What languages do you speak?

[ahw676]

My first language was Taiwanese, but I lost most of it when I started speaking English for school. I grew up in the midwest where Chinese schools did not exist as on the coasts. My mother tried to teach Chinese to my sister and me but we were pretty stubborn about it. As a result, our Mandarin is such that we are, stlil today, the shame of our family. Mind you, my experience is that of the current generation, a lot of our adolescents don't even speak English and it's their only language.

So my English is my only fluent language. I can get by on limited Mandarin and even more limited Taiwanese. People that are fluent in multiple languages always fascinate me to no end.

So which of you out there are multilingual?

 

[guanaco]

English & Spanish; Currently learning Italian and Japanese. [smilie=alien.gif]

 

[levelmanroger]

i talk Eenglush prity gud.

 

[Cloudhopper]

English, french and german.
Dutch only passive(listening and reading), but i'm trying to learn to speak.

Would love to learn arabic or mandarin, but not to let anyone know

 

[brtelec]

Other than my butchery of the English language, I was pretty fluent in German when I was living there 26+ years ago. I speak oilfield Spanish, basically a very bad form of ghetto Mexican Spanish. ( mostly cursing and crane signals )

 

[sconehead]

Foul and gibberish...oh and the Queens English but with a dialect not dissimilar to The Beatles... :lol:

 

[alvinado]

English, Mandarin and some mandarin dialects like hokkien and teochew.
I can speak some malay and I learnt french in university, but forgotten most of it

 

[guru]

German, English and I get get around with Italiano...

 

[rooster133]

English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. I grew up in a place where languages really mattered... I hated it as a kid, of course!

 

[BOSS]

Dutch, English (my English teacher would not agree and call it American), a little German and French.
On top of that a little restaurant Spanish and Greek and some really bad words in Swedish......

 

[ahw676]

English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. I grew up in a place where languages really mattered... I hated it as a kid, of course!

Ooh, now I know whom I want to take with me if I ever get to spend any time in Europe. I might even consider sending you that nude mods poster that you're always bugging me about. Really, the problem is getting all of the mods together TO take a naked mods poster.

 

[Positive]

I'm an English teacher who lives in Ireland and spend a lot of my time teaching English as an additional language to students from Eastern Europe. As a result I speak some Irish, French, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, Hungarian and Serbian. English, Irish, French and Polish would be my strongest.

 

[Cloudhopper]

English, Irish, French and Polish would be my strongest.

Polish is very handy around Dublin, need to pick up some bits

 

[doctorron]

Spanish and English.

 

[guru]

Polish is very handy around Dublin, need to pick up some bits

why is that?

 

[Pix]

It seems we all speak English to some extent here
That's the foreign language I practice most in my job.
I'm trying to keep a good level of German (I live 5 km from the border), and also practice it daily, although not as well as English.
My native language is French.
I've some basic level in italian (my father's language) but never really developped the skills (learnt it late at the university, and no practice at all)

I'd love to learn Spanish.

 

[rooster133]

English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. I grew up in a place where languages really mattered... I hated it as a kid, of course!

Ooh, now I know whom I want to take with me if I ever get to spend any time in Europe. I might even consider sending you that nude mods poster that you're always bugging me about. Really, the problem is getting all of the mods together TO take a naked mods poster.

Well, these days as long as you know English you can get around pretty much anywhere in Europe, which is kind of good and sad at the same time. As for the poster, I said it before and I'll say it again. As long as it's the one with Sillix and the coconuts, you don't have to get all the mods together for it... Just one or two of them will do.

 

[Cloudhopper]

why is that?

The polish are the largest "minority" here in Ireland, i heard estimates as high as 500.000 polish in Ireland (that would be about 10% of the overall population). But it's said to be on the decline atm.

 

[seventhexile]

My first language was German..
did not speak a word of english until I was 8 years old..
now I don't speak a word of German ...
pff..

Anyways other then English.
I can speak the queens English..

speak w/ either an Irish or Scottish accent and broken English giving the effect of being a foreigner... works well for night clubs...

also can do a pretty good Portuguese, Indian, Italian and Japanese accents.
again pair that with poor English and I can pass it off pretty well. ...
until of course I meet someone who can actually speak the language
:lol:

 

[ahw676]

It seems we all speak English to some extent here

Well, I think that part of it is because if you didn't understand English, you wouldn't have understood the question.