How many languages do you know?

[Reno]

I can speak Finnish and English fluently, while my Swedish and German are nearly fluent. I can understand some spoken Estonian and Karelian.

 

[Grisu]

I can speak German (and Swiss-German) and English fluently, and some French (used to be almost fluent, but fading fast...)

 

[REDY]

I can speak Czech fluently, I was learning German and English, I understand fully Slovak, other Slavic languages I understand usually what are people talking about, of course sometimes not.

 

[Turkish_Aries]

Turkish, English

wanna learn Spanish

 

[plarq]

None, except some basic fragments of languages.

 

[scherbchen]

german (native) as well as english and spanish, trying to pass latin final exams this july *le sigh*... need it in order to become a spanish/english teacher in germany, will never need it again as soon as i pass the test.

favourite language? probably english, funny language. we germans have the word fremdenfeindlichkeit to look at one example, which is easily understood by anybody who has taken 2 years of lessons. feind, noun for enemy; adding the suffix -lich makes it an adjective, furthermore adding -keit marks it as a concept and the prefix (dative i believe) fremden shows what it refers to. now getting to this word in english is a different matter. enemy (loan-word from the french after the norman conquest) is the noun; the adjective however is adapted from latin during the renaissance: hostile, derived from the latin hostiles (in the 1200s this would have in fact been enemylich back then the english still had some germanic word-endings); going to hostility is not much of a stretch but when you want to express 'hostility towards strangers'... well... let's take some greek and call it xenophobia... even a native speaker who has never heard this word will not be able to derive it's meaning

but spanish sounds so much nicer, is a lot easier for beginners (until, as has been mentioned, you hit the first speed bump that is the subjunctive) and the female populace speaking it is so much prettier so meh, it's a toss-up

 

[scherbchen]

ack, forgot to add something.

i don't know why anybody would want to learn german (if it isn't out of necessity) but i am so glad that i do not have to learn it as a second language and i take pitty on anybody who has to. it should be reserved as a penalty for mortal sins. deepest respect for anybody who has mastered it (as far as that is possible, heck, many natives don't speak it well) as a second language!

 

[phoenix_sprite]

spanish seems easy to learn but only cause it sounds so much like french (just look at the geographical location). French is hard to learn, this coming from a francophone!

 

[Steph]

French is hard to learn, that's why English is more spread out. Only the smartest can speak French, the dumb ones speak English.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

How many languages do you know?

Spanish and English.

Spanish and French arent all that similar. Spanish and Italian however, depending on the Italian dialect, are so similar that Spanish/Italian speakers can communicate easily with one another speaking their respective tongues.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

English, Spanish. Intend to learn more Arabic.

 

[scherbchen]

spanish seems easy to learn but only cause it sounds so much like french (just look at the geographical location). French is hard to learn, this coming from a francophone!

after having had 3 years of french in school i can not agree to them being similarly sounding, however, i forgot just about anything but the pronounciation. french has weird vokals and consonants found in neither italian nor spanish (nor english or german for that matter).

 

[Rossiya]

My dad speaks ciociaro (site all in Italian), and he can understand some Spanish.

Am I the only Italian speaker, because if so,

Spoiler :

I have studied French, forgotten most of it, want to resume it. I study Latin, German and Italian at the minute.

 

[Phlegmak]

I speak English natively.
I can speak Spanish conversationally, but it's hard. I can read it and write it.

I have studied, and can barely read:
Russian
German

I have studied (very, very little):
French
Dutch

I can read (a little), but have never studied:
Italian
Latin
Portuguese

I'd like to improve my Russian, German, and French.

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

English and Japanese

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

2. French and English. I intend to learn Spanish and Japanese and I wish to learn Gaellic and Arabic (not likely thought). They say that a child born and raised in a multi-language family learns more easily other languages.

Many, but few that I know well. I speak English, Russian, Latin, French, Spanish...Chinese, in descending order of skill. Ok, I don't actually speak any Chinese, which is why it's at the bottom of the list.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Obligatory Weird Al quote:

I'm fluent in Javascript as well as Klingon

I speak English of course and supposedly Spanish (7 years worth of Spanish for naught).

But I know a long list of programming languages.

 

[DaveShack]

English, obviously.

I can read "formal" Spanish pretty well, understand it spoken a little less, write and speak it with difficulty. However there are many dialects and I have major trouble with them, and idioms are a big problem.

I can read some, imperfectly, many of the languages which derived from Roman, for example Portugese, Italian, and French (less well). A little Russian in "romanized" form -- don't know the cyrillic alphabet and my pronunciation is atrocious. A very few words in Japanese, also only in romanized form.

More programming languages than most people would even guess exist, but they don't count.

 

[Red Door]

English, I can speak conventional Spanish, and very, very basic Italian.

 

[Nylan]

1.5 languages

English and some shoddy Spanish