Languages

[The_Gabe]

Fluent in English and Hebrew.

[Gradeskip]

French as mother tongue, I got my english from high school but mostly RS, and spanish from high school and college.

[Z_Berenice]

Spanish is my native language, fluent in Spanish and English, semi-fluent in Italian and Portuguese (can easily understand it, but got a few problems when trying to speak it myself). Know a bit of Latin (mostly from rhetoric and argumentation classes), can understand Catalan to some extent (more of a family thing).

[asfcjfdyitfhglh]

Fluent in English, and able to hold a conversation in French. My English is very well developed, and my French is rather fragmented at times, but I am able to get my point across. My main problem with French is hearing it and responding, because it's so difficult for me to understand it spoken. I can read and write it very well though. I can get the gist of something written in Spanish or German, but I cannot write it or speak it. I selectively learned some Swedish when I was younger but I have since forgotten it. I can read some Latin because I recognize words from the etymology of English ones, but once again, I cannot speak or write it. I'm practically fluent in Interlingua because of its similarities to both English and French, my main languages of study. Other than that I just know some random words from other languages here and there, mostly from music and etymologies. For example, I know that 'verevki' is Russian (Ukranian?) for "ropes," and "pilkunviilaaja" is Finnish for "comma [bleep]er" (grammar nazi).

[decebal]

English, Romanian (amusingly enough, although Romanian is my mother tongue, I speak English a lot better), and French (although I usually have to ask people to repeat what they just said when I speak to them).

[Varda]

I can speak (or use):

Norweigan

Norwegian Sign Language

English

Swedish

Nynorsk.

 

I can read, understand, (but I don't speak in fear of mispronunciation):

Dutch (Flemish)

Danish

German

Faroese

Icelandic.

 

I've always been a language nerd.

[Hawks]

Fluent in English as it is my native language, 2.5 years of German, so I know it decently, and a bit of Spanish from grade school that is now coming back due to my brother's taking it. Know some American sign language, a bit of Latin (in terms of word roots, etc) and British vernacular...

[Star.]

I'd have thought sign language to be a universal language. Not that I know how sign language works :P

[AniseCookies]

American Sign Language- I've taken a few years of it, and it is a truly amazing and unique language.

[Will H]

English as a native language, and I could hold a conversation in French, but I haven't had enough experience to really say that I'm fluent in it.

 

I'll be honest, being a native English speaker really doesn't provide you with many real-world incentives to learn much about other languages, but I'd feel a bit embarrassed if I couldn't answer this question with anything other than "English". Also, French is an elegant language.

[mcneilp]

Fluent in English. Semi-decent French and German.

Know a few words and phrases in Spanish, Swedish, Czech and Japanese but wouldn't be able to string any kind of conversation together in them. Just bits and pieces I've picked up.