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Posted: 14 Dec 2006 18:55
by Colonel_here
So far it seems that Enlgish, French and German are dominanat languages among the forum members.

Posted: 14 Dec 2006 20:40
by orudge
I speak English, French (to a reasonable degree) and German (badly). I wouldn't mind being able to speak Icelandic.

Posted: 14 Dec 2006 21:08
by doktorhonig
I speak German and semi-fluent English. I've learned French, but forgot most of it.

Posted: 14 Dec 2006 22:48
by Brianetta
I'm fluent in English (more so than many other native speakers). I can speak German, but due to not understanding the importance of gender when learning German words, I am often inaccurate with gender. I like to listen to German radio stations. My German and English let me have a stab at reading Dutch (I can usually grasp the general meaning, but not the details) and Frisian isn't far removed from English at all.

I can survive in French if necessary. A grounding in Latin means that I can often piece together other Romance languages, too. Especially if they are written.

Learning a language's structure is easy. It's the vocabulary that's time consuming. I'd like to be better at German, but that's going to take actual travel, something I can't readily afford.

Posted: 15 Dec 2006 08:11
by Oleg
A nice topic, and a suprising number of those who mention Russian. Very well!

What languages do you speak?
Russian, English, Standard Arabic, French (would rather speak than write), German (formerly I could speak it, now it's only "du hast" and similar). A few words from Dutch from a combination of English & German.

What languages do you want to learn?
German (again), French (my grammar is awful), fluent Tunisian Arabic. May be Japanese, but that will be in 50 years or so.

What do you think is the best language?
umm... Mandarin Chinese? ;)

Posted: 15 Dec 2006 08:44
by andy_blah
I fluently speak english and romanian, other languages that I know are french and a little bit of deutch (did I wrote it right? :P )

I think the greatest language is english, far away from mandarin chinese because I bet I can`t understand and learn it :oops:

Posted: 15 Dec 2006 15:17
by mxmaster
Fluently: Hungarian (mother tongue :) )

Good: English

Amateur: German

Posted: 15 Dec 2006 17:57
by AndersI
Swedish, fluently (which means I can understand Danish and Norwegian writing, although not always speech)
English, OK (9 years at school, lots of practise)
German, so so (OK to read, not so good talking, did study 5 years at school)
Russian, remembers very little (did study three years at school, but that was 35 years ago, not been using it much)

Other languages that I may be able to read (more or less), but definitely not understand anything from a speaker:
French, Dutch, Italian

Posted: 16 Dec 2006 17:32
by LocoMH
andy_blah wrote:deutch (did I wrote it right? :P )
Sorry you didn't :D
It would be deutsch but anyways I'm wondering that so many people are talking at least a little German here!

Posted: 16 Dec 2006 17:55
by Death
I know Hebrew and English well,
I had learned a bit Arabic, but I forgot almost everything...

I wanna learn Latin.

Posted: 16 Dec 2006 19:14
by Skiper410
I don't know why Latin can be so interesting (in a french point of view ^^)

French : My natural language. So..
English : Sometimes better than my french, not my natural language thought.
Spanish : I still don't speek very well yet
Japanese : I learnt by the past but I had to stop, lack of time.

Posted: 17 Dec 2006 10:03
by habell
I'm fluent in Dutch (native language)
Good in English and German
A little French

Posted: 17 Dec 2006 10:12
by Chrill
AndersI wrote:Swedish, fluently (which means I can understand Danish and Norwegian writing, although not always speech)
Yeah, that's true

I speak Swedish and English, and I can undestand written norwegian/danish :)

Re: What languages do you speak?

Posted: 02 Nov 2007 15:39
by 5245jah
i speak estonian and learning english :D

Re: What languages do you speak?

Posted: 02 Nov 2007 16:32
by a25003
speak fluent: english
quite fluent: german and spanish
would like to learn: french

Re: What languages do you speak?

Posted: 04 Nov 2007 16:30
by FooBar
I speak Dutch, should be able to save my ass in English and can buy groceries in German and French.
Oh, and not to forget, I speak quite a bit Flemish too :P

Re: What languages do you speak?

Posted: 04 Nov 2007 17:49
by RPharazon
English and Spanish, learning French, German and Russian.

Re: What languages do you speak?

Posted: 04 Nov 2007 22:28
by athanasios
Greek and English.

Re: What languages do you speak?

Posted: 04 Nov 2007 22:39
by Toni Babelony
Dutch: native;
German: inhabitant of Germany, passed DSH-2 without any major hassle;
English: fluently;
French: able to read, but not speak;
Japanese: able to conversate, write and read on an above average level;
Korean: starting studying it for a few weeks. I should be able to be average in two years;
Polish: very basic knowledge, able to understand the context of simple conversations.

That's it...

Re: What languages do you speak?

Posted: 20 Mar 2008 04:49
by PrinceB
I Speak:
English, fluently
Bislama (its a form of pidgin spoken in some parts of the south pacific, whereI live), passively
French (I've learnt it for eight years at my school, and whenever I hear real people speaking french, it can be hard to understand, I can understand some written french though)
Steet Slang (Is That a language? Probably not, but I can understand it)

Je parle le francais, les anglais et bislama.

Mi toktok bislama englis mo smolsmol franis

I speek s***, got smoke n*****?

My mother is from east africa and I used to speak swahilli with her as a young child, though I've forgotten how to speak it now.