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How many languages do you speak, read or write?

Started by soldierjane, April 30, 2008, 03:33:25 PM

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Emmik

Fluent in:
Swedish (+the two neighbour languages, Norwegian and Danish)
English

Comfortable tourist in:
Japanese
German

Forgotten:
6 months of Spanish
6 months of Finnish

Trying to choose next between:
Mandarin or Cantonese
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Hikari

Fluent in English (obviously)

I can get by as a tourist in German and Japanese.

I could also get by as a tourist in Toki Pona but, there isn't a place that speaks it...

I've studied a fair bit of Latin, and I can understand a fair bit that is written, but I wouldn't be able to form my own sentences or speak in it. I don't know about listening as I really haven't heard it spoken very much.

currently I am working on my Japanese, I can read Katakana, and Hiragana alright, but I only know a few Kanji (the numbers, Watashi, etc).
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Kay

completely fluent:  Only English
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Decent spoken and written:  German  (even Fraktur script, as I've done a bit of translation work on older documents for genealogy)
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Some varied proficiency:  Japanese, Spanish, & French in that order.
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It has been years since I've used most of them (other than German & English), so unfortunately I've grown a bit rusty.  Still, I do enjoy languages quite a bit.
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Crow

Languages! I love lanbguages~ Unfortunately, I don't have as much time to study them as I would like.

I'm only fluent in English, but I took 4 years of German in high school and am at least decently communicable in that (though I'm definitely rather out-of-practice due to a lack of German-speaking people around for me to jabber at). I know some basic Spanish and plan to learn more in the pprocess of getting my undergrad degree. Plus, I'm going to take a lot of linguistics courses, as I plan to be an ENL (English as a New Language) teacher.

My goal is to eventually become fluent in Spanish and be able to communicate in as many other languages as possible. I'm hoping I can expand on my Spanish and hopefully learn at least one Asian language (probably Japanese or Korean-- I picked up some very fundamental Japanese in jr. high between lots of anime and a family friend who teaches Asian culture courses, and I'd like to learn more) in grad school. I would also LOVE to learn Swahili if I ever get the chance, but not a lot of schools offer classes on that I don't think. And then I'll inevitably pick up some other things from my students as an ENL teacher.
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Cindy

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Kreuzfidel

I love languages!  I have been interested in so many different ones since I was a kid.  I never could become fluent in one or two because I would be too excited to learn more of another lol

My best languages are:

German
English

I speak and understand bits of:

Tagalog
French
Russian
Danish

I'm interested in the Northern European languages as of late, such as Icelandic and Swedish.
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Miniar

Native language - Icelandic

Fluent speaker - Icelandic, English & Swedish (though a little rusty in Swedish)
Fluent writer - Same as ^

Able to understand spoken; Icelandic, English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and a little French, Spanish & German if spoken clearly & slowly enough for me to hear where one word ends and the other takes off.

Able to understand written; Icelandic, English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and "some" Spanish, French & German.



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lightvi

#68
I love languages, always wanted to be an interpreter.. (or actress  ;))

I can speak D'ni and English fluently :).

Would love to learn Japanese, French & Arabic!

(also sign language!)
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kyril

Fluent: English
Was fluent at one time, still functional: French, Spanish
Can read: Latin, Italian
Minimal word/phrase recognition and speech (varying degrees): German, Finnish, Farsi


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Karla

All inclusive and in no particular order : English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, German, C++, Afrikaans, Greek, Italian- :)
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marleen

Mother tongue: Dutch
Fluent in English and french
Ok Spanish
Understand some German
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NightAngel

Slovenian, Croatian, English, German ...

Would love to learn Japanese ...

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OnyaKonyaLonya

#73
I speak Indonesian language

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Erik

I'm native to English, But I can also speak/write German
I'm learning Russian and Japanese
And I am semi-fluent in American Sign Language

Mostly I'd love to get fluent in Japanese. It's my top language :)
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jainie marlena

kop koon kah,  I love learning any language. would love to study with others. Quiza escriba en otros idiomas. anyway English, Spanish, Portuguese and working on Chinese, Japanese and Thai.

Shang

I am fluent in:

-English

I can read (basic):

-German
-Spanish

I want to learn:

-German
-Russian
-Japanese (I have to study that soon, I'll be going to Japan where my sister is and she knows almost nothing)
-Italian
-Romanian
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twistedpixie

Only English for me. I've had enough exposure to Spanish and German to recognize when someone is speaking them, but I can only pick out the odd word here and there.
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Silver

Can speak and read English and Spanish, but I have yet to learn the higher-level words in Spanish so can't read any good books in Spanish.

At some point, I'd like to learn Latin and German but that is irrelevant.
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Yakshini

Only fluent in English, but I have a decent understanding of French and Spanish when spoken to me. Took three years of Spanish and two of French in High School.
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