How many Languages do you know

[Necron]

Just two

Spanish- native language
English- been with it for 10 years, self-taught. I'm fluent in speaking and excellente in reading and writting (but sometimes I forgot the structures)

 

[Shockwind]

My main language is Tagalog, duh.

Other languages that I know:
English, obviously, and a bit of Japanese.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Funny this, as a child I could understand and speak most European and Slavic languages. Today I can only speak English and bad English at that. I can still understand most of the European languages, and can read, to some extent, the ones that use Latin script, but out of the Slavic ones I can only really understand Ukrainian, Russian to a slight degree, and Church Slavonic.

 

[wasim]

Malayalam and English

and i know a bit of Hindi and Arabic

 

[wasim]

How many languages do you know in terms of understanding it well and speaking it at least to a certain extent understandable to the other person.
Its more about knowing how many languages people are exposed to.

Personally, I know:
Kachi - Mother tongue; fluent and good vocabulary
Gujrati - fluent with good vocabulary
Hindi/Urdu - They are pretty much the same with slightly different ways of speaking and vocabulary; not fluent but understand very well with good vocabulary
Swahili - National Language; quite fluent since i dont talk too much and have an okay vocabulary but still need lots of practice
English - fluent and better vocabulary than any other language

I could add Arabic but i understand little and hardly talk it.

So how many and how much do u know?

You ever been to India or ..... ?

 

[DjoeN]

1. Dutch (Flemish) / Dutch (The Netherlands)
2. English
3. German (Worked 9 years in Switserland), But writing is a mess :/
4. French, it suxs, but i can help myself when i'm in France
5. I used to learn a little bit Italian, i do understand a few things, but for the rest it's a mess :/

 

[shakirmoledina]

How many languages do you know in terms of understanding it well and speaking it at least to a certain extent understandable to the other person.

So how many and how much do u know?

You ever been to India or ..... ?

No i am of an indian family and culture but am living in a tanzania/african society while being surrounded by persians (well not actually surrounded) and some arabs

 

[DaRk_ViVi]

- Italian
- English
- A little little little bit of German

 

[Cyan]

There a more users speaking french than I though here.

Raulpica, it's great that you speak french too

(in case we meet someday).
I'm living at Italy border.

as for me (in understanding order):

French: My mother tongue. good with grammar and vocabulary. (yeah, it's not uncommon that french people are bad at french language lol)
English: reading pretty good, writing good enough to be understood, speaking pretty bad (never practiced)
Engrish: yah, I can write and speak that one too ! (maybe I speak better Engrish than english

)
Italian: I learned it 5 years at primary school, i never understood it. Now that I'm working with a lot of people speaking Italian I can understand what they are saying but I can't speak.
Spanish: learn for 2 years in school, I was pretty good but didn't practive for 15 years. I can still read it a little (latin language all looks alike)
Japanese: only few words, kana and kanji. I can't write sentences. Started 15 years ago, but I only procrastinated.

 

[adamshinoda]

Vietnamese - of course, my mother tongue
English - I'm not good at writing. Listening and reading are my advantages. Pretty good with grammar and vocabulary.
Japanese - only a very very very very litlle

 

[4-leaf-clover]

Dutch - main language
German - learned at school
English - learned by playing games watching movies and from school
Japanese - 2nd main language (speaking and writing it)
French - learned at school
And a little bit indonesian - learned a bit from my aunt

 

[Haloman800]

English - (semi)Proud to be an American!
Maltese - The tongue of my mother's homeland, Malta!
C#
Dreamweaver
HTML ;D.

 

[Hydreigon]

English- my main language
Mandarin/Cantonese- I know a little, but I always mix up the two dialects.
French- took a course in school
German- learning it
Spanish- learning it
Japanese- ...I know how to say some insults in Japanese; does that count?

 

[shakirmoledina]

again if u ask me culture-wise, the best way to learn a language is living with the people.

The community leader i talked about earlier, his child of around 10 or 11 know 6 languages ie. kachi, gujrati, hindi/urdu, swahili, english and farsi.

thts pretty amazing for a 10 yr old but anyone can do so if they vigorously learn a language from books, videos (movies etc), poems etc

@Haloman800 correct me but i dont think dreamweaver is a language but a WYSIWYG

 

[Lokao0]

(Brazilian) Portuguese - Mother language
English: (Maybe) Fluent, but I'm still doing a course (I speak it very well

)
Spanish: Very bad, but Spanish is kinda "look-alike" as Portuguese, makes it a bit easier
I also can understand Italian, Portuguese from Portugal, but can't speak/write.

 

[Cyan]

@lokao0:
I really don't find that Spanish look-alike Portuguese.

Portuguese doesn't "feel" like a Latin language when I'm hearing people speaking. I don't recognize any words, while Italian/Spanish are very similar to French.
Well, I don't know Portuguese at all (I'm just hearing people at my work), so you are certainly better placed to judge the similarity of these two languages.

 

[Burton]

I speak Spanish and I don't think is any way to Portuguese

I must clarify that Latino Spanish and Castellano (Spaniard Spanish) are not the same, there are major differences.

 

[Necron]

I speak Spanish and I don't think is any way to Portuguese

I must clarify that Latino Spanish and Castellano (Spaniard Spanish) are not the same, there are major differences.

Not really

 

[Burton]

Of course it is!

Example:

English: "I'm going to give you what you deserve"

Latino: "Te voy a dar tu merecido"

Castellano: "Te voy a cantar las cuarenta"

I don't mean the meaning of the word, I meant the sense of telling the message.

Further Info at : http://spanish.about.com/cs/historyofspanish/f/varieties.htm

 

[adamdbz]

Hebrew (mother language)
English (talk, speak and write good)