Poll: Do you know more than one language?

[Shoggoth2588]

I know enough about the Japanese language to speak it but I know little vocabulary so I can't really understand what's being said but it's a language that I can comprehend to an extent. I know basic phrases though.

Short answer: no

 

[ethan22122]

My main language is english, but I have been learning some Japanese on the side

 

[The_Echo]

I said "yes" on the poll, but that's not completely true.

I took two years of Spanish (I've forgotten a lot of it by now, but still) and I'm currently learning German with the intent to become fluent.

 

[holy_secret]

I'm Chilean/Italian, born in Sweden.
I speak, from most fluent to least;
Swedish
English
Spanish
German
Italian

Like some horrible ninja mentioned, speaking Swedish enables me to understand Norwegian perfectly fine. Danish is harder to understand (since they are born with half a tongue). Dutch is easier to read than to hear. Portugese is the same case.
I also understand a bunch of Japanese words due to me watching anime for so many years. I wouldn't be able to survive I'd on it though. Not even a little bit.

 

[Faulty Turmoil]

I know English and Bad English.

Cookie for reference.

Crap, can't remember which Diehard but definately Maclain

Guess again.

So it's Bruce Willis playing Bruce Willis in a non-Die Hard movie?

Well, if by that you mean the same character he always plays; by which I do not mean to infer that the quality of the films were diminished in any way. I rather enjoyed all the Die hard films.

But yes, essentially he is playing himself, or at least his character, in a non-Die hard movie.

 

[Rodrigo Girao]

Portuguese, English, and just started studying French.

 

[vato_loco]

Spanish, English and Japanese.

 

[R0cklobster]

I'd imagine the results to this poll would be a bit skewed; most of the people who will bother to load this page WILL know one. Not too many people would go to vote in a poll just to say: "Yep, like most people, I only know one language."

 

[R0cklobster]

Born and raised in Australia, would love to speak another language, but every time I even overhear someone speaking in a foreign tongue it's closely followed by a bunch of bogans muttering about how "They shoulda learned the language before they fuckin come 'ere". The same guys who holiday in Bali and Thailand, and speak no indonesian or Thai

OMG YES!! It's always the bogans!

 

[Xixikal]

English and german, attempting Afrikaans

 

[Twilight.falls]

Despite my mother being Thai (and she's fluent in Thai, Greek, and English, in that order) I can't speak any other language. Although, because she speaks Thai so much, I can vaguely understand it.

 

[Flackster]

My first language is English, but I also know bits of Latin(didn't pay to much attention in class) and Shawnee and currently plan on going to collage for Native American cultural studies

 

[Plurralbles]

I know enough to get treatment or help in spanish and italian... but that's it.

English is my main.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Well lets see, I know Java, C++, C#... oh you mean spoken languages. Then no, just English.

haha i wasn't even thinking about this, but it is true technically, and me and my friends sometimes do nerd speak in java..so why not? it's a language, it has "grammar" technically.

//Very much true

if(java.isALanguage() && syntax.equals(grammar)){
you.geekPoints++;
}

lol nice, I only know the basics but that was pretty good haha

between that and using bots for diablo 2 loot runs...*ah the good ole days*

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I know English and Bad English.

Cookie for reference.

Crap, can't remember which Diehard but definately Maclain

Guess again.

So it's Bruce Willis playing Bruce Willis in a non-Die Hard movie?

Well, if by that you mean the same character he always plays; by which I do not mean to infer that the quality of the films were diminished in any way. I rather enjoyed all the Die hard films.

But yes, essentially he is playing himself, or at least his character, in a non-Die hard movie.

Spoiler: I know the answer!

fifth fucking element!

i just watched it a couple months ago for the first time*ashamed*, it's quite a good flick, that was randomly one line that did stick with me

 

[AvsJoe]

I can speak a touch of Quebecois and I know common phrases from several languages but the only language I can speak fluently is L'Anglais.

 

[Kargathia]

Whether Flemish is an accent or a separate language I'm not too interested in debating.

Well I was

Officially the language of Flanders is Dutch. Almost all the spelling and grammar is the same. The main difference is that in Flemish words tend to have a slightly different meaning. They're still in the Dutch dictionary though.
Example would be the Flemish "gij zijt" (you are) which isn't used above the border, but still is a part of the language there - it's just archaic.

On the whole I'd say that it isn't different enough to stop being a dialect and start being an official language. And if it'd be heading that way then in all probability Limburgs would be recognised as a language before Flemish.

Question though: The French spoken in Belgium, is it a dialect distinctive from French French? My French isn't that good, so I don't really see the difference.

 

[Nickolai77]

English is my native language and i know some basic German from high school.

Trouble with being English is that they don't teach you languages when your most able to learn them: In primary school. Instead they only start teaching you in high school, and by then it's a bit late.

Plus, it's a rarity to come across foreign-language films or media if your English, so that further hinders Englanders picking up a foreign language.

So, there is a big shortage of people in England whom are fluent in a second language, which is problematic for international business' and institutions such as the EU wanting more British employees.

Funnily enough, one of my friends is studying French and Italian at university, and she could well get a first class degree. However, she has decided that she doesn't want a language career and wants to train to be a midwife after graduation.

 

[LongDongSilver]

Yes, I speak African, Mexican, and American.