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How Many Languages Do You Speak?

A Poll On Languages

  • I speak only English

    Votes: 23 45.1%

  • I speak English and one other language, from birth

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I speak English and two other languages, from birth

    Votes: 2 3.9%

  • I speak English and one other language from studies

    Votes: 11 21.6%

  • I speak English and two other languages from studies

    Votes: 8 15.7%

  • I speak English and one language from birth, one language from studies

    Votes: 4 7.8%

  • I speak English and two other languages from birth, one language from studies

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I speak English and one other language from birth, and two other languages from studies

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I speak English and two other languages from birth, two other languages from studies

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • I speak in excess of English, two native languages, and two learnt languages

    Votes: 2 3.9%
  • Total voters
    51
Fiddytree said:
I speak English and North Dakotan.
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Don't feel badly... I'm fluent in Kans-ass-an. You should've been able to hear it in my voice recording.
 
I want to create my own dialect.
 
Fiddytree said:
I want to create my own dialect.
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I probably already have – I often find myself throwing in odd accents I make up on the spot, vaguely (and probably badly) related to various "accents" I heard in a movie or whatnot...
 
Does Italian dirty hand signs count?

English is my native tongue and Spanish from age 3.

Regards from Rosie
 
In one sentence, you need to combine german, irish, and some african accent. Then you will be win.
 
Fiddytree said:
In one sentence, you need to combine german, irish, and some african accent. Then you will be win.
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I may have accomplished German and Irish in one already, albeit probably badly.

Doubt I've even tried African.
 
I'm fluent in English and passable in German if people speak slowly.
 
I can speak English and have studied both Spanish and Japanese. I can speak conversational Spanish and some Japanese. Not really completely fluent in either of them. When I get bored I study foreign languages and learn how to read other writing systems. So far I can read Latin characters (English, Spanish, French, etc...), Russian, Hiragana and Katakana (both Japanese), and I'm currently learning South Korean and Hebrew. I can read them, but don't ask me to tell you what they mean lol.
 
digsbe said:
I can speak English and have studied both Spanish and Japanese. I can speak conversational Spanish and some Japanese. Not really completely fluent in either of them. When I get bored I study foreign languages and learn how to read other writing systems. So far I can read Latin characters (English, Spanish, French, etc...), Russian, Hiragana and Katakana (both Japanese), and I'm currently learning South Korean and Hebrew. I can read them, but don't ask me to tell you what they mean lol.
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You should learn Arabic. Beautiful. I think there are 24 characters, but they change shape if they start the word, in the middle of the word or end the word. Right to left. All writing is script, including the Koran.
 
molten_dragon said:
I'm a native english speaker, and can also speak a bit of spanish and german. I'm nowhere near fluent, but I can speak enough to get by (barely).
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I also speak some Spanish, not fluently but certainly enough to make myself understood.

Oddly enough, I can proofread the hell out of:

English
Spanish
Japanese
Chinese
Korean
Tagalog
Vietnamese
Karen
Haitian Creole
Russian
Polish
Italian
German
French

:screwy
 
reefedjib said:
You should learn Arabic. Beautiful. I think there are 24 characters, but they change shape if they start the word, in the middle of the word or end the word. Right to left. All writing is script, including the Koran.
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And then oddly enough you will hate your life for taking it because the classes are so damn difficult.
 
I've also got a primitive grasp of Loglan, though my efforts to improve are of limited success.
 
Native English and Yorkshire dialect. Fluent Spanish, good working French, basic German, Turkish, Thai. I can make a few sentences in Dutch and Khmer.

Language learning is a bit of a hobby of mine. I really love doing it. Of all those languages, Turkish is the one I enjoy wrapping my tongue around most; it just sounds great to me.

Other languages I'd like to have a go at learning: a Native American language (Nahuatl or Qechua probably), Hindi and Old Norse. I think they'd all be fun!
 
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Andalublue said:
Native English and Yorkshire dialect. Fluent Spanish, good working French, basic German, Turkish, Thai. I can make a few sentences in Dutch and Khmer.

Language learning is a bit of a hobby of mine. I really love doing it. Of all those languages, Turkish is the one I enjoy wrapping my tongue around most; it just sounds great to me.

