NationStates Jolt Archive

see title. No, there will not be a poll, because there are more than 10 languages in this world.

German and English fluently, French passably.

English (native language, fluent - obviously :p)
Tagalog (so-so)
Vietnamese (a little)

English, with 4 (soon to be 5) years of studying German.

English fluently, Italian very nearly fluently, German just enough to get by as a tourist.

I speak English and Spanish fluently while I have just started my second year of learning Japanese. It's getting really hard, so knowing me i'll probably drop out of the class and end up in French...

see title. No, there will not be a poll, because there are more than 10 languages in this world.
No, you fool. The only langauges are: English, English with a Russian Accent, English with a Spanish Accent, English with an "Asian" Accent, English with an "African" Accent, English with a French accent, English with an Arabic accent, English with a Scandinavian accent, English with a German accent, and English with an English Accent.
Who taught you linguology?

English and German fluently, Spanish and French have gotten somewhat patchy over the years, Catalá has basically disintegrated, and, umm, I know how to ask for my receipt and the way to the bear park in Swedish (and protest against heteronormativity) and then thank my conversation partner for their patience with me. That's about it.

Tamil, Hindi, English.

English, little bit of Latin, and im sorta teaching myself Japanese. oh and sindarin...

I speak English fluently, French ex-fluently (which is to say that I once spoke it fluently, but have had no occasion to do so in years and years, so I'm sure I've forgotten a great deal of my vocabulary), basic tourist-German, a fair amount of church-Latin, just enough Romanian to sing the "Numa Numa" song, and a smattering of all the languages of Middle Earth, because I'm just that dorky. :)

No, you fool. The only langauges are: English, English with a Russian Accent, English with a Spanish Accent, English with an "Asian" Accent, English with an "African" Accent, English with a French accent, English with an Arabic accent, English with a Scandinavian accent, English with a German accent, and English with an English Accent.
Who taught you linguology?

no. that would be 1.

but really in europe alone there is over 20:
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Polish
Portuguese
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
just to name a few. you just want to get me to add a poll, don't you.

Swilatia doesn't speak neither Irony nor Fun, do they?

English is my first, and I also have passable conversational French. My accent is pretty well horrid, though.

no. that would be 1.
It appears that I have at last met someone with almost as much skill at jack-assery as I.
just to name a few. you just want to get me to add a poll, don't you.
And a mind-reader too? You are truly a worthy opponent; unless you're just an alternate personality of myself, in which case you're just cheating.

German and English, I can speak. I can understand most of the western romance languages.

English (native speaker)
Spanish (intermediate)
German (begginner)
Japanese (begginner)
Korean (begginner)

Learning French seems a waste of my time, so I avoid it.

EDIT: Also...

1337 (very fluent)

English (Fluently)

Spanish (Ex-Fluently...I was fluent until a few years ago...now, though I'm not fluent, I can still talk to people in spanish)

German (Just started)

Hebrew (Can read it, and used to be able to translate some of it)

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The only language I can speak fluently is English, but I can read and translate Latin, too. I just can't speak it fluently yet. (I just started my third year of studying Latin)

I can speak, read, write, English and Klingon.

I can speak and understand enough Spanish to teach ESL although I haven't in about 3 years.

I can understand enough French to follow a movie, but can't remember the grammar rules enough to say anything coherent.


Other than that I learned a bunch of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, but haven't used them in so long that I might as well, not know them.

English: native
French: pretty well
Spanish: I can read
Romanian: I can get by

English: Fluent
Irish/'Gaelic': Somewhat fluent orally, read and translate.
Spanish: Enough to get me by if I was stranded.
French: In process of learning professionally. Getting my CEFP II in hope of advancing to the Diplome de Langue
Polish: Mostly swearwords.

Fluent english (native) and 3rd year of studying French. Also, I am fluent in Goa'uld and plan to learn a bit Ancient.

The only language I can speak fluently is English, but I can read and translate Latin, too. I just can't speak it fluently yet. (I just started my third year of studying Latin)

I'm about the same level, I just started my fourth year.

