Conquer Club

i know 4 languages including english, other 2 are spanish (european dialect) and russian and slang lol, (cockney rhyming slang, noobish, and some words that are found in mainly carribean slang)

America isn't too good with languages. I tried learning Latin in high school but I couldn't wrap my head around it.

dont worry i live in a place where there are loads of different ethnic backrounds, just to name a few Albanians and kosovars, somalis, bengalis, algerians, morrocans, afghans, russians, mongolians and alot more

i think if u live in a multi cultural backround or place u tend to know alot of languages

define speaking a language?

look it up in the dictionary son

I speak english, dutch and german, can read French (and sorta speak/butcher it) and (old) Greek & Latin.

I know 0.65 languages.

I speak three languages at native level fluency and I can get by & make myself understood in another two.

Oh, and there's slang too, but that doesn't really count.

are you talking fluently or just ennought to get through?

I speak English and French, can read Latin, and know a very small amount in Hebrew, Ancient Greek, and Japanese.

So I voted two, since I only really "speak" English and French.

i speak english, am somewhat fluent in spanish, and can get a basic meaning out of reading latin/french/portuguese/italian

I can speak english and garble french and german.

(though i'm having a little try at learning Anglo Saxon)

I speak the binary language of water vaporators

heavycola wrote:I speak the binary language of water vaporators

my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to moisture vaporators in most respects

Main language is Dutch, and I speak English (or so I like to think ) and can make myself understandable in German... gave up bloody French

I am English, the language of Shakespeare, thus all other languages are a joke.

In order of fluency,

English. I have a pretty much perfect grasp of all aspects of English, its grammar, vocabulary, and history.

Spanish. I have a native-level fluency in Spanish, but because I've lived the majority of my life in the US, where most people don't speak Spanish and most that do speak Mexi-hick, it has its limits. All the time, I'll say some weird word in English (like the other day, brad, you know, like little metal binders or nails), and wonder, "How in the world would I say that in Spanish??". Most very specialized vocabulary is beyond me. I have a totally neutral accent, probably in large part garnered from Univision which trains its actors and newscasters in language-neutralizing schools so they don't seem to have any particular nationality. When I meet people and only speak Spanish with them, they tend to think I'm Venezuelan.

Portuguese. I've only spoken Portuguese for about 5 years. Speaking Spanish, it was very easy to pick up. I was in a "Portuguese for Spanish Speakers" intensive course and became fully conversational in about 4 or 5 weeks. I would say I am currently high-advanced level. When speaking with Brazilians, at least, I understand everything that is not slang, but I speak somewhat stiltedly and use Spanish words when I get stumped, creating the very common Portunhol (Spanish/Portuguese).

French. It's not good. At my old job, where I worked with lots of tourists, I could use French to tell people how to get to different places in the building, but badly. I've never actually taken a French class, though! Kinda. When I was a little kid, my mom bought me a used high school French book at a garage sale, and I loved to look at the pictures of beautiful French people and try to understand their captions. When I got to college, I took a French placement test and tested into 2nd year, but I only went to one class, found it too challenging, and withdrew. Because my French is so bad, I only answered "3" in the poll.

Spockers wrote:

heavycola wrote:I speak the binary language of water vaporators

my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to moisture vaporators in most respects

Woo! I for one applaud the shoehorning of star wars geekery into this forum. It doesn't happen enough. I would high five you but i'm pretending to be an R2 unit now and i don't have any hands.

:burbles happily in a series of bleeps and trundles off to do more shoehorning:

heavycola wrote:

Spockers wrote:

heavycola wrote:I speak the binary language of water vaporators

my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to moisture vaporators in most respects

Woo! I for one applaud the shoehorning of star wars geekery into this forum. It doesn't happen enough. I would high five you but i'm pretending to be an R2 unit now and i don't have any hands.

:burbles happily in a series of bleeps and trundles off to do more shoehorning:

lol... why did he stimulate this I tried so hard to ignore it

English, Spanish, and Tagalog

Klingon.

I speak three languages fluently (english, german swedish), might as well be called fluent in an other two because they're so close to one I speak fluently (norwegian and danish) and I can read latin, although a dictionary helps. I guess that adds up to about 5.23

My native language is english and I can speek Latin. Not that that would ever come handy in a conversation.

I can speak and write Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian (very similar ), English.
I can understand and use German, Latin, Macedonian, Slovenian and some Turkish.
I can read Cyrillic, Greek, some Arab and some Hieroglyphics (like pharaohs names).

My God, I'm a polyglot.

fluently - spanish, english, and ghetto/hood(cus im cool like that)

i can make out some italian.
and i can read latin and german