[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

I speak a little spanish and understand a lot more.

I speak a little more Amharic and understand more than spanish, though it used to be the other way around.

I sort of speak English.

I am fluent in Hyphy.

I know a little biblical hebrew especially those cognates with Amharic.

[afterthefact]

You sort of speak English? You seem to do just fine here...

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by afterthefact

You sort of speak English? You seem to do just fine here...

you'd be surprised.. hyphy and slang have completely replaced my normal english vocabulary.. whenever I have to talk to somebody's grandma I'm caught like a deer in headlights and can not remember regular english without slang, in a similar jam as when I start to deep an amharic conversation with an Ethiopian and they lose me completely..

essentially, since I started to learn Amharic, I don't really speak any languages that well as I smoke way to much pot.. I sort of speak a garbled mix of them all

[afterthefact]

That's cool... I guess it's good that you still type English perfectly well?

[ploesj]

i fluently speak dutch (flemish variety), english and french.

i understand german, both written and spoken.

i understand most written spanish and some italian.

i can use latin to find the meaning of words.

i use the languages i know to understand simple things in some other languages (like swedish)

[greedrex]

Tu parles français, Ploesj??

[Kegmama]

Only English. We American's are terribly uncultured... I do know a bit of sign language though (taught it to my kids as babies) and am fluent in pig latin.

[Glice]

I'm on the mono-linguist boat here. Rudimentary French, but very much rudimentary. I often toy with learning other language but I find it hard enough to articulate myself in my native tongue.

[afterthefact]

Like Kegmama and most Americans, I was raised to believe learning other languages besides English could be an indication of terrorist ideologies.

Despite that, I know a little Spanish and a little Portuguese, although not enough of either to feel comfortable in a situation where only that language was being spoken.

[Rob Instigator]

fluent in english and spanish (reading, writing, conversing)

can understand most written italian. can understand most written portuguese.

[SuperCreep]

I can understand some Hebrew, but I'm not all too comfortable speaking it, aside from very basic conversation.

[Antagon]

Fluent in German and English

I can speak a bit of French too, not too good though!
And well, I can write my name in Hebrew

[Trasher02]

Dutch
English
French (not that good though)
I can understand German.

english (more or less, hahaha)
german

unfortunately thats it

[jennthebenn]

English my first language.

Spanish I would say I have a better than average proficiency with. It helps.

Some basic German. I am trying to learn more.

Will begin learning Japanese this year.

[Sonic Youth 37]

English is my native language
I've studied 5 or so years of French and I can understand what is spoken to me 95% of the time and can reply 80% of the time. I'm still a little rusty on the whole "answer off the top of my head thing", though. The odd verbs still get me sometimes.
I'm pretty good with context within Romance or Germanic languages, so I'm not totally helpless.

[ploesj]

Originally Posted by greedrex

Tu parles français, Ploesj??

oui bien sür, c'est la deuxième langue officiel en belgique... j'ai eu des classes depuis huit ans, et maintenant je suis toujours capable d'avoir une conversation pas trop compliqué. je pense que je fais assez de fautes, mais je peux dire la plupart des choses.

[ploesj]

Originally Posted by Kegmama

Only English. We American's are terribly uncultured... I do know a bit of sign language though (taught it to my kids as babies) and am fluent in pig latin.

it really seems to depend on where you are born: people living in a country that speaks a language known in the whole world won't easily learn a second one. we in flanders know barely anyone else in the world speaks dutch, so we have to learn something else or we're pretty much screwed. plus, belgium has three official languages (dutch, french and german) and we are expected to know the basics of all of them (even though the stress is mostly on french and dutch)

and even then it depends on the educational choices you make. i know many belgians that just have notions of other languages, while they are supposed to know them. many people are absolutely crap at acively using english, too.

[pbradley]

Spanish and Latin.

I failed hard at French.

I'm curious to learn German.

[Lamont Cranston]

I mumble into my chest fluently