How many languages do you understand?

[Mojotronica]

For purposes of this poll, the definition of "understand" is that you could watch a news report, page through a magazine or follow a conversation in the language. You are not necessarily 100% fluent in it, but you would get the gist.

List languages/make comments or qualifiers below...

 

[Immortal]

4 languages.

English, French, italian, Spanish. (they are close enough that i barely had to learn spanish after italian)

 

[phoenix_night]

2.

 

[Hitro]

Just two. This and a decent one.

 

[GenMarshall]

Only one, English.

 

[Suppersalmon]

one English but i can understand French and spanish partially

 

[gael]

Still working on 1.

 

[WildFire]

English, working on French and my secret Twin laguange.

 

[G-Man]

Two, though I once studied some arabic.

 

[Baleog]

I know some French (enough to write the typical letter to a hypothetical pen pal) and a bit of Irish, though I've forgotten most of it.

 

[Perfection]

Native english
A fair amount of spanish

 

[andrewgprv]

Only English, but when I start college this fall I plan on taking Spanish. I am going after a teaching degree and the ability to speak Spanish in America looks awesome on a teacher's resume.

 

[Richard III]

2, but I'm awful with my second (Spanish) unless I'm in a spanish speaking environment.

 

[EgoSum]

Four... Swedish (native tongue), English, Spanish and German. But I can, to a certain limit, converse in Czech, but not very well, hence I voted four.

 

[Mikoyan]

English and Swedish...

I understand spanish to a certain degree...

 

[MCdread]

English, Castillian, Italian, French, Portuguese, Galician, Catalan. Lost almost all my german.

 

[funxus]

I know 2 languages (Swedish and English) fluently, although some dialects beat me. I'm also able to follow Norwegian and Danish TV, but they are border cases.

EDIT: If I say I know the language, I better make sure the spelling is correct.

 

[Ohwell]

I used to know 3: English, Spanish, and German, but after leaving Germany I've pretty much lost everything I learned... Spanish is still important here.

 

[jack merchant]

Dutch, English, French, Spanish and German - I can't actually speak Italian anymore, but remember enough and it''s close enough to the other Romance languages to understand it. I can understand written Portuguese, but following a conversation in that language is next to impossible for the uninitiated. Make it 6 then

 

[Cimbri]

*All Scandinavian languages to some extent.

*Degenerated to tourist-German and some Smalltalk in Polish, a little less in Arabic.

*Curses in various languages including Turkish

Honestly I don’t recall any other languages at the moment… They just pop in and out of my head…

English, however, eludes me. Is this odd language even Germanic?

I have recently been told I have a ‘cogny’ (sp.?) accent, whatever the heck that is.