Languages

[Narvius]

I was curious:
What languages do you speak?

I speak german and polish fluently (bilingual family), english (rather) good and I'm learning russian (seems kinda weird at the first glance, but it's actually an awesome language. It's probably easier for me because I speak polish).

[Donald Jonker]

In order of lessening proficiency: English, French, Japanese, Chinese

[pndrev]

German (native), English (fluent), some rusty French, translate Latin and hence take good guesses at Italian / Spanish.

[zaimoni]

I was curious:
What languages do you speak?

I speak german and polish fluently (bilingual family), english (rather) good and I'm learning russian (seems kinda weird at the first glance, but it's actually an awesome language. It's probably easier for me because I speak polish).

Speak: English (native), French (badly, heavy accent)

Read: English (fluent), French (well enough to cope with legalese, science, and news). I'll try anything else if I have an English translation in parallel (why not learn by osmosis?)

[ehuangsan]

English (native), Japanese (maybe jr. high level), Mandarin (elementary school level, can speak but can't read), German (like a tourist) and I was learning Czech, but I think I'm gonna give up because it's relatively useless.

Currently I'm working on improving my Japanese and German to fluency.

[bonzo]

English.

How's that for a boring answer?

[Nick]

English (native), French and German (rusty and not fluent), Latin and a little Russian (book learnt). Not much chance to practice in Australia, sadly.

[buzzkill]

English, of course, and enough spanish to order take-out.

[pav]

What do you mean, useless?

'kay my native is Czech, and I can get around with English to some extent.

[Djabanete]

English, Portuguese

I can read a bit of Dutch and used to be able to have basic conversations.

I can read Latin with some proficiency but haven't done so for a while, so I'm really rusty.

[Seany C]

Hmm: mother tongue English, near-fluent Yorkshire dialect, high-school level French and Irish, a few dozen words in Hebrew and "coffee please, I'm dying here" in half a dozen other European languages...

[Inquisitivephysicsguy]

English is my native language. I speak German almost fluently. I speak far less French, and very little Japanese. A few small phrases in Nepalese. Only a couple of words in Mandarin Chinese. Greek (ancient, I think) is phonetic so it's easy to read, unlike English... theta for instance makes a "th" sound and everything else in the alphabet is obvious too. (I don't actually understand Greek though). And I speak enough Spanish to take someone's order at Burger King.

[Antoine]

I was curious:
What languages do you speak?

I speak german and polish fluently (bilingual family), english (rather) good and I'm learning russian (seems kinda weird at the first glance, but it's actually an awesome language. It's probably easier for me because I speak polish).

English.

Plus a very little German from high school.

A.

[Arphod]

[QUOTE=Narvius;11251]I was curious:
What languages do you speak?

English (native), Spanish (Mexican variety, enough to get beat up), French (textbook with good accent), and Latin (can read well).

[rdermyer]

English and whatever German my high school teacher and 2 visits to Germany a couple of years back managed to teach me: not very much - definitely not enough - but probably more than I think.