Do You Speak Any Language Other Than English?

[B_Nick8]

I lived in Switzerland for a year after having studied French since I was in 4th grade so my French is relatively good. Unfortunately, Spanish would be a much more useful language. Italian is the most beautiful, I think. But these days, perhaps an Arabian language would be the big money maker. My uncle was a former ambassador and speaks 8 languages and 12 dialects...and he's my hero for many more reasons.

 

[Bbucko]

Je parle francais sans aucun accent americain.

I lived there long enough to lose my accent.

I learned all my Spanish in bed, in shoe stores and restaurants, and it's a fairly limited vocabulary as a result.

 

[SpoiledPrincess]

I don't speak any other languages because I hated school and managed to spend my language classes colouring in the pictures in my Longman's Audio Visual French book and gobbing off to the Latin teacher. On the whole we Brits aren't very good with other languages, we expect wherever we go that someone will be able to speak English well enough for us lazy sods not to need to learn another language fluently, and we don't start learning another language till we're 11 which is far too late to easily assimilate one.

 

[MonsterUncut]

Or other not in the poll, please list.

Portuguese

 

[simcha]

Je parle français courrament. J'ai habité à Paris il y a onze ans.
I've been told that I don't have an American accent in French. They always guess that I'm from some province outside of Paris...

I had 4 years of Latin, so I can read it. You don't actually speak Latin, unless you are in the Vatican, I guess...

I lived in a Mexican neighborhood until I was 6 years old so I understand more Spanish than I can speak.

I can understand quite a bit of Yiddish and consequently, German...

I read Hebrew even though I'm not quite fluent in speaking it conversationally. Mainly I can read the Hebrew in the Torah and the various prayerbooks. Modern Hebrew is a little different. I understand more than I can say when Israelis are speaking to me...

I understand some Italian and Polish because members of my family spoke these languages at the dinner table. After a while you get sick of hearing your name and words in Italian or Polish followed by laughter when you don't understand what's going on. You learn quickly in that kind of situation... :wink:

I know some phrases in Korean and I can count to ten in Korean because I studied Tae Kwon Do with a Korean Master...

I studied Russian independently because my Grandmother used a couple of phrases in Russian and I was curious about the language.

I looked into Cherokee because I'm 1/8 Cherokee... (Yeah, yeah, I know a Cherokee, Italian, Polish, Russian, Jew...LOL) :biggrin1:

Of course, my mother tongue is American English. My Father was a high school English teacher who was a reading specialist.

 

[kalipygian]

German and Spanish moderately well, and Latin.

 

[mephistopheles]

I tok french one, french two, and half of french three, and plan on taking more french when i go back to school. I love the language, love the people.

It's so much fun to speak!

 

[D_Charlie Peen]

My first language is Italian.
I also speak English, French, German and Japanese (still learning. It's freaking hard )

Never studied Spanish, but it's quite easy to understand since most words resemble the Italian ones.

I know Latin as well, but I don't really *speak* it (who does?? )

 

[dezz]

Spanish (native), french, german (forgetting it), catalan, some euskera, portuguese and italian. Learning russian (having a tough time with it, though).

My latin is pretty gone, but still remember silly sentences like "cave canem" or "columbae aqua potant".

 

[agnslz]

I grew up speaking both Spanish and English at home. I spoke only in Spanish with my dad, but when him and my mom split up I no longer saw him daily and didn't speak Spanish much again. I forgot an awful lot as I got older because of that. I still do fairly well with Spanish, but I'm nowhere near as good with it as I was when I was little.

 

[findfirefox]

Can I sign a bit of a language?

American Sign Language (ASL)

#ASL I KNOW (I think I glossed that correctly :-/ )

 

[B_cyrus]

English- Native tongue

Spanish/Portuguese- Fluently

Italian- Can hold a convo

French- Enough not to starve

German- I know lots of cusswords

Japanese- Wakarimasen.

 

[WildHoney]

I speak the language of love....transpires any lingual difficulties and everyone knows exactly what I need.....

Besides that..I am shit at learning languages...though I wish I was better, I travel a lot so would make things a whole lot easier...

I know " yes and no, and toilet" in many languages.

xx
Honey

 

[slycsboy]

omg
i'm chinese
just can speak chinese and a little English...

 

[tabot]

I speak English, Afrikaans and Zulu!!

 

[DC_DEEP]

Other than English, my next-best fluency is American Sign Language.

I was quite fluent in Spanish at one time, but have lost most of my vocabulary through disuse.

I have a pretty decent grip on phrases, especially "survival phrases" and just a little light conversation, in German and French.

I've learned some greetings and pleasantries in quite a few languages, including Hawai'ian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, Luganda, Russian, and Italian.

A few years back, a friend was teaching me some conversational Romany, but I have forgotten all of it. My brain absolutely refuses any input in Magyar or Polish.

 

[Mem]

Je parle francais sans aucun accent americain.
I lived there long enough to lose my accent.
I learned all my Spanish in bed, in shoe stores and restaurants, and it's a fairly limited vocabulary as a result.

Since you already speak French it would be easy to learn Spanish. I can pick up a few words in Italian if it is spoken with a neutral accent, and I've never spoken it.

The great things about these languages is they all come from Latin and closely resemble each other, such as in the days of the week, months of the year.

Also how things are said. We say I AM HUNGRY....they say I have hunger.
Also the way verbs are conjugated is similar in French and Spanish.

 

[braumeister]

English is my native language. I know a little Spanish (enough to great someone and tell him/her I don't speak Spanish, plus I remember enough to decipher a menu). I'm learning German. I had some Latin classes, but I can only remember a few words (magister - teacher, salve - Hello, domus - house).

 

[nudeyorker]

un peau francais et un pequito espagnol!

 

[DC_DEEP]

un peau francais et un pequito espagnol!

:biggrin1: Not being mean, just laughing at a couple of slight misspellings...

your quote, translated...

"a skin french, and a small freckle spanish (spelled italian style)"