How many languages do you know?

[SoonerMatt]

English (native)
Spanish
American Sign Language
Some Greek, German, Mandarin, (worked in a Chinese professor's lab for a year and a half) and Japanese.

I want to learn French as well as more Greek, German, and Japanese.

 

[hippykiller]

English
German
Irish(still taking lessons)
A Little Bit Of Hebrew
Dutch
Polish

oh yeah i can speak in all of them.

 

[The Hairminator]

Swedish, English. Then I know piss-poor spanish.

 

[Monocle Man]

My native language is Flemish Dutch. As you can read I know enough English to go around too.

And I know a bit of French. Just enough to tilt my head and say "Oh that's right, how silly of me" (as a sign I did know it deep inside) whenever my previous teacher corrects me. It was mandatory, though. The impression that everyone of our class knew perfect French made him happy, doing something wrong made him really depressive. Great teacher.

 

[Abedeus]

Polish

oh yeah i can speak in all of them.

Prove it.

I speak Polish, English, Spanish and I used to speak German, but I thank God I remember almost nothing. I can also communicate with people south of the border (Czech and Slovakia) and other post-communistic countries. My parents also wanted me to learn Russian, but... ugh, I hate their alphabet. I mean, I know how to read 70-80% of the words, but I would still have to learn what they mean ;d

 

[Assassin Xaero]

English
Some Spanish

Then there are some of those unofficial languages that I can read/understand pretty well... drunk, pirate, leet, stupid teenage freshmen that think they are cool and say 'fuck' every other word...

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

I know around one and two thirds... English and French.

 

[Nickolai77]

English, and a smattering of German which i learned from high school. I was never really that talented at languages, i managed to get a C grade at GCSE for it.

Seems that many of the bi or tri lingual people here know English and their own natve language fluently from exposure to english language telivision from a young age. As well as being taught English from a young age in school. I was never given formal foreign language lessons until high school, past the prime time to learn a language.

 

[megamanenm]

My mother tongue is Dutch, I speak English very well, decent French and Romanian and learning German and Spanish.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

English

 

[zoozilla]

English and some barely adequate Japanese.

 

[Sayvara]

Swedish, native
English, fluent
French, very basic
Understands Danish and Norwegian.

/S

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

You know what? 5.

English - 15 years
French - 3 years(discontinued)
Spanish - 1 years(discontinued)
Mandarin - 1 year
Latin - 2 years (discontinued)

Spanish is the only one I really couldn't use if I went to the country. I'm OK at French and good at Latin, but sadly GCSE choices mean I can't continue with those three, and I'm pretty good at Mandarin. You know, for a language that communicates in pictures.

 

[Hollock]

I only know one and a quarter.
English and Latin.
I say a quarter because I can kinda read Latin, but only if I have some kind of translation for the tougher ones in the back.
I cannot write it to save my life, and speaking it is right out.

Hooray for being the first ignorant American on the thread?

well nobody was going to break down the door to say I know one. But a funny thing is most people I know would probably say they spoke mulitple languages just because of their high school language class.

 

[Random Argument Man]

French and english. I've always wanted to talk Spanish and Japanese.

 

[Hollock]

hey how long did it take you guys to speak a lanuguage fluently?

 

[Neonbob]

Hooray for being the first ignorant American on the thread?

well nobody was going to break down the door to say I know one. But a funny thing is most people I know would probably say they spoke mulitple languages just because of their high school language class.

I'm a trailblazer!
...not a particularly good trail to blaze, but still...

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

English and French.
French was obligatory for me in school because I was in the "gifted" class.
I can say some things in Spanish that I learned from my friends, but nothing polite.

 

[Redingold]

English, fragmented French and Spanish. Would like to learn Russian, for some reason.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I know English, Irish and French but thats it. My Irish is fairly good better than most people I know.