How many languages can you speak?

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How many languages can you speak?

  • One

    Votes: 86 24.1%

  • Two

    Votes: 126 35.3%

  • Three

    Votes: 87 24.4%

  • Four

    Votes: 41 11.5%

  • Five

    Votes: 7 2.0%

  • Six

    Votes: 10 2.8%
  • Total voters
    357
Speak: English, Spanish.
Read: French, Portuguese.
Understand: Portuguese.
Want to learn: All of above non-spoken plus Japanese, German, Russian.
 
I speak Standard English first and foremost but also Cockney which is a localised dialect of east London and is completely unintelligible to anyone who doesn't know it. I'm not talking about the stupid slang from Guy Richie movies either. It's almost hybrid of English and slang with almost unrelated grammar and pronunciation.

I also speak a small amount of Mandarin and a localised Chongqing language which is nothing like Mandarin, enough to get by anyway.
 
French, English, Viet

I want to add Chinese to the list, but i forgot it all...
I could add Spanish, but i lazy to learn it.

so 3 for now.
 
leowan731
American English ( Brits can laugh...)
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American English is still English, it's just a dialect of the language is all. I spent most of my life speaking a dialect of English from east London until I left England and began to speak like a BBC news reporter!
 
Fluent or just speak? If I were lost in Germany...I'd be able to find my way wherever need be. Took 8 years of schooling in the language, but I still wouldnt consider me a "speaker." I comprehend German, I read german but speech requires more living with the language which I havent. (I still choose two though :D)
 
Dutch/Flemish (does that count for 2? :D)
English
German (a fair amount, my home dialect is close to German)
French (a little)
 
Luxemburgish (native)
English (fluent)
French (Fluent)
German (Fluent)
Italian (Average)
Spanish (Average)
Dutch (Average)

Where is the option 7?? Rofl

Combining Spanish and Italian makes me do all the normal stuff, and both natives understand me
Dutch I used to be good at it, but as i never speak or read it anymore, i'm rusty, but it's similar to Luxemburgish so I do quite well after some time
 
English, fluent.
German, know some-ich of it. (See what I did there? :sick: )
Spanish, know some of it.
Croatian, know a little bit.
 
>Bad English
>Bad Japanese(+850 kanji)
>Bad Spanish
>Svenska(I probably I'll have to)
>Bad Portuguese
>Euskera(a bit)

But speak properly,Spanish and Japanese.(English dunno,conversational but not technical stuff)
 
After 5 years of french lessons not amounting to much then I will have to say only one language,English.
 
Dhivehi/Standard - Maldivian language/mother tongue
Dhivehi/Addu dialect - My third language, I can understand just about anything others say, although I'm average when it comes to speaking it myself:ouch:
English - Officially my second language, but I can speak it better than Dhivehi :p
Russian - Terrible at it, so I won't count it in :mad:
 
Finnish, English, Swedish, German (the last two kind of awkwardly) and some single words from several other languages, but those don't probably count.
 
I know Bosnian and English fully but Bosnian is pretty wide spread. It's not known as Bosnian in other countries though. Its croatian in croatia etc. Like I have been to Czech republic Serbia and Croatia and they all speak that same language.
 
Hmm. Wish there was an "it's complicated" option.

My native language is English.
Had 6 years of French which didn't take, but I can use a little.
I know a little Spanish (ex girlfriend).
I spent a summer in Greece, so I can speak very basic Greek.
I am currently learning German as my Girlfriend/Fiance :scared: is Japanese... By Girlfriend/Fiance I mean we are recently engaged, but as she hasn't met my family yet and I've only met one of her parents (who came to visit her in Canada) we are keeping it a secret for a while. Only telling our close friends.
I am also learning Japanese... Just bit by bit.
 

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