How many languages do you understand?

[JonathanValjean]

7+

English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romansh, Galician, French, and Latin. Of course, these are in the same linguistic grouping(except for my native language, English), so it isn't all that impressive. What impresses me more is when someone masters languages from several different language families, such as: German, Spanish, Finnish, Russian, Chinese, Swahili, and Japanese, for example.

 

[TNG]

2, English and my native language Philipino

 

[Sims2789]

i know only English, but i'm gonna learn Spanish in high school
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Freeporn

 

[John-LP]

I know two languages, English and bad-English

 

[mabellino]

English and German...
I can also say the four most important words in: French, Polish, Spanish, Italian and Greek... eg please, thankyou, hello and good bye!
And I know how to introduce my self in Russian... not that that will help me much!

As for the old "English/American" debate... The UK is very greatly influenced by american culture such as movies (we call them films btw!)... therefore terms such as "bling bling" are well known to us!
Coming from Yorkshire I often say things that my Southern UK colleagues don't understand but I would never say that people from Yorkshire speak a different language to people from Essex!
Different dialects yes, different languages no!

 

[yaroslav]

Originally posted by Benderino

I can read Hebrew and pronounce it, but I don't actually know much of what I'm saying. It's like learning two languages at once.

Do you mean 'easy hebrew'? If I recall it correctly (help G-man!) in hebrew you don't write down the vowels, so you must know the word in order to read it (because you must know where are the vowels and what are they). Of course, if "easy hebrew" or "hebrew for begginers" the vowels are written down, if I recall it correctly

 

[Knight-Dragon]

*bump*

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Romanian, English, German.
I also can carry out a decent conversation in Spanish and Italian...

And I can understand French, but if you speak slowly...

 

[jack merchant]

Originally posted by mabellino
English and German...
I can also say the four most important words in: French, Polish, Spanish, Italian and Greek... eg please, thankyou, hello and good bye!

The most important words are actually: "I'll have a beer please" and "You are sweet/pretty !" Impresses the hell out of the opposite sex (don't know whether it works for gay people though ) when you can tell them that in their own language .

 

[Leha]

Well , since XIII closed my brand new , beloved thread ...

3 languages , Russian , Hebrew and English

By the way , speak and understand are not the same things

 

[Tsukemono5]

I'm brought up bilingual (english and greek), and I'm pursuing studies in Spanish and Japanese. Spanish I know enough of to follow a simple conversation. Japanese I know significantly less of . I can curse in all the aforementioned languages, plus French, Dutch, and Mandarin Chinese.

 

[willemvanoranje]

"native" languages:
Dutch
German (in a certain way, raised by-langual)

English
French
Spanish

next objective is Swedish

so that makes 5 languages, and I'm only the 3rd person to know that exact number according to the results above.

 

[G-Man]

Does music count as another language? I can read, write and play it...

 

[willemvanoranje]

Well...I don't think that counts, but if someone knows sign-language I think that would count.

 

[Ville]

Finnish, English and Swedish

 

[Al Zan]

English,Arabic,Persian and Urdu. Now i am leaning Spanish.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Originally posted by G-Man
Does music count as another language? I can read, write and play it...

Then C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, HTML and DOS should also count

 

[Inhalaattori]

Finnish, Swedish, German, English

 

[G-Man]

Originally posted by Aphex_Twin
Then C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, HTML and DOS should also count

Let me know when someone speaks HTML....

 

[Al Zan]

English,Arabic,Persian,and Urdu.Now i am leaning Spanish.