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How many languages do you speak?

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FelixDeCat

FelixDeCat

Lifer
I am fluent in American English, understand some Spanish if spoken slowly and know a few words in other languages. The official count is "1" for me, since Im not fluent in Spanish.

Sorry, but Ebonic is not an official language. :'(
 
2
English and Khmer. I'm probably the only Khmer speaker here.

Koing
 
2
English and Khmer. I'm probably the only Khmer speaker here.

Koing
 
Native English...

Pardon... On the grounds that what I was raised on is not the Queen's English, I actually speak 'American'.

I used to be conversant in Japanese (At the time there were are 4 tests - I've passed the first two. This means read/write on a grade school level and was able to handle daily conversation with reasonable fluency.). But I haven't had to use it in the better part of a decade, so I've forgotten a lot.
 
I speak one. One Zero One Zero Zero. With that I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life. In any country, any time, any place I want.
 
Just english, although i did take 3 semesters of german. i know a bit of japanese as well. just food in korean.
 
Only presently fluent in English. Language fluency is a use it or lose it proposition, although once learned the knowledge and ability remain latent within you.

In the past I have been reasonably fluent in German and French, could carry on a fairly detailed convo in modern Greek, and knew a fair amount of Spanish.
 
I'll soon be 19 and I'm at the end of the secondary school:
Italian (mother language and official teaching language), English (6 years of it at school, 3 hours a week, very good at it), German (7 years, 3 hours/week, not very good at it on swiss standards but results are alright), French (total 7 years, 3y x2 hours/week + 2y x3 hours/week + 2y x 2 hours/week, stopped taking lessons 4 years ago, reading is fine but speaking and writing is a bit rusty)

total 4 languages
I'm from the italian part is switzerland, about 6% of the population. This means that I have to learn 2 other languages + english, while in most european countries you learn only english, and in the rest of switzerland you don't learn italian (just the other most important language + english, italian is a personal choice, there are enough swiss germans who speak it though)

In the european environment it's an almost unique thing, in most places you just learn english and maybe one other language (but a minority of people does that). I'm doing a scientific high school, not a linguistic one, and learning all these languages is standard. The level of teaching of foreign languages is also higher than for example in italy, here most language teachers are native speakers (at least for german and french, most english teachers are germanic and teach german too even though mine is canadian).
 
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Perknose said:
Only presently fluent in English. Language fluency is a use it or lose it proposition, although once learned the knowledge and ability remain latent within you.

In the past I have been reasonably fluent in German and French, could carry on a fairly detailed convo in modern Greek, and knew a fair amount of Spanish.
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German was the only other language I had an interest in. I had a cassette tape learning series back in the late 80s. The only thing I remember was "mein frau" and "nein"!
 
Murloc said:
I'll soon be 19 and I'm at the end of the secondary school:
Italian (mother language and official teaching language), English (6 years of it at school, 3 hours a week, very good at it), German (7 years, 3 hours/week, not good at it but results are alright), French (total 7 years, 3y x2 hours/week + 2y x3 hours/week + 2y x 2 hours/week, stopped taking lessons 4 years ago, reading is fine but speaking and writing is a bit rusty)

total 4 languages
I'm from the italian part is switzerland, about 6% of the population. This means that I have to learn 2 other languages + english, while in most european countries you learn only english, and in the rest of switzerland you don't learn italian (just the other most important language + english, italian is a personal choice, there are enough swiss germans who speak it though)

In the european environment it's an almost unique thing, in most places you just learn english and maybe one other language (but a minority of people does that). I'm doing a scientific high school too, learning all these languages is standard.
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Impressive. :thumbsup:
 
My mum speaks
Khmer
Cantonese
Mandarin
Another Chinese dilect
Vietnames
English

Koing
 
My mum speaks
Khmer
Cantonese
Mandarin
Another Chinese dilect
Vietnames
English

Koing
 
Schadenfroh said:
I speak (American) English mixed with Cajun English and stuff I make up.
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Who needs to make stuff up when there is always conversational Klingon...

Kapla!



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