How many languages can you speak?

[giacomini]

Brazilian Portuguese is my mother tongue, so I can get around in Portugal as well, but as soon as some regional words come in the conversation I can get lost pretty quickly...

I used to be fluent in English (American English) but it's been a long time since I actually had a converstion in English. I practice it nowadays on the internet and I read some books in English.

My Spanish and Italian are rather poor; I understand a lot more of those languages than I can actually speak, heck, I can even read a book in Spanish and understand 90% of it, but don't ask me about the weather in Spanish, I'll undestand you but I won't be able to carry that conversation...

I tried to learn German and Russian, but all that I actually remember are low numbers and color names.

 

[slobake]

Slobake:- can you give me an example of " Evil Minion"?

BEE DO BEE DO BEE DO! = Fire!
Poopaye! = Goodbye!
Bello! = Hello!
Me want Banana! = I'm hungry!

 

[sowilson]

English as my mother tounge.
I'm also reasonably fluent in Thai and Lao.
I can sing songs in Gaelic (would be lost in the Gaeltalk areas of Ireland though).

 

[RDUB]

I can cope in French, and I can swear in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Russian, thanks to working construction in Canada as a youth.

 

[Clark Dark]

My wife speaks fluently in German, French, Luganda, Swahili, and English. Over the years I've learned some phrases that put a smile on her face.

 

[iliachulsky]

I speak hebrew, english and russian

I tried teaching myself spanish a few months back but as of now I'm too lazy to pursue it

 

[subdude67]

I am fluent in german,italian, french, englsh and swahili and get by in portugese and spanish. i have always had trouble writing french though...
languages were a great asset in my job as a diving instructor.

 

[kserg]

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[kserg]

I speak hebrew, english and russian

I tried teaching myself spanish a few months back but as of now I'm too lazy to pursue it

uh fella ruskie jew eh? How times have changed, i remember when i was the lonely commie on this forum.

I really need to learn Hebrew, it's becoming awkward when i hang out with family and they switch over to Hebrew.

 

[SGT. BAKER]

I'm guessing our friends from Europe and countries other than the U.S. are going to speak multiple languages more often. Is that a myth?

Well. I must say that in Europe more everytime is common speaking the country native language where one is from and English. By the time English is the main languaje in Europe, though there´s people than only speak his native language.

I´m from Spain, so it means that Spanish is my native language. But it happens that in my country there´s another languages like for instance Catalan that we can use to study, working, friends, televison, magazines,... But it seems that certain spanish goverments doesn´t like too much this kind of languages. So they try puting limits to this another languages. It´s a pitty but it´s true.

When I went to school I learned French, so I can speak it and talk it just a few. But I find more interesting English. In my job I can get the chance to practice a bit of English, so I go for it. I must say that English isn´t my native language, and so it explains my poor grammar. Sometimes I had several troubles to understand what some folks are saying in the theads and post. But I keep on try.

 

[lowfreq33]

English is my primary language. I also took two years of Spanish in high school. But I learned WAAAY more Spanish in two years of working alongside a couple of Mexican guys in a restaurant kitchen. Two brothers, one spoke enough English to get by, the other spoke none at all. So we taught each other. After a few months we could have a conversation in either language. They never let on to anyone else that they could understand them though. Easier to get out of unpleasant tasks that way. I'd often "pretend" to translate for managers.

 

[sissy kathy]

I speak most of English; enough of German, French and Italian to get slapped, and as much Tegri as it takes to get arrested. Well I USED to anyway.

 

[bassestkkm]

English and Bengali I can speak fluently. But my Spanish has become rather rusty in recent years

 

[Clark Dark]

Hey subdude67, my wife used to play in the 7's and 15's in your country, with the Ugandan Thunderbirds...bambi

 

[subdude67]

Hey subdude67, my wife used to play in the 7's and 15's in your country, with the Ugandan Thunderbirds...bambi

hi Clark Dark,

it's a small world....
in nairobi or on the coast?

 

[Clark Dark]

a few places, Kisumu, Eldoret, and Nairobi.

 

[MrLenny1]

Two.
English (American)
French (Canadian)

 

[Hoochie Coochie Man]

Five. Four of them are Yiddish.