I was just curious about the languages everyone can speak... like your native language and then any others you know? I'll start :pink:

- French
- English

That's all i speak! :pink:

I can speak two dialects of Chinese and, of course, English.

I learned Cantonese first but English is my native tongue now. I am currently taking Mandarin classes at Uni.



*Tries to remember all the dirty French phrases he was taught.*

:lol: there are many, i got quoted them alot when i moved x.x Though English has many dirty terms!

Frisian, Dutch and English. Frisian is my native language, Dutch is my second native language, and English is the extra language I know. I can understand a bit of German (if they speak slowly lol) but I can't speak it. And I can sometimes figure out languages who look a bit like Frisian/Dutch, but again, can't speak them.

Edit: And I can figure out Afrikaans when I'm reading it. It's a lot like Dutch, but there are also a lot of other words, or differently spelled/pronounced as Dutch.

I was thinking for learning Spanish or German... everyone here speaks either French/English, and learnt French as their second language, so i already knew it, and took English class's. Learning Spanish//Germans would be cool!

I've lived in the same area in midwest USA my entire life, so English is really the only language I feel confident speaking. We don't learn a foreign language as children here either, so I didn't start learning Spanish until a few years ago and it's a lot harder to learn a second language if you start late. I struggled with it a lot. I can learn the vocab fine and can make some sense out of most things when I'm reading Spanish, but I'm definitely nowhere near fluent.

English.

And I took two years of Spanish... didn't retain much but I can read it if I'm patient, and if you talk reeeaaalllyyyy slow, I can understand it. ;-]

Irish, German, Some French and English obviously. :)

I speak English and Spanish, and I'm learning Dutch! ^_^

Portuguese is my native language, I can speak English since I was 9. I can understand Spanish and slowly-spoken Italian (which means I can't understand very well since italians speak really fast).

I'll start German/French/Italian (one of the three) next semester, and probably will start to learn Latin, Arabic or Chinese sometime within the next 4 years depending on what part of history I'll specialize.

:sweat: i achually base most of my characters on myself, since i join English sites, it means i tend too have trouble with a lot of English words "slang" :p I have a thing for typing random French words... which i noticed bugs a few people, so I've learnt to stop it and delete them :innocent:

Phew...let's list 'em all down...

Hindhi - National Language of India (fluent)

Sindhi - Native Language of the Sindh's. (fluent)

English - Self-explanatory (fluent)

Dutch - 2nd Native Language (fluent)

Papiamentu - 1st Native Language (fluent)

German - Extra Language Learned (near-fluent)

Spanish - Extra Language Learned (fluent)

Japanese - Extra Language Learned (near-fluent)

Arabic - 2nd Native Language (fluent)

Isn't Papiamentu a rarely spoken language? Wow thats cool! I'm not sure... but doesn't it have some aspects of French in it? I'd love to start a French RP, but no body speaks French, and since i live in England i have no idea about french RP'ing... :sweat: [/Offtopic]

Sadly only English and Spanish for me. I know a few random and offensive French phrases thanks to my last living grandfather. My Grandfather liked to travel and they lived in Spain for a number of years and so my mother was born there and grew up with both Spanish and English. Its really annoying when my grandfather talks beacuse he will be talking and then all of a sudden there will be some Spanish or French or Portuguese or he will switch it up and its like :angry: I ONLY SPEAK TWO OF THOSE, STOP IT.

English!
German
Norwegian (beginner) thanks to my mister.
Small amount of Japanese thanks to one of my best pallies.

Why are you learning dutch Loth?

Yeah, I heard this from my Cuban friend. I guess it's true... I always thought Spanish speakers just spoke slowly. Of course, I'm from NYC, so I think I speak quickly in every language!


-Italian (my family's Italian)
-French (fluent)
-Latin (reading fluent)
-German (intermediate)
-Russian (took it for a year... stopped... should pick it up again)

I can understand Spanish fine... Portuguese, for some reason, is beyond me.

My native language is English, and I took French from grade 4 'til grade 12, as it's pretty much a requirement to take a few years of it in Canada. I can read it quite well, I think, but my accent est terrible, et je ne comprends pas bien quand les autres parlent.

English.

But I have studied Spanish, German and Japanese. Not nearly enough to call myself fluent, though.

