Poll: Bilingual?

[mkb07a]

English, Spanish, and Profanity

Though, IMO, Spanish is the only language worth learning after English if you plan on staying in the US your whole life... My goals are Chinese (Mandarin), Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, aaand... we'll just go ahead and say Italian, it's pretty easy after the Spanish.

EDIT: Russian! Oh, I'm such an idiot.

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

I speak English, I was born in America, and I'm very white. I thought about learning Japanese, but it's just insane after taking it a year. I don't really see a need to learn another language, and from experience, there's a very good chance I wouldn't have much luck learning one if I tried again. I can hardly keep up with English these days, the way words and definitions keep changing every 5-8 years.

So no, not bilingual at all.

 

[poleboy]

Yes, that's one of the advantages of being born in a non-English speaking country in modern times. You can barely avoid fluency in English simply by going to school, watching TV and having an average intelligence. I can also carry a simple conversation in German, as long as the topic is conventional and I know something about it. I never got any good at French, but I've been told I have decent pronunciation, even if that is of little importance.

 

[Unknower]

I'm bibilingual.

Finnish, English, Swedish and German. Truthfully though, my Swedish and German suck.

 

[Xaryn Mar]

Hmm, fluent in Danish (since I'm from Denmark) and English. Understands most swedish and norwegian and can even speak it, mostly (if I hear it for a little while, has to get the pronounciation correct). Know a smidgen of german (been several years since I last had to use it, so it has sort of disapeared from my mind), but will likely learn i rather quickly if I need it.

 

[flatearth]

Trilingual here

Native Finnish
Fluent English
Mediocre Swedish

Here are the languages I know only so poor that I can't have a conversation. I can pretty much order food in a restaurant and crap like that.

Very poor German
Very poor Spanish
Very poor French

 

[poleboy]

Okay, you're monolingual. We get it.

 

[Mr. Moose]

I only know English, but I'd like to learn Icelandic.

 

[WitherVoice]

I should be fairly capable of enough conversation to survive in four languages, I think. Two of them I would avoid if I can help it, though.

I figure my children will speak three languages before they start school, since the quickest way to ensure a child learns a language is to switch to it in order to be able to speak with your partner without the child understanding. A while of that will leave your child fluent. I figure the problem is they'll quite quickly learn their mother's language better than I will ever be able to learn it.

 

[Grim Phoenix]

I speak English, Italian, and Japanese. o-o;

Trilingual, baby.

 

[Rensa]

Native English. I did twelve years of Japanese, but 90% of it fell out of my head in the month after my Year 12 exam. Which is a shame, 'cause I really wish I still had it. I'll have to pick it back up one day. And Spanish. And Latin. And...

 

[Noo_Noo]

English, German, a little French (enough to survive, at least) and I've dabbled with Dutch.

 

[Kuweekee]

I'm dutch therefore you learn at least 3 different languages at school. You learn English, Dutch and most of the time you have to pick between German and French. I picked German. So i speak English, Dutch and German. The only languages i can have a conversation in tho are English and Dutch.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I learn German in school if that counts...

 

[Clairaudient]

I speak fairly fluent french as well as English. I'm an anglophone here in Quebec so by law I have to conform to their french ways. Poor Quebecois, if they didn't have nazi like laws on the use of french language they would have a lot less influence around here.

 

[Dalabu]

Serbian and its dialects and English.
I am learning Spanish, French and Java

 

[Haberdasher]

Just English here, but I do know some Japanese, French and Amheric. Really want to learn Swahili so that I can have a conversation with pops and clicks. It sounds so awesome...

 

[Gxas]

I took three years of Spanish in high school and the only things I can remember are basic grammar stuff to a degree and all of the words me and my friend looked up in the dictionary. Nothing makes me feel better than saying, "Yo balitando mucho en mis pantalones." I really don't know why...

I go to college where we have a really high deaf/hard of hearing percentage. I really would like to pick up sign language to be able to communicate with everyone here. A lot of the deaf kids that I have met are really cool but there is just so much lost in translation and finger-spelling hurts after the first sentence.

 

[Cyclomega]

French, English, German

I can read Dutch, but can't understand when one speaks to me yet, though I can speak a few words...
I'm occasionally learning a bit of Spanish, and am considering learning it correctly soon.

 

[Elurindel]

I'm bilingual. I'll talk to people from both genders.