What languages do you speak?

JeninBelgium

English is my first language (American)
Enhanced English is sort of what I speak now (British words, phrases, some pronunciation)
Dutch is my second language (what I speak every day in the country I live in)

I have studied German in the recent past but because of the Dutch completely taking over my brain I have a really hard time speaking it. I understand a LOT though and even have full conversations with colleagues with me speaking English and the other person speaking German.

I've studied other languages as well, but never practised really, so I would never claim to speak those languages.

Ditto- Exactly DITTO- for the English, Dutch and German comments. I will say that when I lived in the Netherlands (10 years ago now) I never NEEDED to speak Dutch as all of the Dutch seem to be fluent or near fluent in English, however, my Dutch grammatical structure and accent was better than it is now. I currently live in Belgium on the border of three provinces and my accent has suffered for it- very flat Flemish now (yuck) but my vocabulary is better for it in the sense of knowing so many various dialect words for the same thing.

In addition to the above, between living in the Netherlands and Belgium I lived in Madagascar and thus know a little bit of Malagasy (to speak it, not to write it) and some French- though since moving to Belgium (where 40% or so of the population speak French as their first language) my French has deteriorated- probably because I have concentrated on Dutch (nearlyu 60% have Dutch as a first language here) as I think it is important to speak the language of the area you live in (I live in Flanders) and also to be able to communicate with my inlaws

I seem to understand Italian when I am in Italy and can really butcher a Spanish sentence quite impressively as I learned two weeks ago whilst attending a wedding in Spain

:-)

Jade_Butterfly

English & sign language. . .Would love to learn spanish and french though.

PegasusDeb

I'm fluent in sarcasm. What's it to ya?

PegasusDeb

I do want to learn Spanish though... I don't think I can get my tongue to roll those rrrrrr's though!

HollieDoodles

Besides the obvious.... English, Sarcasm, and broken Spanish....

I am pretty good at speaking Teenage Boy

Whale

Lame Gangster Rapper

Hillbilly after suffering a bad concussion

Sleep deprived student slur

I'm also quite good at speaking... The Look of "Oh crap! Mom's pissed!" ....
most children easily understand me when I speak that

JDNOX

Sarcasm and English

Fatchickslim

English and Body.

gnan87

hmm interesting topic.........i can speak these languages fluently..
telugu
kannada
english
tamil
hindi
urdu
the ancient language of sanskrit
and apart from these
some french and spanish

PBJunkie

Afrikaans
English
German
A bit of Xhosa

goron59

English English
Most other variants of English
Bollox
A little bit of Dutch, Spanish, French, German
Restaurant Italian (but then, who doesn't?)
I can read Russian but don't know what it means.

bregalad5

English
I minored in German in college - spent a semester in Vienna and a couple months in Bavaria (so I understand the Austrian dialect best), but I've forgotten most of it since I haven't used it in years. I'd like to get back into it, though.
I learned how to read Cyrillic before taking a trip to Belarus a few years ago.
Having been to Poland several times, I can read/pronounce Polish VERY well. That doesn't mean I understand what I'm reading, but my friends (native speakers) there have said that I read it with a good accent, hehe. I can speak basic phrases to get around, as well as a couple fun tongue-twisters :laugh:
Heh, forgot to add basic Italian!

sarah44254

English
German
Spanish (about 70% fluent)
Swedish (about 40% fluent)
Japanese (can read some and only 20% fluent in other areas)
I'd love to learn more, and especially love to go study deeper into the ones I am already familiar with!

brianward81

English and a moderate amount of Spanish (my wife and all her family are from Spain).

calibri

French and a bit of Russian (practicing with a co-worker)

Mixmode

Pig Latin
Double Chinese
Jive

Cornock

English and a moderate amount of Spanish (my wife and all her family are from Spain).

Hey mine too!

and a little bit of Greek.

deepavignesh

Tamil( my mother tongue)
Hindi (my national language)
bits of telugu and malayalam (languages of my neighbouring states)
English ( our country's official language)
Little sanskrit ( one of the oldest languages)
learnt a little french but completely forgot!!!!

elsham

in order of acquisition: Russian, Judeo-Tat (a Persian dialect), English, Spanish, used to speak Turkish fluently but forgot most of it because I barely used it once I got to the U.S. =( Want to speak it again, though, and I'm working on Hebrew.

elsham

I can read Russian but don't know what it means.

Now that's cool. It's usually the opposite, where people know what words mean but can't read for their life.

zoe4friends

Turkmen - native language
Russian- 2nd language
English

DannyMussels

English
French (took 13yrs of it)
Portuguese (picked up a little from the old country)

Don't ask me to speak any of it, unless I've had a fifth of tequila first. At which point, what I'm saying would be the least of your problems.

MARI1010

El Espanol and English

What she said

Laurayinz

4. select phrases of Pittsburghese (Y'uns know what I'm talking about)

git aht!!

1) English
2) Spanish (rusty)
3) Pittsburghese
4) Yinzish
5) I can understand some Italian since much of it is close to Spanish

Goldenwoof

English
un poco Espanol
Pittsburghese
Yinzer
Visual FoxPro
a little Java

SkateboardFi

1. english
2. spanish (been a while since i've actually utilized..used to speak it all the time around my fam in chicago)
3. french
4. beatbox

sunkisses

English (American, Jamaican)
Spanish (understand, read and write it MUCH better than I speak it)
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