What languages do you speak?

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

English. I'm boring. :<

I can read Spanish pretty well, but can't speak it nearly as well as I use to since I no longer study it.

 

[Cyd0n1a]

Finnish is my native language, but I can also speak English and Swedish fluently. I would love to learn Latin or Russian if I had the time.

 

[Murais]

I was worried about that. German is kind of a joke class at my school, so I've been worried that my proficiency in learning it might be... shit? I dunno. I might pick up a copy of Rosetta Stone to supplement it or something.

you pick german deliberately? fully conscious? not being threatened to be hit or sth? ^^

Yessir. I'm fascinated with the country/culture. I find the language incredibly enjoyable to speak. It's a language that, as you implied, is not commonly chosen, so I'll have a leg-up on others in terms of language skills. Plus, I'd really love to go to Oktoberfest some day . Any country that can get 400,000 drunk people in one spot without it turning into a riot is pretty awesome to me.

But seriously, I just find it really cool. I'd like to be fluent some day. Maybe go visit Regensburg or Munich some day.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

I was forced to learn French in school (being Canadian has this unfortunate side effect). However I forgot most of it. I probably know more German (which isn't much) than French.

 

[Right]

Finnish and Swedish as my native languages, also English.

 

[BlackSaint09]

Native: Estonian
Second:English
Third:German
Wanna learn: Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish and Chinese
Oh and Irish

 

[CrystalShadow]

I speak English, Dutch and German.

English and Dutch are both native languages to me (learned them both at a very young age), but due to circumstance, I'm better at English.

My German is OK, but not great.

I've studied a lot of other languages (french & Indonesian for one) that I barely remember a recognisable sentence of.

Aside from these, I know tiny fragments of Japanese. With more effort, I'd probably get a moderate understanding of it, similar to my understanding of German.

 

[Nuclear_Suspect]

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You're not really suggesting Danish written and Danish spoken are anything alike? If the Danes would actually talk like they write, I'd understand them
Norwegian is easy to understan, but Danish...I dunno.

Men jag har kärlek till dig ändå, lillebror *virtuell kram*

PS: Does this mean I also should add Norwegian and Danish to my list?

What I mean is, if I were to take you line "Men jag har kärlek till dig ändå, lillebror *virtuell kram*" and read it as I would read Danish, then it makes perfect sense, however spoken Norwegian is another matter

 

[holy_secret]

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You're not really suggesting Danish written and Danish spoken are anything alike? If the Danes would actually talk like they write, I'd understand them
Norwegian is easy to understan, but Danish...I dunno.

Men jag har kärlek till dig ändå, lillebror *virtuell kram*

PS: Does this mean I also should add Norwegian and Danish to my list?

What I mean is, if I were to take you line "Men jag har kärlek till dig ändå, lillebror *virtuell kram*" and read it as I would read Danish, then it makes perfect sense, however spoken Norwegian is another matter

Interesting...I suppose it makes sense. Show me! Hit me with a sentence of the language of consonant-hate

 

[Thaa'ir]

So...weird topic, I know, but I'm a language fanatic, so I like this kind of stuff.

So who's polylingual? What languages do you speak?

Me? English is my native language...I speak German (pretty damn well) and Arabic (intermediate level). Makes sense though...those are my majors.

Your whole post, minus the Arabic and the majoring in a language, is me. Yes, the whole post, including the fanaticism.

Represent! Languages are awesome! I tell my parents a lot I wish they were foreigners because I would have learned their language in addition to American English. Sigh. Oh well.

Deutsch war früher meine Lieblingssprache aber ich hab mich so sehr in Arabisch verliebt...

(German used to be my favorite language but I fell in love with Arabic so much...)#

Finnish as a native language and some English, adequately, although I barely ever actually speak it.

This is one of those things where cultural differences come into play. If you ask a Finn what languages what languages he/she knows, you won't hear a language unless the person can use it very fluently. Few phrases and a couple dozen words count for absolutely nothing.

I tend to be the same. I can speak rudimentary Dutch (weird, awesome German!), Latin (love), and Esperanto (ew), but I don't claim to speak them since I'm not too proficient.

It is the goal of every language learner I know at my school to learn your native language, by the way, myself included.

 

[Vinci]

German (native) and English (fluent).

 

[BENZOOKA]

Finnish as a native language and some English, adequately, although I barely ever actually speak it.

This is one of those things where cultural differences come into play. If you ask a Finn what languages he/she knows, you won't hear a language unless the person can use it very fluently. Few phrases and a couple dozen words count for absolutely nothing.

I tend to be the same. I can speak rudimentary Dutch (weird, awesome German!), Latin (love), and Esperanto (ew), but I don't claim to speak them since I'm not too proficient.

It is the goal of every language learner I know at my school to learn your native language, by the way, myself included.

Modesty is a virtue.

Wow. Really? That made me feel even better about Finnish already. I've always loved Finnish and liked the qualities of it, compared to English, for example. Why is it that you want to learn it?

 

[Evil Teddie]

English and Welsh.

I wouldn't really count Welsh as it is the stuff the government feeds up in order to keep the language 'alive'. Compared to a fluent Welshie, I would sound super polite and silly because I do not have the accent and can not fake it very well. Still it is fun to insult people in a language people outisde of the UK never hear.

 

[Thaa'ir]

Finnish as a native language and some English, adequately, although I barely ever actually speak it.

This is one of those things where cultural differences come into play. If you ask a Finn what languages he/she knows, you won't hear a language unless the person can use it very fluently. Few phrases and a couple dozen words count for absolutely nothing.

I tend to be the same. I can speak rudimentary Dutch (weird, awesome German!), Latin (love), and Esperanto (ew), but I don't claim to speak them since I'm not too proficient.

It is the goal of every language learner I know at my school to learn your native language, by the way, myself included.

Modesty is a virtue.

Wow. Really? That made me feel even better about Finnish already. I've always loved Finnish and liked the qualities of it, compared to English, for example. Why is it that you want to learn it?

It sounds absolutely beautiful. It looks beautiful. It has 15 noun cases and tends, at least from what little I've seen, to form long words. I dunno, I just have preferences for types of languages I like, and Finnish and Hungarian fit the bill perfectly.

I still love English though, although I likely wouldn't if it weren't my native language. I particularly love our "th" sounds.

 

[Jenneh]

I only speak english as my native language and if I was stuck in France for a day, i could probably understand 1 in 5 words spoken. I wish i knew more, though.

 

[Zaverexus]

Speak English as a native language + Grammar Nazi skills.
I can sign decently in sign language, mainly any food.
I can read Latin very well but have a bit more trouble formulating my own phrases.
Bits and pieces of lots of things, I love language.

 

[C95J]

English.

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[CobraX]

English is my language. However I am fluent in Coast Salish (Native American Language) and can speak a little bit of French.

 

[zombiejoe]

English is my main language. Learning Spanish, but not well

 

[DarthFennec]

English obviously. I took a Spanish class in High School, although that was years ago. Java, C++, PHP, Python, yeah I'm fluent in a lot of languages :3