Poll: How many languages can you speak?

[SillyGodDisco]

English and Japanese.

I've been through 3 years of the Japanese language and once you really get used to it, it isn't so bad. It's honestly one of the most beautiful languages I've ever studied.

(Tried French and Spanish and just couldn't get into it)

 

[Naheal]

I really want to learn Japanese though. Bloody hard language...

It's not too hard to speak it, but really hard to learn to read

Actually, in comparison to English, it's a fairly simple written language. Problem is that we're used to an actual sound based alphabet rather than the sylabet that is kana. Toughest part is kanji

 

[Dango]

I really want to learn Japanese though. Bloody hard language...

It's not too hard to speak it, but really hard to learn to read

Actually, in comparison to English, it's a fairly simple written language. Problem is that we're used to an actual sound based alphabet rather than the sylabet that is kana. Toughest part is kanji

The Kanji, oh God the Kanji... I can read Hiragana really easily, though, Hiragana is pretty easy to get down. Annoyingly though, the better I get at Japanese writing, the worse I get at English.

 

[pSY'oniK]

Well Romanian as my native language, English, German, Hungarian and a bit of French (want to improve on this one in the years to come...)

 

[ARatherHandsomeGent]

I speak a mere 1 language (English). I'm somewhat lazy.

 

[Naheal]

I really want to learn Japanese though. Bloody hard language...

It's not too hard to speak it, but really hard to learn to read

Actually, in comparison to English, it's a fairly simple written language. Problem is that we're used to an actual sound based alphabet rather than the sylabet that is kana. Toughest part is kanji

The Kanji, oh God the Kanji... I can read Hiragana really easily, though, Hiragana is pretty easy to get down. Annoyingly though, the better I get at Japanese writing, the worse I get at English.

My problem has less to do with the writing and more to do with the fact that they don't have a damned 'r' sound like English does, so the end result usually is some hybrid between the French 'r' and a gurgle for me.

 

[Viper1265]

Canadian, and I can only speak English, took 3 years of mandarin in high school and barely passed but I guess I can read(not speak or write) a small amount of simplified Chinese. my language goals in life are to lean Mandarin, Japanese and Russian, we'll see how that turns out because I haven't really shown a natural knack for languages, though I can say I've made a serious attempt to learn one either.

Edit: I also have some cousins who are growing up trilingual, their father speaks English, their mother is French Canadian and they live in china, it will be interesting to see them when their older and how much of each language they can speak.

 

[ShockValue]

I can only speak English. I know a little bit of Spanish, and French though.

 

[Dango]

Snippity! Yayness! (and yes I will continue to make Recettear references whenever I can

Really? I really like pronouncing the "r" in Japanese words. It's a bit like an "L", only ya know, not. And whenever I find an Japanese word that they got from English, I laugh so hard at the pronunciation. I think the first example I learned was the word for "super market", which is just "suupaa", I giggle a little whenever I say that.

 

[Turing]

Well, I speak my native tongue and english fluently so I noted down 2.
I also know a fair bit of german so I can get by, but I'd hardly call it"knowing" the language.
I plan on remedying that though, after I've learned italian which, by the way, is a really ugly language.
I'm also considering learning spanish since my girlfriend is going to study it anyway and that would make it easier for me and I suspect I may at some point need to learn polish, since my mother-in-law is from Poland.
Oh yeah, at some point I should probably brush up on my french skills as well, so the end tally is:
Languages spoken: 2
Languages planned: 7

 

[GeneticallyModifiedDucks]

Greek, English and Bulgarian. Know German too (I studied for 4 years) but after not having used it, I kinda forgot most of it. I'm from Greece, btw.
So 3 total I guess.

 

[Plastic Muscles]

From England here, I only speak English at the moment but I want to learn French and Norwegian.

 

[Romidude]

Fluent in English and French and learning Lebanese Arabic(as it changes from country to country).

 

[Rebellious_Gate]

I'm British and I can only speak English at the moment. I'm looking into learning French though.