English (native)
Latin (2 years of high school study, can still understand but not as well as 7 years ago)
Spanish (1 year of college - level study, don't speak well)
Russian (can read, basic understanding of conjugation and declension, minimal vocabulary)
Arabic (can read... barely.)

No, you fool. The only langauges are: English, English with a Russian Accent, English with a Spanish Accent, English with an "Asian" Accent, English with an "African" Accent, English with a French accent, English with an Arabic accent, English with a Scandinavian accent, English with a German accent, and English with an English Accent.
Who taught you linguology?

You forgot English with a Brazilian accent.

Seriously:

Português - só.

Croatian and the similar languages (Serbian, Bosnian etc.), English.

a little bit of German.

Croatian and the similar languages (Serbian, Bosnian etc.), English.

a little bit of German.

Is there much (or any) difference between Serb and Croat?

Or is it like Norwegian and Swedish? (That may be "Norwegian and Danish" now that I think about it.)

see title. No, there will not be a poll, because there are more than 10 languages in this world.

American with a smattering of English, Canadian, and Australian. Also L337 5p34k. Enough Spanish to get by in a Spanish speaking country as long as I don't have to deal with the police (although I understand Mexican polce speak $$$).

Is there much (or any) difference between Serb and Croat?

Or is it like Norwegian and Swedish?

It could always be like American English and English English.

Iway eakspay igpay atinlay.

Swedish, english, serbian (the northern bosnian version of it though) and thanks to the break up of Yugoslavia bosnian, croatian and montenegrin.

Oh, and I can understand german, can't speak it though. Four years of german for nothing. Nothing! :)

English, Spanish, Italian, French, some basic German. And I'm trying to learn Latin.

I can speak English, Spanish(though my accent isn't great) and a little Chinese. And of course I can speak blabbering drunken fool.

I speak dutch and english fluently. I speak french sort of (understand it better though), and I understand german pretty well and can speak it a bit too. I speak a really tiny bit of russian and arabic too.

I speak English fluently, and enough Spanish to get by, 1337 speak is easy, and I intend on learning a bit of latin, Italian, and German sometime in the future. Maybe Chinese too, as the language is beoming important on a worldwide scale.

I like to be cultured :D

romanian (native)
english (resident)
spanish and italian (well i could get along with people if only they weren't so loud:p )
also studied german for 5 years... i can remember most of the grammar but hell if i could utter a full sentence... i should be ashamed of myslef:rolleyes:

English
Japanese-can speak, learning to read and write better.
Repressing the memories of taking Latin for four years.
Can understand a few words of Spanish.

see title. No, there will not be a poll, because there are more than 10 languages in this world.

English (American)--native language
German--enough to get by, better reading than speaking
Korean--can read a bit, ask for directions and tell girls they're beautiful :D
Latin--reading knowledge
Italian--picking some up (Latin helps here)

And I used to speak Fortran, Basic and C, but they've rusted away almost completely :(

English - fluent
French - fluent
Spanish - passable
Urdu - passable
Hindi - passable
German - VERY basic

I'm an American. I don't need to speak any languages. ;)

1337 (very fluent)
You speak octal? Cool, I thought that language was extinct! XD

English, Irish, German. I want to learn solresol, but I'm probably not gonna, I'm lazy.

I want to learn solresol, but I'm probably not gonna, I'm lazy.
LOL, I want to learn one with click consonants (probably Xhosa), but I'm lazy too.

You speak octal? Cool, I thought that language was extinct! XD

Not yet, my friend. Not yet. I already have a concentr...re-education camp set up in south Jersey!

LOL, I want to learn one with click consonants (probably Xhosa), but I'm lazy too.

Yay for laziness!

Not yet, my friend. Not yet. I already have a concentr...re-education camp set up in south Jersey!

Oh, yeah? What exit? (Sorry, couldn't stop myself. LOL)

I speak English, German, French, Russian and Swedish, and also a bit of Latin and Lugandan. I dream in most of those languages too.:headbang:

I speak German fluently, can have a reasonably complex conversation in Polish, and I have moderate knowledge of Chinese and can just barely form sentnces in Japanese. I enjoy learning languages as a mental challenge and I want to create my own using the features of many other languages along with some completely new ones. Finnish is the next language I would like to try studying again, since a while ago, I kind of cracked my teeth on that one.

