What languages do you speak?

[Niek]

I'm Dutch, living in Austria, speaking English with his girlfriend, that makes me (pretty much) fluent in all three

[tb2571989]

English (Fluently)
German (Basically)
French (Slighty-more than basic)
Sarcasm (fluently)

[Samwise]

Sarcasm (fluently)

Seconded

Dutch and English as well

[Washu]

Customer Appeasing
English
Learning Dutch from my other half
Internetese
Welsh (Basics again)
I can't *speak* Urdu anymore, but I'm very good at translating it. My mother whom was married to an Indian fellow before my father taught her, and in turn taught me to translate and a few curse words that helped in some situations at high school.

[RGB-Miso]

Hallo all together, i speak two lang perfectly.
And this are:

German(Deutsch, Nemacki)
Yugoslavian(Jugoslawisch, Jugoslovenski)

Sory, my english in so terrible, it be better when using occasion.

[Chrill]

Swedish (obviously)
English (My two years here is proof )
Spanish (Very Little)

Heh..

Swedish (obviously)
English (My three years here are proof )
Spanish (Pretty much none)

[Trond]

Norwegian
English

A bit of New Norwegian, swedish, Danish and Latin.

[JGR]

I can speak English fluently. I can speak French passably. I know some Norwegian (bokmål), (I can basically just read it, my conversational skills are rubbish).
I know a little Japanese, (I've been (trying to) learn it for a few months now), I find it a fascinating language.
I can just about read Cyrillic (slowly), but don't actually know any language that uses it.
I used to know some Italian but it was too long ago and I've forgotten virtually all of it.

Do programming languages count, because if so I can add at least an extra half-dozen or more to the list

JGR

[EXTspotter]

I speak English, French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. I also speak broken German and Italian. I also can speak the westcountry dialects, like Devonian and Cornish.

[Erik1984]

- Dutch (mother tongue)
- English
- German (not as good as English... a shame because it's much closer to Dutch)
- French (very bad)

[Sanchimaru]

Spanish is my mother language. I can understand catalan, because when I was a child I watched TV programs in catalan, and I eventually got to understand good part of the most common expressions. However, I have never had the chance to speak it.

Then, I learned a lot of english since I got internet access, in chats and contacting natives I got to learn a lot of not-in-the-textbook english, and learned to express myself better and be more fluent. That is however for the written part, pronunciation is still very hard for me to get right.

In high school I chose latin and classical greek, which gave me a better understanding of differences between languages, and the way occidental languages developed. Currently I can also read modern greek, despite I can only imagine the meaning of some of the words.

I began studying japanese on my own when I was in high-school, using books, references, and attending private lessons. When I got to use it a little bit more, I began making friends with japanese people studying in Spain, and I managed to improve my conversation and learned a lot of expressions in japanese. Currently I am living in Kobe for 4 years, so I can speak it fluently, and even recognise and use dialectal expressions.

In university I majored in italian, choosing latin as secondary language. (actually I chose german first, but it was too hard for me, so I switched! ) I can understand and use italian, although not in an advanced level.

So, in order of performance level, it would be spanish, japanese, english and italian. I have been fascinated by languages since I was a child. For example, there is a series of products that come packaged in 3 or more languages so that they can be used for different european countries. I always readed what was written on the biscuit boxes in protuguese and french, and tried to figure out the meaning by contrasting with the text in spanish
I also find alphabets very interesting, just yesterday I learned the corean alphabet, which is amazing.

Here are some interesting links, but I'm sure many of you will already know them:

Word Reference: dictionary in italian, spanish, english, french, portuguese. It has utilities such as definitions dictionary, synonims dictionary and forums where to ask for doubts.

Jim Breen's japanese dictionary: when looking for words between non-related languages it's not such an easy task. This dictionary is helpful when you have are studying japanese and have a certain degree of knowledge.

Omniglot: a page about writing systems and languages around the world. It even includes science fiction alphabets, such as star wars or alien nation.

[Railwaymodeler]

I speak English

I also speak Bus, Train, and Computer.

[Comeng 523M]

I speak English fluently, but I know a bit of French and German.

[hydrologUK]

Hallo all together, i speak two lang perfectly.
And this are:

German(Deutsch, Nemacki)
Yugoslavian(Jugoslawisch, Jugoslovenski)

Which language do you mean by "Yugoslavian"?

[Toni Babelony]

I've scrapped Korean. Now moving on to Malay.

[DMachine]

English and fluent Italian.

[Pingaware]

Fluent English,
Bits of French, German and Latin.

[rbenevid]

Fluent in (native) Portuguese

Can't say the same about my English...

Can understand some Spanish (or I think I can)

Would like to learn Japanese, but it's soooooo difficult....

[Wile E. Coyote]

Hallo all together, i speak two lang perfectly.
And this are:

German(Deutsch, Nemacki)
Yugoslavian(Jugoslawisch, Jugoslovenski)

Which language do you mean by "Yugoslavian"?

I am confused too, even during ex-Yu there was no Yugoslavian language.

I can just about read Cyrillic (slowly), but don't actually know any language that uses it.

Serbian, Macedonian, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Mongolian, etc.

[welshdragon]

Fluent: Welsh, English
know a lot of: French
know a little of: Spanish, Greek, Irish(!)

I had an A* in Welsh at GCSE and a C at A level, I got a D at A level and D at GCSE

Want to learn: more Spanish!