How many languages do you speak, read or write?

[soldierjane]

Languages are a passion of mine. How about you? Which ones do you know? Which ones would you like to know?


I am fluent in:

-English
-Spanish


I can read and communicate in basic:

-Italian
-Portuguese
-Japanese


I am currently studying:

-Japanese


I want to study:

-French
-German
-Chinese
-Russian
-Latin
-Greek (ancient and modern)
-A nordic language to be determined

[irfakt]

Fluent in Croatian and English, can understand some German and Latin. Not much of a linguist, really.

[Moira Midnigh]

Fluent Danish, English, catching up on German and the other northern languages as well.

I can decipher Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Latin and appearantly also Afrikaans ^^' Just give me a dictionary.

I have a good 'ear' for languages, so I can 'speak' a lot of them without actually knowing what I'm saying...like when I sing in Japanese or French, I've no clue at all.

I wanna study Japanese. It's a lovely language, and the pronounciations are very much like Danish.


~Moi

[Natasha]

englsh: native
italian: i speak fluent italian.  dad's italian (first generation) & mother's italian/portuguese (second generation)
spanish: had three semesters in college, yet i'm not a fluent spanish speaker.  i understand it extensively though.

[Pica Pica]

english only, pretty good at body language also.

[Osiris]

English fluently.

A few words in Spanish, a few more in Russian and a basic understanding of Japanese.

[NicholeW.]

Two, English & German.

[tinkerbell]

I love learning languages as well.  My maternal language is Spanish, so needless to say, I speak it fluently.  I'm also fluent in English (I think  )  and in the past I studied French for almost four years.  I can speak it, write it, and read it.  However, I have trouble understanding it when someone talks to me in French.

I do not know if it is the same with the Germanic languages, but since I am a native Spanish speaker, I can understand most of the Romance languages (except perhaps for Romanian) in written form.  I would love to learn German one day, but it is just a matter of finding the time and a good instructor/school.

tink

[Shana A]

English (native)
music (native) 

Spanish (lived in Spain for three years, became very fluent)

I'd like to learn Yiddish (beyond the handful of words and phrases that I know from childhood)

I had a couple of years of Latin in High school
I was in France for a month and got to where I could understand basic conversations, and could ask for things in shops, but that was years ago, now my French is pretty pathetic

Z

[Hypatia]

I would just like to ask first of all-- Why is this question always about how many languages one speaks? Why not ask about how many I can read and write? Because I can read and write a wider variety of languages a lot better than I can speak. I've always been shy about speaking, but I feel comfortable with books and have a great command of the written word.

Native speaker of American English (but can follow the British and other varieties of English too).

I know Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Malay, Persian, Spanish, Swahili, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Turkish, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, and Yiddish -- to varying levels of proficiency. I've used nearly all of them in my career, with an emphasis on written language. I can speak many of these conversationally to some extent, but I can read and write all of them. Since you asked about speaking, the ones I can speak the most fluently are Arabic, French, and Italian.

My latest linguistic project was to translate the phrase "I am a woman" into as many languages as possible. I got up to 166. In Thai: dichan pen phuying kha คิฉันเป็มผู้หญิงค่ะ 

[tekla]

I speak jive, does that count?

[Buffy]

English, French and Arabic

[biogeek45]

English is my native language, and I can speak/read/write in Latin (rather poorly).

I'm trying to teach myself German online... that's coming along slowly but surely.

[Purple Pimp]

I speak jive, does that count?

Hey home, I can dig it.  Hang loose, blood!

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Native speaker of English, went to high school in France and fluent in French.  I studied Italian, German, and Russian while I was there (at my high school you had to take 3 foreign languages), and I took 2 years of Mandarin Chinese in college.  Except for the French, only the Chinese has really stuck.

Lia

[tekla]

Yo. 


I can read several (spanish, french, german, hebrew, latin --- classical education, can you guess) speak some, but when others talk it (other than latin) I'm lost.

[Christo]

I speak jive, does that count?

lmao   yo wassup?  it gotta, u dig?
English.  some Spanish (I'm half cuban & half puerto rican) 

[soldierjane]

I would just like to ask first of all-- Why is this question always about how many languages one speaks? Why not ask about how many I can read and write?

Hypatia,

Good point actually. I just changed the question slightly to add your suggestion.

Thanks!

[Lisbeth]

I am fluent in English (including Middle English and modest Anglo-Saxon), adequate in German, Greek, and Hebrew, less than adequate in Spanish, and have a smattering of Ameslan, French, Danish, and Japanese.

[Hypatia]

English, French and Arabic

Haut-cinq
خمسة عالية

[Floating]

I'm still working on English.