English, with 4 (soon to be 5) years of studying German.

ditto (5 years) but that was, incidentally, 5 years ago... and my german is decidely rusty by now :(

I can speak basic French and German.

I can also shout loudly in English in *any* language! ;)

English is my fist language, I am learning Mandarin Chinese (I can currently parse some basic sentences), and I know a little Italian (from my Mums side of the family).

My Fiancee (just recently such) can speak English, Bahasa Melayu, Cantonese, Mandarin, and a little Hokkien!

Current Age: 13

Fluent Language : English, Chinese
Passable : Fucheow
Languages I want to Learn : Japanese, German and Italian

Fluent in English. Passably fluent in German, bordering on fully fluent. I know some (a few phrases/words/sentences) Latin, Japanese, and Dutch.

I'm completely fluent in English. Sure it's my native language and all, but you have to take into account that a lot of people don't know how to spell very well, not to mention the fact that they make countless grammatical errors.

As for other languages, I can decipher some Spanish, though I can't speak it. I know a bit of Japanese, though I'd know a lot more if I didn't have this job of mine. I know 45 Kanji (along with all Hiragana and Katakana); I'd most likely know well over a hundred if I continued at my five-a-day study pace. Now, it's more like five-a-month. :p

English
proficient and fluent in writing and speech

Mandarin
professional proficient in writing in speech "its what keeps me in a job"
weaker in every-day language "

Cantonese
fluent in speech, hopeless in writing (depsite being similair to Mandarin)

Spanish
basic conversation from living in southern California

Russian
absolutely rudimentary Russian

English- fluent.
Japanese- Am capable of having a sort of a conseration
French- Can get around

Swiss German (native)
German
English (fluent)
French (formerly fluent. But I think I could only understand written French by now)
Latin (No, not really. I don't think you're supposed to speak this language. But I can translate texts)
I understand what an Italian text is about, more or less. Sometimes.
Forgot most of my Klingon (which consisted of grammar, but almost no vocabulary)

English is my mothertongue (I was born and raised in "English Canada"). I'm also capable of speaking conversational Mandarin (mom is from Taiwan), and good amount of Cantonese (dad is from Hong Kong). Can speak basic tourist French (learned it in school but never paid attention and seemed to have forgot most of what I learned :p). And just recently began taking German in school (so a beginner).

English and Hebrew. darn school

I want to learn swahili as it is used as an "ancient language" in many things.

English - Fluent.
French - Very near fluent (mostly it's random vocab that messes me up).
Italian - Used to be near fluent, but at this point I could probably only read it, and speak enough to get by if you picked me up and dropped me in Italy.

English and a little Spanish.

English fluently, Spanish decently, Italian awfully, and German putridly.

English, and pseudofluent Spanish. I can carry most any conversation in Spanish, y no tengo un accento muy malo.

I can understand the gist of a lot of French, though I can't pronounce it worth crap, and I understand some basic sentence structure in German (somehow, all my German sentences seem to involve ein wasserbuffel or deine mutter)

German and English, as well as a little French. Took some courses in Spanish, too - all but forgotten.

And Babelfish as well :D

I speak fluently Luxembourgish (which is my native language), Mandarin chinese - I'm learning Cantonese, and am fluent in French and English. I speak some Spanish and a poor amount of German. I was going to learn Arabic, as my boyfriend was Jordainian, but he disappeared, I think killed in one of those senseless wars that plague the region. His name never came up on the list, but not everyone's does.

I speak fluent English and Scots. A little bit of German and French also. One day I hope to speak Russian, Japanese or Esperanto.

English (native), German and French (A*s in my GCSEs, taking A-levels of them at the moment), Spanish (learning the GCSE in a year, can already speak a little), a tiny bit of Italian, a bit of Dutch and I'm learning Norwegian as well.

