Poll: Language

[Final First]

My native language is English so obviously I speak it fluently.

I also know Latin but I am not fluent as I never have the chance to actually use it in conversation. I also know a little bit of German but not enough to fairly say I know the language so I voted only 2 languages.

 

[KefkaCultist]

English is the only one I speak fluently, but yo hablo Espanol un poco (I speak Spanish a little). Not really enough to hold a conversation, but I can pick up certain words and phrases.

 

[thejackyl]

I am fluent in English (as it's my native language), and I can understand Spanish as long as it's spoken slower then their normal speed. Mainly because I can pick out words I know, and context does the rest. I can actually do that with a few languages.

I however cannot speak Spanish. Or any other language. apart from a few words and maybe a sentence or two. I can't carry on a conversation in them.

 

[Freaky Lou]

My father is Guatemalan, and thus I learned Spanish right alongside English growing up. I didn't even know my father could speak English until I was 7 or 8.

 

[Edible Avatar]

English and spanish. The only time I get to use spanish is when i visit the Southwest US(or Europe) or when i eavesdrop in random spanish conversations. I try maintain it as much as possible.

 

[CAPTCHA]

The poll's missing the 1337 option.

OT: as mentioned on the first page we Brits don't really get taught other languges. We're not the most multicultural of societies, at least in comparison to Europe and USA. I can speak a pidgeon of German and that's about it. I've always thought about taking classes to become fluent but then the point of "why bother when I'm never going to use it" arises and I forget about it.

 

[Camarii]

Swedish is my native, so I understand Norwegian and Danish (I'm from Skåne so it's no big difference at all) I studied French for a couple of years and can get by on it.
Obviously fluent in English and I'm going to study Latin this fall (I'm also slowly learning more and more Elvish)... So I clicked 3.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

Swedish.

English, Finnish, Swedish and some French.

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.

Swedish (I'm from Sweden)

When I saw your post, I thought of this....

Spoiler: Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian sound similar

 

[Microman4]

English is my first language, I used to do French but I still remember some of it. Same goes for German, and I'm currently studding Spanish for GCSE. I also learnt Hebrew at my Jewish sunday school, although I barely use it now that I have finished my Bar Mitzvah (although that was also due to the fact that I find Hebrew incredibly difficult because of my dyslexia.) As well, I know a few words from other languages like Italian and Japanese.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Wow, just 1.4% can match my five?
Guess it really does pay to have a huge knack for languages!

 

[Yopaz]

I speak Norwegian and English fluently which means I also speakSwedish and Danish, but I'd count those as a single language rather than 3 since they are more or less the same. I speak enough German to hold a conversation.

 

[electric_warrior]

One, english, and a bit of german

 

[Abedeus]

I can speak 3, understand a bit of German, quite a lot of Italian, a small amount of French, and can make out single words in Japanese.

Fluent Polish and English, I've studied the former for the past 20 years and latter for... 15 or 16, don't remember. 4th year of Spanish, very intensive classes of language, history, geography and literature. I can use it on a fairly advanced level, though nowhere near my mother tongue or English.

 

[Alexias_Sandar]

Native: English
Semi-proficient: Latin...at least enough to manage to read a few books in such. Primarily literary, spoken is...poor. Not many fluent speakers on hand to practice with, for one.
Semi-proficient: Japanese...verbal, roumaji, hiragana and katakana only, my kanji skills are quite poor, without a book in hand to rely on.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Basically three: Greek, English and French. Also I know a little German, but only reading, not speaking.
Speaking of polyglots, for over than six months I used to listen everyday to Michel Thomas' recordings (Spanish and German lessons). This man was incredible. I loved his voice and accent. He had a great power of "speaking" straight into your mind and amaze you.

 

[VeryOddGamer]

Swedish.

English, Finnish, Swedish and some French.

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.

Swedish (I'm from Sweden)

When I saw your post, I thought of this....

Spoiler: Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian sound similar

Well, yeah. When you can speak one of them, you can almost speak the other 2 as well.

 

[Broady Brio]

English being my native tongue.

I can also butcher German.

 

[Agow95]

I only speak English, ironically enough I think you probably speak more Welsh than I do, I just struggle with it, most sentences are backwards, there are mutations, and, my welsh teachers can't speak fluent welsh themselves.

 

[MrShowerHead]

Finnish (Native)
English (Fluent-ish)

I would call my English average. Everyone from my family to my teachers keep saying I have "special English skills" but..Meh, I think they're simply easily impressed

 

[TheMann]

I'm from the UK, we don't speak other languages and prefer to make everyone else learn english.

I would have loved to learn a new language but they start them too late in the UK so most people are shit at them.

Yeah, same here is the US. By the time I got any sort of comprehensive course work in another language (Spanish) I was 14, which sets obne back a bit. Still, I live in California, so I've soaked up a bit of Spanish just from being here, though I'm very far from fluent, or feeling comfortable holding a conversation in it. I also taught myself a little Russian because I was bored, but that's even less accessible here.