Just wondering what languages are prominent.

Also considering learning another language...just want some ideas.

Thanks

My first language is english, and my husband's is arabic. We speak to each other in Italian though. If I were to learn another language, it would be arabic...

Sorry I left Arabic off the list...it only gave me so many choices and there are so many languages

I speak 5 languages & would like to learn SPANISH since I will be moving to Cali soon.

Does jibberish count ? I speak that VERY well !!

Kim

I took a few years of Spanish in collage, but it all slipped away. Once in a while I can understand it.
I guess I need to polish up on it since most of Tucson is Spanish speaking, but then again I feel the Spanish speakers should be speaking English first as they are in the US.
I wish I could get the hang of German since Anton's first language is German and it would be nice to be able to speak with his relatives.

Moondancer

I speak English and Spanish fluently, know a fair bit of Catalan, and can survive in French or Portuguese if I *really* have to. If I had to choose a language to learn, I'd probably go with Russian or ASL, unless it had to be one I'd never studied, in which case probably either Japanese or Mandarin Chinese.

Gareth would like to learn Spanish (partly 'cause I speak it, mostly 'cause we live in Albuquerque and half the things have Spanish names and he's tired of asking me what things mean) but he's awful at languages.



I don't know about Arizona, but here in New Mexico, many of the Spanish speakers have been living in the same town for several centuries. It's the English speakers who are the newcomers.

I am English first, then Spanish, Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, Marshalese, and now Thai.

Since I live in Hawaii, I would love to learn more of the Hawaiian language. (Not "pigeon"!!! )

I speak 5 languages and my primary language is Portuguese (which is not on the list @#%#¨#@# )

I'd like to learn Greek, Czech and Polish... don't ask me why

other = Dutch

voted for french... because jamal and his family speak it...
but also would like to learn arabic...

english and french fluently, know a little german, would like to learn more.
ASL and Russian would be other choices. perhaps Gaelic too. or czech.

also learning southernese. can understand newfanese but not speak it.

I speak two languages fluently (English and German), but I speak enough French to get around and have conversation in it (as long as people don't mind my abysmal grammar). I also know Latin, but most people don't speak it.

Currently, I'm learning Dutch for work. I can sort of understand Dutch (growing up close to the Dutch border helps), and I can read it very slowly with the help of a dictionary, but I want to become fluent in speaking and reading soon. So, I guess I want to learn Ducth, unless you're asking for a language I've never studied, and then my choice would be Russian.

2/English/Tagalog

I only know English. I know how to say a little in spanish but definitely not fluent in it.

I really need to learn Hindi as Sujeet's mom does not speak English. So in order to be able to talk to her, I have to learn Hindi. Not an easy task...


Sujeet knows 5 languages fluently(4 Indian languages and English), and he primarily speaks English nowadays. He only speaks Hindi and some other Indian language on the phone with his family and friends from India or while in India. I think if he could learn another language he'd want to know Spanish.

3, Other, Other

I speak English and German fluently. Advanced Spanish. Would love to learn Japanese.

I would love to learn Chinese, Japanese, German, and brush up on Spanish (learned it in school from primary days but stopped using it )

I speak Portuguese as my primary language, English as second, and Spanish as a third one (still getting fluency on it). I´ve studied French for 2 years and Japanese for 2 years more. My choice to learn a 4th language would be Japanese.

I speak Italian, English and French, I would love to learn Portuguese

I speak: Indonesian, English, and 3 traditional Indonesian languages (from different tribes)
Would love to learn Dutch since my grandma & my father speaks fluent Dutch.

Another Indonesian/English here. Would like to learn Chinese for 2 main reasons: that's my heritage and I would like to enter business world in which Chinese fluency will come in handy.

I speak French, Guyanese Créole (which is a little different from the ones spoken in Haiti or in the French West Indies), some Spanish and some Italian. I can also speak and understand a little of the dialects spoken by Amerindian tribes in Guyana.

I would like to learn Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin?) because it is the language of the future! I don"t think I will ever succeed though....

How do you say "Nice to meet in" in Chinese?

Nice to meet you...

I'm monolingual... I did French in highschool but it was so long ago that I can't remember a word and I was never 'fluent' (I never managed to learn enough to actually be useful in the first place!)

If I was going to learn another language it seems that Spanish would be the most useful, and I've seriously considered giving it a go more than once. I don't have a very good 'ear' for languages though so I've chickened out.

