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These are the languages that I can understand:

1. Spanish (I studied this in school for six years and worked very hard to learn the language)

2. Catalan (which I studied on my own during college; it's a dialect of Spanish spoken in Barcelona)

3. Italian, French, and Portuguese (not as well as Spanish or Catalan)

4. German and Dutch (I can get by reading these languages, especially online)

5. Danish (learned it online from a couple of guys back in 2000).

Spanish is the foreign language I can speak the best. The only non-Roman alphabet I understand is Russian. I also know a fair amount of Yiddish even though I'm not at all Jewish.

My mother tongue is English.

So, what languages do you know and how many? Which do you use on a daily basis?

1. English

errrmmmm.... that's it..... <cough>

I know a bit of Japanese, but am a long way from any kind of fluency, and I have very basic 'O' level grade French...... I'm English anyway - we're allowed not to have to bother studying anybody else's languages

American english is my native tongue. I'm near fluent in French, my spanish is well enough to communicate with the enormous spanish speaking population here in Texas. I also can communicate by means of American Sign Language, Signed English, Pig Latin (does that count?), and Phorian. In the future, I hope to learn enough Latin to get along with but not necessarily speak it fluently; German (I only know a few phrases in it); Italian; and Gothic (my friend and I want to try and revive this dead language that was spoken quite a bit in Russia many moons ago).

I tried to learn spanish. But the course went much faster than I could keep up with and I had to drop out.

I just know English...barely

I took a German class in high school, but I diin't do very well. And I have forgotten everything I learned. I have a really hard time learning other languages, I can never remember all the differient rules that to me just seem arbitrary.

1. French - my native language
2. English - my other language (I started learning it at about seven years old)
3. Swedish - I started studying it last summer. I understand what I read but still have difficulties talking and writing.
4. Spanish - I took it at school but cannot speak it. I just understand what I read because it is like French.
5. Japanase - I can say and understand a few words.
6. German - same.
7. My own languages - always in developpement

I would like to learn Quechua, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Esperanto and Elvish.

i speak smatterings of loads, but only fluent in english, sadly. i'd love to learn as many as posible, as i always pick up enough to get by when i'm abroad, in about 2 days, and get taken for a native within 3. i use them every day, as i always take the register in a different language - the kids love it and it keeps them quiet! in no particular order: arabic, czech, welsh, irish, thai, italian, german, spanish, russian, serbo-croat (although i don't know if it's still called that), greek, turkish, gujerati, sylheti (a dialect of bengali), somali, french and sign language (i also teach songs with sign language - BSL). i think that's all.

Does mathematic and music counts ?

besides those, i talk french (my native) and english (how is it ?).

I LOVE learning languages. My first language is English. At school, I am in my fourth year of Spanish, my first year of French, and my first year of German. It's so much fun! I don't consider myself fluent in Spanish, but if someone is speaking it (clearly), I can understand what they are saying.

When I was a small child we were stationed in Germany. My mother told me I could speak German. Alas, I don't remember much though.

Swiss German (spoken only, there's no official grammar and spelling for this)
German
English
French
(Italian)
(Portuguese)
Lots of programming languages

I've always loved languages.

First knew that being fascinated with the bilingualism in Spanish on 'Sesame Street'. I learnt a few words and how to count to 20.

Then I got into British English when I was nine and have been into it ever since. It's largely in my writing style because I know the hard way that I can't pull off doing one of the accents longer than about a minute.

Then in my teens I learnt Spanish for real and that clinched my love for languages. That language and my special interest in Catholicism meant I moved on to learning a little Latin both on my own and formally in a few classes. (When I first heard a Latin Mass I could understand a lot of it thanks to Spanish.)

So I know Spanish pretty well and thanks to that can understand a lot of Latin and other Romance languages, even being able to read the hard one, French.

Then my interest in the church got me to teach myself Russian, which I've been doing (not so much recently) for 12 years.

I can read it fairly well and understand it spoken about half the time but am not confident enough to speak it without a script. I can recite it no problem. And of course thanks to language families I also can partly understand other Slavic (Slavonic to the Brits) languages.

It's great!

I don't get too many chances to use it socially though. Native speakers are over my head and non-natives aren't interested!

1. Real English...

2. Vulgar French...(aimee le tortierre, nes pas?)

1. Verbal communication isn't one of my strengths, but I suppose I'm fluent in English.

2. French- my wife and kids are studying this. I can understand some of what they're saying.(sometimes I swear they're making fun of me but don't really care enough to prove it).

3. Spanish- can read well. Can understand well when spoken slowly.

4. Swedish- Started studying this recently. Can read some. Pronunciation is going to be quite a trick for a guy with a Chicago accent. ( Da Bears)

The only language I can speak is English.

I have a basic knowledge of German and Spanish which allows me to make sense of things I am reading, although I do not have very large vocabularies memorized, so many of the words I have to look up in dictionaries. I'm taking Spanish in school, but I don't like it. Spanish is not my type of language.

I am interested in the Nordic-area languages -- especially Swedish and Finnish.

I also have an interest in Russian, but as of now I don't know the first thing about it.

Other than that, I like creating fake languages (conlanging).

Why don't we post some things in other languages? I might later...