Any Bilingual Escapists here?

[Marik2]

Yeah fluent in both english and spanish.

 

[sabbat]

English
Bad English
English with humerously unconvincing accents
Engrish.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

No fumar Espaniol. (Probably spelled that wrong, but that just makes it better)

English is my native language (or 'Murican depending on who you ask).
I know some German, but there is still a lot that I still need to learn.
I'm interested in learning some other languages as well: Russian, Japanese, and Manderian. Don't know if I'll ever get around to that though...

And to the multilingual Escapists here, my hat's off to you. I imagine it wasn't easy to learn that many languages.

 

[Pink_Pirate]

well i am icelandic, so i speak icelandic... but im badly out of practice, i haven't actually lived in iceland for about a decade now...
otherwise i speak fluent english and some danish

 

[Gavran]

I was raised bilingual: Dutch and Croatian. Along the way I also picked up English, French and German. Fluent in Dutch and English, adequate in the rest.

 

[retro himself]

So if I speak Slovenian, Croatian and English as fluent as if they were all my native language, and then Italian not as good, but still good, and understand Spanish since it's so similar to Italian, and speak a litle bit of German, does that make me a linguist god?
I'm very interested in languages though. Thinking of picking up French, since I like it.

 

[awmperry]

I'm half English and half Swedish, so I'm fluent in both those languages.

I live in Scotland, so I understand (and can even speak, sometimes) the accent.

I studied in Durham, so I can understand the Northwestern accent. At a pinch.

I also went to school in Brussels, so I have conversational French and Dutch, and (very) elementary Latin.

I collect Donald Duck books in various languages, so can read Norwegian, Danish and German without too much difficulty. With sufficient time and an online dictionary I can make sense of Italian and Spanish, but I'd rather not.

I'm married to a South African, so I'm (slowly) learning Afrikaans and Zulu.

And over the years I've picked up a few words - certainly not enough to be useful - of Russian and Greek.

I know about eight words of Finnish but can't understand or speak that bloody language because, well, who the hell can? ;-)

(Apologies to the Finns for that... Couldn't resist.)

 

[Blue_vision]

Fluent in english and at that point in French and Spanish where you're almost fluent.
I'm also working on a shitload of other languages that I can almost hold a conversation with, including Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and Hindi. Oh, and I can read and speak latin fairly well, but I don't think that counts.

 

[snave]

Japanese (I can spot the sign for a hotel, ask directions, or order beer and sushi for example, but that's pretty much it.)

This made me laugh pretty hard. No offense mate but unless you're into whores, I don't think you know what you're getting into. Normal hotels basically always have signage in English (those that don't are in resort locations and tend to be the sort where you'd have booked ahead). The ones with the big neon ホテル and the castle on the roof? Those my friend are not for singles nor for families.

 

[axelunatic]

Oh hai!
I sort of grew up in a multicultural background, so this is what I can speak:
Fluently: English, Hindi, Mandarin
Semi-Fluently:Spanish
only a few words of Japanese. (I want to speak it fluently, though, as I was born there.)
Also, this is in fact my first post

 

[oldmeme]

English and Irish, albeit that very very few others can speak Irish. Even here in Eire only about 15%-20% of people could probably understand you, let alone respond back. It's more a heritage thing, and has difficult exams so it helps to learn it off.

 

[GuNyU]

born indonesian

grew up in the states

learned arabs at school

and japanesse from hobbies

just a bit of everything

 

[Hyper-space]

I have always been bilingual, with Danish as first language and Icelandic as second. However (thanks to comic books) i have been fluent in English since 1 grade.

 

[Gavran]

So if I speak Slovenian, Croatian and English as fluent as if they were all my native language, and then Italian not as good, but still good, and understand Spanish since it's so similar to Italian, and speak a litle bit of German, does that make me a linguist god?
I'm very interested in languages though. Thinking of picking up French, since I like it.

Yes, yes it does. I guess the notice we sent you got lost in the mail. Welcome to the pantheon!

On a more serious note: unfortunately it does not, seeing as seemingly everyone is converting to English. Don't know what's it like where you live (Slovenia I guess?), but in Croatia the younger generations seem to be learning English at a very young age. My niece and nephew over there learned a suprising amount of English words in kindergarten, while here in Belgium we didn't officialy start learning English 'till high school.

 

[Krikett]

I was born in Italy, then moved here. So thats primary Italian and English is catching up pretty quick!

 

[Red Rebel]

I speak four languages:
German and Turkish as my mother tounges, fluent English and pretty ham-handed French.

 

[linwolf]

Danish as a first language
Almost fluent in English
Speak some German

 

[natural20]

I speak English and French, and have a bit of ancient Greek. I'd love to learn Spanish, Hebrew, German, and Russian.