What languages do you speak?

[reb]

If you speak English as a first language, please say which country you live. I'm sorry for just focusing on English but I suspect that this site is mostly used by English speakers. I'm looking for at least conversational fluency to be considered being able to speak a language so no clicking on something if you can just give a couple of phrases. Also tell us what is the other language that you speak.

For those of us where English is not your first language, please tell us what your first language is and what the other languages you speak.

[Philosophos]

first language greek. I speak english (not extremelly well but I can make people understand) , some french even though I forgot most of it and currently I live in Bulgaria and I'm going to stay here for at least 4 years more so you can say that I speak bulgarian too.

[Quail]

I voted English + 1 other language because I only really speak French with any kind of proficiency. I do know a little German though and have been looking at Spanish on and off.

[Hrafn]

Raised with Swedish. Learning English is wholly mandatory in Sweden. Beyond that, I've been unable to learn another fully... I've done 3.5 years of Spanish, 1.5 years of Russian, 1 year of Mandarin, 1 year of Latin.

[roy]

australian and i also speak the french

[Arlekino]

Poor on English grammar, perfect in Russian, Lithuanian and Lithuanian sign language.

[Tim Cornelis]

Non-English mother tongue

A tat unlikely for someone to visit this site pr this poll while not being able to speak English.

Dutch and English - mastery and proficiency (C2); German - conversational fluency.

EDIT: Someone mentioned Afrikaans. Which I can speak at 'conversational fluency' as well, though it is, for all intents and purposes, a dialect of Dutch so that doesn't really count I suppose.

[Skyhilist]

A tat unlikely for someone to visit this site pr this poll while not being able to speak English.

There are some search browsers and web browsers (e.g. chrome) that will automatically translate any foreign text online into the language you're using.

[Comrade Dracula]

My native tongue's Serbian (which is essentially identical to most of the Balkan Slavic languages), along which I speak English (evidently) and Slovak (not with the highest of proficiencies, but I could manage a conversation). Non-English + 2 for me.

Along that I "know" (read: know a thing or nil about) German and Latin. Wouldn't be able to effectively communicate in either of them, though. Could perhaps translate a simpler sentence.

[Brutus]

English and small amounts of Spanish- am currently doing a GSCE in it.

[Comrade Jacob]

English (Da You Kay)

[Fourth Internationalist]

I voted just English but I could easily have a conversation in Spanish as well, though I am not fluent.

[Sinister Intents]

I voted English +1 :) I took nine years of Spanish, but I'm horribly rusty, I should definitely reeducate myself!!

[Remus Bleys]

english and marxism

[Thirsty Crow]

Serbo-Croatian and English.

It's a pity I never followed through with learning Spanish, but I guess it's never too late.

[Landsharks eat metal]

I said English and one other. Though I have studied other languages (Russian and Dutch), I kind of slacked off with them and am only really conversational in my native English and French, which I studied in high school and occasionally practice with my mother or watch movies in. When I was in France, I was able to get along using almost all French, so I consider that something I speak

[helot]

English and no other. It's my mothertongue and i was failed by my school when it came to learning German. Spent most of it without a teacher that could actually speak German.

[Tim Cornelis]

I said English and one other. Though I have studied other languages (Russian and Dutch), I kind of slacked off with them and am only really conversational in my native English and French, which I studied in high school and occasionally practice with my mother or watch movies in. When I was in France, I was able to get along using almost all French, so I consider that something I speak

Pennsylvanian or real Dutch?

[Landsharks eat metal]

Pennsylvanian or real Dutch?

Real Dutch. But I haven't studied in a while. Been too lazy, I guess.

[sixdollarchampagne]

I was a Russian language major in college, with German as a minor, though now my German is kind of rusty. In recent years I have spent a lot of time translating political articles from Spanish into English. I visited Mexico twice and thought about retiring there, but it is just too dangerous there now; when I served in the Navy, after college, I spent some time in southern Spain, which is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. I thought of settling in Spain, and now I wish I had, but I was just too young to do that by myself then. Where I live now, at least half the TV stations broadcast exclusively in Spanish.

[Durruti's friend]

Serbo-croatian (the croatian variety), English since kindergarten and some Spanish I'm picking up at high school. So, fluently two languages + Spanish in which I'm getting better at and bits of German and Czech.

But if you ask Croatian linguists, I'm probably able to speak at least 4 different south-slavic languages :lol:

[sixdollarchampagne]

Raised with Swedish. Learning English is wholly mandatory in Sweden. Beyond that, I've been unable to learn another fully... I've done 3.5 years of Spanish, 1.5 years of Russian, 1 year of Mandarin, 1 year of Latin.

Dear Hrafn: I am impressed by the fact that you studied Mandarin for a year. I once thought about trying to learn some Chinese, but I decided I would not be able to cope with a non-alphabetic language. I am so grateful that those seafaring Semites, the Phoenicians (sp?), brought alphabetic writing to Europe.

[consuming negativity]

Native tongue English... I am not fluent in but can converse using both Spanish and Mandarin.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

English is my mother tongue, but I am fairly competent in Spanish.

[Lobotomy]

я говорю чуть-чуть по-русский.

[Bala Perdida]

English and Spanish fluently. I was raised with Spanish around the house and English as a mandatory in school.

