What languages do you know?

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i can speak, write and read english and spanish, and i'm learning to read the greek, cryllic, and hebrew scripts. (not the actual languages!)

English is my mother tongue, but I can speak, write, and understand a fair bit of Spanish. My one weakness in both languages however is slang I can almost guarantee I would not be able to understand if any slang is used.

Speaking; Dutch, English, German and the local flavor; Limburgs
Understanding while reading to some extent; Spanish, French, Portguese, Russian, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

I suppse a few related languages come to mind such as Afrikaans. With it's close ties to Dutch I suppose I can understand it for a large part.

And then there's a handful of more obscure things I've tinkered around with; Polari, Bargoens, Klingon, Casthitan, Irathient.

I'm the worst with learning grammar though. I do everything intuitively, but have a pretty high success rate with it, heh.

I've given Japanese a shot and it's probably easier than I think it is. Just... meh... I probably should spend more time on it. But that knowledge is pretty much non-existent. Much like that short stint of Gaelic.

^nice! that is some talent.

Speak and read/write: Dutch, Russian, French, and English.
Can't speak fluently but can read and understand: Latin, ancient Hebrew, Farsi, Attic Greek, Ionian Greek, Koine Greek, Arabic, Aramaic, Gaelic, Norse, Sanskrit, old Yiddish, old English, and a smattering of dialects from the German tribes after the fall of Rome. I have had a hard time with Asian languages, especially the ones with a unique symbol for everything, but I have tried calligraphy and am starting to learn more and more symbols. There are all kinds of fictional languages that I'm into as well. I've always been driven to learn more because there are so many more books I want to read, mostly historical manuscripts.

I'm fluent in Dutch and English. I'm learning Russian, but I'm pretty much still a beginner.

My native language is Norwegian, and I can also speak English. However, I do understand a lot of Danish and Swedish. I also understand a little (and know a few words in) German and French.
Currently learning Arabic (beginner) and I know a few words in Turkish, but I really want to learn it properly :p

Ich spreche einige Deutsch

(Hope I wrote that right)

Yeah, I've never had an instructor or lived in the country. I've had to try teaching myself, and I'm up against a wall with what I can teach myself. Thank you for the correction.

Native language? Filipino >.< Tagalog if being more specific as dialect (I'm not sure which is the exact term, but people here kept debating that it's either a dialect or a language instead due to pride against another). Either of those are starting to be neglected but encouraged by locals to foreigners. And seems I might be alone here... XD

Then english. o.o Which I preferred. Filipino english is quite hilarious when translated and compared to American english sometimes.

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English, French, Latin and Ancient Greek.

Very small amounts of German and Italian.