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How many languages can you speak?

#23
kesslari said:
I'm with you on both.
I'm conversant but not fluent in Hebrew. I can and do sing in Arabic, Turkish, and Ladino. And I can speak a few words of another dozen or so languages - enough to say "hello", "thank you", "I'm hungry", "where is...." and "you are beautiful" (though the latter is mostly in languages I learned when I was younger and single).
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I've never heard of Ladino before. Where is that spoken?
 
#24
I'm from NY, so I speak our version of English ;)
I'm fluent in Greek.
I speak Spanish ok (4 years of H.S.). Enough to get me in trouble, at least.

I speak a tiny bit of Japanese. Mostly what I know through teaching martial arts all these years, and also
some phrases and such.
 
#28
Gaolee said:
I'm usually comprehensible in American. English? Not so much. Once upon a time, I learned Latin, then German, then Norwegian. Those are all mostly gone now. I learned to cuss a little in Arabic from guys I worked with in New York. They thought it was hilarious. I don't know exactly what they taught me to say, but I'm probably going to spend a couple eons in purgatory for it, whatever it was. I could cuss a bit in Spanish for the same reason. After a while, I could read the signs in the subway when they were in Spanish, and I'm slowly picking up Spanish again that way as more of the signs around Seattle have Spanish as well as English. I like it.
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I always thought you knew some Mandarin, your screen name can mean Tall Lee (Li3) in Chinese. Gao meaning tall and Lee the English version of Li which is the most popular surname in China.
 
#30
English is my primary language. I'm, at best, conversational with Spanish, but I can also read it well enough to get a general idea of what's going on in a newspaper. I have recently begun to teach myself German. I have a better ear for it than Spanish, but my German vocabulary is much smaller.
 
#33
Besides English, I have pretty good spoken German. Or I did, it's been years since I used it. I can read but not speak dead languages - Latin mainly, a little Greek and Old English. I've dabbled in way too many other languages but never kept them up - French, Russian, and Georgian. Couldn't do much more than say, "Hi, how are you" in those now, and heaven help me if someone answers back.
 
#34
Wasn't there a thread like this a couple of months ago...?
German - first language
English - very advanced I'd say.
Dutch - can't really speak it anymore, but understand almost everything when reading or listening.
Latin - Had to do Latin at university a few semesters ago. Cicero vexat adhuc me. Unfortunately, the already mentioned Roman centuriones are very hard to come by these days.
Did three years of French in school, was rather hopeless, no talent for French here.
 
#36
Spanish, (native language), English not as fluent as I'd like but I'm getting there; also some Russian, I can read newspapers and tv news and understand 100% sometimes, others only a rough idea. Some people say Russian is pretty hard to learn, but I've found that grammatically is a lot like Spanish. Russians I have met learned Spanish fast.
Greetings from Texas y'all :D
 
#39
Native language is french but my written english is probably better than my written french nowadays. Since about 1999 my most frequently used language to write is english. I'd say 95% of the times i wrote anything in those past 15 years, it's been in english. I spoke nothing but french for about 22 years and then in the 14 years since my 22nd year its probably been 60% english and 40% french. I find it hard to speak french without using english words. I hate people who do that too....
 
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