Poll: Do you know more than one language?

[ZehMadScientist]

As a Dutchman, I speak Dutch obviously, (A useless language by the way) I speak English, basic French and German and I know the standard "Nani!?" phrases from the countless anime I watch. :3

I would love to learn japanese, but I've heard that speaking is not the difficulty but the reading and/or writing is?

 

[Condor219]

Heh, I don't know if completely broken Spanish with most of the phrases either spoken wrong or set up wrong grammatically counts as knowing another language. I'll just stick to English.

 

[Akihiko]

No. Just english. I did learn Spanish for 3 years in secondary school, but it was so poorly taught that I barely remember any of it. The problem in the UK is they don't teach us a second language right from when were young, which is when they should start. Instead they waited till you're already a teenager and it's a bit late to start then.

 

[Zeetchmen]

Only english, and probally only english becuase languages are balls hard.

-From the US

Captcha: switching novens

 

[Whoracle]

Natural Languages:
German (native), English (fluent), Latin (basics), Norwegian (basics), Swedish (basics), Italian (can understand a little bit), French (car read a little bit), Dutch (can read a little bit)

Programming: C,C++,Python,PHP,bash,batch,Java,JavaScript,C#,LotusScript,Perl

And yes, one can actually talk in programming languages.

 

[nbamaniac]

English, Filipino, Spanish (we were colonized by those white sods. :3), and a little bit of Japanese

- from the Philippines

 

[JochemDude]

Dutch(native), German(decent), French(hate it), English((almost)native), Spanish(it's easy), Latin(it's a *****). That's about it

 

[KrubixCube]

Are we talking fluently or conversationally or what though?

 

[Rastrelly]

Can read Cyrillic.

Errr, which of Cyrillic languages?

Mine are: Russian (native), Ukrainian, English (weak), French (very weak).

 

[SemiHumanTarget]

Native English speaker, near-native-fluent in Japanese. I work in Tokyo for a Japanese company.

One thing I've always been sort of shocked by is the amount of pride people take in not only their native language, but whatever language they are studying. I think people, especially those who have not particularly tested their own language ability, tend to claim "fluency" in a second language even when they're at more of a "can get by as a tourist" kind of level.

I studied Japanese intensively for 2 years at a Japanese university, and have pursued it at least a few hours a day for 5 years since then and have only recently felt comfortable claiming myself as fluent. I don't see anyone but an idiot savant becoming "fluent" in a language in under a few years at least, and even then only if they spoke/studied it daily.

 

[DirtyMagic]

Definitely.
Fluent in Dutch and English,

And I know my way around German and French.
More than enough to get me a few beers anyway!

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Yup. English, and a fair bit of German.

[sub][sub]And some Welsh...[/sub][/sub]

 

[Murais]

English, Spanish (broken), and German (broken).

Ich habe eine katze im mein hosen! ^_^

 

[Gigano]

I'm fluent in Danish and English.

I can understand Swedish, and the older form of Norwegian, as well as most German words when I hear them, but I don't speak the languages or know the grammatical structure.

 

[Littaly]

My native tongue is Swedish, on top of that I'm fluent (or at least fluent enough) in English and I used to be fluent in Italian, these days I've lost a lot of it, but I still understand the language pretty well.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Only if you count pig latin. If ou don't, then I only speak English.

 

[natster43]

yes kinda. I can speak some Spanish. Though I am terrible at it.

 

[aaronx83]

English,Spanish and a little french

 

[Shock and Awe]

Je parle anglais et tres petit francais.

 

[ninja of ni]

English would be my main language, but I majored in Spanish in college which would make it my 2nd language. I also took 1 semester of Chinese, but I only remember how to say a couple phrases and maybe how to write a couple symbols.