What Languages do You Speak?

[captainsousie]

A recent push for foreign-language education in my state has gotten me to thinking? Of our little community, other than English which I'm pretty sure we all speak to some varying degree, what languages are represented here?
I'll start. Due to some study, I speak German to about the proficiency of 2 year-old and enough Spanish to survive a job where I was one of only 3 who spoke English. I do not have mastery of any language other than English (and some days that's suspect as well).

 

[petes03]

I do good to speak English! I took Spanish in college, but it always came out like some sort of redneck Spanglish. Although I haven't heard her speak it in several years, my wife was fluent in Spanish.

 

[juni]

Swedish, Finnish, English, German, Nonsense. :lol:

 

[jdto]

Englsh, of course. Spanish at home with the wife and kids (she's from Venezuela and our home language is about 75% Spanish. I am rusty now, but at one point I was also fluent in French and Italian, so I'm sure I could pick them back up pretty quickly. I only know enough German to get by at a resort in Mexico where I used to work.

 

[shaintiques]

English, Russian, and read Old Testament Hebrew and New Testament Greek. My Greek is better than my Hebrew however.

 

[pstlpkr]

To quote Korbin Dallas in The Fifth Element "Hey lady I only speak two languages... English and bad English"

And a bit of Spanish and German.... and I can count to ten in Japanese. (Does that count?) :D

 

[phil22]

I speak Southern English (proficiently), English, Italian and Spanish.

 

[rcstan]

Obviously English ..... Romanian ( my language ) ..... conversational French..... and I can get by in German and Spanish

 

[bigvan]

English, Mandarin, a little Japanese, 3 years of high school French, so not much of that at all.

 

[tbradsim1]

English, French, a little Spanish, a little Vietnamese forgot a lot of it was really Montagard Dialect.

 

[romeowood]

English, French, some Spanish, Hindi / Urdu (& Bumbaiya), smatterings of Punjabi, Bengali, Bihari, Gujarati, Korean, Russian, and Jive.

 

[lockdown199]

Bad English and Ebonics.

 

[smokeybear]

In the order of how well I speak it
English, Arabic, Hebrew
Good Morning, Sabbaah, Bokker Tov ( spelling is probably off on the Arabic and Hebrew but this thread is on speaking not writing lol)

 

[ghost]

English and Canadian French.

 

[pipebow88]

English, and Texan.

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[bigriggers01]

I don't know if we're going to count dialects but I use a lot of Cheshire dialect which is pretty much indeciferable to folks from other parts of Britain/the English speaking world :P

Besides that rather niche specialisation my French is pretty decent

 

[plateauguy]

English, but I paid for my daughter to speak, read & write: Spanish, and Russian (St Petersburg University). She also can understand, read street signs, and swear in German and Japanese.
I have been informed that learning to swear in a foreign language is necessary if you are negotiating a contract.

 

[jah76]

Spanish. But not proper Spanish.

 

[mso489]

Foreign language learning is an intellectual blind side for me. I struggled mightily to learn French in high school,

even auditing the highest level course after I had already taken it, and despite two visits to France in recent years.

I passed the test for college foreign language/French to take only one semester in college, in which I earned a C,

if I remember. I could never do even simple conversation. I could however read a novel in French in a night,

which was my reward for all the seeming useless work. My Dutch brother-in-law speaks Dutch, English, French,

German, Italian, Russian, and probably some Spanish, and likely a few other languages to some degree. The

Dutch grow up where they have immersion in European languages, but they also have motivation and an

intellectual rigor that we seem to lack in the U.S. A friend who grew up in Germany and taught in the U.S. consoles

me, saying that having writing skills in one language is enough. I'm just lucky it's English, which has some wider

currency in the world at large, and not something like Danish, a wonderful language I'm sure, but not widely spoken.

 

[foggymountain]

Some English, less Spanish and just a little French.