How many languages are you able to speak, write, read or understand?

[Kristian]

Don't know if this has been posted before, but how many languages can you speak, understand, read or understand? Just curious about the members here as there are many I know can speak several languages.

Well I was raised with 3 languages: German, Italian and Spanish. I can do whatever I want with those languages as they are my native languages.

Later I learnt English, and I can do fine with it, but not perfect :(

I can understand some Dutch, but never got interested in it, and I can read it :

I can read and understand Portuguese as it's very similar with Spanish, and it's way to easy for me, but I can't write it :(

And I can understand and read, and even speak some Latin, but I'm not good writing it :p

And finally I'm learning French right now, not really interested but my wife wanted me to do it.

So how about you?

[Kristian]

BTW, I never intended to mean I can speak Dutch, Portuguese, Latin or French perfectly, but I know I wouldn't starve in Holland, Brazil or Portugal or France :p

[Annette]

I can speak, write, read and understand Danish and English perfectly.

Spanish and German I can speak, write, read and understand but not perfectly, but enough to get along.

Italian I can read and understand a bit.

Swedish and Norwegian I can read and understand pretty well.

[ka-ching]

I can speak/ write/ understand English, Dutch, Frisian, German, French.

I can understand and write some Spanish.

I can understand Italian/Portugese/ Vlaams (how do you call that language in English?) :p its not so hard :)

And the Scandinavian languages are very similar to Frisian/ Dutch so I can understand them pretty much also

[Annette]

And the Scandinavian languages are very similar to Frisian/ Dutch so I can understand them pretty much also

Try write something then I can see if I understand it...

[aFinn]

Finnish and English. :really:
Some Swedish, some French and itsy bitsy German :uhh:

[FinnFreak]

...and Finnish isn't a Scandinavian language at all - no similarities with the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish-language group whatsoever...


John - ;)

[ka-ching]

Try write something then I can see if I understand it...

OK:p
Some words:

kaai
tsiis
swiet
wiet
twa skiep

[ka-ching]

...and Finnish isn't a Scandinavian language at all - no similarities with the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish-language group whatsoever...


John - ;)

It's more Russian or not?

[shania-little]

I can write/speak/read and understand Dutch, English, Vlaams(?) German and French.

I'm also able to read/write 'old' Greek and Latin a bit. Even though it has been 2 years ago since I had my last class in those languages..

[Annette]

OK:p
Some words:

kaai
tsiis
swiet
wiet
twa skiep
Absolutly no clue:funny:

[FinnFreak]

It's more Russian or not?

umm... no. Finnish is even less Russian/Slavic than Scandinavian...


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Uralic-Yukaghir.png
Geographical distribution of Finno-Ugric

Finno-Ugric languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_language)

It's birth origins go back to 5000 BC and because of the last Ice-Age, the language group called Indo-European, were divided into Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and Baltic languages... because of Finland's remote location, our language developed into a completely different direction (apart from Hungarian) called Baltic-Finnic, that breaks down to:

Estonian
Finnish (including Meänkieli or Tornedalen Finnish, Kven Finnish, and Ingrian Finnish)
Izhorian (Ingrian) — Nearly extinct
Karelian - Karelian proper - Lude (Ludic, Ludian) - Olonets Karelian (Livvi, Aunus, Aunus Karelian, Olonetsian)
Livonian (Liv) — Nearly extinct
Veps (Vepsian)
Võro (Voro, Võru, Voru) - Seto (Setu)
Votic (Votian, Vod) — Nearly extinct


The greatest barrier to learning Finnish is the Finns - they will insist on speaking such depressingly good English ! :p


John - :)

[GorToma]

i can read and write german and english. Then i can read latin but i cant write and talk that anymore

[Big Swede]

Swedish and English perfectly!... Well, not perfectly maybe... not even Swedish sometimes! :funny: but I manage.. :p
Then I also read and understand Norwegian and Danish quite good.

[FinnFreak]

Per - I thought you were quite an expert in spotting Finnish swearwords too..? ;)


John - :p

[MiniShaniaTwain]

I can read, write, and speak English perfectly, and Spanish not so good lol!

[pep_sesse]

Danish, Swedish, English, German and Norwegian ;)


pep_sesse

[*twain_fan*]

i can sing in Latin (lol ..no good ..but i can)

and other: i can speak some Korean ..(martial arts ..we HAVE to talk Korean)

[Paul]

I can almost speak English and I know some Italian swear words..... :funny:

Paul:)

[Big Swede]

Per - I thought you were quite an expert in spotting Finnish swearwords too..? ;)


John - :p

:funny: Of course I am! :p And even one or two other words as well, but not that many.

