What languages do you speak?

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  • juliana0813
    juliana0813 Posts: 49
    I couldn't help it! :p
  • Tatonka_usn
    Tatonka_usn Posts: 433 Member
    Have almost mastered Engrish. Beyond that, I took a couple years of Spanish in high school, but it could probably only help me find a bathroom at this point. Speak some Hebrew, and have started taking Arabic (just the VERY beginner class so far).
  • PiCkLeLuV
    PiCkLeLuV Posts: 274
    I speak english and I know bullsh** when I hear it. :laugh:
  • jlt5425
    jlt5425 Posts: 19
    ingles y espanol
  • AnDiallo
    AnDiallo Posts: 131 Member
    French is my first language and I speak English also.
    I learnt russian and german at school.
  • justjennnie
    justjennnie Posts: 39 Member
    I speak Chinese (Mandarin) and sometimes Engrish. :-D
  • bleedingdesu
    bleedingdesu Posts: 63 Member
    English, Japanese, and currently learning Danish.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    languages I'm not that bad at:

    native language: English

    French - I can understand a lot of it and make myself understood to quite a high level, as in I can have a conversation in it, but my grammar and pronunciation is pretty dire. And I suck very badly at writing french. Well I can write it but the spelling is dire.

    Arabic - pretty basic but I can read and write Arabic. I can make myself understood going out and about in Arabic countries... have lived in Arabic speaking countries for the past 5.5 years

    languages I'm supposed to be trying to learn:

    German - I'm a beginner and i also did 1 year of German at school. My husband wants to go and live in Germany after we're done living in the Arabian Gulf so he's told me to learn German. I'm mostly doing phonics at the moment because I'm dyslexic and I don't have a hope in hell of learning to read and write in German unless I spend a lot of time studying the phonics without worrying about other things at the same time like grammar and vocab. It's easier than English phonics although there's some irregularity, i.e. 2-3 ways to write some sounds, although all sounds are read the same way so reading is easier than spelling. I haven't even tried learning to spell German yet.

    langauges I know a few words/phrases of:

    welsh
    zulu
    afrikaans
    spanish
    old English (as in the language of the Anglo-Saxons... Shakespeare's English is actually early modern English, even though most people think of it as "old English" - it's not)
    esperanto - in fact I can say "please could you send for the hall porter, there appears to be a frog in my bidet" in esperanto

    ETA: and Hebrew... I forgot about that one. I've probably forgotten about one or two others in the "know a few words/phrases of" category
  • QueenGyn
    QueenGyn Posts: 106
    Mother tongue is Filipino but can speak and read some native dialects as well. My second language is English and I know basic Japanese & Korean. :smile:
  • missmarjushka
    missmarjushka Posts: 29 Member
    Russian, English, Italian, Chinese
  • English and Spanish...and French Wine Labels.
  • PaliDNAnge
    PaliDNAnge Posts: 81 Member
    English is my first language. Arabic is my second language since I'm born into an Arabic speaking family. I learned the language from my parents. I probably read at a preschooler's level trying to sound out the letters. lol I know basic French from high school and college, although I probably understand it more written than spoken.
  • Diana8923
    Diana8923 Posts: 147 Member
    Hi! I'm new here an thrilled to see so many nice and fun people. :)
    I speak English since the 2nd grade. I speak German at home, though I live in Romania and thus speak Romanian most of the time. In High School I learned a bit of French and in College some Italian.
  • PandaPharm
    PandaPharm Posts: 5
    My English is fluent, mi español está bien, und mein Deutsch ist nicht gut, aber ich lerne.
  • mazdauk
    mazdauk Posts: 1,380 Member
    English (obviously) and French, a little Spanish, plus I can read Latin and follow a little Italian. And i can read a Dutch menu :happy:

    My late father-in-law used to say "Darling, I can speak 5 languages and make love in 15". :laugh: (he was Hungarian).
  • ninjakowski
    ninjakowski Posts: 158
    English, and very basic (ie. lots of words but not quite conversational) German, Dutch and Polish (should be better at all three but I suck at languages lol).
  • majasmi
    majasmi Posts: 133 Member
    english, french, malay, mandarin chinese, some japanese.
  • Mhaney
    Mhaney Posts: 467 Member
    I can count in Korean and know only phrases needed to participate in my taekwondo class.
    My children count in 4 languages, speak the same Korean I do, and they speak a bit of French and Spanish.
  • jessicae1aine
    jessicae1aine Posts: 885
    I speak English natively. I read Spanish and German at an intermediate level, speak Spanish at a basic level, speak German at an intermediate level, read and speak French at a basic level, and have the reading and speaking comprehension of a 4 or 5 year old in Korean. I've also got a basic vocabulary in ASL, but can understand much more in context, generally.
  • diver71_au
    diver71_au Posts: 424 Member
    Tôi nói một chút tiếng việt


    I speak (and read/write) a little Vietnamese.
  • Kaoticma07
    Kaoticma07 Posts: 29 Member
    Spanish is my first language i also speak English,Efe,A little Piglatin I Only Understand Italian Because i studied it but i only know what they say and i know some words...And i also know the language of Porfanity LOL
  • runner2runner
    runner2runner Posts: 1,937 Member
    My mother tongue is Sesotho, which I can speak most of. At home we mostly speak English. South Africa has 11 official languages, including English and here in Pretoria we have people from almost all the language groups living and working here. In addition to my mother tongue and of course English, I can also speak Zulu, Xhosa, Setswana and a bit of Sepedi. I'm still struggling with Afrikaans, but hopefully I'll get the hang of eventually.
  • squatsandlipgloss
    squatsandlipgloss Posts: 595 Member
    Fluent in English, German and Dutch.

    And then some Brazilian Portuguese, Surinamese, French and Spanish.
  • ginmidori
    ginmidori Posts: 2
    Italian as my first language, then english, french, german and spanish. Also few words in chinese, due to my friendly neighbours, but i'm not really good at it :P
  • Buddhasmiracle
    Buddhasmiracle Posts: 925 Member
    I speak and read french fluently. I eavesdrop on my in-laws speaking Bronx english
  • LuisZ81
    LuisZ81 Posts: 77 Member
    Hablo espanol
  • Sarah_L_S
    Sarah_L_S Posts: 121
    English, French and Spanish plus basic Italian and German and a few words from many places I've travelled to :smile:
  • willafan
    willafan Posts: 101
    English, German and some Italian. Living in the US but originally from Europe.
  • SammyRotten
    SammyRotten Posts: 20
    english, german, latin and a little bit french :)
  • gdrmuzak
    gdrmuzak Posts: 103 Member
    English and ASL (American Sign Language). I have a Deaf son.