[Cody Dawg]

Thought it might be interesting to see how many languages members speak.

I speak English and French and read German. My French is okay, my German is pathetic.

English is the primary language, though. I have a feeling that some of you speak a lot of languages fluently!

[tavilach]

In addition to English, I can write Hebrew fluently, and can speak semi-fluently (to a non-speaker, I'd seem fluent, but to a speaker, I wouldn't).

[storer]

Am learning italian. Not too bad at it. Slow learning though. At a Year 9 level.

[Person Man]

Already been done before.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=146968

That said, I know the following:

English (native) - speak/read/write fluently
Greek (native) - speak/read/write fluently
Spanish - speak fairly well/read easily/write with some difficulty
German - speak OK/read with some difficulty/write with great difficulty

English and Greek are both native because I learned them at the same time all people learn their native languages... growing up as a baby and also going to Greek School as a child.

[Xeo]

English is my first and only language, although I tend to butcher Japanese every now and then. I had a few years of Spanish in high school which comes in bits and pieces once in a while.

[E's Lil Theorem]

I speak both English (second language) and Spanish (native language) fluently, or at least I like to think I do.

[RAILhead]

English, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew. And Texan.

Maury

[Cody Dawg]

"And Texan!"

LOL!

[Scifience]

English (native language) and Japanese (second language, not yet completely fluent).

[OldManMac]

English (primary, though I was born in Germany), and enough German to stumble my way around.

[OreoCookie]

German - (mother tongue)
English - fluently (my gf just told me my German accent is breaking through again, noooo!!)
Japanese - intermediate level, got addicted, though, plus my gf speaks it, too
French - forgot a lot, but I can understand more than I can say
Spanish - my French helps me to make out the meaning quite a few times, but basically it's zero. That's about to change though, as I will have a personal teacher hopefully soon

[Sarc]

Perfect English and Spanish, very, very little French.
Hope to learn German and Russian some day.

[Scotttheking]

English, I think I'm fluent.
Hebrew, I can read and write, and I can speak a little. I'm by no means fluent, although I once was.
Spanish, I can read and write, I can get around, and carry on a conversation, but I'm pretty bad (in my opinion. Others say I'm decent).
Russian. I can say yes, no, thank you, and shutup
french / italian: What is similar to spanish.

[Xeo]

Originally posted by Sarc:
Perfect English and Spanish, very, very little French.
Hope to learn German and Russian some day.

I took a Russian class last year. Cool language.

I think my order of languages will be first to become fluent in Japanese, then learn Spanish since I have the foundation from high school, then take on Russian. I hope in life I can afford to do it.

[icruise]

I'm a Japanese translator, so I guess you could say I speak it...

I've studied Chinese, although I don't really speak it. Same goes for Spanish.

[Cody Dawg]

So, all of you are much more well-versed in foreign languages than myself.

I figured as much!

[DeathToWindows]

I am fully fluent in American English [native] and High Geek

I took a few years of French... but mine is really dreadful
I'm now studying Latin

[Mastrap]

English and German fluent, a little French and even less Latin.

[qualey2]

English primary

some spanish

some french

and some native american ( abenaki )

[wataru]

English (native) and Japanese (fluent)

Edit: Oh yeah, and I can speak enough Mandarin to make an idiot out of myself.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by DeathToWindows:
High Geek

We all speak that one a bit on this board, don't we?

[andi*pandi]

english primary, french was once pretty good (reading and writing, so-so speaking) but haven't used it and it's rusty. Know about 10 words in spanish and romanian.

Qualey, are you abenaki? If not, where did you learn? My gr-grandfather was likely abenaki.

[nate_02]

English is my primary language, I can mutter some pig latin during a full moon though.

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
Thought it might be interesting to see how many languages members speak.

I speak English and French and read German. My French is okay, my German is pathetic.

English is the primary language, though. I have a feeling that some of you speak a lot of languages fluently!

Very interesting thread! Thanks Cody Dawg!

Inglese - Native
Espanish (lol) - badly (my daughter laughs at it) but it was necessary to learn to meet and wed her Mom.
French - 6 years in grade & secondary school

[deej5871]

English and Ebonics.

[Cody Dawg]

Ebonics!



Now, can someone write some pig Latin?

