reading the Swedish news

spend a few days in northern wisconsin and you'll have the accent down.

hard vowels... very little rounding.

o is o ... not ehoo

Very well: English (u.s. born)
well: Greek (Ellinika - wife is Greek, must know Greek)
poorly: German (studied 5 years, can barely get by)
studied: Latin, Japanese (it's Nihongo, BTW), Italian, Spanish (these I only know some words and a bit how the language works/grammar)

German (mothertongue)
Engliish (9 years of it at school)
Spanish (3)
French (2)
Latin (4), though I do not speak it

English was my first language, my second was Spanish.

I'm still trying to teach myself Finnish(and for the most part failing miserably).
I am interested in Icelandic and Irish Gaelic as well.

I'm an italo-french and live in the UK... I also speak and understand a little of Spanish, Russian and Estonian (the latter is a hard nut to crack, though!).
Like many italians I also studied latin and ancient greek, though obviously I was thought to read and translate, not really speak them. I'm not a recent elector of Pope Benedictus XVI ;)
Is there any other learner of Estonian around? The few foreigners I know who have tried it found it fiendishly difficult too...

English - I am English
German - Got taught it at school
Italian - I have relatives in Italy and therefore know a little (very little)

Dude.

What Haken Rider said

Well, I'm very good with British English, and reasonable with American English... I also know a little French and German.

I can understand Russian... though speaking/reading/writing is beyond me.

-I can (sadly) speak excellent English, because I was born in the US.
-I have 2 years of German under my belt, so I can basically hold a conversation (but struggle to do it).
-I want to learn Dutch, because, after all, who doesn't like wee--- I mean the culture of the Netherlands?
-I want to learn Latin, because it's the root language of so many it's not even funny.
-I MAY want to learn a romantic language, such as French, Italian or Spanish. Probably not, though, because I feel weird speaking their languages. I think I like Germanic languages better.

-I can ... speak excellent English, because I was born in the US.

That sounds like a non sequitur to me. *runs*

Well, I'm very good with British English, and reasonable with American English... I also know a little French and German.
To speak American English: drop every form of grammar you have ever learned.

Also, spell grammar "grammer". There was some survey I read that said, like, 80% of Americans say that's how you spell it.

Try adding "dog" to the beginning and end of all your sentences.

Oh, and drop the "u" from favorite and neighborhood. ;)

I speak only two languages: Good English and Bad English (lol)
And a little bit of spanish, not enough to start up a conversation though.

To speak American English: drop every form of grammar you have ever learned.

Also, spell grammar "grammer". There was some survey I read that said, like, 80% of Americans say that's how you spell it.

Try adding "dog" to the beginning and end of all your sentences.

Oh, and drop the "u" from favorite and neighborhood. ;)

There are of course, matters of pronunciation too, like the letter 'o' (e.g. in 'dog') and pronouncing the 'r' at the end of syllables (e.g. 'father')

I speak English (because it's what i'm writing this in), Spanish and Portuguese (because they're the official languages of the Confederacy of Iberic States and i'm spanish), and French (because I've been studying it for 5 years). I also understand Galician (and probably speak it too, or something similar by mixing spanish and portuguese :( ).

I speak English (my education language) and Arabic (mothertongue). I want to learn Russian. Does anyone have any idea about its difficulty?

PS. I see Arabic is becoming a bit more popular in the US now than it used to be years before. Must be due to the ongoing events.

English- fluent
Tagalog- so-so

I speak English, Eace Anguage (It's a language my friends made up, EXTREMELY easy to learn), and Pig Latin fluently ;) , and then a bit of Spanish, American Sign Language, and Latin, than a TINY, MICROSCOPIC bit of German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Chinese, Italian, Swahili, Native American, and a buncha other foreign/ancient languages, due to my fascination with them all. I'm also familar with Ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs, but that isn't a spoken language. So... yeah. :p

I want to learn Russian. Does anyone have any idea about its difficulty?
I can speak Russian, but it's only my second year. That's where my nation name comes from-it means "tourist sites" in Russian. (But don't worry, not all of the words are that long :) ) The hardest part is learning all of the endings. It has cases, like dative, accusitive, prepositional, etc, and you need to remember a new set of endings for each case. The alphabet is actually pretty easy to learn, but it takes awhile to say all the sounds right; some are really different from English. I'd say Russian is easier than people who don't know it tend to think it is. If you decide to study it, good luck!

