What languages do you speak?

[Eccentrus]

Native: Indonesian Creole mixed with Javanese and Hokkien Minnan Chinese
Vernacular: English (written&spoken)
ear-damaging: Formal Indonesian (due to the fact that it's a lingua franca)
very similar to noises made by creatures of hell: Mandarin Chinese (#$#$! learnt it for a month and then burnt all the books, pinyin is the single most hated thing in the world that I currently have), Deutsch (cases? what cases?)

Currently Learning: Cicero era's latin (not church latin, mind you), and Japanese

I'm planning, in the future, to add up at least 4 more vernaculars in my list of languages for the next 10 years: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Deutsch, and Français, and since I'm effectively an English native by literature, I think I would write my thesis in said language, as of this day, I still can't properly write in formal Indonesian (every time I write a letter to the faculty, they tell me to rewrite it for five+ times, mostly because of the wording problem)

 

[rseferino]

Native: Español.
Passable: English (I hope).

 

[Krikkit]

Native English

Learned Spanish in grade school, forgot all but basics

Learned French in high school, forgot all of it

Learned German in university, know enough to be able to watch Inglorious Bastards with no subtitles but can't really understand native speakers too well.

Currently teaching myself Czech in anticipation for my 2012 trip.


See the thing about the US is, I would have to drive 2,000 miles to wind up in a place where nearly everyone didn't speak English. I keep learning all these languages but never get to practice speaking them and they just fall right out of my head again.

 

[indonesianorbinaut]

well if this thread maker come in :uhh: i will :leaving:

 

[Wishbone]

Human ones. I have not yet tried to make Martians understand me.

 

[Loru]

native: Polski (Polish)
fluent (i hope): English
basic understanding of Russian
few words & phrases in Spanish and German

 

[ky]

Native:English
Other Language: (Not really a language but a dialect)Jamaican Creole or Patois(Understandable if you listen closely to it.)

I think im the only Jamaican here on the forum.

 

[Fabri91]

Native: Italian, German
Somewhat good English, or at least I hope
Can understand some French, Spanish, or Portoguese if spoken very slowly or as a text, but ONLY because of similarities to Italian.

 

[Moach]

Native: Portuguese (br)

Fluent: English (possibly better than my portuguese :lol

can read/listen but fumble when talking: Spanish

can sometimes make limited sense of: Italian, French

trying hard to learn: Math

unsuccessful whenever attempted: British accent (i always end up sounding irish)

know two, maybe three words of: Dutch, Japanese

can get paid for knowing: C/C++, ActionScript3, HaXe, Javascript, some others...

amaze/annoy others by demonstrating while drunk: Binary


great thread!

 

[Stevodoran]

Native: English

And eh somewhat Irish

 

[Mission_CDR]

Native: English
75% German (I'm 16 and can read books 12+ years, [12 / 16 = .75])

 

[fsci123]

Native: English
Learned: Russian(As i am half Russian)
Partially Learned: Spanish
I Can Read: Dutch

 

[Izack]

Natively English.
Once upon a time I was fluent in French but nowadays I can only listen to it, not speak it. It's improving lately from use, though.
A tiny bit of German, not enough to speak or listen, but can sort of understand DLR articles.
Planning on learning Russian some day.

 

[dgatsoulis]

Native:Greek
Fluent in English.

In high school, all Greeks are taught ancient Greek, but most of us forget it after a couple of years. (Because, with the exception of a few phrases, we never use it.)
I kept my interest in ancient Greek, because i was always interested in the etymology of modern words and how they are derived.
I can claim that i'm fluent in ancient Greek, but in fact, that would be a lie. I can read and write it, but in terms of spoken language, i have no sample to compare to.

 

[Linguofreak]

Wow... I'd totally forgotten that I started this thread...

 

[GoForPDI]

I Speak English, I can read and understand spoken French, and I hope to try and learn some Gàidhlig (Scots Gaelic) over the summer. I know a few things in Czech too.

 

[Sar]

Fluent in Finnish (native) and English (bilingual, according to some people since I tend to switch the language I think with)

Some swedish, should really learn more.

(Actually I'm not sure my native language is officially finnish anymore because of a whoopsie daisy I kinda sorta made in a goverment website.... I believe my native language is officially bible hebrew or some other nice and dead language. I probably should check that out some day.)

 

[diogom]

I know what you mean. :lol: Heck, if I didn't go to school during the day, and didn't talk to my friends on MSN, I think I would no longer speak Portuguese, thanks to OF! I actually find myself thinking involuntarily in English, about 70% of the times.

 

[Eli13]

Native English
Learning spanish (through instruction) and swedish (through my dad who spent two years there and speaks it fluently and rosetta stone)

 

[Iberville]

Native: French
Learned at school when I was younger: English!
As a Canadian citizen I believe it's not that bad