How Many Languages do you speak? (Now under new management)

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

I know that we come from many countries, and we have english in common... but, how many languages do you speak?

I go for English and spanish.

And you?

P.S. (I will count Klingon as a valid one )

P.S.#2 Update Apr.29.05
Due to the overwhelming ( ) feedback from our customers, we have modified the thread to be a poll. If I see new options with a few votes not listed in the original one, I will be adding them as it goes.

[ViRaL1]

Two, English, and bad English.

(Can you tell I'm American?)

I'd actually like to learn Spanish, as soon as I find out more about this thing they call 'free time.'

[JohnnyCNote]

English is my native language, then Rusian & Spanish with roughly equal fluency, then (Modern) Greek, rusty German and a semester of French in college. I also had 2 years of Latin, but one would have been enough...

[ed_mc7]

Fluent in English & German, my French & Spanish are pretty rough through lack of use (down to "dos cervezas por favor").

[lumis]

600..

but 599 of them are languages i invented. (rip-mitch hedberg)

[Shadowmistress]

English, Greek, and sign language fluently. I used to know enough French and Spanish to string sentences together but I've forgotten most of it over the years.

[Conquest10]

English and Spanish. Some French. I can (somewhat) understand Portuguese and Italian.

[Baldrick]

One. Swedish.

[lumis]

your swedish is amazingly similar to my english.

[lordsmurf]

I would believe it if Baldrick can write English but not speak it. Not an uncommon practice. Especially if you self-taught yourself the language and are a visual learner.

It can happen.

[Cobra]

I'm almost the same - I can't speak French very well, nor can I listen. However, I can read it really well.

[sanjayk]

English & Hindi

Learning to read & understand the ever occuring Windows Error Messages !!

[beavereater]

English, French and Japanese

[reboot]

9 different versions of English.
Canadian, American, American south, British, Scottish, Irish, Aussie, Kiwi, and SouthAfrican.
I'm very good at copying accents

[Bodyslide]

Southern English, Cobol, Gofer,Rebus,Wisp and of course Binary.

[thecoalman]

I would believe it if Baldrick can write English but not speak it. Not an uncommon practice. Especially if you self-taught yourself the language and are a visual learner.

It can happen.

That makes sense since I would assume that he probably doesn't hear it spoken that often. I only know one myself, english. :P


....oh wait I fogot about coalspeak.... http://www.coalregion.com/Speak/speakA.htm

[Ma_Jie]

I'm fluent in English and can speak some Mandarin Chinese and read some Classical Chinese. I'm currently studying both.

- Jie

[MOVIEGEEK]

English,Espanol and petit Francais.I can read French better than I can speak it.I'm learning Deutsch because I have some friends in Germany.

[offline]

Hmm.. a little German, a little French, a little Indonesian and a little Chinese







...walked into a bar. boom! boom! :/

Ok, I can "get by" in most places but
I can barely read English let alone other
languages.

[spiderman2k1]

Homer Simpson in High School--I speak American, why do I have to take english I'm never going to go to England???

[Ma_Jie]

delete.

[Shocker Milwaukee]

English - Spanish - Latin (rusty)

[yoda313]

Hi,

English, and basic Spanish - a couple of years in highschool.

And a few words of KLINGON

QAPLA!

Kevin

[garman]

Does Eubonics count as a language? (Quite frankly... I hope not) If not, count me in for english and spanish. -garman

[EddyH]

I'm reasonably fluent in English. (Which is handy seeing as i live, after all, in england)

I could probably just-about get by in france so long as the natives were understanding and patient, and i had a dictionary/phrasebook in my bag for the sticky moments. Couldn't live there though, not without being a creepy hermit.

Maybe skim by on the skin of my teeth in germany...

I could bluff people who know very little about the languages that i know welsh and japanese - i know just about enough of each to do this, but nothing truly useful.

I intend to pick up my competency in these quite a bit "some day" when I have the time to do it (particularly japanese should be interesting, though i'm not sure on the welsh - it's a deeply unintuitive language for the non-native, just like english!)..... those and Sign, plus, seeing as i work in a deeply multicultural part of birmingham, i really should get some basic phrases in hindi, punjabi and urdu down sometime, as a good number of our "customers" (its a hospital ) have pretty limited english, but can get on fine with the one or two over-stretched staffers who can chat in these tongues (...probably helps that they're their "home" langues). Similarly mandarin and cantonese as well i guess.

Oh and i've got a reasonable smattering of the computerese Dorkle dialect

[yoda313]

Hi,

Forgot to mention I speak WOOKIE too but no one else does for some strange reason!

Roooarrrr growwwwlllll

Kevin

(j/k of course )

[Xylob the Destroyer]

I speak American and English fluently.
We Americans DO NOT speak English. Ask any Western European who learned to speak English in their 'high school' and then came to America (especially after visiting the UK!), and they will tell you it took them a long time to understand what the hell we were saying.

There is a large Hispanic community where I live (about a third of the population) and I took Spanish in jr. high.... I wouldn't say I'm fluent, but you can't live around here without knowing at least a little Spanish. I can definitely read it better than I can speak it or understand it when it's spoken to me.

[EddyH]

i reckon either i've had far too much exposure to Americanish via british popular culture, or have just scrubbed up on it too hard then.

re: long "lost" relatives from florida coming out of the woodwork. very few communications problems if any... and they live in jacksonville..

[JohnnyCNote]

Jacksonville is surprisingly diverse. I'm contiually amazed by where people here are from....

[Epicurus8a]

English and some Spanish. Oh yeah, Singlish too, la.

My wife has a gift for languages, she speaks eight Asian dialects and five other languages.