How many languages can you read and write?

[Kennyshin]

Just wondering.

Only two for me: Korean and English though I can read a little of Chinese and Japanese, too.

[tgpo]

Only english for me.

[marcusaxavier]

English is my primary language, but I can read & write some French, Japanese, and Spanish.

[Greg12]

I can read English and write english.

I can also fluently write Japanese Hiragana but not Katakana and I only know a few kanjis.

[d4n13l]

English is my first language. I can speak/write Spanish quite well and I know a little French. I am learning (very bad) Swedish on IRC with a little help from Baldricks cousin, Helmut (England ska äger den mästerskap igen! ). lol
I am also fluent in Nerd Pig Latin.... and I know a tiny bit of real Latin.
Oh, and do programming languages count?

[pacmania_2001]

English and can speak(very badly and only a few sentences) Japanese and Chinese

[SAFEDISKKILLER22]

anybody speak croatian?

[VitorFJV]

I Speak Portuguese, but i speak and write english a litte

[ChrisX]

Only English is enough for me. I did got to know a little of French in Canada.

I know English English, American English as well as Australian English. There isn't much difference in Language from England, America, Canada and Australia. It is only the accent is noticeable and this how I know where someone is from.

There is no need for me to to know any other language as I only been in the US, Canada and Australia. I do get a lot of contact with England as well.

[tgpo]

I know teenager very well too.

[bilbogod]

English, little bit of French and essential Thai phrases as well as stuff like "Me so horny" and "Me love you long time" and "Fuckie suckie ten dollar" etc etc etc.............

[Kennyshin]

Only English is enough for me. I did got to know a little of French in Canada.

I know English English, American English as well as Australian English. There isn't much difference in Language from England, America, Canada and Australia. It is only the accent is noticeable and this how I know where someone is from.

There is no need for me to to know any other language as I only been in the US, Canada and Australia. I do get a lot of contact with England as well.

Maybe you feel no need to learn another language unless you have to live in France or Latin America. In my case, I've never been abroad, but I have always felt great need to learn several languages in order to acquire the ability to read books, newspapers, magazines, TV, movies, letters, and web pages written in each language. I've been a professional translator but I read only the sources and discard anything massaged and distorted by humans and machines as much as possible.

[ChrisX]

Maybe you feel no need to learn another language unless you have to live in France or Latin America. In my case, I've never been abroad, but I have always felt great need to learn several languages in order to acquire the ability to read books, newspapers, magazines, TV, movies, letters, and web pages written in each language. I've been a professional translator but I read only the sources and discard anything massaged and distorted by humans and machines as much as possible.

Yes, I do agree with you if I live in France that I would have to learn another language. This is really depends on where the person is residing.

I am in Australia, the language here is almost all English and very small pockets of others. Our recent census shows that Italian is the most used foreign language here. All the other European languages wouldn't be too far behind, especially the French and the German. In some areas of Sydney have a large Greek community and they have to learn English as well.

You being a professional translater is excellent. Do you have a job as translater? You got the ability to do just that.

[June]

Korean - 1st language, fluent in all part.

English - 2nd language, can read, write, listen and speak.


Like many Koreans, I can read some Chinese letters. But it's not the same

as 'real chinese letter' being used in China.

[June]

I forgot about this. I learned Deustsch in highschool. So I can read some Deustsch and speak some useful sentences like 'Wie geht es Ihnen, Wie heissen Sie, Guten Tag' etc etc..

[June]

* I love you in 100 languages.


English - I love you
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
Bambara - M'bi fe
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T'estimo
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki'
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S'agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha wau ia oi
Hebrew - Ani ohev otah (to female)
Hebrew - Ani ohev et otha (to male)
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te ubesk
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing'I Love
You')
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)
Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)
Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe

[Kennyshin]

I forgot about this. I learned Deustsch in highschool. So I can read some Deustsch and speak some useful sentences like 'Wie geht es Ihnen, Wie heissen Sie, Guten Tag' etc etc..

Hmm... I also learned German in high school in 1989 but then the school seemed to be more interested in politics than teaching languages which was why I left school. I remember guten tag and auf wiederzhen - not sure of the spelling - but not much of anything else.

By the way, I knew Wo ai ni in Mandarin but didn't know it is completly different in Cantonese. I have one Chinese friend who teaches me Chinese - she came from Manchuria (the area between Siberia and North Korea), lives now in Shanghai, speaks Mandarin, Japanese, English, etc.

CJGS,

Yes, I translate in networking, database, server, and other IT-related areas because I would have majored in Computer Science or Physics if I could study abroad.

[resnullius]

French/English over here (well a few words of about 20 other language but mostly insults )... By the way June in French Je t'adore is I adore you not I love you

[boss]

i'm only fluent in english. i know a little french from secondry school but that's it. as for my country's national language, irish, i'm useless! i'm so bad at it, that i did'nt turn up for my state exam at it! hardly anyone in ireland speaks irish these days but we are forced to learn it at school because "it's part of our heritage" sad or what?

[devinemi83]

I know English, a tiny bit of spanish, teenagese, geek speak, and visual basic.

[aglips]

I can read, speak and write English, Spanish and Filipino all fluently.

[afreitas]

I know English, a tiny bit of spanish, teenagese, geek speak, and visual basic.

hehe, I read/write/speak portuguese, read/speak french, read spanish and also know a lot about C, php, perl and maybe I still remember a bit of visual basic . I dont know if Im able to read/write/speak english

[Kennyshin]

I wonder which language will be most cost-effective for me to invest time and efforts among Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, and German.

For the majority of Koreans, Japanese is the easiest to learn and the most cost-effective foreign language. For me, it was English, of course. My second elder brother spent over ten years in learning English and he cannot even write one sentence in English. He spent only a few months to learn Japanese and he's much better at Japanese than at English. English is legally required to learn for ALL South Korean students.

[resnullius]

chinese german and french are the harder ones all tho i only learnt a few words in chinese, the caracters are way too many, french and german have alot of grammar rules... and are therefore fairly hard learn

[henk schuifkaas]

I can speak/understand dutch, english, german and french.

[PhArAoH]

Fluent (written & spoken) in the following languages:

Albanian
English
Croatian
Serbian (including Cyrilics)

[LordVader]

ENGLISH / SPANISH

YEAH

[ViperXT]

I can barely manage one language! But I won't tell you which one. 8)

[Baldrick]

One.
Swedish

[ChrisX]

One.
Swedish

Your written language is English. Have you forgotten the second, English?