What languages do you read in and speak?

[GolenSun550]

NekoKun, that's cool, I wonder how widely Wu Chinese is spread across China. (I could go look it up, but I"m lazy)

I think

less than 2 provinces.

 

[r3l4x]

Dutch (reading, writing, speaking)
English (reading, writing, speaking)
French (reading, and i can understand if they're talking to me)
German (reading, and i can speak it a little)
Japanese (reading, writing, speaking)
Korean (reading, writing)

Some less important ones:
Classical Japanese (reading) -> ridiculously hard and absolutely no fun
Classical Chinese (reading), but I've forgotten most of it

 

[Twiffles]

My uncle is a interpreter for the FBI so I "borrow" his language books. Still too lazy to..yeah.

Speak, more so I understand but I guess I can speak:
English/Engrish/Old English (I hate Old English)
Mandarin Chinese (kinda)
Japanese/Moonspeak
Korean
Spanish
French
German (not much)
Random Philippine languages/dialects

Read, I don't care much for read:
English
Korean
Japanese
Spanish
French

All more so for "getting around town" purposes than recreational/leisure.

 

[teh_PaRaDoX]

German reading / speaking / writing
French reading / speaking / writing
English reading / speaking / writing

My first language is German...

I learn English for more than 7 years

and I can understand if someone is talking to me.

I learn French since 2009 and I learned very much in this time

 

[Kinqdra]

Croatian (Speak, understand, read) - My mom is Croatian and I live there now.
English (Speak, understand, read) - My dad is English.
French (Speak, understand, read) - Was born in France.
Italian (Understand, read) - Learning it at school.
Japanese ( Don't know a thing) - Will start learning it soon.

 

[Cermage]

English (s/w) - grew up with it
Vietnamese (s/w)- grew up with it
Chinese (s)- too many visits to dim sum/yum cha.
japanese (s)- japanese friends/random conversations with japanese exchange students at uni wanting to get better at japanese.
spanish (s/w) - 5 years of learning it didn't get me far......

 

[scrtmstr]

Dutch (reading, writing, speaking) grew up with it
English (reading, writing, speaking) grew up with it (father had a lot of english friends, learnt it from that)
German (reading, writing, speaking) taking classes since last year
French (reading, writing, speaking) taking classes for 3 years already

I can speak a lot of English accents and understand them as well.
Just lucky that I can understand languages very easely

 

[IgiveUgas]

English and French. English I use everyday, the French not so much.

 

[Tekkin88]

I'm learning ASL right now. It's really fun. I still have a long ways to go though.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

I speak English and Chinese (Though my Chinese is in pretty bad shape)

I want to learn Japanese though

 

[BlackDave]

Well

I learn Creole from Cabo Verde (Google it) which is a mix of Portuguese and African languages (not like the one from Haiti). That was when I was 2 or something like that. I was born in Cabo Verde by the way.

I moved to Belgium as my Dad became the ambassador of Cabo Verde when I was 4.

So since then all the way till I turned 15 I was going to school, playing games, and living life in French. I also had to learn Dutch but because of my dad's diplomatic status and me being from a foreign country already learning French as a second language, I had the choice not to learn it. Frankly I don't regret that choice and forgot all I knew about Dutch.

When I was 15~16 I moved down to the USA to live with my mom (my parents got divorced when I was 13).
and started learning English.

Since then (I'm 19) I've been switching around between French, English, and Portuguese (I forgot to mention it's the official language in Cabo Verde)

 

[thaddius]

I can read, write and speak in English and French.

And I know how to tell my students what to do in Inuktitut. Mostly "stop", "get out" and "hurry up".

 

[Overman1977]

English (read, write and speak very well :-P)
German (read, write and speak)
Dutch (read, write and speak)
Latin (read well, write ok and speak well)

 

[boof222]

English: read write and speak
Japanese: learning to do all
Italian: can have a basic conversation and swear but i can neither read nor write it

 

[Absynthe]

I can speak Italian (well, duh), I'm pretty fluent in English (I'd say about C2 level), some Latin, I can read French, and I've studied Japanese for the past three years (I'm self-taught though, so I'm not nearly fluent enough. I can read some 2-300 kanji). And yes, it helps me in my everyday life, since I can play more games and browse more sites. YAY

 

[Quanno]

I speak Dutch (maybe obvious, looking at my flag) but I can speak english, German and French too.
German, english and French are required on my school.
I tried to do Spanish, but I sucked at it, so no Spanish

 

[Beats]

My main language is english, but I also can speak and read Japanese. (Helps with the anime stuff.)

 

[Blebleman]

I am a native English and French speaker (parents were native Italian and French-Canadian), and I picked up Japanese back when I started High School. I was tired of playing games in a language I didn't understand, so just for kicks I said I'd try learning at least how to read.

Nowadays I speak pretty fluent Japanese, and my wife is Japanese. I don't think I'm nearly good enough yet (you NEVER know enough Kanji!), but I've actually had people in Japan ask me if I was a half. That's really shocking...when I started learning I never thought it'd amount to anything. In fact, since I had learned by myself through books, I knew how to read Japanese (since that's what I wanted), but when I met my first Japanese friend a couple of years later, my speaking was HORRIBLE. I had never spoken in my life.

I shuffle between English and Japanese with my wife, use French with some of my friends (it is Quebec.) and I am in my third year of a Teaching English as a Second Language Bachelor's degree.

I can garble up some Italian and Spanish.

Next up: Chinese and Korean!

If I die speaking less than 8 languages, I'll be disappointed in myself.

 

[giratina16]

I speak English normally, I can speak a little Spanish but I can't read it, I can speak a little French and can read a little too. I'm learning Japanese and I can read and write a little. Japanese is my main goal.

 

[Conor]

I speak the English language fluently.
I speak French well enough, I learnt a little German so I have an okay knowledge of the language and I also speak Irish which I know quite well despite it being near-dead.