who can speak the most languages?

[yourdeadgroom]

English
A few french words, pronounced very badly (I got 32 out of 130 for my end-of-year exam in french, my first year in high school. I didn't take french the next year.....)

I started learning Klingon a few years ago, but that lasted about 2 weeks, it was boring and I didn't understand that whole 'language structure' thing (and yes, I did get a strange look from the guy in the bookshop when I bought the Klingon Dictionary )

 

[O'blivion]

FL: English
according to my high school transcripts i should be fluent in French.
my Spanish is decent
i know various words, phrases, syntactic structures, etc., from many languages through my linguistics courses.
i plan to become fluent in Swahili, and possibly Tagalog as well.

 

[Lina]

I suppose I should be thankful that English is the dominant language in the world, but I'm jealous of all you multilingual people.

American schools are notoriously inept when it comes to teaching second languages. I can't decide if that's bad or not, since I don't technically need to know another language. But perhaps Americans wouldn't be so ignorant of the rest of the world if they were forced to learn a second language.

I do kick myself for choosing French over Spanish for the required years. Little did I realize how quickly the demographics of the U.S. were changing and how useful Spanish would be. I studied French for four years, went to France, knew enough to get around, came home and promptly forgot it all.

I have a very minimal understanding of Norwegian -- part of my dad's quest to get in touch with his roots.

 

[~Zeanra~]

Finnish
English
Swedish
German
French (tho it's getting a bit rusty)

Then I know some words in Italian, Spanish, Latin..

 

[Hiljainen]

Originally posted by Lina
I suppose I should be thankful that English is the dominant language in the world, but I'm jealous of all you multilingual people.

American schools are notoriously inept when it comes to teaching second languages. I can't decide if that's bad or not, since I don't technically need to know another language. But perhaps Americans wouldn't be so ignorant of the rest of the world if they were forced to learn a second language.

Also italian schools are very very bad for languages, if you want to learn something you have to study in a school specialized for languages so, since mine is not one of these schools and we're still studying the past tense , i've had to learn the most of my bad english by myself

 

[Lina]

Your English is very good!

 

[mindflesh]

German (of course)

English (fluent)

French (I've learnt it for more than 3 years now and I'm pretty good in written language but can't speak it fluent)

Latin (if you count that: translations Lat->Ger, learnt it for more than 5 years, hardly any speaking of course)

 

[Hiljainen]

Originally posted by Lina
Your English is very good!

*hilj is proud to write something undestandable*

 

[Rusty]

Originally posted by Hiljainen
*hilj is proud to write something undestandable*

Pardon??

 

[Ibsen]

English
Spanish (my first language)

I can read most of the latin-derived languages and more or less make out some germanic languages. As for fluent, just English and Spanish.

 

[ricochet]

I am fluent in...English.

I took 2 years of French and learned the very basics, but I haven't used it in over a year so I've lost it.

I'd really like to learn Swedish...and I suppose Norwegian/Danish would follow. I plan to study abroad in Sweden in about a year so I'd like to have a grasp on the basics if nothing more. We'll see how that goes.

 

[Elysian Blaze]

English and American.

 

[Elysian Blaze]

Originally posted by Lina
I suppose I should be thankful that English is the dominant language in the world, but I'm jealous of all you multilingual people.

American schools are notoriously inept when it comes to teaching second languages. I can't decide if that's bad or not, since I don't technically need to know another language. But perhaps Americans wouldn't be so ignorant of the rest of the world if they were forced to learn a second language.

My sentiments, exactly. I wish I would've been drilled another language, instead of the lackadaisical approach many schools in the US take. I mean, studies show that the best time to learn a language in when one is young, so starting a language in high school could be harder, thus deterring many students.

 

[Cows on million man march]

English...ofcourse
....i am supposed to know arabic, but i dont really...my arabic is worse than chopy, i took 5 years in french in school, and i stilll dont know jack squat.

in all, i know 1 language and a half.

 

[lumen]

My French reading and writing is not too bad, but my speaking and listening comprehension are pretty sad, especially with those Quebecois accents I've encountered.
I wish I could speak lots of languages, but English is really the only thing I can converse in.

 

[LordNeil]

I can speak English and body.

 

[Melancholia]

Greek (mother tongue)
English & Swedish very fluent....
German ehmmm just fluent
and Spanish (i'm learning now,i'm in the level "intermedio" but i think i'm doing fine for my level)
i can also understand a lot of written and some spoken norwegian
and a few written danish stuff....

i love foreign languages

Originally posted by Hiljainen
Also italian schools are very very bad for languages, if you want to learn something you have to study in a school specialized for languages

same shit here...... so shitty that nobody expects to learn languages at school.....when you are 6/7/8/whatever your parents sent you to a language school.....

 

[Don Corleone]

turkish>=english> french

 

[Slynt]

Norwegian, Dutch, English, Swedish, German, French, Danish.

 

[Thorns of Sorrow]

Fluent in English and Spanish, i speak good French, and decent Navajo.