Poll: Bilingual?

[Evilbunny]

I'm working on it. I don't speak Spanish well enough for me to consider myself bilingual, but maybe someday I will.

 

[Flour]

I'm dutch, so obviously I speak Dutch, because of this, German wasn't too difficult to learn, English isn't a problem either and I know quite a lot of French but I haven't had to speak or write it in a few years.

Unfortunately, I have problems when speaking or listening to a language, so don't expect me to have a normal conversation in anything other than Dutch, but on forums I'm often correcting those that grew up with the language.(not that surprising really)

I vote that people add other forums where languages are explained, because the ExitMundi forum isn't too active.
http://s13.zetaboards.com/Exit_Mundi_Forums/forum/1371/

 

[Danglybits]

Being French Canadian, I can speak French and English, although I live in Ontario so English is my main form of communication.

I only speak French to
A) annoy people
B) pick up chicks
C) confuse tourists

Oh you sonofabitch! Are you fluent?

 

[Vivaldi]

Do languages that no one uses anymore count? I'm taking Latin and Ancient Greek, so that would be three languages right there (including English). I also know enough French to get by and a fair bit of sign language.

Salve! Mihi nomen Michaelus est. Quid nomen est tibi, et quid agis? /latin


Sry I just got into Latin 2 in school and am very proud of myself.
I speak fluent Russian, English and in the process of latin

 

[mkb07a]

English, Spanish, and Profanity

Though, IMO, Spanish is the only language worth learning after English if you plan on staying in the US your whole life... My goals are Chinese (Mandarin), Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, aaand... we'll just go ahead and say Italian, it's pretty easy after the Spanish.

EDIT: Russian! Oh, I'm such an idiot.

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

I speak English, I was born in America, and I'm very white. I thought about learning Japanese, but it's just insane after taking it a year. I don't really see a need to learn another language, and from experience, there's a very good chance I wouldn't have much luck learning one if I tried again. I can hardly keep up with English these days, the way words and definitions keep changing every 5-8 years.

So no, not bilingual at all.

 

[poleboy]

Yes, that's one of the advantages of being born in a non-English speaking country in modern times. You can barely avoid fluency in English simply by going to school, watching TV and having an average intelligence. I can also carry a simple conversation in German, as long as the topic is conventional and I know something about it. I never got any good at French, but I've been told I have decent pronunciation, even if that is of little importance.

 

[Unknower]

I'm bibilingual.

Finnish, English, Swedish and German. Truthfully though, my Swedish and German suck.

 

[Xaryn Mar]

Hmm, fluent in Danish (since I'm from Denmark) and English. Understands most swedish and norwegian and can even speak it, mostly (if I hear it for a little while, has to get the pronounciation correct). Know a smidgen of german (been several years since I last had to use it, so it has sort of disapeared from my mind), but will likely learn i rather quickly if I need it.

 

[flatearth]

Trilingual here

Native Finnish
Fluent English
Mediocre Swedish

Here are the languages I know only so poor that I can't have a conversation. I can pretty much order food in a restaurant and crap like that.

Very poor German
Very poor Spanish
Very poor French

 

[poleboy]

Okay, you're monolingual. We get it.

 

[Mr. Moose]

I only know English, but I'd like to learn Icelandic.

 

[WitherVoice]

I should be fairly capable of enough conversation to survive in four languages, I think. Two of them I would avoid if I can help it, though.

I figure my children will speak three languages before they start school, since the quickest way to ensure a child learns a language is to switch to it in order to be able to speak with your partner without the child understanding. A while of that will leave your child fluent. I figure the problem is they'll quite quickly learn their mother's language better than I will ever be able to learn it.

 

[Grim Phoenix]

I speak English, Italian, and Japanese. o-o;

Trilingual, baby.

 

[Rensa]

Native English. I did twelve years of Japanese, but 90% of it fell out of my head in the month after my Year 12 exam. Which is a shame, 'cause I really wish I still had it. I'll have to pick it back up one day. And Spanish. And Latin. And...

 

[Noo_Noo]

English, German, a little French (enough to survive, at least) and I've dabbled with Dutch.