What languages do you speak?

[Breezy du Nord]

Me, english, obviously (though not very well @ times, lol) and I'm in my 2nd year in Spanish.

You?

edit: also know a few words of czech. it's in the blood after all.

[UrbScotty]

1. English, English, English, and English

Plus bits and pieces of other languages.

[Breezy du Nord]

3. It's the american way!

:)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. English, French, German, a little Gaelic - all badly.

[Breezy du Nord]

4. Gaelic, that's cool

nt

[iluvchicago86]

5. 3

English, serbian, and spanish.Although spanish I only took for 5 years so im not so fluent in it as i could be.

[Breezy du Nord]

6. Serbian, eh?

I'm a fan of the more obscure languages. Well, you know, I mean obscure in the US.

[iluvchicago86]

11. It's not very obscure

Where I am. There is a heavy population of serbian people in the chicagoland area so its pretty common. I speak it to my family and friends and have had countless people come up to me and start rambling in polish, russian, and bulgarian. Cause theyre similair. Makes for neat experiences to say the least.

[JohnKleeb]

66. If I get in to school in Chicago

You better teach me. :hi:
Oh and Breezy I know English, a little spanish(Spanish II).

[Swede]

7. English only.

I am a Canadian,half French, took four years of french in highschool,and never use it. Use it or lose it they say.

[Scott Lee]

8. Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Navajo, (studying Nahuatl)

I'm moderate in standard Arabic too.

English? That one's not so good.

[LSparkle]

10. That's an amazingly diverse group of languages

Good for you!

[Scott Lee]

47. Thanks. Their diversity is what attracted me.

I am in awe of the wide variety of lingual expression we humans have concocted over the millenia. I realized with each one that you had to learn how to think in a different way in order to speak it.

Now if my English can just get better....

[LSparkle]

9. 3: French, Spanish and Russian

in that order of proficiency. Little Italian and could probably pick up some other Slavic dialects that are close to Russian ... J'adore les langues!

[eyesroll]

12. English, marginal Spanish, some Esperanto...

I also took a year of Mandarin in college (more for linguistic curiosity than anything).

[Maeve]

13. A bit of--- Irish, Spanish and French

Altho I read all better than I speak. A few phrases of German, enough to get me into trouble, but not back out again!

[bubba_fett]

14. english and some japanese

I can get by in my japanese.

[leftist_rebel1569]

15. Well, there you are!

You haven't been on in a while, I missed you! :hi:

Anyways, I know English (obviously) and I'm in my second year of French at school.

[juajen]

16. Unfortunately, I only speak English

BUT, I speak it extremely well. Hey, it's something!

[NaMeaHou]

17. nada

.

[matcom]

18. English, Spanish, SOME German

want to learn more and sadly (perhaps) live somewhere else

[corarose]

19. Pig Latin and some Spanish

A little bit of French also.

[Astarho]

20. Bits and pieces of many

English, and fair Spaniahsd and Gaelic, some French, and bits and pieces of Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, and a few more. You should see the shelves of foreign language books in my room.

[KDLarsen]

21. ..

Danish, English, German and a wee bit of Spanish, French & Italian (enough to buy a beer or two).

[HereSince1628]

22. Midwestern, Yankee, TexMex, Calculus, Chemistry, Biology

and smatterings statistical theory and post-modernist critique.

In terms of really erudite language skills I know the grammatical meanings of aye, ah, and yah as used on a line from Fargo, SD to Virginia, MN and so I politely don't repeat myself when in reply to my comments a listener notes that (s)he stayed awake through everything I just said by sending the "message recieved--eh" when I stop talking.

on edit: I can't really speak but I can more or less read within my discipline in Latin, Spanish, French and Russian

[htuttle]

23. I can swear in English, Spanish, French, German, Farsi, Arabic, Gaellic *

I can only carry on a conversation in English. With humans, that is. I took high school German, but forgot everything but how to count and the pronoun table (I can also fake my way through asking a few questions, but understanding the answer is a big problem).

With digitals, I also speak C, C++, Objective C, Java, Motorola 68HC11 Assembly, Perl, Python, Pascal, Modula 2, Bourne Shell, Basic, Oberon, AppleScript, HTML (though I don't call that a 'language' -- it's a specification) and probably a few that I've forgotten about, but could still write something in if asked.


