Poll: How many languages can you speak?

[Salviar]

I am from Australia.
My first language is English but I took french for 12 years (since I was 5).
And I know some Japanese from taking it for more than a year with school.
Yep.

 

[Quaxar]

English and German fluently and I am supposed to know Italian (5 years in school) but I never really got into it so I need a dictionary for vocabs to actually speak.
Also, I once tried to learn Gaelic just for the fun of it but due to a lack of material I have probably forgotten almost everything. Maybe some day again.

 

[GrinningManiac]

english,french,spanish,korean,thai,chinese,german,indian,greek and a bit of latin so 10

What the hell is "Indian"?!

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

English and I can speak fluiently in bullshit.

 

[DeASplode]

Dwi'n siarrad Gymraeg a Saesneg.

(I speak Welsh and English)

The only people in the world who speak Welsh are people from Wales so pretty much speaks for itself.

Grandmother is a retired Welsh/Math teacher so naturally I learned a lot from her.

 

[chinangel]

In Canada we are taught english of course, but we are also taught French for like...nine years minimum, more of you're interested. I also picked up 2 years of japanese. So I guess that technically, I'm trilingual, though my french and japanese have decayed from dissuse.

 

[Captain Schpack]

2, English and some Spanish. I'm learning Spanish through school, and I want to learn Russian so hope fully it can be more than 3 at one point.

 

[BlackStar42]

English(obviously) and some German. I can hold a basic conversation provided you speak slowly, and I can order a beer. All the essentials covered.

 

[MadeinHell]

Theoretically 4.
Polish, English (fluently), German and Russian (absolutely not fluently), I also know a bit of Spanish, Hungarian and Swedish... but only a tiny little bit.

And yeah I'm from Poland.

 

[Subzerowings]

I'm from Belgium and I speak a few languages:
-Dutch (native language)
-French (native language, sort of...)
-German (native language, sort of...)
-Latin
-English

I speak all of them fluently except for Latin.

EDIT: I know it's kind of cheating, but I'll put Afrikaans on my list aswell, because it's basically really, really, really crappy dutch.
Hell, throw in Japanese aswell.
I know enough of it to say: "Nihongoga wakarimasen."

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I can speak English (obviously) but since I don't know that many words in other languages you can't say I know another.

 

[LitleWaffle]

2. English and Spanish, though I can only speak slightly fluently in Spanish.

I just need practice. =(

 

[WrongSprite]

Fluent in English, competent in French, and know conversational Welsh, Spanish and Chinese. It's an odd mix.

 

[ColorfulObscurity]

I'm fluent in English; I have basic knowledge of Polish, Japanese, and French; and I know approximately 4 words in Lithuanian.

 

[TheBoulder]

I can speak both English and French fluently. Also a little bit of Spanish because it's very similar to French.

 

[hecticpicnic]

im from ireland and i speak, english,irish and spanish,i know very basic japaness but that dosn't count

 

[Sampsa]

Living in Finland I've three languages. Finnish as native and Swedish and English as mandatory languages. currently working on German.

 

[SaKenyi]

Coming from The Netherlands, I obviously can speak fluent Dutch. Besides that, I can fluently speak (that is, speak, I seem to be unable to write it properly) German, Spanish, Italian and English. I'm currently working on a side-studies for Russian and American (because Tim James said that if I wanted to live in Alabama, I should be able to speak American), maybe that'll help me out in the future.

*slap*

Americans speak English! So you mean 'American English'. If it were so simple, Belgians would speak Belgian and Mexicans would speak Mexican. So no, it's not like that.

Still, that's an impressive vocabulary. (Just saying some Spanish and Italian food doesn't cut it as a language, just so you know.)

Russian, really? a singer called Regina Spektor once wrote a song of which I don't really know the meaning of. The song is called Apres Moi. There is some Russian in it.

I'm well aware that Americans speak English, not American. I just felt the urge to needlessly smack in an 'Tim James is possibly an idiot' reference. Nonetheless, it's not that impressive, learning it is all just rinse and repeat until you start dreaming in another language. That's when you know you've learned it quite well (and where it gets disturbing).

Also, drat! You've uncovered my dastardly plan, which was an attempt to cover up my inability to speak more sophisticated sentences than randomly ramble slurs of tasty foreign food hoping they'd understand that I'd like to buy a package of cigarettes! Ravioli quattro formaggio á la pesto du schnitzel pizza to you, sir!

 

[Marter]

1 very well, and another 1 (French) decently.

I'm in Canada.

 

[Kyber]

Finland, English and Swedish in a couple of months D