What languages do you speak?

[RedRalph]

English and basic German

 

[soul_warrior]

hebrew and english.

i can understand, if slow, german, spanish and french.
but having not used those in a few years now, i think this might be overpushing my "expertise" in the language.

 

[Gooblah]

English, French, Tamil, Telugu: I'm illiterate in the latter two, but can speak them just fine. I am in my third level of French.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Hmm, by the OP's definition, I am,

speaking Fluent English

Basic Polish (cause of my reading and writing abbilities )
Basic Spanish
Basic French

Other then that i can understand quite a bit of Italian.

 

[_random_]

Only English right now. I'm gonna take Latin at my school next year, so If I study hard and take it the year after that, there's a chance that might change.

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

English and Japanese

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I fail at learning languages, including English.

 

[StarWorms]

Only English, but I know a fair bit of French (not 90% though), and some Spanish.

 

[C:enter##]

English, Latin, and Lowland Scottish.

 

[Cato the Elder]

English and Dutch completely fluently.

I'm not sure whether to count French and German. I can hold conversations, and write, in both languages with a decent flow, but it's riddled with mistakes, especially grammatical ones. I can read most newspaper articles and basic novels in both languages, but probably not a university course on something I'm not familiar with or most higher literature.

Spanish a bit less, I can understand about half the time, hold basic conversations, read most basic documents, and write basic things, but that's it really.

Ooh, and Latin I guess.

 

[BirraImperial]

Spanish, native.
English, near 100% both reading, writing.
German, I would say about 85% speaking, 90% reading writing.

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

I only speak English and Spanish, but I'm currently studying French in college, and have also studied German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Latin, Italian and Portuguese (I'm better at the latter two and French than the others.)

 

[choxorn]

Speak well? Only English. I know a few words from some other languages, but I'm only fluent in English.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

English and Finnish, I'm quite good in Swedish(if I had to I could cope with Swedish only), and I can speak a little French as well.

 

[theskald]

Italiano!
日本語! Been a while but I still write me old host family!

that's because strategy games sell nowhere nearly as good as in germany.

Korea.

 

[Love]

theres javanese but not swedish

 

[YonatanBlum]

English and Hebrew.

 

[Rossiya]

Basic Italian

Macché.

Italian and German (as well as l'Englisch)

 

[MagisterCultuum]

go to the vatican. not the best conversation partners, but the only ones you'll find.

Well, I'm not a fan of or so good at recognizing liturgical pronunciations. The Classical way makes so much more sense. (Church Latin pronunciations are however much better than how Latin is usually pronounced in English, but that isn't saying much. When non-Latin speakers ask me to translate something I usually have to get them to spell it out.)

 

[Mirc]

If you use that definition of proficient, then only 1 other than English - Romanian, my native one.

I easily understand Italian (I don't understand 100% but I can say with quite a lot of certainty that using a bit of logic to get the meaning from the context I can understand everything). But given that my grammar is non-existent and I would have problems speaking it at the pace of a regular conversation, that doesn't qualify under your definition. I definitely understand 100% of written Italian and maybe 85-95% of the spoken Italian, but when I have to speak it I speak it 33% with Romanian words, 33% with Italian words and 33% with my hands.

I understand basic French and German but am not really able to speak them. I used to be able to speak very basic German but I forgot. I understand a lot of Spanish, but I'm not able to make a correct sentence to save my life - and I can't converse in it.


Of course, exactly to show why I don't agree with Wiki's classification, if I go by wikipedia then I speak also 3 other languages -> Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, Meglenoromanian. Obviously those are dialects, which means I can indeed understand over 90% and I can indeed express myself in a weird combination of old & new Romanian words to make myself easily understood by those people. And one of those "languages" is virtually dead, so I guess that would make it even more impressive to someone who doesn't know the differences are only minimal.