Je parle Francais et Anglais.

Just English.

I speak Russian very well, since I am Russian and I live in Russia. I also know English, French, Italian, and German fluently.

officially i can get by on my french, but only if i do all the talking, I cant understand anything that native french speakers say...

wait a second, if anyone here speaks italian, can you translate this for me?

This darn door is stuck
this darn door is stuck
i cannot open it no matter what i do
the sign says push and indeed i am pushing
perhaps instead it should say pull?

... I know that the first line is something like 'Questa? Maledetta! Porta si blocca'

Fluent in English
Very good German (Taken for 4 years,now, planning on majoring in it)
Barely any French (Likely will relearn it)
I know enough Latin to translate most Church related texts, but not much else.
I plan on learning Russian at some point.

I can blunder through English and French with equivalent incompetence.

Well, English of course.

... et aussi, un peu de francais, j'ai un an a l'ecole.

And of course, the standard American QWERTY keyboard does not give me provisions for the accents, so don't think I don't know how to spell it all properly.

German
Spanish
Others: Latin, English

Although I lived in Russia for only 3 years. It is still my native language. I personaly like it because I lerned it at birth.

I also like how it has 33 letters to English's 26.

As for English, the diffrences between the 4 main gropes is staggering.

American:
All the immigrents came and added their own grammar laws to English. Thus the American accent was born.

However, AINT IS NOT A WORD!

British:
About 75% of the words they say have nothing do to with what they are talking about. But they do have a nice accent for speaking and singing.

Canadian:
Zed is not the way to say the letter "Zee". And the word "Aboot"... dosn't exist...

Austrailian:
Lost of words that are ether runtogatherliketheyareoneword or they ar e si ad i n bro ken piec es.

*Jokeing*

Although I lived in Russia for only 3 years. It is still my native language. I personaly like it because I lerned it at birth.

I also like how it has 33 letters to English's 26.

As for English, the diffrences between the 4 main gropes is staggering.

American:
All the immigrents came and added their own grammar laws to English. Thus the American accent was born.

However, AINT IS NOT A WORD!
Ah, but it was, and correct English at that.

British:
About 75% of the words they say have nothing do to with what they are talking about. But they do have a nice accent for speaking and singing.

Canadian:
Zed is not the way to say the letter "Zee". And the word "Aboot"... dosn't exist...
The British and Irish have subtlely, irony, and a decent understanding of sarcasm, something sorely lacking in North America. Actually, "zed" is the correct way to pronounce the last letter of the alphabet in English. "Zee" was adopted by the Americans as a mnemonic device.

*Jokeing*
I know, but I like being a pernickety git on occasion.

i speak english, irish, french, german and a small bit of spanish

English, Arabic (not fluently, I can understand it) and a little bit of Japanese.

Trying to learn Swedish by reading the Swedish news
interesting. Which you read?

Kanske kunde Fass, Borgoa, Cromotar eller något annat rekommendera några goda nyhetsidor?

Jag läser (sällan) Svenska Dagbladet (http://www.svd.se/) och naturligtvis
hubla. (http://www.hbl.fi/cgi-bin/mediaweb)(Huvudstadsbladet, den största svensksprågiga tidningen i Finland)

Fully trilingual. 1st: English (mother tongue), 2nd: Mandarin Chinese, 3rd: Cantonese Chinese (my wife's mother tongue - we speak this exclusively at home). I want my fourth language to be Hmong, but I lost my teacher, and good language teachers are such a pain to find......

In addition to German chosen on the poll, I also speak English. And, of course, Estonian.

In addition to German chosen on the poll, I also speak English. And, of course, Estonian.
Tere tulemast, you newbie :)

No I can't speak Estonian. I just know some phrases and words.

English, Irish, I can understand French and the best of all Latin.

Which should be brought back in immediately!

Ah, but it was, and correct English at that.


The British and Irish have subtlely, irony, and a decent understanding of sarcasm, something sorely lacking in North America. Actually, "zed" is the correct way to pronounce the last letter of the alphabet in English. "Zee" was adopted by the Americans as a mnemonic device.


I know, but I like being a pernickety git on occasion.

I honestly don't care. I am Russian so it dosn't bother me.

For me, Ya, will always be the last letter. :p

Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, German, English, a lilte Scotish and Irish Gaelic and a few words in Spanish and Italian.

interesting. Which you read?

