What languages do you know?

[JujuFish]

Native English, fairly weak Spanish, even weaker French, and OK in Latin.

 

[tfinch2]

I was ready to come in here and wag my e-peen by listing programming languages...

 

[oddyager]

English - enough
Cantonese - can carry conversation but can't read or write it
Italian - can carry conversation
French - can carry conversation but have to go sloooow

The way I see it, there are really only three phrases I need to learn when I travel abroad.

1. Do you have any chicken?
2. How much is the beer?
3. Where is the bathroom?

Teach me how to say those three and I can get by anywhere.

 

[TridenT]

Native English
Took two years of French in High School, it was really easy class nothing intense at all.

That's all I know. It doesn't matter either, because U S A, U S A, U S A!!

 

[hanoverphist]

english - very well
spanish - out of practice but good enough to not die in mexico
spanglish - pretty good

 

[Verbrennenkinder]

English - native

German - i can build a sentence and understand it when its spoken to me, but you'll have to give me a moment before i can put together a spoken reply.

Spanish - so little i probably shouldn't count it

 

[Descartes]

English - Very well, I think
Spanish - Used to be almost fluent, but now probably more intermediate-advanced
German - Intermediate
Telugu - Intermediate
Hindi - Beginner

 

[GagHalfrunt]

English and just enough Spanish to survive in an emergency.

 

[sash1]

english
spanish (fluent)

 

[Aikouka]

English (American) - Native
French - Poor (I understand better than I speak)
Spanish - Poor (I understand better than I speak)
Japanese - Poor (I understand better than I speak)
C++ - I make Bjorne look like a script kiddie.

 

[SagaLore]

American English - native
Hindi - very very very weak but starting to get it

 

[Capt Caveman]

English - Native
Spanish - Poor
Cantonese - Poor
Jive - Excellent

 

[imported_apocalypse]

English - Good
Cantonese - Medium
Mandarin - Poor

 

[Demo24]

English - Native
German - kind of weak, but am in a class. I really need the time to properly learn the grammar rules, then I can work on building my vocabulary.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
English - Native
Spanish - Poor
Cantonese - Poor
Jive - Excellent

I say hey sky, s'other s'ay I wan say? Pray to J I get the same ol' same ol'

 

[The Boston Dangler]

my greek has eroded over the years, but i want to fix it up. i also want to learn spanish, french and italian. when it comes to asian laguages, i'll just concede defeat.

 

[spaceman]

i know some english.

 

[eplebnista]

English

 

[magomago]

english arabic chinese

 

[Paladin3]

Igpay Atinlay

 

[villageidiot111]

English Latin Spanish

 

[PieIsAwesome]

English and Spanish. Spanish is supposed to be my native language but I know English far better.

 

[Astroluna]

C+ in 10th grade.

 

[palswim]

Originally posted by: Dumac
Also, knowing a couple sentences of Spanish doesn't make you a Spanish master. I don't count myself as knowing a language until I am positive that I could go to that country and function without a hitch. Only languages you are fluent at count in my opinion..

Function without a hitch? Wouldn't you have to know every idiom and slang word for that? Like others have said, I could strand myself in Mexico and survive (and even learn some more), so I would count that as knowing (some) Spanish. But I definitely don't know Korean, even though I can tell people to show me their bellybuttons.

 

[uberman]

English
Spanish
German
French