Other languages I'd like to have a go at learning: a Native American language (Nahuatl or Qechua probably), Hindi and Old Norse. I think they'd all be fun!
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It's a sort of hobby for me too. :mrgreen:

I've only found one decent book for learning Turkish. :?
Have you ever used the Pimsluer learning programs?
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
It's a sort of hobby for me too. :mrgreen:

I've only found one decent book for learning Turkish. :?
Have you ever used the Pimsluer learning programs?
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No, I haven't. Is that an online resource? Shall I Google it?

Turkish text books are thin on the ground. I learned through night classes and I spend about a month in Istanbul most years.

Teach Yourself Turkish isn't bad, and Türkçe Öğreniyoruz is good if you can find it. Kaya and MetalGear might have some more suggestions.
 
Andalublue said:
No, I haven't. Is that an online resource? Shall I Google it?
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Pimsleur is mostly auditory repetition but it works.
You can buy through download, book chips(little memory cards with a special player) or cd's.

Pimsleur language learning system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Andalublue said:
Turkish text books are thin on the ground. I learned through night classes and I spend about a month in Istanbul most years.

Teach Yourself Turkish isn't bad, and Türkçe Öğreniyoruz is good if you can find it. Kaya and MetalGear might have some more suggestions.
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I found one called "Elementary Turkish" by Lewis Thomas, it's good and has the English sound equivalents but I could definitely use native speakers.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Pimsleur is mostly auditory repetition but it works.
You can buy through download, book chips(little memory cards with a special player) or cd's.

Pimsleur language learning system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




I found one called "Elementary Turkish" by Lewis Thomas, it's good and has the English sound equivalents but I could definitely use native speakers.
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Yeah, there is no substitute for being able to practice with native speakers, especially those who understand what it's like to learn a new language.

The Teach Yourself Turkish (by David and Asuman Pollard) book comes with a CD that allows you to get a feel for the spoken language too. I just looked, it's just $19 on Amazon. It's not a bad product.

I had a look at Pimsluer. It seems like a good method, but it's very expensive. I'd be more inclined to find a night school programme, if I could. It might be the solution for those with no access to tuition or native speakers.
 
Kinda weird that you don't have even one option where English is not the native langugae, except of perhaps the last one.

I speak Hebrew and Dutch from birth, anything else is from studies and only my French and English are really fluent. (English from school and talking with friends abroad, French from family and self-teaching)

I've studied Arabic in school (speaking and writing) but I really disliked the language (or the class itself) and didn't continue it once it was no longer a compulsory class, so I know only the basics.
I also know a bit of German due to its similarity to the Dutch language but I never really even try to speak German even when talking to a German person. I dislike that language as well.
I'd like to learn more Russian, right now I know only the basics, but I have craploads of Russian-speaking friends and I hate it when people speak in a language that I do not understand.

spud_meister said:
I speak English only, but I have a smattering of Italian, and I used to know how to say 'nice tits' in French.
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'Vous avez des seins jolie' would do, just don't expect to get a "merci" after saying it to a girl.
 
Apocalypse said:
Kinda weird that you don't have even one option where English is not the native langugae, except of perhaps the last one.

I speak Hebrew and Dutch from birth, anything else is from studies and only my French and English are really fluent. (English from school and talking with friends abroad, French from family and self-teaching)

I've studied Arabic in school (speaking and writing) but I really disliked the language (or the class itself) and didn't continue it once it was no longer a compulsory class, so I know only the basics.
I also know a bit of German due to its similarity to the Dutch language but I never really even try to speak German even when talking to a German person. I dislike that language as well.
I'd like to learn more Russian, right now I know only the basics, but I have craploads of Russian-speaking friends and I hate it when people speak in a language that I do not understand.



'Vous avez des seins jolie' would do, just don't expect to get a "merci" after saying it to a girl.
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Believe me, I wasn't attempting to glorify the position of English on the world stage -- our empire spread it around the world, and it'll stand or fall based on its merits alone, now.

I simply included English in nearly every option because we're on an English-speaking board, and I had limited room.

I would not have organised my poll in such a way were I on pravda.ru, of course.
 
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