Kanske kunde Fass, Borgoa, Cromotar eller något annat rekommendera några goda nyhetsidor?

Jag läser (sällan) Svenska Dagbladet (http://www.svd.se/) och naturligtvis
hubla. (http://www.hbl.fi/cgi-bin/mediaweb)(Huvudstadsbladet, den största svensksprågiga tidningen i Finland)

Whispering Legs, are you using any course to learn Swedish also? Maybe if you visit SVT or SRs websites you can watch/listen to the news also - might help to understand pronouciation.

Try these news sites:

Radio and tv:
www.svt.se/nyheter - Sveriges Television
www.sr.se/ekot - Sveriges Radio
www.tv4.se/nyheterna - TV4 (advertising tv)

Newspaper websites:
www.dn.se - Dagens Nyheter
www.expressen.se - if you like tabloid news OR www.aftonbladet.se
www.unt.se - Upsala Nya Tidning - news from my hometown! - despite the name it's not very new, being around since 1890 - even the town name was spelt differentely back then....

Personally I subscribe to the hard-copy "real" versions of Dagens Nyheter and also Upsala Nya Tidning... I do like a good newspaper read!

German, English, little French, almost no Spanish.

(Why isn't English in the poll?!?)

Eh bien, comme le Canada est un pays ayant deux langues officielles, je parle Français et Anglais.

También, hablo un poco de espan~ol (es mi primero a~no de espan~ol). Perro, no hablo mucho.
Do you konw how to put the ~ on the "n"?

(Why isn't English in the poll?!?)
Car tel est mon bon plaisir!

English (duh) and some Latin.

I speak a bit of Spanish, but I'm not fluent.

Serbian, German, Russian, English, Italian, and some Nederlands and Afrikaans.

English, some Latin, a pathetic amount of French, and like half a word of Korean, because my roommate is (South) Korean.

Serbian, German, Russian, English, Italian, and some Nederlands and Afrikaans.
That's very impressive. Are Afrikaans and Dutch mutually intelligible?

English and Japanese, decent Mandarin, passable French (enough reading and listening ability to survive comfortably in France, enough speaking ability to get a point across with only mild embarassment).

English and a little french(enough to say "help me i need food" and if i have the right book "but honestly mister police man we had to break the window! we had go to the bathroom really really bad!")

Icelandic
Danish
French (I can't write or read in it though)
English (I guess it's more of the British variety)
That strange stuff they speak in the faroe islands (foroan? faroese?)
I can read swedish and norwegian but I have trouble following conversations.
And t3h 13375p33k

Romanian
English
French (can read and understand it, cant really write or speak it)
Italian (understand when someone speaks to me in it)
Latin (just started learning)

Icelandic
Danish
French (I can't write or read in it though)
English (I guess it's more of the British variety)
That strange stuff they speak in the faroe islands (foroan? faroese?)
I can read swedish and norwegian but I have trouble following conversations.
And t3h 13375p33k

I don't see how anyone can speak Icelandic.

I don't see how anyone can speak Icelandic.

Generally speaking, through the mouth like most other languages.

Whispering, how is your learning of Swedish going (see earlier posts in this thread)?

Whispering Legs, are you using any course to learn Swedish also? Maybe if you visit SVT or SRs websites you can watch/listen to the news also - might help to understand pronouciation.

Try these news sites:

Radio and tv:
www.svt.se/nyheter - Sveriges Television
www.sr.se/ekot - Sveriges Radio
www.tv4.se/nyheterna - TV4 (advertising tv)

Newspaper websites:
www.dn.se - Dagens Nyheter
www.expressen.se - if you like tabloid news OR www.aftonbladet.se
www.unt.se - Upsala Nya Tidning - news from my hometown! - despite the name it's not very new, being around since 1890 - even the town name was spelt differentely back then....

Personally I subscribe to the hard-copy "real" versions of Dagens Nyheter and also Upsala Nya Tidning... I do like a good newspaper read!


Thanks. Right now I'm just trying to get the grammar and vocabulary down (I haven't gotten around to pronunciation - that will come later). I am assuming that a news website with printed stories is written correctly, and contains a minimum of idiom.

The next step will be to take a course - I just want to get the mechanics down so I can concentrate on the sound during the course. And then I'll have to travel there, so I can get a grasp of idiomatic expressions. Otherwise, I'll probably sound like a reporter or weatherman with a 3rd grade vocabulary.

