How many languages do you know?

[The Last Conformist]

Voted 2, working on another which is a total lie, of course, but it's a simplification of the complicated truth. I'm fluent in Swedish and English, I can read Danish and Norwegian, and understand it if spoken slowly. I've studied French and Russian in school, but I can't say I understand it.

I understand spoken Norwegian, but can't speak it. I understand spoken Danish if it's spoken very slow and clearly.

 

[luiz]

Fluent in Portuguese and English. Of course my english is not perfect, but it's enough to hold a conversation.
I used to be fluent in french as well. I can still read it, but due to disuse my overall knowledge of that language is falling quickly, which is a shame.
I can also have a conversation with a spanish-speaker, if he/se is kind enough to speak slowly.

 

[The Last Conformist]

(Swedish is finlands second official language, so have to study it. It's kinda hard because i'm absolutley not intersted in speaking it, and it is very diffirent from finnish.

It's quite close to English, tho.

 

[~Corsair#01~]

I am english fluent speaking 100%. Other German language speak badly, and French utterly not good.

 

[thetrooper]

I understand spoken Norwegian, but can't speak it. I understand spoken Danish if it's spoken very slow and clearly.

Same here TLC, I understand Swedish perfectly well but I have a hard time trying to speak your language. Just some silly phrases I've rehearsed. And the Danes have to speak very slowly of course

 

[Inter4]

Fluent: Italian, Spanish, English

working on: French

 

[Chairman Meow]

English, Pittsburghese (I'm not sure what language group that would fall in, but it certainly isn't English... darn Pennsylvanians...), C++, BASIC, Assembly, Python, Linux shell scripting, Latin, Russian, and the last few bits of Spanish that I haven't purged from my mind (I hated taking Spanish in high school...)

 

[Grisu]

German (native, well Swiss-German actually), English and I used to speak French, but getting a bit rusty lately as I don't use it much anymore...

 

[EquinoxOmega]

I can speak 4 languages at an usefull value. I'm constantly improving my knowlegde.

 

[ummmm........]

How do you maintain fluency in a language if you don't have regular oportunities to speak it? I was conversant in German in undergrad but I remember very little of it now. I'd like to learn Spanish, since that would be most useful for me where I live, but I'm afraid I'd forget it just like I did German.

 

[The Last Conformist]

You don't. To maintain fluence you need to speak if with some regularity.

Reading and/or writing in the language helps maintaining fluence, but can't subsitute for actually speaking it now and then.

 

[jiml_63]

English
German-can carry on a conversation and read, though I struggle writing it (lived there for 6 years
Spanish/Mexican/Puerto Rican-very limited conversationally, moderate reading ability

 

[Fox Mccloud]

I speak three languages with complete fluency - Texan, Southern, and English (US).

Dialects are'nt considered languages.

 

[Tomoyo]

Dialects are'nt considered languages.

Not even Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin, etc.?

 

[greekguy]

I can say, write, and read English. I can speak and read French with about 80% fluency. Not that good at writing it. I can speak hebrew with about 60% and can read very well. Not so good at writing it. And lastly i am currently studying latin, but i count it as something i know because i can write and read everything i've learned so far.

 

[Bluemofia]

English, Mandrian, and working on German.

 

[rbis4rbb]

The most anyone know is 5.

 

[h4ppy]

Not even Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin, etc.?

I don't consider them dialects.

 

[WickedSmurf]

The most anyone know is 5.

Soon 6 I might add.

 

[Tomoyo]

I don't consider them dialects.

Then what are they?