How many languages do you speak, read or write?

[Ave]

fluent in spanish and english

can passively comprehend french and a tiny bit of japanese.

polish sounds sexy

[Kevin Peña]

polish sounds sexy

Say that to my Russian friend Andrey, and he'll probably snap. 

[dylanjakoby]

i speak english and german, i can understand czech because a lot of the families that come into my daycare speak it. i also know asl but thats not within reading writing or speaking 

[electric sheep]

I speak 3.5 languages.

To clarify, there's my mother tongue, English (my second language, bilingual really, having done most of my schooling in it) and Norwegian, all which I speak, read and write like it's nobodies business.

Then there's French, which I used to speak well enough, but when I learnt Norwegian, it all sort of disappeared into the catacombs of my mind. My plan is to one day move to a francophone area of the world and regain this lost ability. I still understand both spoken and written French though, so it's not all lost.

[Hannahbellelecker]

My primary language is US English because I was born here, however, because of my cultural surroundings and family, I also speak German:standard, and some Bayerisch.
I also am learning Swedish.

I can read in both English or German. 

[Catherine Sarah]

I'm very fluent in

American,
English
Australian
'Strine'
New Zealand
South Africian
Irish
Scottish
Canadian - english
AND
Tasmanian

Huggs
Catherine

Since posting this most amazing display of intellectual talents (being modest is another hallmark of mine) I have further added fluency in:

South Australian.  Yes they do speak a completely different language there (Beware of thrown branding irons)

Bostonian.  Very close to total gibberish. In fact gibberish is easier to understand than Bostonian. And I know I can say that in safety here as certain members don't visit this thread

Latin
New Guinea (pigeon english) and due to Births Deaths & Marriages spelling my new name incorrectly
Welsh

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Catherine

[sweetashiro]

I am fluent in English and Swedish, studying German at the moment 

[Sam/Gabriel]

I'm fluent in English and French, can listen to, read and write Japanese and can listen to Spanish and German. I want to be fluent in all someday.

[Kevin Peña]

I'm fluent in English and French, can listen to, read and write Japanese and can listen to Spanish and German. I want to be fluent in all someday.

Anyone can listen to a language. However, can you understand them? 

Besides, with over 100 languages on this planet, no one can learn them all. Not enough space in the human brain. 

[Sam/Gabriel]

Anyone can listen to a language. However, can you understand them? 

Besides, with over 100 languages on this planet, no one can learn them all. Not enough space in the human brain. 

Haha, yes, I meant that I can orally understand them. And by "all", I meant all the ones I mentioned 

[niamh]

Anyone can listen to a language. However, can you understand them? 

Besides, with over 100 languages on this planet, no one can learn them all. Not enough space in the human brain. 

100? There are over 6,900 ;-)

[niamh]

....

Just English?

Not even just of bit of French or Spanish?

[Sarah Blomsterhatt]

I can speak Swedish and English fluently. I can speak Norwegian.

On top of that I can understand Danish and Norwegian, and some German and French.

I got a Irish accent when I speak English, and speak British English, not American English.

And the sexiest accent ever is Icelandic English.

[niamh]

I got a Irish accent when I speak English, and speak British English, not American English.

How did you manage that?

[Kevin Peña]

100? There are over 6,900 ;-)

Over 6,900 is still over 100. Either way, they're accurate statements.   

[Sarah Blomsterhatt]

How did you manage that?

A good question, and I have no idea. A theory; I've grown up in Europe and have thus learned British English for the most part, and by British English I mean I'll write "colour" not "color" etc. Not so strange, as to how I got my accent I'm not quite sure, might be because I'm from Sweden, and I believe that the northern British accents is the way they are because of the Nordic influences that came along with the viking raids. So maybe it's just my British English with Nordic influences that created my Irish accent.

But really though, me and my accents is a very intresting fenomena. I've been known to speak 10-15 different accents of Swedish, they change without me noticing. Once when I was on a bus and I began speaking to a girl there I spoke fluent Norwiegan and I have no idea where it came from, I did not even know my Norwiegan was that good.

I really wish that I could control my accents, if I could only do that I would have an amazing skill.

[Victoria L.]

I'm boring. I only speak English. I'm taking Spanish, but that's only because it's a requirement for any degree in my area of study (arts and sciences). I'm only in the first month of taking the class, so you can't expect me to be fluent at it.

I would have loved to have taken Latin. It's a little more relevant to music, since so much of the ancient/medieval/Renaissance choral music is written in Latin. Plus it's such an awesome language, but I didn't know if it would count for a foreign language credit so I didn't bother.

[cheonsa1017]

I speak English natively, French passably fluent, and I'm learning Korean as well. I know a few words/phrases of Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Mandarin.

[AdamMLP]

I speak English.  And that's about it.  I know some very basic school French, which I've forgotten most of, even less school Spanish and a word or two of Icelandic and Latin.  I just don't see the point in learning them when I know I'll never use them.  A useful language to me would be Icelandic as that's the only place I ever go on holiday to, but I don't know where to start and feel silly talking to myself.

[MadeleineG]

I'm fluently bilingual in English and French and took some Italian in school.