What languages do you know?

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What languages can you write/read/speak/understand/etc.?

Write, read, speak and understand: Norwegian
To lesser degree English

Read and understand (but never writing or speaking): Swedish. and Danish (although Danish is harder to understand in speech). There are some words in both languages I don't know, but for the most part I get it.

english at a very high level. german at an elememtary level.

I can just about get around with the British Sign Language knowledge that I have learned (I'm deaf).

I can recognize the sounds of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet and use them to navigate Russian websites, but I can only understand basic words, it's lower than beginner level Russian
I can read and write a little Chinese, and speak a little, and watch some movies in Mandarin without subtitles it's slightly above Elementary
I can read and write Spanish at an elementary level, but I can barely understand by ear and my speaking ability is also poor

Swedish, fluent
English, almost fluent
German, intermediate
I can understand spoken Norwegian and written Norwegian and Danish, but I can't conversate in those languages.
I can read the Cyrillic alphabet but I don't unterstand any of those languages that use it.

I read, speak, write and understand English, and Spanish to a slightly lesser degree.
I read and understand German, French, Latin and Italian.
I can understand a small bit of phonetic Zulu, Arabic, Japanese, Welsh, Gaelic, Chinese, Russian and Korean.
I can read Anglo-Saxon, Ancient Futhark and Younger Futhark runes.

I can recognize most languages by sound, even without previous experience with that language.

My native language is English, but my ability to speak Spanish is extremely poor, even though my mother's native language is Spanish.

I'm a native speaker of Dutch, I'm fluent in English, I have a fairly good grasp on German, I can read French but have trouble speaking it;

I have a good understanding of written Indonesian, and I can understand most of it if it's enunciated clearly and if it's standard Indonesian as used by newscasters/presenters, but I'm stumped when I listen to the colloquial variant which uses a lot of slang.

I can understand a mouthful of Mandarin Chinese, but I don't know enough characters yet to comfortably read a newspaper.

I can read Portuguese, and to a somewhat lesser extent Spanish.

Speak: English, Portuguese.
Write: English, Portuguese.

Read: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Creole, Polish, Latin, Greek.

Dialects: English: (US, UK) ; Portuguese (European, Brazilian); Italian (Medieval; Modern); Creole (Haitian, Cape Verdean)

Aren't we the Linguist!

Sounds like you're amazingly smart in languages.

You also seem like a nice person.

You're from the Azores, right?

Polish - fluently (my national language after all...)
English - fluently write and read. You could understand me when I speak but I tend to pronounce words incorrectly.
German - poorly. But I can read, write and speak basic sentences if I am forced to.
Czech, Slovak - I can understand them what they speak and I can read what they write. They can usually understand me when I speak/write Polish. The languages are similliar except there are some funny differences I must remember of (for example when you want to buy a bread you will find shops with a "čerstvý chléb" slogan in Czech which means "fresh bread", but you pronounce it as "czerstwy chleb" and "czerstwy chleb" in Polish language means... "stale bread" )
Russian and alike - I can understand when they speak and write using latin alphabet (the spoken language is similliar to Polish, Chech, Slovak...) but I can't read Cyrylic.
French - I can figure out the meanings of some written sentences. Does it count?