I speak English, English and American English fluently. I know snippets of Spanish, French, German, and Japanese, but it's just random words. :( I can't take any foreign language classes this year and my high school only offers Spanish, French, and Latin. My middle school only offered Spanish but I couldn't take it because I was in band. :mad:

English fluently, Spanish passably.

I can't take any foreign language classes this year and my high school only offers Spanish, French, and Latin.
They aren't foreign?

I speak English. I read French, Italian, German, Portugeuse, Latin and a little Dutch and Spanish. I know a few words in Greek, but they're in a funny dialect used in Northern Cyprus.

Ich sprochst(sp?) am bissien(sp?) Duetsch(sp?)

I can also speak a few words of Dutch like Koninkrijk, Hertog(in) Konin...

I speak a few words in Russian and know a few Cyrillic letters by heart NT TECT

I can still remember some Junior School French like numbers and a few other things...

and of course I speak English...

I'd like to fully know Dutch...

German - fluent
Greek - fluent
English - fluent
Latin - with difficulties
French - with even more difficulties

Ich sprochst(sp?) am bissien(sp?) Duetsch(sp?)
Ich spreche eine Bisschen Deutsch.
I'd like to fully know Dutch...
Prima!

Ich spreche eine Bisschen Deutsch.

Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch.

:p

I can't take any foreign language classes this year and my high school only offers Spanish, French, and Latin.

Those are the same languages offered at my school. I chose Latin, and it's really helped me to increase my vocabulary and my understanding of how languages work. So maybe I'll try to learn another language some time.

Are you going to be able to take one next year? I think many colleges require two consecutive years in the same foreign language for admission.

They aren't foreign?

What I meant was, I'm taking band, 2 required freshman classes, and a creative writing class. I'd like to learn German but those are the only languages my high school offers.

German and English, as well as a little French. Took some courses in Spanish, too - all but forgotten.
Yeah, same here. I probably have just about enough French and Spanish to not get completely lost as a tourist there.

I also used to be able to speak Burmese, but never on a very proficient level and I've forgotten everything apart from some random words, like names of fruit and how to say "Thank you". Which, well, at least means I wouldn't starve if I ever randomly got dropped into Myanmar. :p

I speak and write English/Australian English slightly corrupted with American English in parts.

I can also read and write 1337 speak, but don't really like to.

I speak
Swedish
English
Little French

Hej era pungråttor :) :p :D
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I'm fluent in English and almost fluent in Canadian.

I only speak 2 languages, english and bad english.

My native language is (Australian) English. I also speak pretty good French, and a little bit of German.

Gibberish and i mumble English.

I speak English but I know a few words in Spanish mostly bad words and I regrettably took 2 yrs of French back in HS yrs ago.

English fluently.

German and French proficiently.

A small bit of Irish.

french,dutch english spanish german in order ,the 2 last one beeing really bad

English, spanish, tourist italian, ebonics, and sailor ;)

Dutch, English
Studying Arabic, can read, speak and write, but not without difficulty
Some German, Persian (Farsi) & French comprehension mostly
Tourist Turkish

Some sailor as well ;)

Icelandic, Danish, English and some mangled French and German...Technically I speak Faroese too.

Currently, I only speak hoarsish, snifflian and coughmylungsoutch...

English
Some Spanish
Basic Latin


I'm thinking of just living in a Spanish-speaking country for a few months to force myself to learn Spanish.

Dutch and English fluently, can have a good conversation in French, understand/read almost everything, but i can't write it that good (too lazy to learn vocabulaire by heart, I hate vocabulary), I can understand German and speak it a litle bit. i studied Latin for 3 years, but that's three years ago, so my Latin isn't probably that good anymore.
When learning languages i'm often very good in the talking/understanding department, but i generaly suck at learning vocabulary.

I'm a native English speaker and I speak French well enough. I'm going to a French language school in France in the spring, so hopefully my French will improve a bit.

English is my mother tongue. I also speak a fair amount of French (though I certainly wouldn't claim to be fluent) and lots of little bits of a variety of other languages.

Starting doing Russian and Japanese next Monday. :D