I'm great with English... I said I speak two languages....but to qualify it, I speak Korean only a little....learning more all the time though...so if I were to learn another language, I would want to speak Korean a lot better. I would also like to learn Spanish because it's useful many places in the US

i'd like to know portuguese

Thai/English - used to know a bit of (quite broken) German, French and Japanese but that was long long time ago... and cant even understand now

want to learn Japanese - but my friends try to teach me spanish

I will eventually learn Amharic. Sucks not to be able to speak to all of Nani's family (especially her mom) w/o a translator in the middle. Likewise, Nani will eventually pick up some German. We hope that raising our soon to be born daughter tri-lingual will help both of us pick up a thing or two on the way as well.

I took Spanish in High School(barely passed) but I wish they had offered Gaelic, or even sign language.

My native tongues are Russian and Ukrainian. I speak fluent English (although sometimes make errors )< a bit French (studied at school), understand Polish. I'd love to learn Spanish, since I am moving to California, and improve Polish (I like it a lot. It has a lot in common with Rus and Ukr, but still quite different and peculiar). Portuguese would be fine too (dream to Visit Brazil). Once I tried to learn Finnish, because it was a period when I communicated with nice folks from Finland a lot, but it turned to be way too difficult for me (especially grammar)< but I still think it's very cool

I speak french as native language, English, german and gaeilic....
I have started learning japanese a while back and would love to go back into it...

I "know" English, French, and Chinese (Cantonese)... but I could really use some help with brushing up on the last two.

I'd love to learn Spanish and Mandarin Chinese because they're practical languages, but I'd love to be able to speak in many languages I want to learn Esperanto and "click languages" just for fun, and Latin will always come in handy.

Coming from a country with two official languages - English and French, I would like to learn French. I was taught some in school but have forgotten it all. Encouraging my son to take French (and he is) in case he decides he wants to return to Canada to live and work.

Here is a site for you to learn chinese by seeing and hearing it! Have fun!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/

Portuguese, English, a little bit of spanish, and i'd like to learn german.

1st English, and enough French & Italian to get me by...

Would love to learn Spanish and so would Mr. Bruce.

One of the 1st things we're doing here once we get settled is taking Spanish together at night school.

That's cool! But the pronounciation is tricky. I can never say "Xièxie" (Thank you). I try to say it but it sounds like "Ché-Chié" - which actually sounds quite funny in French...

I don't think anyone will understand me in China

i speak kazakh,russian,fluent spanish, some english and dutch
i'd love to learn chinese, it is language of future
best,
alma

I speak english and spanish, my next choice would be hindi since my fiancé is Indian.

what is tagalog??? sounds like something i would like to learn!

I am a teacher in San Diego, so I had to learn Spanish to communicate with the parents of my students.

I would like to learn French. I visited France once and I would like to go back--but I think I would have a better time if I could communicate with the people there.

It's one of the principal languages of the Philippines. And it's pronounced tuh-GAL-og, not like "tagalong" without the N (TAG-uh-log), which is how I used to always pronounce it.

I speak Cebuano, Tagalog, English, a little spanish.

You know they do speak english in Calif.

The Governor speaks Alien (not immagration type of Alien)

I would personaly like to learn Tagalog, Greek. But I have hard time learning. I speak broken and very basic german.



You speak same as my wife. her main is Cebuano,Tagalog. She speaks some portaguess,chinese..

take care

it is a offical language of the Philippines. Since from Mexico, it should be pretty easy for you cause it is a lot of spanish infulance

yogi

Primary language is Italian, then I speak English, French and German(haven't practised this one in a long time so it is slowly fading away unfortunately). I would love to learn Japanese, Portuguese or Danish.

OTHER=Arabic

I speak English primarily and also Portuguese (although I'm not that great)... what does "speak" a language mean? When I speak Portuguese it's very obvious I'm foreign, but it works for understanding. I used to speak French and lived awhile in Paris but that was a long time ago... I studied Spanish, Italian, Hindi, and Hebrew too, but I wouldn't say I "know" them.

I want to learn Greek because my family comes from there and my dad grew up there and I'd like to visit more. I'd also like to become fluent in Spanish because I think it's pretty necessary these days. And Italian because... it's hot.

I speak English (first language) and Italian.

I would like to learn Albanian (at least some) so I could converse with my fiance's family. Of the languages on the list, I would like to learn German or Russian.