Poll: Language

[JLML]

Fully fluent in English and Swedish (I'm from Sweden), know (barely) enough French to survive on it, not quite enough to have a polite conversation but enough to find directions, buy stuff and all that. I'm also thinking about learning German this summer, and in the future I'd like to learn Japanese, Chinese, Russian and so on. I like languages, I guess you could say. ^^

 

[Llil]

I can speak Finnish (native), English (fluent) and Swedish (okay). I took a few introductory Russian courses in school, but I never got very far. I can read the cyrillic alphabet and I understand a few words here and there, but that's about it.

Swedish and English are mandatory in Finnish schools, so it's nothing special to be able to speak three languages. Although, Swedish isn't spoken in the part of Finland I live in, so around here a lot of people have forgotten everything they learned in school.

Bah, swedish. Humbug. ^_^

Ei eteläsuomessa mitään ruotsia tarvi (onneksi).

Hey, you never know when you might need it. At least that's what they kept saying to us in school.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

Do fictional languages count? If so then I know quite a bit of Goa'uld (not fluent), Skyrim Dhovatongue, and I can read Dwarvish Runes (LotR). Not that they ever get much use of course.

 

[Ddgafd]

Finnish(native)
English(fluent)
Swedish(decent)
German(decent)

I also know a litttle bit of Spanish and Italian, but not enough to really say anything smart.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Well, my nationality is Maltese (first of the thread so far, yay) so my mother tongue is, you guessed it, Maltese.
However, I'm not very good at it. I can hold a conversation, but nothing complex.
My 'main' language is, obviously, English.
So, I guess two languages is the appropriate option.

 

[Strazdas]

I know 2,5 languages.
Lithuanian, my mother tongue.
English, my favourite language.
Some German, studied at school.
Minute amount of polish, had to learn to stay alive in games ruled by polish idiots. (not that polish are idiots, the idiots in that game happen to be polish)

In my opinion everyone in the world should know a single language that they can all communicate with. It does not matter if its french, english, chineese or whatever. As long as everyone know it. English is the most popular at the moment.

 

[DanielBrown]

Swedish is my mother tongue and I also speak English fluently. Studied Spanish for four years, but not much stuck with me after I quit since you don't get many opportunities to practise it.

 

[Kill100577]

Do we mean fluently or to a reasonable standard?

 

[Jonluw]

Tough question to answer.
I speak Norwegian, English and a little bit French.
However, since I speak Norwegian, I understand and speak both Danish and Swedish fairly well.

 

[Nupu]

Well since I am from Finland I speak Finnish as my native language. Swedish as secondary and god know's how bad I am at it. English as the language I use every day on the internet, and also I know a bit of French. Also I can understand few words of German thanks to my friend always annoying me with it.

 

[SckizoBoy]

A few... I speak English and Cantonese (native), Japanese (fluent), French and German (both conversational, though that's still stretching it). And I can understand Italian if you speak it veeeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly.

 

[Commonly Confused]

I speak English and French fluently.
I have seven years of self-taught experience in Japanese as well as two in uni (surprisingly, I only had to unlearn a few things).
I began learning Russian two years ago.
Would love to learn Arabic and Irish but from what I can see, the United States (or at least my state) is the absolute worst place to have those ambitions.

 

[Philol]

Just one, English. I did study French for three years at the start of secondary school, but I stopped when I got to choose my GCSE's as a secondary language never interested me in the first place.

 

[VeryOddGamer]

English, Finnish, Swedish and some French.

 

[lacktheknack]

I speak English fluently, but I can't speak anything else. I can normally figure out what something written in French means, and know very rudimentary Spanish, but that's it.

 

[dyre]

Fluent English, and reasonably passable kinda-sorta okay Chinese (Mandarin). I can say a few things in French.

 

[Xenowolf]

English and a little German that's reinforced by listening to Rammstein and Oomph. I learnt French up until I was 14, and I can barely remember any of it (even though I could probably understand some words of it when asked for their translation). The UK education system is absolutely shit for languages...

 

[GmonXyZ]

Dutch, English and Python 8)

Excluded: XHTML, XSLT, XML, JS, CSS, HTML, LUA

 

[Owlslayer]

Well, I speak Estonian, it`s my native language.
Also, I´ve been learning English for years, and most of the stuff on TV is in English + the Internet, of course, is mostly in English. So i think i speak English quite well.
I learned Russian for a few years, but I wasn`t that good at it. Might have forgotten quite a lot of it.
And in Uni, for the last year or so, I´ve been studying Japanese, but compared to how we learned back in school, here we learn more stuff, faster.
But i selected 2, cause I´m sure I´d fail in a normal conversation in Russian and Japanese.

 

[awesomeClaw]

I know Swedish(native), English(fluent) and German (decent).

I like german. It´s a real "ruler" kind of language I think.

Jag tänker också på att kanske study some other language abends.