Enough to be insulting in 7 or 8 languages, not counting english. Gotta love mandarin ^_^

I speak English :)! A language you deliberatly left out? haha

I can't believe Yiddish isn't on your poll. :p

Enough to be insulting in 7 or 8 languages, not counting english. Gotta love mandarin ^_^

I don't count languages that I can curse or insult in, if that's all I can do.

Thanks. Right now I'm just trying to get the grammar and vocabulary down (I haven't gotten around to pronunciation - that will come later). I am assuming that a news website with printed stories is written correctly, and contains a minimum of idiom.

The next step will be to take a course - I just want to get the mechanics down so I can concentrate on the sound during the course. And then I'll have to travel there, so I can get a grasp of idiomatic expressions. Otherwise, I'll probably sound like a reporter or weatherman with a 3rd grade vocabulary.

Ha ha.. indeed, good luck. You may end up with excellent formal language skills, but not so good everyday speech. As you say, best to come and visit! Summer is soon here, come for Midsummer - it's great.

Ha ha.. indeed, good luck. You may end up with excellent formal language skills, but not so good everyday speech. As you say, best to come and visit! Summer is soon here, come for Midsummer - it's great.

I have the opposite problem in Chinese. I can speak it in normal conversation, but I can't read anything.

English, Swedish (and with it Norwegian and a bit of Danish), bits and pieces of Dutch and learning German.

German - mothertongue, and living in Germany
American English - fluent, but out of practise, used to be mistaken for a redneck

can understand: Saxonian, Bavarian, a few other German accents (anyone who has been to Germany AND speaks German knows what I`m talking about), slowly spoken Italian, Spanish

can read: Latin (had it for 6 years in school)

I know some French, got along in Paris on my own for a few days quite well.
I may need to learn another language for my major, might learn Spanish, as it is quite easy to learn if you know Latin.

I Speak Polish add that in to your poll. If you want cause theirs alot of Polish people in the game

I can translate written French fairly well. I know a lot of Japanese phrases, but I couldn't read kanji if my life depended on it.

As for languages spoken out loud, I can't really understand any of them, native speakers speak too fast for me to latch unto anything.

It would be nice if the French Canadians would slow down so I can tell what they're saying, cause I have extensive knowledge of French. But the fact that I can't catch rapid speech really goes to show how little experience I have.

Dutch, English, bit of French and German and I even have Latin and Greek in school :eek: (Latin and Greek suck!)

french,dutch,english,spanish and a bit of german

It would be nice if the French Canadians would slow down so I can tell what they're saying, cause I have extensive knowledge of French. But the fact that I can't catch rapid speech really goes to show how little experience I have.

Try listening to Cajuns. :D

Serbian, German, Russian, English, Italian, and some Nederlands and Afrikaans.

Wow, what a friendly name you got there. ;)

I can speak:

Swedish, serbian, croatian (pretty much the same as serbian), english and german (somewhat).

i speak japanese fluently, german is a bit rusty, but its all there.

got stuck with the job of exchange student orientation, so spent about 8 months learning spanish.

and im currently studying arabic and russian.

Ilu z nas jest mowiacych po polsku? (polish)

I Speak Polish add that in to your poll. If you want cause theirs alot of Polish people in the game
Well if you can tell me how to change the poll now that I've made it, I will.


I speak English ! A language you deliberatly left out? haha
I didn't think that was necessary as I think it's safe to assume that everyone will know English (of some sort) on here, plus there is always 'other'


I can't believe Yiddish isn't on your poll.

That isn't a language that springs to mind when I think of languages!

Latin is very good, I'm taking it for GCSE and probably A-Level... no, i'm serious.

http://www.starwars.ndo.co.uk/episodes4-6/c3p0.jpg

I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication.

Arabic (good enough)
English (dur)
Japanese (learning at school)
Spanish (see above)

I read Latin and can stumble through American Sign Language. Does that count as 'speaking' a language?

I read Latin and can stumble through American Sign Language. Does that count as 'speaking' a language?

I guess if you want to be fussy, technically it isn't speaking - but to me, it certainly counts as a language.

I don't see how anyone can speak Icelandic.

oh? Why not?

English, a litttle bit of German, and an even tinier bit of Dutch (it looks like a 3 year old's attempt at German!)

Polish
English
Spanish

All pretty fluently in order from top to bottom.

Like I said I am fluent in all three,but im learning Spanish still a bit.