Poll: Do you know more than one language?

[Kargathia]

It's a rather funny question to ask on an international forum. Per definition anyone who doesn't come from one of the English-speaking countries is bilingual.

And to be nice and answer your question:

Fluently: Dutch, English. Dutch being my first.

I can sort of understand: Latin, Old Greek, French, German.

Talk to some Germans and they'll say Dutch is just a version of German .

Talk to some linguists and they'll tell you the same =) Would've been helpful though for the Dutch if High German didn't become standard in Germany itself.

 

[Himmelgeher]

I speak English and German, and I'm in the process of learning Arabic. From Arizona.

 

[Knusper]

I speak English and have been learning French and German for the past 5 years and I will probably be doing German for my A-levels for the next two years.

 

[Palademon]

Well thank you guys for making me feel stupid.

I only speak English, and French was the only subject where the etacher said they'd like to see me in GCSE, and I didn't take it.
Everytime I had to write a language essay for homework I'd start crying because I'd always forget things, and when I look them up I'm like "Damn, I knew that!".

 

[xqxm]

Swedish and English fluently, a couple of others non-fluently.

 

[SaltyOrange]

Bosnian (Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, basically the same), English and German.

This,plus Italian and I only know very basic German.

 

[Eggsnham]

I can speak German, but I'm pretty rusty. Like tetanus rusty.

 

[Ddgafd]

Being finnish I'm sort of forced to. I speak Finnish, Swedish, English, German and little bits of Spanish and Italian.

 

[Arina Love]

Russian , English and a bit of Japanese.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Does the language of love count?

[sup][sup]Don't worry. I hate myself for that too.[/sup][/sup]

Was it worth it? ^_^

OT: As a BBC, English & Cantonese (one of the most useless languages in existence).

Also (in order of fluency): Japanese; German; French; & Italian. I can read Greek & Russian as well if I struggle... and I struggle.

 

[NLS]

English, Norwegian, German, Spanish.
Can understand some Italian and French.
Can read Cyrillic.

 

[Spandexpanda]

Being of Spanish descent, Spanish, English, and been learning French for six years. To be fair though, I've been learning Irish for fourteen years, and none of that has sunk in. A few words of German, Russian and Basque too. Really wanna learn to read the Cyrillic alphabet too, maybe learn to speak Russian properly.

 

[ace_of_something]

I speak a little Italian:

Okay not really.

I voted no because I don't believe my ability to give a few basic commands in Spanish and Nuer really count since I only know what the phrases mean and not the individual words.

 

[Mr Shrike]

I speak English and I'm near as dammit fluent in Russian - born in the UK, by the way.

It feels good, I can insult people without them knowing!

 

[EradiusLore]

used to be able to speak wealsh at a first language level but i kinda forgot it now (can still mostly understand it though) as for none spoken langauges i know 11 programming langauges, some i know in a very hardcore sense like c++

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

Yup, English and Austrian German, and I can understand a bit of Dutch and French.

 

[Embz]

Im fluent in English and Welsh, I can get by in French and know a few phrases in German, Spanish and Japanese

 

[Iwata]

I'm from Portugal, and I speak Portuguese, Spanish, English and French. In fact, I've learned English quite well since I was a little toddler. The benefits of having subtitles, instead of dubbing. Since then, as of about 5 years ago, my Australian girlfriend moved in with me, so now I speak English about 75% of the time, to the point where my Portuguese is actually developing an English accent!

Weird, uh?

 

[Canned Spam]

I only speak English fluently, I can say basic Japanese sentences and numbers. I'm interested in learning another language, don't really know what though.