How many languages can you speak?

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  • AntColley
    AntColley Posts: 10
    Hadi... Turkmusunuz ??? :))

    Ben türk öğrenme yaşıyorum.

    (...is that right? I'm not any good yet)

    Ah you learning Turkish ????
  • DesertDriver
    DesertDriver Posts: 41
    English obviously Arabic (Iraqi & Libyan ) Not mega fluent in Arabic but enough to get by and get me out of trouble! Little bit of French and Spanish
  • umachanxo
    umachanxo Posts: 926 Member
    English, a moderate amount of French, beginner Korean.
    I have a certificate in Mandarin Chinese, but I haven't used the language in around 4 years now. Sadly, I've lost a lot of it. :(
  • Temporalia
    Temporalia Posts: 1,151 Member
    I speak french (first language) and english fluently. I am limited in spanish, italian and german, I can read it and understand a lot, but don't ask me to talk to you in that language.
  • umachanxo
    umachanxo Posts: 926 Member
    mandarin

    A chinese called Natasha...that is new

    You know, some people of other nationalities choose English names. I have several Korean and Chinese friends who do not use their real name, and have picked North American names.
  • krystina_letitia9
    krystina_letitia9 Posts: 697 Member
    English, Turkish, American, South African, Australian, Canadian and I suppose many more, Excluding the Turkish, the rest are fluent :)))

    Nice....I'm fluent in American, Australian, and Canadian too. :-D In addition I speak Tagalog and Japanese.

    I didn't know "American" was a language.
  • Gulzilly
    Gulzilly Posts: 238 Member
    Englsh, Urdu, Kachi, Gujrati, Spanish.
  • Ferfey02
    Ferfey02 Posts: 87
    English and Yoruba.
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    27.

    I am also the inventor of 26 languages.

    (with thanks to Peter Cook)
  • krystina_letitia9
    krystina_letitia9 Posts: 697 Member
    English, Turkish, American, South African, Australian, Canadian and I suppose many more, Excluding the Turkish, the rest are fluent :)))

    How is American and Australian not English? I suppose Kiwi is another language too??

    I speak English (the type from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, New Zealand, Australia and the USA!) and a little Maori, I used to be quite competent with Maori but what you don't use you lose, I'm sure it's still in there somewhere though!

    THANK YOU. My point exactly :grumble:
  • Brunner26_2
    Brunner26_2 Posts: 1,152
    Klingon, Sindarin, and Fremen
  • BrotherBill913
    BrotherBill913 Posts: 662 Member
    Ingles y Espanol.. And if luvvv counts I can do that one too :)
  • MimiCro
    MimiCro Posts: 96 Member
    english croatian spanish
  • MimiCro
    MimiCro Posts: 96 Member
    Klingon, Sindarin, and Fremen
    lol
  • littlelily613
    littlelily613 Posts: 769 Member
    English and French, and I can translate Biblical Hebrew

    By the end of 2014 I will also be able to translate Latin, Koine Greek, and German (taking an MA in Theology degree)
  • diodelcibo
    diodelcibo Posts: 2,564 Member
    Slangy English Danish Spanish.
  • brandtsw
    brandtsw Posts: 51
    3 - English, Korean, German
  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
    English, Portuguese, and some Spanish
  • hougt
    hougt Posts: 1,088
    English and Yorkshire

    I used to be able to speak French and Russian too but can only remember a little of Russian
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    You know, some people of other nationalities choose English names. I have several Korean and Chinese friends who do not use their real name, and have picked North American names.
    Thats true and it also applies with the surnames (for some). I used to have a boss who is a pure Chinese and her husband is also pure Chinese but they're using the Spanish surname Santiago which according to them, they just 'bought' it. Dunno how did they do that.

    in fact Chinese have this thing of having two names, one in English or Spanish and the other in Chinese.
  • Sister_Someone
    Sister_Someone Posts: 567 Member
    Hadi... Turkmusunuz ??? :))

    Ben türk öğrenme yaşıyorum.

    (...is that right? I'm not any good yet)

    Ah you learning Turkish ????

    Evet. :D

    I started, I don't know, last year around this time. I'm slacking off a bit and still not very good though. I can read, but Turkish with a French accent sounds quite ridiculous, lol.
  • kepirus
    kepirus Posts: 79
    English, and I've been trying to learn Russian for 20 years, but am still a beginner. If I ever finally get that, I want to work on Spanish and ASL.
  • nickowastaken
    nickowastaken Posts: 751 Member
    English and Bahasa Melayu.

    I also know a little Mandarin, French, Spanish and Dutch
  • Carol_s
    Carol_s Posts: 73
    English, Welsh, French and some Spanish and basic Italian.
  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
    You know, some people of other nationalities choose English names. I have several Korean and Chinese friends who do not use their real name, and have picked North American names.
    Thats true and it also applies with the surnames (for some). I used to have a boss who is a pure Chinese and her husband is also pure Chinese but they're using the Spanish surname Santiago which according to them, they just 'bought' it. Dunno how did they do that.

    in fact Chinese have this thing of having two names, one in English or Spanish and the other in Chinese.

    Yep! My sister lived and worked in China for 4 years, teaching English. They all have English names, and some of the kids had really funny names, like Ocean and Tiger!
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    You know, some people of other nationalities choose English names. I have several Korean and Chinese friends who do not use their real name, and have picked North American names.
    Thats true and it also applies with the surnames (for some). I used to have a boss who is a pure Chinese and her husband is also pure Chinese but they're using the Spanish surname Santiago which according to them, they just 'bought' it. Dunno how did they do that.

    in fact Chinese have this thing of having two names, one in English or Spanish and the other in Chinese.

    Yep! My sister lived and worked in China for 4 years, teaching English. They all have English names, and some of the kids had really funny names, like Ocean and Tiger!

    I live in Taiwan and some of my friends have some really crazy names! (Lion, Water, Potato, Plasma, Pineapple). They pick English names because they are easier for western people to pronounce apparently.

    Edit - I speak English, a little Mandarin and a little French.
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    English and Yorkshire

    I used to be able to speak French and Russian too but can only remember a little of Russian

    I speak Yorkshire too! from which part of Yorks are you from? I'm a Donny lass originally but moved to Saltaire in my late 20's.
  • LMT2012
    LMT2012 Posts: 697 Member
    English and Spanish. I use the Spanish less now, but at one point in my life I began to have dreams in Spanish!
  • Liadora11
    Liadora11 Posts: 35
    English, Swedish, and a bit of German. Can understand Danish and Norwegian but I always reply in Swedish as they can understand me :D
  • dhakiyya
    dhakiyya Posts: 481 Member
    fluent in English (native language)

    can get by in French and Arabic, plus I can read and write in Arabic (although my Arabic's a really bizarre mixture of fus-ha (classical), Levantine dialect and Gulf dialect, it's a wonder that Arabs don't roll on the floor laughing at me when I try to speak it - for an English equivalent, imagine shakespearian English mixed with London and Canadian English or something like that!)

    just restarted studying German and found I remembered a lot more than I thought I would

    can speak a phrase or two in Spanish, Zulu, Afrikaans, Welsh and I have quite a lot of Latin vocabulary from studying science, but no grammar. I can tell you stuff like "cerebral cortex" means "brain skin/outer layer" and "medulla oblongata" means "oblong shaped middle bit" (btw, for any science students, this is a really good trick for learning anatomy, because the translations of Latin names are very descriptive, if you remember the translation it's really easy to match it up to the part being described)

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