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How Many Languages Do You Speak?

A Poll On Languages

  • I speak English and one other language, from birth

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

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

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  • Total voters
    51
I only speak two languages....English and bad English.
 
English from birth. Spanish and French because of my job and family condition. I also understand papiamentu and Haitian creole because I've traveled to countries where they are very prominent.
 
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I only speak two languages....English and bad English.

Maybe I should say that I can speak several dialects of Red Neck. I was watching a show last night on the Discovery Channel about North Carolina mountain folk and their strange dialect. I could understand every word they said and wondered why people were having such a hard problem with their speech. Must a ben em air dem yankees.
 
I'm a shamefully typical American: I speak only one language fluently.
I know enough Spanish to carry on a very rudimentary conversation, and I know bits and pieces of other languages- ASL, French, Chinese.
Other members of my family who have traveled widely are far more multilingual than I am.

Reminds me of that famous line in "Inglorous Basterds."

"Don't any of you Americans speak any other language other than English?":lamo
 
Maybe I should say that I can speak several dialects of Red Neck. I was watching a show last night on the Discovery Channel about North Carolina mountain folk and their strange dialect. I could understand every word they said and wondered why people were having such a hard problem with their speech. Must a ben em air dem yankees.

Was training with a guy in Alabama when I started working for my current employer. I'm from Tennessee, so I speak igornant as good as anybody. But I learned a new word. We were using a Polaris ATV that wouldn't start with the battery, it had to be pull-started because the battery was dead from non-use. The guy said the ATV wouldn't crank because it hadn't been 'crunk' for a week. True story. No offense on him though. He was a product of south Alabama education, but a really good guy.
 
Was training with a guy in Alabama when I started working for my current employer. I'm from Tennessee, so I speak igornant as good as anybody. But I learned a new word. We were using a Polaris ATV that wouldn't start with the battery, it had to be pull-started because the battery was dead from non-use. The guy said the ATV wouldn't crank because it hadn't been 'crunk' for a week. True story. No offense on him though. He was a product of south Alabama education, but a really good guy.

A "crunk" that reminds me of the time I went into the hospital for colon surgery. My room mate had just come out of surgery and couldn't pee so the nurse was trying to catheterize him. She was having a time getting the catheter into his urethra. He was an old country gentleman so he told her that the reason was "because it was all shrunk up." I almost split my staples laughing so hard.
 
Just English, I know some basic Spanish but just the basics!
 
Was training with a guy in Alabama when I started working for my current employer. I'm from Tennessee, so I speak igornant as good as anybody. But I learned a new word. We were using a Polaris ATV that wouldn't start with the battery, it had to be pull-started because the battery was dead from non-use. The guy said the ATV wouldn't crank because it hadn't been 'crunk' for a week. True story. No offense on him though. He was a product of south Alabama education, but a really good guy.

When I first moved to Alabama a funny thing occured similar to this. I was in the garage of a friend and he asked me to open the garage door. I asked "Which button do I press?" He looked at me and laughed. "You talk too formal, down here we say mash". That's right everyone around here says mash.. As in "mash that button for me."
 
When I first moved to Alabama a funny thing occured similar to this. I was in the garage of a friend and he asked me to open the garage door. I asked "Which button do I press?" He looked at me and laughed. "You talk too formal, down here we say mash". That's right everyone around here says mash.. As in "mash that button for me."

I speak only English now, but was fluent in Portugese when I was a child. I lost most of it due to lack of use, but perhaps I would pick it up again fairly quickly with re-exposure. I took two years of Spanish back in high school and can understand basic Spanish, but really don't speak it with any degree of fluency.

Do I get bonus points for my Custom Title? :)
 
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I speak only English now, but was fluent in Portugese when I was a child. I lost most of it due to lack of use, but perhaps I would pick it up again fairly quickly with re-exposure. I took two years of Spanish back in high school and can understand basic Spanish, but really don't speak it with any degree of fluency.

Do I get bonus points for my Custom Title? :)

Only if you kow how to pronounce it. XD
 
None of the above. I speak English from birth and Mandarin Chinese from marriage.

I took two semesters of French in high school and I have 15 hours of German and 10 hours of Korean in college. I remember almost none of any of those languages.
 
I speak English und Ich spreche Deutsch...

וגם קצת עברית
 
I speak English natively, learned Spanish through 5 years of studies in high school (and could become fluent pretty quickly if I moved to a spanish-speaking community/country, so I consider myself "semi-fluent"), and am currently learning German and French. After that it's Russian.
 
English from birth, Spanish as a requirement for undergrad studies in a Liberal Arts field.
 
How Many Languages Do You Speak?

I am fluent in over six million forms of communication and can readily... *shot*


j/k, English, a wee bit of French from middle/high school classes still lingers from time to time.
 
I speak:

English as my native language.
French and Spanish as studied languages. (not fluent, but pretty good)
 
I speak two languages.

1. English - example, do you speak english?
2. Foreign - example, DO ... YOU ... SPEAK ... ENGLISH?

I used to work at Edward Jones and one of my co-workers always seemed to get Oriental people in asking about investing, etc.... Every time this happened and there was a noticeable language barrier, he would speak louder and slower ... I told him I didn't realize that talking louder and slower worked. ;)
 
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