How many languages do you know?

[iceplosion]

German, Irish and English (fluent in all three)
I know some french from school but I'm definitely not fluent in that  :-\

 

[Lisker]

Dutch (Naitive language), Dutch dialect, German, French, English, a tad Japanese.

 

[shiroun]

Ice don't you mean gaelic -_-?


Italian and English here. Some gaelic

 

[Venetia]

ellenor, c'mon. Don't necropost. The post before yours was dated April 17, 2007, 10:37:04 am.

But since Sixty posted here, then ...

I speak English natively of course, but I'm fairly proficient in Spanish. Well, enough so I can read it fairly easily. Conjugating verbs and speaking it are rather difficult still though

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Venetia
It isn't a necropost as it added content, you should know this you rascally mod you.  I know, I know - I bet those resource sections are driving you batty and all

I'd imagine living in California and/or Florida for any amount of time would learn you some Spanish by default :x

 

[khmp]

English and curses from many languages:

Italian:
merde
French:
merde
Spanish:
mierda
Dutch: *Why they gotta be different*
stront

 

[Jennestia]

Erm..lets see...

Spoken Fluently: Japanese, Chinese
Can speak some of (enough to get by): English, Korean, Spanish, French
Can speak a little(bits and pieces...): Gaelic, Latin.

That be all..

 

[iceplosion]

Ice don't you mean gaelic -_-?


Italian and English here. Some gaelic

In Northern Ireland it's called Irish 

 

[Rain]

I speak English and I am also learning Japanese and Chinese (cantonese)

 

[hungery12]

I speak english, and a tid tad bit of spanish and japanese.

 

[lgNAPSTER]

Well, I'm brazilian so I speak portuguese and english ^^

Well Portugues, english, pretty fluent on both, I can understand Spanish Italian, some bits of german..

Hey another brazilian! o/ or a portuguese... who knows...

 

[rjphillips]

Schooling:
  English - 12 years
  Spanish - 6 years
  Classical Latin - 4 years
  Koine Greek - 2 years

Smatterings and Phrases:
  German - several phrases
  French - several phrases
  Portuguese - several phrases
  Ancient Hebrew - few phrases
  Chinese - few phrases
  Thai - few phrases
  Arabic - few phrases
  Korean - few phrases

Currently learning:
  Romanian - small vocab and fair grip on grammar


BTW i'm a linguophile, try to pick up anything I can get a hold of... and working with several internationals helps

 

[Link in Pink]

English (primary), Learning French, and I know some Spanish. Oui :P

 

[JonoSasson]

English is my first language. I've learnt Japanese for 12 years and I can speak like a Japanese Fifth grader. I also know Yiddish and a little French.

 

[Skye_Vrbas]

Dutch [92% knowledge]
English [81% knowledge]
French [45% knowledge]
German [24% knowledge]
Japanese [0.08% knowledge]

 

[Venetia]

Wow, really? Those EXACT percentages, huh?

How could anyone ever quantify how much of a language they know by a specific percentage, lullz

I know approximately 87.7235% of the English language! I went through a dictionary and, without reading the definitions, counted every word, and every word I know! wowz

(just messing w/ you )

 

[Skye_Vrbas]

Cool, 

My girlfriend asked me the same question yesterday... "How come you use percentages so much to express yourself?â€

 

[Venetia]

Yes, that makes more sense

 

[Skye_Vrbas]

You know, maybe it does. I gues I have to come out of my own little world  :P

Kidding; I'll take your advice  ^-^

Oh and I also speak about 4 variations in dialect dutch.

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Just a note... and to be a prick - languages are GINORMOUS.
Even linguists would be hard pressed to understand 75% of any given language, unless it is that amazingly hampered and simple.

Take your favorite writer - author of stories, or penned philosopher, whatever - take any with the greatest vocabulary you can find.  Then open up a few English dictionaries, literary dictionaries, and thesauruses and you'll find their knowledge of the language no matter how great and impressive, is simply daunted by the possible wordings, let alone the words themselves, and expressions that they are completely unaware of.