Any multilingual people?

[aesthetics]

Anyone here speak any languages other than English?

If so, what language. how/why did you learn that language, and how long have you been speaking it?

 

[Xcobra]

Spanish. Native. Fluently.

 

[Patt]

French, non-native, learned both at school and conversing with wife's family.

 

[lyssword]

Was speaking only Russian till 12. Speaking English for 10 years

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Korean- Learned it first, even though I was born in America. Fairly Fluent

Spanish- High School education

 

[lightstar]

French- high school/ college (really rusty)
Chinese- college (semi-fluent)

 

[dighn]

Chinese (Mandarin and a couple of dialects) - Born there, still speak it at home.

 

[Locut0s]

Chinese (Mandarin). My pronunciation is fluent but by grammar and vocab is sitting at like 10-20%. I could stumble along if I had to in China but it would be awkward. Strange thing is I would sound fluent while fumbling for the few words I could use have myself understood. I'm 1/2 Chinese 1/2 Caucasian, mother is Chinese, learned Chinese as a child in China and Malaysia talking to my parents and others. I was born in Canada but lived in China/Malaysia/Taiwan from the age of 2 to the age of 6.

 

[overst33r]

Serbo-Croatian- Born in Bosnia.

German- Moved to Switzerland before war in Bosnia.

English- Moved to US when residency expired in Switzerland.

 

[imported_nightfox]

Ukrainian/Russian. Was born in Ukraine which was part of USSR. Came to US and know know 3 languages.

 

[magomago]

Arabic (uhhh since I was born?) and Chinese (3 years now). I plan to pursue the latter

 

[2Xtreme21]

French, all but fluent. School for 12 years (outside instruction), continued every semester in college, lived in France for 6 months, Quebecois friends who I've visited a few times.

 

[aesthetics]

I've been speaking Spanish about 11 years now. People are often surprised, because I am pretty young, and I am very white. My pronunciation is exceptional; I took classes at elementary age.

 

[Dacalo]

Korean - read, write, and speak fluently
French - studied for 4 years, not very fluent

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Conversational Spanish (4 yrs.) and Japanese (1 yr).

 

[Cogman]

Spanish - can understand whats going on. Took it in highschool.

Liverpudlian - Can usually understand whats going on Lived on the Wirral

I'm American btw.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Russian - native. Fluent.

 

[Toonces]

French (almost Fluent) - Studied through Elementary and High School, did a three month exchange to Geneva. Vocab/Grammar is rusty but my conversational abilities are good.

Russian - A year in university, basically I've forgotten it all. I can sound out words when reading Cyrillic but have no idea what they mean.

Japanese - Living in Japan now, been absorbing the language for about 10 months. Never taken a formal lesson though so struggling to go beyond my 10-15% comprehension level; can get by teaching at my two schools where practically no one speaks English though

 

[RichardE]

French (Fluently with a native accent)
Italian (passably)
Spanish (passably)
English (Except on internet forums where spelling/grammar go to shit )

 

[Sqube]

French - learned it at the same as English, since my parents were Haitian immigrants. Still speak it when family comes around. Accent from Montreal (where a bunch of them live)

Creole - again, because of family. Not as well as French, but okay.

English - pretty fucking well, if I do say so myself. I love to read me a book.

 

[Shadow Conception]

Bengali and English

and Spanish III

 

[hypn0tik]

English, Hindi, and Telugu. English and Telugu are pretty much native. I can speak Hindi well, but nowhere close to fluent.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Spanish (6 years) and a bit of Hindi (parents were born/raised in India) although I don't ever really speak it or know how to read/write in it

At some point in life, I think I'd enjoy having time to study more languages...

 

[jagec]

Spanish, grew up in Ecuador, fluently.
French, high school correspondence course+1 month in Madagascar, basic

 

[dennilfloss]

My mother tongue is French (Québec City accent).