* Back when I drove a taxi, I wanted to make sure that the other driver understood what I was saying to them...The Gaellic comes from granny.

[corarose]

27. I forgot that I speak a little bit of Gaellic

:kick:

[ronnykmarshall]

24. English

I know a few phrases in Spanish.

[politicat]

25. English, old English; Middle Italian- Venetian dialect; French, old French

Russian, Medieval Russian, Latin and Medieval church Latin.

I read them all far better than I speak any one of them save English and modern Russian. I have almost no ear for an accent, and when I learn one, I invariably learn it from a non-standard speaker. (My French teacher in middle school had an Alsace accent, so I speak French with a german accent.)

Being an historian requires fluency with the languages of the period.

Next task is medieval german, Gothic hand, secretary hand and Medieval Roman Italian.

With those langauges, I can almost get around Europe.

Politicat (who could go by Politiglot after that.)

[Piperay]

26. English

but not very well. :-) I took Spainish and German in school but neither took. :shrug: :-(

[Interrobang]

28. English, some French, some Spanish, a little Japanese, a little Yiddish...

...and I'm struggling mightily to teach myself Hebrew, which isn't easy because it seems to have irregular *everythings* (plurals, verbs, conjunctions for goodness' sake!), and so on.

Obviously, I'm fluent in English, and I speak/read enough French to get by on a functional level, but not enough to read a legal document with any degree of ease (and I can't spell in French for shit!), and enough Spanish to get around, and/or make sense out of something unsubtitled on tv. I speak enough Japanese to occasionally re-translate a joke in a subtitled anime (usually for the dirtier and more accurate), but not enough to watch anime without the subtitles. (I only took 3 years of it in university.)

My ear for accents is really good, though. My fiance downloaded me some Hebrew lessons off the Internet, and played a little of it over the phone to me to see if it was the kind of stuff I wanted. Despite only catching about 2 words in every five, I asked him, "Why are they speaking with a French accent?" It turns out that the company that produced the lessons and recordings is based in Paris. :)

[HEyHEY]

29. French English...thinking about learning Italian and Cantonese

[Nikia]

30. English and some others to varying degrees

I can read French and Italian at a moderate level, but am a little rusty on speaking. I know small amounts of Spanish and Russian. I tried to learn German on my own, but most of it is lost.

[Kellanved]

31. German and English

Latin , a little (enough to read a simple newspaper story or order something) French.


A few words Spanish, Russian, Dutch and Italian.

[Kamika]

32. English and Korean

I love to call someone something nasty and still maintain a "I love you smile) :D

[Snow]

42. Aheego! Napun nom eegooman! I speak Korean, too......

and malay, learning spanish, know some german. Think that's about it. Used to know some Chinese, but can't get past "nee-how" anymore.
(by the way, Kamika, I can't abide the missionary-invented romanization systems. No american can ever pronounce anything written in mchune-reischauer).

[Kenneth ken]

33. American English

though I know a few British English terms.

1 to go...

[HEyHEY]

34. you mean "A-Merkin anglish"

[Liberal Veteran]

35. I'm pretty much monolingual

Although I have had 2 years of Spanish and 3 years of French, I am way out of practice.

[Padraig18]

36. Four:

English, Irish, Spanish and a bit of schoolboy French. :hi:

[KCDem]

37. Russian, German, some French, Spanish, Polish, and Czech

The first 2 fluently (or, at least I used to be able to). French, I can read pretty well, but my pronuciation sucks. Spanish, well enough. I'd be able to eat and find bathrooms with no problem in Poland and the Czech Republic, but unable to discuss politics for at least a month.

Oh, and I speak toddler-ease.

[UrbScotty]

40. Can you speak English, too?

I can!

[Squeech]

38. At the tourist level, Portuguese and French

Neither quite well enough to actually communicate.

What's weird is that I seem to have this bag in my head where all the foreign words are stored. When I'm trying to construct a sentence and I'm looking for a specific word, I (metaphorically) reach into the bag, and all too often come up with a word in the wrong language. Besides the ones listed above, I know just enough German, Spanish, and Hebrew that some of those words have been left in the bag too!

