maybe You should be learning a second language!

[Rhaff]

1. No I do not live in a bilingual area.
2. Yes. Yes I do.
3. Aside from the obvious English. I speak Danish, Icelandic, Swedish and a bit of German and Spanish. I was working on learning Russian, when I dating a half Russian girl, but we aren't together any more, so I can only remember like 5 words or so.

 

[rabidmidget]

1) Basically just English here
2) I learnt a little bit of German, barely enough to explain how bad it is.

 

[BabyRaptor]

No, I do not live in a Bilingual area. Most of the people I live around are surprised when they learn I know something other than English.

That said...I know English, Spanish, ASL, Military, Sarcasm and Pig Latin. And I have a rough grasp of actual Latin.

 

[Cogwheel]

1: Everyone here speaks Japanese. Never anything else.

2: Yes.

3: I speak English and Japanese fluently (good enough to be considered a native speaker in both, and I translate from the latter to the former). I also speak Hebrew, but I could definitely stand to work on that.

 

[bluepilot]

English is the Lingua Franca. I am not saying that people have to learn English, but because English had such a high status as the Lingua Franca people who cannot speak English well will be looked down upon by others at times.

I speak English as a First Language, Japanese as a Second Language and I have just started learning German. I am to make German my second Second Language but currently it is just my learner language.

I am not good at languages but I enjoy learning them.

I think it is okay not to speak English unless you 1) Live in a country where English is an official Language, 2) In the science IT, or diplomacy field where English is used as the Lingua Franca.

I also think that native English speakers should make more of an effort to learn a Second language though because just about everyone can speak English.

 

[Kae]

First language is Spanish, second English, I started French classes and it was going fairly well but I had to drop it because I couldn't afford it anymore *sigh* there go my plans for learning at least 5 languages.

 

[Custard_Angel]

I speak English.

I can understand bits and pieces of other languages, but I can't speak any.

I don't see much point really. If I did learn to speak... German... that's cool... what am I supposed to do with this language now? I don't know any German people and don't plan on living there either.

Maybe that's an Australian point of view though... In Europe its probably a different story.

In some places in America its probably wise to speak a little Spanish too (if TV has taught me anything).

 

[SomeLameStuff]

1) Yup. I live in Singapore, so everyone speaks either English, Mandarin(Or another dialect), Malay or Tamil. Or a combination of the above.

2) Well I'm not fluent, but I do know enough Chinese to know if someone is insulting me or saying "pass the salt".

 

[Astoria]

Not really. English is the common language but there are a lot of people from other countries here so many people are bilingual. I know a bit of french and japanese but not nearly enough to talk to someone in it. I'd like to learn either italian or spanish one day though.

 

[Wuggy]

1. Do you live in an area where more then one language is commonly used?
I live in a country with two national languages. The country in question is Finland, and our official languages are Finnish and Swedish. Swedish is a mandatory subject in school for this reason, ie. everyone has had Swedish taught to them and thus pretty much everyone has atleast a very minor grasp of Swedish unless they were completely oblivious to what was taught to them. English is also a mandatory subject in here.
2. Do you know more then one language?
Yes.
3. If yes, what other language do you speak
My first language is Finnish. I also speak English rather fluently (albeit with a foreign accent and some mispronunciations), it isn't my second language per se, but I think I am able to comprehend and express it like it was. I've also studied Swedish (obviously) for 3 years and French 6 years. And I absolutely suck at them.

 

[Nouw]

1. Do you live in an area where more then one language is commonly used?
Yes and no. It's very multi-cultural and racial but the standard language is English. But you'll see heaps of other languages too. Sadly, the native language, Maori, isn't spoken much any more. Hell there's more Asian,moi, and European speakers!
2. Do you know more then one language?
Yup, but my life seems to let me only have 2. I learnt Mandarin for 3 years, failed hard. Learning Spanish well but damn school only lets me have a very limited amount of options so adios amigos!
3. If yes, what other language do you speak?
English and Korean.

 

[Toriver]

1) No, pretty much the only language used in this entire country, except when dealing with foreigners, is Japanese.
2) Yes
3) As I'm proudly born and raised in the USA, my first language is English. I studied Spanish and German in high school, and ended up with a minor in Spanish out of college. But I have been living in Japan for the past three years, and through that I've gained about an intermediate knowledge of the language: I'm by no means fluent yet, and I can only pick out the very essentials of any Japanese media, but the Japanese I do know is the stuff I need to know to get by in daily life and at work. I've recently been studying harder, and I'm going to take the middle level of the official proficiency test in December.

 

[No_Remainders]

So i guess my question to you guys is
1. Do you live in an area where more then one language is commonly used?
2. Do you know more then one language?
3. If yes, what other language do you speak

1) Nope. English is spoken almost everywhere in Ireland, apart from the Gaeltacht regions, which are places where everyone speaks Irish.
2) Yes.
3) English, Irish, French and German.
I'm quite obviously fluent in English. Proficient in French and Irish, and I'm decent at speaking German (I couldn't possibly write it though).

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

1. Mostly English, but during spring and summer, tons of Spanish-speaking Hispanics appear.

2. I'm learning Spanish, but I'd be lying of I told you I speak it well.

3. Read above.

 

[Turing]

My native language is danish, which I speak fluently along with about 6 million other people, worldwide.
I'm also fluent in english and I agree that everyone should learn english, since I believe that breaking down language barriers is a step to further understanding between people. Also, its bloody useful. Of course, there's no need to be an ass about it if people don't.

Since we're neighbours with Germany, I was taught german in school. I'm certainly not fluent, but I'm capable enough to get around without the germans laughing too much at me
I've also been studying italian for a year for no other reason than I'd like to learn more languages and it is without a doubt one of the ugliest languages I've ever heard.
I honestly thought our teacher was speaking huttese (as in the language of Jabba the Hutt, of Star Wars fame) during our first lesson.
Italian also sucks because now that I've also started spanish lessons, they're very similiar except spanish has done away with most of the linguistic idiocies and archaic forms that italian still uses.

I can also convey to a french person that I do not speak french and would like them to speak english or spanish to me, which helps you immensely in France since the french get prickly if you assume they speak any other language than french, but become very helpful if you show even the slightest bit of proficiency at their language

 

[Dedtoo]

1: No, even the countries next to us speak almost the same language.
2: yes
3: Norwegian, English and a tiny bit Spanish.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Maybe I already know four, two of which are dying and obscure respectively.

 

[Dethenger]

1. Kind of. Spanish. But it's only commonly spoken because there are a lot of Mexicans here.
2. No. I tried learning Spanish and French. Got better at French than at Spanish, probably because I actually wanted to learn French, whereas I felt more obligated to learn Spanish because I'm part Mexican and a lot of my extended family speaks it.
3. N/A

 

[HiC]

1.no, I live in Australia.
2.yes
3.Arabic
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