[UllaCountryGal]

well, I speak, read, write and understand Icelandic(my native), English and Danish.

then I can read and understand, Norwegian and Swedish and Faorese, but I wouldn't say I speak them, though I'd be just fine in those countries trying to verbalize in them.

Oh yeah I can't forget the good Old Norse

I dont really count Spanish and French as something I can do yet. I've learn Spainish for 1 and 1/2 term, so I ought to know a bit(but I didnt really learn that much in class). The french I've only done 1 term and can only make symple sentences.

[Charly]

Spanish and English :p

[Andrew]

I can read/write/understand English and most Spanish. :)

[shania659]

i can read write and speak english perfictly and french I can read write and talk a bit of french because my grandparents live in a french speaking town in canada but I live in the US on the border

[NJS117]

I can speak, write, read and understand Dutch, French and English.
I can write and read German, and understand it a bit.
I can write and read Latin, but the understanding of it has flown away since the last 4 years.

[~Lisa~]

I can speak, write, read and understand English (:p), French, Spanish, some German, a little Dutch, and a bit of Italian :)

[Blue_Firefly]

I can speak, write, read and understand English and French. I know quite a bit of Spanish cuz it's kind of like French in some ways. And I know a wee-bit of German and Italian :p

[Kristian]

It's weird, but most members here can talk English :hmmm:

Just kidding :p

:biglaugh:

[dreamer]

English and spanish for me( still learning Spanish) :)

[Afonso]

I know fluently Portuguese,Spanish,English
speak a bit- French, Italian
understand some words-german :D

[sunshine]

I can speak English and Ukranian pretty well,but write only in English,i can speak in French & spanish but just a little

[matty]

I can speak and write english and can speak and write a little french, im hoping to get better at french in the future though. Its weird i hated it in school, but now i wanna be able to do it lol :rolleyes: :(

[come on over]

I can speak french and english. And I can understand spanish, italian and a little bit german (but only on internet)

[Annette]

I can speak and write english and can speak and write a little french, im hoping to get better at french in the future though. Its weird i hated it in school, but now i wanna be able to do it lol :rolleyes: :(
Maybe you just needed a break from it? That's what happened with me and German. I had it for 7 years, was pretty good at it, but in the end I got really tired of it... but now I'd like to refresh it.

[Paul]

Sometimes its like that, school doesn't teach it in an interesting way, so you don't care until you leave school. I was like that with Maths, but now I'm back at school as a teacher and I hate it again! (Nobody heard me say that, OK?)...... ;)

[Roger]

I speak, read and write English and French. I have now forgotten all my German and Russian.

[Ania]

I can speak, write, read and understand Polish, English, Spanish and to some extent German, although speaking might be hard, hehe :D I can also read Portugese and some Italian, but that's only because I know Spanish and I would never be able to produce a sentence in those languages. I used to take Latin and Old English in college and those are fun!! LOL But I'm not sure I remember more than 20 words from each :D

[orchestragirl]

I can speak, read, and write English
I can speak some spanish really badly!
I know a few simple words of French, but I can't write them.

[ShaniaFan17]

well I was born in Portugal and moved to England when I was 8, then when I was 11 I started learning German at school.. Im pretty fluent in English, can still understand a lot of Portuguese and know some German :D plus Spanish and Italian are similar to Portuguese :D

[Kheops]

I speak and write french :p (I'm french) i speak and write english and german but bad, i understand and speak, but not write, spagnol and italian :)

[Alex]

Well, I know my language Español (spanish) of course; english well many times i messed up with english; italian is very looked like español so I leanrt it very easwy; german, french and russian Im learning these language, but I can hardly understand some words jeje! But I would like to be a "poliglota" a person who speaks more of 4 languages... Well I hope so! For now I'm gonna keep studying languages, that's one of my favorites hobbies!:p

[Annette]

For now I'm gonna keep studying languages, that's one of my favorites hobbies!:p

Laguages are one of my favorite hobbies too:D So far I can get by in 4 languages:up:

[Alex]

so can I.. very soon I'll speak more of 4 languages!:great:

[Annette]

Me too.. one I get the italian under control it's 5 :D plus the norwegian and swedish that I understand but don't speak:p