How many languages can you speak?

[dsavi]

I break the rule for Americans(Americans are supposed to only speak one language), because I can read and write English and Swedish, and I can write Finnish.

 

 

 

Just for fun, add up your 'Language score'. Or something like that sounds good. Add half a point for every language you can speak, and another half for every language you can write. And another for every language you understand. Obviously, you can't add half a point for a language you can only write, but not understand. :lol:

 

That makes my score: (ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâýx3 for Swedish, ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâýx3 for English, ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâýx2 for Finnish)=4 points. (+1.5=5.5)

 

 

 

EDIT: Wait- I can also understand Estonian, Norwegian and Danish. Add 1 and another half points.

 

 

 

My score= 5.5

[IGoddessI]

3 pretty fluently-ish.

 

 

 

English, Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia.

 

 

 

Score: 6

[Sumpta]

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so I find it hard to score my language knowledge (I'd have to be able to write a novel in any language before I'd say I can write it).

 

 

 

But I speak and write well enough in Dutch (mother language) and English.

 

I also speak and write French, but with some more trouble. It is the language I have to speak daily at work though.

 

I'm in my third year of German courses. I understand a lot, speaking/writing is still very basic.

 

And I learned ancient Greek and Latin at school. That's many years ago (sigh), so a lot of that knowledge is lost. I can still translate the odd Latin saying though. And thanks to those 6 years of Latin, I can understand a bit of Spanish and Italian as well.

 

 

 

I'd love to learn Swedish too, it's such a cute sing-song language.

[NorthernHero]

Finnish and english.. thats 3 points for me. I had to go to swedish classes at school but I didin't really learn anything because of my attidute was so against it that time :wall:

[baron8000]

English (obviously), French, German to a degree and the tiniest bit of Latin.

[DragonFirenze]

I speak enough french to get me around the country, but thats about it.

[Necrobean]

Fluent Dutch, French and English. I think this is quite normal? Most people know these three quite fluently (In my country, that is.)

[angryjoe]

Hmmm, I don't really know if I could claim to be able to write in English since my spelling and sentance structure can be pretty below par :-k

[kelem_ryu]

German (native) and my english is okay i guess. Naturally it comes easiest to me to read english. My writing is fairly okay and i can speak fairly fluently with little accent (I can speak italian with little accent to, or hungarian for that matter. I don't understand the words though.) I have troubles understanding some slangs though.

[cremator21]

English fluently, elementary Mandarin, just above beginners Japanese and a very small amount of Cantonese.

[sebbeberg]

Swedish and English (duh) A little bit of Norweigan, Danish, Icelandic and German.

 

 

 

I'd love to learn Russian.

 

LÃÆÃâÃâära sig lede FI's sprÃÆÃâÃâÃÂ¥k ÃÆÃâÃâär behÃÆÃâÃâändigt. \

[Schwarzenegger]

I speak two languages fluently. Also, like most people, I know a few words or phrases here and there in several other languages.

[richpoepaap]

I can speak Dutch (native language), French, English. I can write and understand German, Latin, Greek (ancient Greek) and Spanish.

[T-Roach]

Finnish/English/Swedish

 

 

 

used to study italian/german/spanish

[____]

I can understand written and spoken English, Spanish, Italian and German.

 

But I can only speak and write English now. The rest faded off as I didn't use them often enough to retain it.

 

 

 

 

 

So that's like 1 or 2? I dunno :-?

[BlueLancer]

Native speaker of Swedish/Finnish plus Serbian from my father's side... English as a 3rd language, Russian as 4th... :) Also capable of medium-level japanese speaking and reading, but still trying to learn...

 

 

 

I'm looking towards finalizing my language set by learning Chinese and Arabic as well, but that will be a monster task since I don't just want to learn a language.. If I study it, I want to speak it fluently so I can't be distinguished from a native even over a phone..

 

 

 

I figure Chinese will be the hardest to learn, and I probably wont even bother trying to learn the 10,000+ different signs, just fluent speaking and some basic reading skills... A great motivation is the massive benefit of knowing the language: China will in a decade or two surpass the US militarily and economically...

 

 

 

And it doesn't hurt that out of the world's 6.5 billion people, 1.5 billion speak mandarin chinese as their mother tongue.

[Abelmisi]

Native Hungarian speaker & and writer, living in Hungary.

 

 

 

Studied in the USA, english speaker & writer.

 

 

 

Studying latin at school, I can only write though, speaking takes way too long time.

 

 

 

Also studying German at a mediocre level, let's just consider it writer & speaker as well.

[1_man_army]

I can speak English (my native language) and I can speak just about enough French to get by.

[Lt_Necro_Lt]

Almost perfect English and good Russian. And of course my native (it means national yea?) Lithuanian.

 

 

 

Lithuanian is soo hard I hate it, but I must know my language.

 

 

 

3 scores for me ?

[Necromagus]

ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâý for Spanish and Italian, 1 for Greek, Latin and French, 1ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâý for Dutch, English and German... 7ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâý in all.

[woopidoo2]

Dutch,

 

English,

 

German,

 

French.

 

 

 

(from most fluently to least)

 

 

 

and maybe some spanish words but thats it.

[Ape]

4----ish.

 

 

 

English, Welsh - (I bet I'm one of the few Welshies on here), French and a little Swedish (Thanks to Az).

 

 

 

^_^

[SomeWelshGuy]

4----ish.

 

 

 

English, Welsh - (I bet I'm one of the few Welshies on here), French and a little Swedish (Thanks to Az).

 

 

 

^_^

 

Yay! I'm welsh \

 

2 languages, Welsh and English. So that's 3 points I think.

[Ape]

Woo! I think you're the second person I've seen who's Welsh on these forums in the past 3 years. ('part from Rhys, a close friend of mine).

 

 

 

Can you speak it fluently?

[assassin_696]

English is my only language i'd claim to be fluent in. My French would be passable in most places up to a point, my German would get me by and I speak a tiny bit of Spanish.

 

 

 

I've never really studied a language to be able to hold down a conversation in that language that would actually be useful in a foreign country. I did a French A-level last year but unless you want a discussion about politics or the media in France it isn't much help.

 

 

 

When I get older, learning a few languages properly is something I definitely want to do.