How many languages can you speak?

Sister_Someone · January 2013

Hadi... Turkmusunuz ??? )

Ben türk öğrenme yaşıyorum.

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

Ah you learning Turkish ????

Evet.

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 · January 2013

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 · January 2013

English and Bahasa Melayu.

I also know a little Mandarin, French, Spanish and Dutch

Carol_s · January 2013

English, Welsh, French and some Spanish and basic Italian.

DawnieB1977 · January 2013

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 · January 2013

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 · January 2013

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 · January 2013

English and Spanish. I use the Spanish less now, but at one point in my life I began to have dreams in Spanish!

Liadora11 · January 2013

English, Swedish, and a bit of German. Can understand Danish and Norwegian but I always reply in Swedish as they can understand me

dhakiyya · January 2013

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)