The language you speak.

[webjedi]

Another English only speaker. Kind of wish we had that European thing over here in USA where they are surrounded by half-dozen different languages and bound to learn at least a little of something else. But not the case - I'm a English speaker with English speaking parents surrounded by English speakers. Or is it American...

I did take Latin in school!!! Wow, that was useful.

 

[Destructobot]

I took latin for a while too. I remember "est", and that's about it.

 

[Neko]

I mainly speak German, seeing as I live in Germany. ;p
I also can speak English , but mostly online over boards and irc. (#gbatemp.net

)

 

[caucaznazn]

French and English, but I'm French Canadian, so I can't speak either very well.

 

[wohoo]

Swedish it the shit. except when i'm talking to people who doesn't understand it. Then it comes very handy to speak some english every now and then

 

[mflo]

I mainly speak English. I'm not as fluent in vietnamese as I want to be.

 

[fintendo]

Nobody speaks Finnish?

I can speak English, Swedish and German too, but not that well.

 

[111111111]

I visited Germany several years ago, and every time I asked someone if they spoke English, they said yes. In reality most of them only knew how to say "yes" in English.

The only Germans I met that spoke good English were waiters (food servers) and people old enough to remember WW2.


When I was last in berlin (around 3years ago) at least 90% of people spoke basic english, and at least 40% spoke it well enough to hold a conversation.


QUOTEAnother English only speaker. Kind of wish we had that European thing over here in USA where they are surrounded by half-dozen different languages and bound to learn at least a little of something else.

But the USA is an immigrant colony - from the very start it's been made up of lots of different nationalities. I'm surprised there isn't far more people in the USA speaking dutch/german/french/spanish/italian etc.

 

[Sjaool]

My main language is Dutch but I also speak and write English and German and also
a litte French but that's another story.

Almost forgot, I also speak and write a "lyts bytsje frysk".

 

[VVoltz]

I only speak the language of Love

































Wait, the sounded more gay posted than it did in my head.

 

[webjedi]

Another English only speaker. Kind of wish we had that European thing over here in USA where they are surrounded by half-dozen different languages and bound to learn at least a little of something else.

But the USA is an immigrant colony - from the very start it's been made up of lots of different nationalities. I'm surprised there isn't far more people in the USA speaking dutch/german/french/spanish/italian etc.

Follow the money, in the USA - business runs on English.

 

[cenotaph]

I'm bilingual (primary language + English), with basic skills in three other languages (one of which I'm currently studying full time).

 

[wiithepeople]

Dam there's a lot of ppl who voted "other"

 

[DarkAura]

Hey, there's a lot of languages. Not all can be thought of at the top of someone's head.

And you didn't say which one you speak.

 

[111111111]

Follow the money, in the USA - business runs on English.

Pretty miss titty
she works in the city
whiter than whiter
she gets up typewriter
men catch up later
they don't love or hate her
they just masturbate her potato
well big bad businessman
have you any love?

Old mother hubbard
making tea in her cupboard
she drinks to her only
and feels rather lonely
millie molly mad the maid
lying weeping in the shade
she's been making it
with old father time
well big bad businessman
have you any love?

look out you old money bags businessman
you gotta prove yr a millionaire
they search for your thoughts and
they measure your hair
they say its just a question
of all the clothes you wear
who knows you there?

Lets start a cult and kill men-in-suits. The world would be a happier, more vibrant and varied place.

Down with the city!

 

[ZeWarrior]

Portuguese and English.

 

[striding]

Cantonese,English & alittle mando/taiwanese

 

[Joey Ravn]

Hey, there's a lot of languages. Not all can be thought of at the top of someone's head.

And you didn't say which one you speak.

According to most linguistic researchs, an average of all the known languages in the world must be around... 4500 spoken languages. Still, there are researchers that say there are about ~3000 languages, while others estimate that about ~6000 languages are alive and active nowadays. Obviously, they don't include dead languages like Latin, nor artificial ones like Esperanto.

So yeah, it's a f***ing lot

 

[RayorDragonFall]

Swedish :'(

Aren't you finnish?
Anyways, I speak spanish and english at home (100% bilingual since childhood because of parents) and study french at school. I want to teach myself japanese.

 

[Twiffles]

English, Japanese, and other. So I can't really vote.