languages you speak

[Chosen Enemy]

How many languages do you speak and which? (you can also add the level)

 

[Appelsapientje]

I speak Dutch, which is my native language. I also speak English, and I think I do that quite well, but I still make grammar mistakes sometimes. I can read German and I can also speak it a bit. I had French in school for three years, but I'm not really good at that language.

 

[Seeing Red]

I speak English, and basic Latin. I should be able to speak basic Spanish but alas I cannot.

 

[nightshade]

English, basic French and basic Spanish, I used to speak better Spanish but I've forgotten it.

 

[PassionBecoming]

English, German (used to be fluent, but have fallen out of speaking it so it's pretty rocky now!), and random Slovenian phrases and words.

 

[Professor Walsh]

Norwegian is my native language, I'm nearly fluent in English and can get by in German if it is unavoidable. (And I can speak with Swedes and Danes as our languages are closely related.)

 

[VisionGirl]

Native language is English, I can speak basic Spanish & French (used to be more proficient in French, took 6 years of it and almost majored in college, but that was a long time ago!). I can understand some Italian (my parents are Italian). I know some ASL (American Sign Language) & can attempt to converse, although very ineptly (still, an ASL user could probably get what I was trying to say- if all else fails I could spell it out). I have been exposed minimally to Chinese, Mongolian and Navajo, and can say hello in each of those languages, and remember maybe a couple of words.

 

[wickedtiger86]

Native English.

I used to be fairly advanced in French, but I've forgotten it all.

Though I was waitressing last year and had to keep a conversation with a table in French and I remembered enough to do that. They didn't speak a word of English.

 

[sisterofmercy]

Native English but I know a fair amount of Spanish, bits and pieces of Latin and German and like one sentence of Russian/Italian. I can count up to 10 in French as well, don't know if that counts 😛

 

[Washburne]

Swedish. English as long as it's in writing. I'm terrible with all kind of accents. Which also explain why I don't understand norwegian and danish nearly as well as people expect. I'm very ashamed of it but none the less true. People always say "It can't be that bad" which only makes me more ashamed because it really is that bad.

I guess I can a bit of german and spanish but nowhere near well enough to get by. A few words in french and polish and that's it.

 

[Kean]

I'm a native English speaker, working my way to fluent in Irish and have basic French.

 

[sosa lola]

Arabic, English and French. Haven't used French in years, so I'm not as fluent as I used to be.

 

[randiann]

Native English speaker here, not fluent in any other language. I can speak words in French (not much) and very very basic spanish, although I can usually get the gist of something in writing. I also speak some Choctaw and read it pretty well, although I'm nowhere near as fluent as I should be. I can pick out most languages if I hear them, but can't understand them.

 

[Achromatic Hue]

I speak wun-derr-full English and some Spanish.

My spanish is alright. I know a lot, but I'm slow to respond.

 

[prophecygrrl]

English and Mandarin. I don't speak Chinese as often as I used to cause when I was younger my parents would make me go to Chinese school on the weekends and speak Chinese at home. I'm still fluent in it but the words don't come as easily now. I also can't read or write it except for a few words now. I also know high school level French. 😀

 

[AlyInWonderland]

I am a native English speaker and a pretty decent Spanish speaker. I can understand spanish a lot better than I can speak it though.

 

[Old Master 3.0]

As a Puerto Rican, my first language learned was Spanish (all-Spanish speaking household), and I am quite fluent both written and spoken. 'Tis the language of amorrrrrrr, and azucar! 😀😛
I learned English from school and TV. I can also speak and understand a tiny bit of Japanese. (Learned freshman year of high-school before those cossacks switched me to French. Ugh! And also through watching lots of Anime.)

 

[BuffyThoughts]

Native English, studied Spanish, French and Mandarin Chinese. I can still read French and Spanish, but can't speak them very well. My Chinese used to be pretty good, but I'm out of practice. I can still read it all right. I actually worked as a Chinese-English translator for four years. If you're interested, I usually understand about half the Chinese spoken on Firefly. The pronunciation is abominable.

 

[arabella]

Native English speaker. I am pretty good with Spanish. I speak a tiny bit of Romanian...and that's it.

 

[woogirl]

Native Polish speaker. 😀 😀 I speak English. I learn German at school but really I don't like it. I want to learn Russian because I like this language. It's a little similar to Polish but cyrylic writing makes me headache.