[Rugged Collectivist]

English only.

Murica.

I studied Spanish in school but I don't really remember anything. I've been meaning to learn another language for a while but I can't choose and stick with just one.

[Per Levy]

nun, deutsch ist meine muttersprache, and english the only other language i can speak.

[The Jay]

nun, deutsch ist meine muttersprache, and english the only other language i can speak.

The german just looked like what someone who has alcohol poisoning would say.

[Bolshevik Sickle]

I speak English. I tried to study German and Russian before, but never had an incentive to finish. Considering I'm not school nor do I have much of a social life.


я говорю чуть-чуть по-русский.
You could have easily got that from google translate.

[Remus Bleys]

You could have easily got that from google translate.
Why the fuck would lobotmy lie about that? What a fucking baseless and moronic accusation!

[Art Vandelay]

English and French.

[Sam_b]

Asides from the obvious of English I use Czech on an almost daily basis, and my German is pretty bad but I did learn it for five or so years. As an extension of Czech I can of course understand Slovak, and I when necessary I can read (with some assistance) articles in Russian and Polish (but I wouldn't count these as languages I speak).

[Sam_b]

You could have easily got that from google translate

Actually, this would be unlikely as it would probably translate the 'little' Russian as 'мало' or the like. Besides, why would he lie? Really no need for you to come out with this sort of stuff.

[Lobotomy]

You could have easily got that from google translate.

:rolleyes:

[Igor]

finnish native speaker

fluent in english and swedish, manage myself in russian

[Tenka]

Just English as mother tongue
And I am a U.S. American. I tried learning Spanish, and I do know a little but not enough to hold a real conversation. My abuela is not exactly good for "immersion" because she's mean and talks fast, and I can't stand watching Univision which is full of awful variety shows and *shudder* Mexican Telenovelas. Anyway, this thread isn't about which languages one wants to speak... (Spanish is far from the only one, but I hear it more than anything else that isn't English).

[Tolstoy]

The only languages I really speak with any sort of proficiency is English. However, im fairly knowledgable in Spanish and am very good at reading in Esperanto, Afrikaans and Latin.

Also, I can read the menu at the Olive Garden, so I totally speak Italian too!

[motion denied]

Brazilian, crappy English..

[Tim Cornelis]

Real Dutch. But I haven't studied in a while. Been too lazy, I guess.

Why though? What was your motivation.


nun, deutsch ist meine muttersprache, and english the only other language i can speak.

Aren't you from the UK?


However, im fairly knowledgable in Spanish and am very good at reading in Esperanto, Afrikaans and Latin.

Them are some peculiar choices, why did you choose them?

[Per Levy]

Aren't you from the UK?

why do you think i am from the uk? i stated quite often that im from germany, hah even born in the former gdr.

[Landsharks eat metal]

Why though? What was your motivation
Honestly, I just saw it on here and liked the way things were spelled; I thought it looked cool. And it turned out to be pretty easy for me once I started studying.

[Niccolo]

English, French and a little bit of German :D

[RedAnarchist]

I can only speak English, but I have tried to learn numerous other languages, the most recent being Norwegian.

[La Guaneña]

I actually have two mother tounges: English and Portuguese. I also speak Spanish as a third, and am beginning to speak French.

I was born and first raised in the USA, and spent my teens in Brasil.

[Tim Cornelis]

why do you think i am from the uk? i stated quite often that im from germany, hah even born in the former gdr.

Untschuldigung meine freund, ich kenne nicht jeder comment welche sie gemacht habt auf diesere website. 'Innsmouth' sounds Bri'ish enough, so I assume you was Bri'ish.


Honestly, I just saw it on here and liked the way things were spelled; I thought it looked cool. And it turned out to be pretty easy for me once I started studying.

I'd imagine Dutch be pretty awful to non-Dutch. A Dutch-English accent sounds terrible, where a Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, or Italian-English accent does not.

[Full Metal Bolshevik]

Portuguese as mother tongue, English and very imperfect French.

Being Portuguese, Spanish is also not that hard to understand and even speak a little bit.

[Landsharks eat metal]

I'd imagine Dutch be pretty awful to non-Dutch. A Dutch-English accent sounds terrible, where a Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, or Italian-English accent does not.
I think it's really cool, but then, I'm a weirdass, so that doesn't really tell you much.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

I only speak English, really. I do speak enough French to get really basic ideas across. Other than that I try and remember at least hello, goodbye, please, thankyou , beer and chips in a few languages

[Alan OldStudent]

English and Spanish. When I was young (50 to 60 or so years ago), I knew some German, a bit of Yiddish, a bit of French. I studied Latin and Russian in school. But I only know English and Spanish now.

I would like to relearn some of my other languages, and I may travel to the UK next year. I'd like to take some of my wife's ashes back to her home village there if it's legal to do so.

Regards,

Alan OldStudent
The unexamined life is not worth living--Socrates

[Goblin]

Norwegian is my mother tongue. Other than that i speak danish, swedish, english and some german. Norwegian, danish and swedish are nearly identical though.

[Ritzy Cat]

I'm a native English speaker, but I can function in French. Not quite fluent, but still able to speak it.

I hope to pick up Russian/Chinese, some weird, exotic, edgy language when I'm in college.