What languages do you speak?

[L_n_O 3]

English!!

[pedroh 21]

Me and Ole' Lady - English & Español & Broken French.. I also speak Orcish (KEK!) and Thalassian..

[bgreed 0]

Me American English and been busting my butt for two years to teach myself Russian just doesn't seem to stick. Smattering of Japanese from years of karate and Aikido training, some Spainish from having to communicate with Mexican laborers.

Lena Native Russian, some Ukrainian and 3+ on a scale of five for English

Jeffery keep plugging at that Russian Lena says it will come much faster once we're together.

[Jolie Melusine 0]

Anyway... since I started this thread, I'll go first!

People say it's not a new thread But I don't care

Honechka, or husband - American Enlish as he's a US citizen, + some German, + two Russian phrases - idi moy popu!, spokoynoy nochi!

His wife, the biggest happiness of his life, the sun in his window, so nice and lovely, or ME - Russian as I'm RF citizen, French as I had nothing to keep myself metaly busy after University and during pregnancy, English as I live in US now, + few words in German ( a kind of infection from husband

Our little princess - Russian as she spent first 7 years of her life in Russia and then - whose daughter is she?!, + now English of course

Edited October 17, 2007 by Jolie Melusine

[Y's_habibitk 2]

English

Enough spanish to survive in mexico for a day or two lol

very little arabic- but eagerly learning

My 4y.o can say many things in spanish and knows a few words in arabic now.

[Tunisia216 2]

English as first...

Arabic .. Mostly Tunisian, though working on the standard Arabic

Spanish, took 4 years in highschool and 2 semesters in college, use at work every day and it's pretty good

Learning French now, as it's the 2nd Language in Tunisia

My husband speaks.. Tunisian... standard Arabic... fluent excellent French... Fluent excellent English and some Italian hehe

Our kids are gonna be multilingual i think hehe

[russ 1]

ME - English, Russian, French, some Dutch

WIFE - English, Russian, German

My Dutch is horrible, my wife's German is horrible. Obviously her Russian is much better than mine, but we can both hold a conversation, read and write (with obviously more effort on my part).

I have given up on learning any other languages - improving the ones I already know is my goal now (and the same for my wife)

[SqdnGuns 21]

I can read Svenska, but can't speak it worth a damn.

Somewhat decent with Tagalog, was pretty good speaking it when I was living in the Phils.

Working on my Thai and Khmer now......

[jundp 191]

Me

English (native)

Spanish: I teach it, so good enough for that. I went to South America and learned not nearly as good as I thought Also, good enough to have conversations with my friends when I don't want my kids to understand (except son is taking Spanish now...dammit)

French: not so much anymore, but I still remember the skit I had to learn for 12th grade

German: am learning now

P

German (native)

English (completely fluent)

French (conversational)

My son (who is 16) puts me to shame: English (native), French (conversational), German (near fluency), and is learning Spanish now

[Scott & Lai 12]

Me:

English (native)

Spanish - basic. Took two years in high school, but lost a lot since then.

Greek - Koine and Classical. Three years in college, but have gotten rusty.

Cantonese - Spoken: very basic, enough to get into trouble Written: I can write my name and Lai's, recognize a few other characters.

Lai:

Cantonese (native)

English - 80%

Mandarin - conversational; she uses it at work, along with Cantonese and English.

Teochew - conversational. Lai's mother's native language.

Japanese - basic.

[StoryAngel 4]

Me

British English (native)

French (near fluent)

Dutch (fairly fluent but still have some holes in vocab)

Spanish (very basic, currently learning)

Arabic (trying to learn just for fun)

SO

American English (native)

Spanish (conversational)

French (trying to learn)

[Mel and Syl 0]

English, (learned it by watching movies and use to hang out with lots of american)

French, fluent but writing sucks after 20years of no writing (lived there)

German, almost native (lived in Austria and now in Germany)

Schwyzerdütsch (Swiss German) , lived in Switzerland but can't write it.

Italien, wont starve

Fon, (Benin W-Africa) native but also forgot the writing

Ewe, (Sth-Ghana) only speak

Mina, (Togo) lived there

Yoruba (Nigeria and also Benin) dont speak very well but understand almost everything

Igbo, (also called Ibo, Nigeria) understand more than i speak

[Imua 0]

I am a language geek and have studied at some point in my life, to varying degrees, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Latin, Modern Greek, Russian, Tibetan, Japanese, Nepali and Hawaiian.

Currently I would say my language knowledge is:

Fluent: English(USC), Hawaiian Creole English aka pidgin - you know da kine????

Near fluent: Italian(lived in Venice for 2 years), Venessian(Venice dialect)

Conversational but rusty: French, German, Spanish

Very basic: Nepali(but my hubby is helping me with that)

Smattering of words and phrases: Hawaiian(and related Polynesian languages like Samoan and Tahitian), Japanese, Tibetan

Can read alphabet only: Modern Greek, Russian

Hubby knows Nepali, English(conversational) and Hindi

If you are a language nerd like me I highly recommend the site phrasebase.com - it has message boards for every language you can imagine.

Edited November 28, 2007 by Pattu Rani

[MrsAmera 41]

Me: Fluent English

intermediate German but getting rusty by the day

French - enough for a few days

Moroccan Arabic: basic understanding coversational level

Spanish - took 6 years but eh....

Standard Arabic: basic

Czech: Basic

Husband: Fluent in Moroccan and Classical Arabic

French was fluent but has been forgetting

English - speaking and understanding fluently - reading and writing getting there

Berber Amazigh dialect: can understand

[GabachaYucateca 0]

Well, I feel inferior with all of these polygots here! It is important for me though to know what I know deeply and well, rather than know a smattering of phrases in various languages, if that makes sense.

Me: English (native); Spanish (near native fluency); and a bit of Yucatec Maya.

Hubby: Spanish (native); Maya (native); English (conversational and learning more every day); and Cape Verdean creole (seems to pick up more phrases in Creole than in English!)