What languages do you speak?

[Linguofreak]

Native: English

Reasonably fluent: Deutsch

Some classroom instruction, but not much fluency: Nihongo, Español, Latina, Русски, Francais

Some independent dabbling: Old English, Middle English, Gothic, Old Norse, Nederlands, Gaidhlig, Cymraeg, and others.

 

[Belisarius]

Native: English

Fluent approaching bilingual: Español

Pretty good but not really fluent: Català, Italiano, Portugués, Occità, Français

Learning all the time and nearly good: Nihongo*

Really basic but tokenistically there: Deutsch, Erse (or Gailidgh)

*only in Romanji, my needs are conversational and I can't be bothered with Katakana or Hirigana for now. And I'll save Kanji for my next life.

 

[liber]

Nativ Croatian...English little.

 

[Artlav]

Native: Русский

Fluently: English with interpreter diploma

Basic structure and common expressions: Chinese, Japanese, French, Esperanto.

 

[unussapiens]

Native: English

Learning, approaching good, mainly lacking vocab: Deutsch

Vague memories of learning years ago: Japanese, Chinese

 

[Belisarius]

Artlav, you must get lonely looking for Esperanto speakers to chat with.

 

[astrosammy]

Deutsch (Native), English, a few words of Français and Norsk

 

[Jarvitä]

Native: Српски
Near-perfectly fluent: Русский, Hrvatski, Slovenščina, English
Capable of understanding when put in context, basic conversation: Deutsch
Very basic understanding, unable to hold a proper conversation: Polski, Čeština, Slovenčina, Francais

 

[bujin]

Native: English
Can understand and hold very basic conversations in Welsh.
Started learning: German, Italian and Japanese (but didn't get very far with them)

 

[cjp]

H:hear
S:speak
R:read
W:write

English, Nederlands: HSRW >95%
Deutsch: HR about 80%, SW about 40%
Français: R about 50%, H about 20%, SW maybe 10%
Nihongo: HSRW < 5%

For the rest, I've had no formal training, so I'd have to derive any skill from what I know of other languages, and of 'accidental' knowledge (e.g. I know some Russian words because I'm interested in spaceflight, and some Latin, Greek and Hebrew words).

And of course: Qbasic, ZX81 BASIC, Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, Matlab, Labview, Maple, PHP, Brainf*ck, Z80 assembly, & so on

 

[simonpro]

Fluent: Swedish, Danish, English.
Good: Norwegian, Russian.
Okay: French, Swahili, Arabic.
Basic: Dutch, German.
Very basic: Spanish.

 

[Urwumpe]

Fluent: German, English
Bad: French
Insulting bad: Russian, Spanish.

 

[unussapiens]

What is nihongo? A few people have mentioned it but I've never heard of it.

 

[Jarvitä]

What is nihongo? A few people have mentioned it but I've never heard of it.

Japanese.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Native: English
Going to learn in my next three years of highschool: Español

I should already know Spanish since much of my family speaks it natively and continues to speak it all the time... but I don't. (not to mention that to get a good job in this area you should be bilingual)

 

[GregBurch]

Native: English
Fluent: Texan
Conversational: Chinese (Mandarin) (with pockets of higher vocabulary in petrochemicals and basic business terms)
Basic: Spanish
Background/Basic: Latin

 

[fort]

Native: French.
Others: none. Some concepts of English.

 

[RisingFury]

Native: Slovenian
Fluent: English
Basic: German

 

[thomasantony]

Native : Malayalam (No, it doesn't have anything to do with Malaysia )
Almost like native : English
Can speak and write if necessary: Hindi

 

[n72.75]

Native language: english
some latan but not well