English is my first language, and I can get by with Spanish as long as its being spoken to me and not written. I also know a bit of a Japanese though I'm better at reading it than speaking since that is what I started learning first.

My first language is English, but I can speak Spanish and a little bit of Mandarin Chinese. I also studied French for a little bit, but honestly I don't remember any of it.

Ne vous inquietez pas a son sujet, a condition que vous gardiez a lui ! :rice:

My boyfriend is Dutch, and I plan on moving to The Netherlands after I graduate from college. :lol: It'd be nice to be able to speak with his mother for once. :|

Though I'm Cuban born, I was raised in the States since I was 2. So...I learned English and Spanish simultaneously. I'm learning Japanese -- reading it, writing it, speaking it. Though I am no where near fluent! I'm not sure if I can say I "speak" American Sign Language...so I'll just say I'm fluent in American Sign Language. =]

I'd like to learn sign language :pink: and i'd also like to learn Japanese.. would make non dubbed anime easier to understand... :p

I speak Italian. :lol: Which does mean I can understand speed of light speaking Italians and am a bit guilty of doing it myself.

I am taking Latin in school and took some French too.

I'm only fluent in english (since I live in midwest usa) but I know some sign language because my cousin's deaf. And my best friend and I taught ourselves sindarian (an elvish language from lord of the rings) though I'm forgetting it because we don't use it anymore. Oh, some spanish and a few small phrases in french thanks to Anita Blake and my french english dictionary. I want to learn french and latin fluently though....

English is my first language.

I took two years of French and five of German, and I can speak a little Serbian too.

Plus the more common curses in Italian and Russian.

Native English-speaker, here. :p I took French in high school, though, so I can at least read some words/phrases in that language. I took Spanish in college, but unfortunately, I didn't retain anything beyond "No hablo Espanol." :p

I suck.

But I'm okay with that. lol!

That's as far as my Spanish knowledge goes ^_^ I'd love to learn Latin x.x or perhaps Japanese... *walks of mumbling*

- English (native)
- Spanish (intermediate)
- Japanese (beginning)
- Korean (studying abroad next year - will reach intermediate atleast)

I'm not fluent in anything besides English, but I took two years of French, have a fairly good Latin vocabulary (blame Biology), and some Italian (from music), and I'm currently studying Japanese. But I love languages in general. And I have a current fetish for Celtic languages.

Japanese is supposedly the hardest language for a native English speaker to learn, but it's really not that hard, IMO. I would think one of the Chinese dialects with their tonal thing would make it harder. But that's me. I can write/read hirigana and katakana, at least.

English (native)
French (intermediate)
Latin (self-teaching - beginning)

Yeah, and I'm taking Spanish next year (probably for the next three years) as well as probably gonna take Sign Language at some point...

The languages I speak aren't that much. :(

• English [I may be a Chinese, but English is my first language]
• Chinese [A few dialects; Hokkien, Mandarin and Cantonese]
• Bahasa Melayu [Malaysia's national language]
• Korean [At an intermediate level]
• Japanese [At a really beginner level]

I'm gonna start taking French and Spanish classes real soon! (Hey, I really want to communicate with Gaspard Ulliel, LOL!)

English
French
Vietnamese

my mother language is swedish, but i speak english fluently too. i also study german, but yer, i'm only an intermediate at that area. i hate my german classes in school, so go figure.

I'd like to learn Japanese :pink: Oh and an update!!

I'm studying Greek x.x

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i see a fellow malaysian here :D

well. mine would be:

- bahasa melayu (i can use a few dialects with that, especially Sarawakian Malay and the market malay :D )
- english (first language)
- iban ( second language. kinda like mother tongue?)
- chinese (mandarin, cantonese, hokkien - arranged to ascending horrible-ness )
- korean (beginner)
- japanese (beginner...)

My dad taught me the Ancient Greek alphabet in fourth grade, then nothing more. ^_^

Well since I come from the cradle of English (England - duh) that's my native language. I can also speak fluent French and intermediate Russian since one of my absolute best friends is Ukrainian, so over the years she's taught me. That's....it...

Oh, and I can speak some Latin from my sister who's doing it as one of her courses at uni (suicidal sister, but anyway)