What other languages do you speak?

[Miserati]

English & Japanese. I know a bit of Russian as well.

I was teaching myself French in high school as well as taking sign language classes but those have kind of flown out the window as I never really used them.

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

English is my first language, I had a year of German in high school.  So that's stuck around in bits and pieces.  And two years of Spanish in college, again more for sticking around.

Am currently learning to speak Cherokee and know a few words of Lakota. Native languages come to me much easier.

[Beldarna]

Sweden is my first language and therefor I understand Norwegian and Danish as well, Norwegian more since I live in the north. English is my second language and then I understand a bit of French and Spanish as well since I took those classes in school. I can read them better than talk tho.

[lupachiotta]

conversational in Italian. First language is English of course.

[Endocat]

Just English. But I know a little Maori. I should know more...
"Kai Ora, Kei te pehea korua?" (hello, how are you). :-)

[starrypawz]

Just English
I know some random French, Itallian and Japanese but not enough to talk
Oh and I do actually know a fair bit of Mando'a. But that's a fictional language.

[kaoskat]

I can say lots of things in lots of languages but not enough things in any language other than English to communicate anything.

[mul-ta]

Finnish (first language), English (fluent), French (fluent - I took something like 8 years of French at school and have studied in France), German (I understand it perfectly but have never needed to speak much). I used to know decent Swedish. I haven't really used/needed it much but at least I still understand. Also, I've been taking elementary Japanese classes. It sure is fun but I feel I'm still far from being able to use it for anything interesting.

Post Merge: March 31, 2013, 08:54:04 AM

I'm thinking about learning Finnish so I can follow SM-Liiga games. That's the highest tier of hockey in Finland.

Good luck. Chances are it will be very different from any language you're used to, but it's actually pretty logical once you get over the initial shock.

[kirei_na_sakura]

Spanish and Japanese, but I am out of practice. (Sad face)

[Vintergatan]

In order of fluency
Serbian is my mother tongue which means I also know: Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Macedonian and all dialects of any of those languages. Slovenian and Bulgarian I can handle if we take it really slow
English (obviously ^^)
Swedish
Icelandic
Danish and because of all these I can understand Norwegian fairly well and Faroese if I try hard

Those are the languages i can actually hold a conversation in. then come:

French - had it in school and my mom is a French teacher, but i'm extremely rusty on it and when I try to speak it Icelandic and Swedish impose on it O_o
Portuguese - I still understand somewhat and can handle very basic communication
Japanese - will get there eventually I can read hiragana and katakana and some basic kanji, and know all the typical phrases to get by
Spanish - can understand a lot because of Portuguese and French

After I master Icelandic better my goal is to get my Japanese to an acceptable level and then tackle my dream language - Welsh ^^

[Sonata]

I am Portuguese, so yes xD I also speak English, Spanish and I could speak French as well, but I forgot most of it by now.

One day I wish to learn Japanese !

[SnorkMaiden]

Let's see... German is my native language. I'd like to think that I speak English reasonably well - at least well enough to live and work in the UK, but there's always room for improvement. I also learned Latin and French in school, Latin for five years and French for three. At university, I learned Italian. Sadly, English is the only foreign language I'm truly fluent in. I understand a fair bit of French and Italian, but I couldn't say that I truly speak either language. As for Latin, it's useful to understand a lot of languages, even though I only remember bits and pieces.

[SourdoughStomper]

I took three years of Spanish in high school, but I lost it after moving to Canada. I could probably muddle my way through simple sentences written in Spanish, but not converse. I've also had a bit of exposure to French so I recognize some simple things there too. English is my native tongue and the language in which I'm most fluent.

[Flutterwonder13]

I'm in High School currently and am learning Spanish. I'm ok at it, but I'm always impressed when my Boyfriend speaks it since that was his first language! I would love to learn Japanese.

[Hervoyel]

For professional fluency, English and French and socially I can get by in Afrikaans, Dutch and German.  I can speak vacation Spanish, and understand a decent amount of it socially, but I couldn't get by in any kind of formal situation with that.

I studied Vietnamese and Kiswahili at university (I was a linguistics major), but I've lost them both to lack of use.