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What Languages do you speak?

English and Russian fluently. I used to be able to speak French fluently, Spanish I could hold a conversation but I've been out of practice for some time and have forgotten most of it. I also used to be able to speak Hebrew (went to a Jewish school where I was taught Hebrew), and Arabic (lived in Libya where we were taught some Arabic, plus it was the only way to converse with some of my neighbours since they didn't have an english language course in their school). In all those cases I pretty much stopped speaking the language since I no longer had a necessity for it.

Oh and I can count to 10 in Korean :D My pronunciation is pretty bad though.
 
Parked your lory outside the chemist so that you can fill your boot with tablets? Don't forget to queue for the lift and pack a torch.

TRANSLATION: Parked you truck outside the drugstore so that you can fill your trunk with pills? Don't forget to line up for the elevator and pack a flashlight. :D

As for languages....English, French and some words in Arabic.

:D Yup, pretty much!
 
Texanese.

Okay. English and Spanish (Although apparently both poorly)

Enough to get myself in trouble? German, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic...That's in descending order. Maybe others. I'll think about it. Some of those I can only remember a dozen words or so now. And my accent is probably pretty awful in what I CAN remember.

I know enough Arabic, Italian, and Spanish to insult people and get my *** kicked though.

Maybe I should have phrased it that way.
 
I speak Scandinavian (not a language, but the differences of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are only a bit bigger than the ones of British, Scottish and Irish accents), English (obviously) and some French. I can also understand simple German, but no more than simple :(

And if you know a few words and memorize a couple sentences, it does not count to acctually speaking the language.