[spatterson]

English - Native Lang
German - Read/Speak/Write Some (Minor in College)

[nate_02]

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:


Now, can someone write some pig Latin?

enjoy!

http://www.idioma-software.com/pig/pig_latin.html

[mdc]

english being my first language
some afrikaans since i had to do it throughout school.
some italian since my parents and above are all italian

[Solomon Grundy]

English, Okay in French but I can't write. I did Italian at university as well as German (and at the Goethe Institute). I would love to speak German I think it is my favourite that I have dabbled in.

[Cody Dawg]

Cool pig Latin site!





Now, do you also know "swine language?"

[Jaey]

I speak engish...
edit: But can't spell it

I have OK french and japanese and really really s***ty german.

[qualey2]

Originally posted by andi*pandi:
.

Qualey, are you abenaki? If not, where did you learn? My gr-grandfather was likely abenaki.

Yes I am about one third

[Logic]

Icelandic, Swedish - native languages
English - fluently(at least almost)
German - read fluently, write and speak OK.
French, Spanish - can read and understand what the deal is though I'm not good at it.
Norwegian and Danish - understand fully because of the Swedish I know.

Planning on adding Arabic soon to the list.

[Secret__Police]

Some Spanish

[deej5871]

Originally posted by Secret__Police:
Some Spanish

So, you can barely speak at all..

[Solomon Grundy]

One of the things that sucks about growing up in North America the lack of languages, I am somewhat envious of the Europeans because of this difference.

[spiky_dog]

english, japanese, spanish (limited, 1 year of college classes)

[SSharon]

Fluent in English and Hebrew
A few words of Yiddish
A few words of Polish
A few words of Russian

I wish I knew more I have some relatives that can read/write 7/8 languages.

[Scallywag]

Originally posted by RAILhead:
English, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew. And Texan.

Maury

Holy! How does a Texan come to speak so many languages? The Spanish I can understand, but Hebrew and Greek?

[Scallywag]

Originally posted by SSharon:
Fluent in English and Hebrew

There are a lot of Hebrew speakers here. This surprises me. Do they offer Hebrew language courses in US high schools or something?

[SSharon]

I have always gone to private Jewish school so I learned it there. I also spent a year in Israel after high school studying and volunteering. I also go back to Israel when I can to volunteer and that refreshes my memory.

[theolein]

Hmmm, we've been here before methinks...

Anyway:
English - fluent (I hope)
Afrikaans - fluent (grew up in a mainly afrikaans speaking town)
Dutch - more or less fluent (lived there)
German - fluent
Swiss-German - fluent
French - pretty good (father and step were both French speaking)
Spanish - can get by pretty well (worked in a bar in Spain)
Turkish - rusty (when I worked there I could converse quite well but its 11 years ago now)
Can read and undertand quite a lot of Swedish and Danish (Strangely not Norwegian well although it's very similar)
Can fight my way through Portuguese and Italian texts and get a basic grip on what is meant.

[Cody Dawg]

theolein: Are you sure you're not secretly Gore Vidal?

(And if you are, can I have your autograph on one of your many books in my library?)

[phoenixboy70]

- german (1st native language)
- english (read, write and speak fluently/2nd "native" language)
- french (read, write and speak fairly well)
- latin (read and obviously don't speak )

...i wouldn't mind learning japanese some day. a fascinating culture.

[Randman]

English, first language
Spanish, family's Spanish, but it has Mexican influences growing up in the Southwest. Used to be able to read and write fluently as well, but am so out of practice on it.
Mandarin, can get around in many of parts of China, though my diction needs vast improvement, especially blending a Beijing/American accent on it.
German, can get around on it, ordering in a restaurant and other basics.
Thai, a little less proficient than German, but can still string together a few words here and there.
French, about the same as Thai.

As far as learning, I really want to improve my Mandarin, and I'd like to learn some basics in Malay and Japanese.

[phoenixboy70]

Originally posted by theolein:
Swiss-German - fluent

[wunderkind]

Fluent in three languages.
Can somewhat speak/understand/read German.
Can understand some Polish.
Plus basics of Latin.

[Randman]

Originally posted by wunderkind:
Fluent in three languages.
Can somewhat speak/understand/read German.
Can understand some Polish.
Plus basics of Latin.

Are you fluent in three languages as well as German, Polish and Latin? Because basic understanding of a language is not fluency.

[storer]

They teach mainly Italian and Indonesian in Australia. (i'm doing Italian)