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For a bunch of people who travel so much I think this is an interesting question.

*For sake of this poll you don't have to be 100% fluent, if you are a beginner or intermediate with a basic grasp of things then that counts as a language.

Question:
How many languages do you speak?

Choices:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 or more

 

I speak English fluently.

I can have basic conversations in German & French.

I can do travel basics (order food & drinks, ask directions, book hotels and stuff) in Spanish & Dutch.

I speak Spanish, English.

I am language learning deficient, but I've chosen to be proficient in at least one other language.

As an American, this makes me somewhat special.

As a european, it makes me backward. Oh well.

i grew up speaking one dialect of chinese and going to saturday school for another (lame). i took a couple years of japanese in high school and college, and can struggle along with spanish when i have to.

i really really really want to learn french!!! the conjugation kills me though.

i speak english, and can at a bare minumum get by in spanish. i once with this girl that i was amazed by though. she spoke 5 languages fluently. she was malaysian of chinese descent. she spoke mandarin, cantonese, a regional chinese dialect, malay, and english.

i cant imagine all those words fitting in my head.

I speak English and then 2 languages that don't really help me outside of SA unless i'm talking to a fellow South African, Afrikaans and Zulu. Afrikaans is actually similar to Dutch, so if i concentrate really hard i can understand what a Dutch person is saying!

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i really really really want to learn french!!! the conjugation kills me though.

Yeh tell me about it.

I speak English and some French, so that is 2 for me. In Spanish I know a few travel-related words but that is all.

I speak English (native tongue), reasonably fluent but imperfect German and intermediate Spanish.

German, Swiss German, English, French and Spanish. I can get by in Russian and am currently learning Bahasa Indonesia.

Funny thing is...I'm not all that good with languages. True. It's all a matter of experience, the more languages you know, the easier it gets to pick up a new one.

French - yeah, the conjugation sucks, especially if you know German and things work excactely the opposite there. Same goes for gender, cases, etc.

I think crazy boi is trying to keep tabs on us members of BnA. Writing down our langagues and nationalities and this and that. I think he's a spy. A bad spy, but a spy nonetheless.

And for the record I speak English, Arabic, some Spanish and am currently working on my French....which so far just consistes of flirtations and dirty talk.

I speak English and Spanish. I currently am learning Mandarin, which isn't nearly as difficult as you might think. No conjugation, for one!

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Originally posted by Justin7199:
I speak English and Spanish. I currently am learning Mandarin, which isn't nearly as difficult as you might think. No conjugation, for one!

you learning to write it too?

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Originally posted by Prisa:
am currently working on my French....which so far just consistes of flirtations and dirty talk.

...which is really all you need.

I speak over eight languages, all very badly. Or is it 'very poorly?' Or simply 'poorly?' I need to go reread Strunk & White so as to reacquire that English.

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Originally posted by Prisa:
I think crazy boi is trying to keep tabs on us members of BnA. Writing down our langagues and nationalities and this and that. I think he's a spy. A bad spy, but a spy nonetheless.

I speak English.

And lately, due to I can has chezburger and lolcats pictures my grammar has suffered immensely.

does it count when you know a 5 or 6 words in different languages? Cause that would mean I speak Mandarin and Polish

Oh yeah.... French and Spenish too! haha

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Originally posted by xoom:

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Originally posted by Justin7199:
I speak English and Spanish. I currently am learning Mandarin, which isn't nearly as difficult as you might think. No conjugation, for one!

you learning to write it too?

Learning to write pinyin. Learning to read simplified Chinese.