The two languages above, and *maybe* Spanish, I can read a newspaper story and tell you more or less what it's about. And I can order in restaurants.

Gotta work on it, especially the Portuguese. If all goes according to plan, I'll be in Brazil for Carnaval!

[Syn_Dem]

39. Mine are...

English, Thai, and Im studying my 4th year of Spanish in high school. I can understand Laotian, but can't speak it, weird eh? And next year Im planning to switch over to German in my high school studies.

[Darth_Ole]

41. English and Latin

n/t

[Squeech]

52. How did you get to learn Thai?

I spent my (first) honeymoon in Thailand, and figured then that I'd like to retire there-- but I decided to defer learning the language until then. (And in Bangkok everybody we needed to talk to spoke enough English that it was never a problem.) I did take home a Thai alphabet book, but never really studied it, I just thought the letters looked cool as design elements.

That marriage didn't last; my second wife is a big fan of Brazilian culture, especially the music, so we go there now, and I'm learning Portuguese. (Slowly. But at least I can read it.)

[Syn_Dem]

64. Well...

Being 75% Thai helps :)

[FloridaJudy]

43. English, Spanish, Portuguese and a little Serbo-Croat

It's Dutch I wish I could fluently!

Then I could retire to Amsterdam.

[RainDog]

44. ig-pay atin-lay

uently-flay. :)

I speak Dutch, but haven't been in a situation to speak much lately, so I'm forgetting stuff.

Just visited the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce site, though and I could understand it...at least I think I could.

took a couple of years of French, but have used it even less than Dutch, and have really forgotten lots, esp those lovely irregular and subjunctive verbs.

I have an old French edition of Duras' L'Amant, which I should use to practice reading again, since it isn't that hard, but I should probably start with some of the French Asterix comics instead.

Dutch is easier than French, btw.

[travisleit01]

45. English (duh) and 5 years of Spanish. n/t

[Lungs]

46. French, Spanish & English

[salin]

48. English... and I once knew a bit of Norwegian

but didn't use it much - and lost it. Though a few of the drinking songs remain and have been reinforced at a couple of weddings with the Norwegian relatives....

[johnnie]

49. I speak...

My native northeastern (pop, you guys), eastern (Soda, pork the coor), western (Like you know), a bit of southern (ya'll, over yonder) and a bit of brewski..(raise your voice a few decibles and talk stupid)"I wull kick your ash if I wuzint sho dunk"

[peacebuzzard]

50. English, Portuguese, restaurant French and kitchen Spanish.

:*

[Red_Storm]

51. English and Spanish .........

can get a few sentences in, in French and Italian........

[LincolnMcGrath]

53. Kreyol

demokratik-anbatè !!!

[camero]

54. kdo se moch pta

lil bit of french, spanish, and czech.

[whirlygigspin]

55. English, French, Spanish, Nepali, Chinese

but my chinese sucks.

[Noordam]

56. :kick:

:kick:

[Alenne]

57. English

I took spanish in High School but I am not fluent.

[toddzilla]

58. english, sign language and very little espanol

[Feanorcurufinwe]

59. English, of course, and I'm trying to learn French

[SmileyBoy]

60. English and French. And I'm working on Turkish.

Turkish is REAL hard.

[populistmom]

61. English and a very small amount of French.

I can understand French a lot better than I can speak it though. Still with what I know, it's not saying much, uncultured American fool that I am.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

62. English and fluent Spanish

I am fairly fluent in Spanish, I am in my 5th year of spanish.

[Red_Storm]

63. Como estas estudiando el idioma

[bleedingheart]

65. Some Lithuanian, Croatian and German

and of course English.

[nemo137]

67. midwestern dialect english, and i'm taking arabic this summer. n/t

[Wulfian]

68. English, Spanish, American Sign Language

[Sufi Marmot]

69. English, Russian, and I'm learning Turkish...

I concur with northwest that Turkish isn't easy, although it is logical...

-SM

[scarlet_owl]

70. English and Spanish

Not quite fluent in Spanish, but I know enough to get by. I grew up in a household where both English and Spanish were mixed together.