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Posted by: purple hayes Jan 6 2009, 04:12 PM

I only speak English well. I can fake my way through Spanish if I have to.

What's your first language and how many others can you speak?

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Jan 6 2009, 04:13 PM

Zero I barely passed my English exam. I got a better mark in French and I am useless at that

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Jan 6 2009, 04:15 PM

I speak my native language Serbian but since it belongs to the group of Slavic languages you could say that I also speak Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrian (if thats the right way to describe it)

English is my fairly strong second language, I could speak a little bit of Greek but understand it well, and I learned some Italian for a year but that didn't work for me

Posted by: Tolek Jan 6 2009, 04:15 PM

We had this topic before. http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=21313&hl=How+many+languages

I speak: Polish, English, German, French, Luxembourgish, a bit Serbian and a bit Spanish.

Posted by: Muris Varajic Jan 6 2009, 04:19 PM

One, bosnian, my english suck as well...and I learned french in school years ago,
no worth of mentioning

Posted by: berko Jan 6 2009, 04:23 PM

Hungarian, English, relatively good Spanish, relatively bad German

Posted by: David Wallimann Jan 6 2009, 04:25 PM

French as first, English as second...
Learned Spanish in school, can understand some but not spea it...
A bit of Portuguese as well in school...

Posted by: enforcer Jan 6 2009, 04:35 PM

Turkish as my native language, English and French, some Latin (educational purposes) and maybe I can understand a little Italian and Spanish because they share the same family as Latin and French.

Posted by: The Farmer Jan 6 2009, 04:40 PM

Faroese as native and first language, Danish as second (dont like to speak it). Norwegian as well as my native language, understand spoken and written Swedish but not so good at speaking it, the same goes for German, and my English is at a relatively good level:). and i can understand Icelandic quite well when its written but its hard to understand spoken:)

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Jan 6 2009, 04:41 PM

Spanish is my first language and English is my second one although time to time I have some issues with pronunciation and spelling :S

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jan 6 2009, 04:47 PM

I speak and write Serbian (native) and English very well, I can understand some Russian, and started to learn Italian. My girl speaks Greek, but it sounds like mambo-jumbo to me

Posted by: purple hayes Jan 6 2009, 04:47 PM

Back off man, I'm trying to up my post count for 2009.

Posted by: Tolek Jan 6 2009, 04:58 PM

Haha. Guess why I posted into this topic two times now...

Posted by: Dreamcatcher Jan 6 2009, 05:00 PM

english first,some french and only enough spanish to get me a date...or at least as her to be my girlfriend hahaha

Posted by: timono Jan 6 2009, 05:12 PM

Dutch as my native language, english, had latin in school for 3 yaers can translate some texts, French in school for my 5th year now still don't do that good at grammar , german had it for 2 years looks a lot like dutch so i could survive there .
Ow and i also had 10 lessons spanish so i'm a master at that... ok i can only say 'my name is..'

well that's about it..

Posted by: fkalich Jan 6 2009, 05:20 PM

Does Dog language count?

Other than that, I listen to Spanish lessons a lot. I bought two series. Both good, I recommend them.

Rocket Spanish
Learning Spanish Like Crazy.

Best I have seen in my view.

edit:

I just by chance went for the link, and damn, they used me as a spokesman.

http://www.learningspanishlikecrazy.com/?hop=id997&gclid=CLjs-Ie0-pcCFQkiagodD3YlCg

You can see how ugly I am. But my dog is good looking, and you can see White Kitty in the background.

Posted by: utak3r Jan 6 2009, 05:24 PM

My native language is Polish, I can speak English well. Some basic Russian and German.

Posted by: AudunESP Jan 6 2009, 05:26 PM

Norwegian as my native. Englis close to perfect, nearly as a 2nd language:) i understand german, and i can talk my way to an understanding with a german, without using english. Im in the middle of high school education of spanish. And Swedish and danish is no problem to understand, since its so similar to Norwegian.

Posted by: enforcer Jan 6 2009, 05:26 PM

wha? raising the post count by posting unecessay comments? Nonsense

Posted by: Tolek Jan 6 2009, 05:34 PM

Three times now!

I stop kidding now.


I really want to improve my Spanish skills because maybe I am going to study in Barcelona. I speak Polish at home, but it way not perfect. I think the best language I speak is German. However, I try to keep my English on a good standard.

Posted by: Fsgdjv Jan 6 2009, 05:36 PM

Swedish is my first language, Icelandic my second. I speak half assed English aswell and I've studied German and Japanese in school but I'm horrible at those languages.

Posted by: botoxfox Jan 6 2009, 06:04 PM

Finnish
Norwegian
English

Posted by: Velvet Roger Jan 6 2009, 06:16 PM

Dutch native, English / German very well, France so-so, Spanish only enough to get a beer

Posted by: Nazgul Jan 6 2009, 06:16 PM

German, fairly strong English and quite bad French.

If I was stuck in France, I'd die there because I couldn't order any help.

Posted by: purple hayes Jan 6 2009, 06:50 PM

Just learn the word for bathroom and you could spend weeks in any Spanish speaking country.

Posted by: superize Jan 6 2009, 07:07 PM

Swedish is my native language and i speak pretty good english learned some french in school but have forgott most of it

Posted by: Jose Mena Jan 6 2009, 07:08 PM

Spanish is my first, English my second, can't speak read or write anything else, wish I could learn a third language but seems like too much work.

Posted by: Matt23 Jan 6 2009, 07:09 PM

English and a little bit of German.

Posted by: Disturbed21 Jan 6 2009, 08:07 PM

My native language is English but I can speak a little German (took German last year in school).

Posted by: Sensible Jones Jan 6 2009, 08:18 PM

English and a minute amount of French.

Although I have been told on occasion that I can speak fluent B*&%S£$T!!

Posted by: seagull Jan 6 2009, 08:40 PM

I'll just add percentages to the languages I speak, depending on how good I speak/write them.

Danish - 100%
English - 99% (A scotsman once thought I was American...LOL )
German - 80%
French - 30% (I understand most of it, but when they speak insanely fast, I'm as lost as when Muris shreds )
Swedish - 70%

Posted by: Canis Jan 6 2009, 08:46 PM

Since I'm scandinavian, I have the privilege to say that I speak Norwegian (fluently ), Swedish and understand some Danish.. If I try hard...

And of course English =)
Also I've been through some very basic Spanish.. Wanna learn more, though =)

Posted by: Fsgdjv Jan 6 2009, 09:09 PM

Pfft! Any self respecting scandinavian knows that danish is impossible to understand or speak if you're not really drunk and have a half potato down your throat.

Posted by: sigma7 Jan 6 2009, 09:19 PM

Russian and English first, then japanese, then spanish, then french, and now finnish

Posted by: Canis Jan 6 2009, 09:26 PM

A kilo of cotton works as well

No offence to any danish people... I guess it's just as bad for them to understand Norwegians and Swedes

Posted by: Skewlbuzz Jan 6 2009, 09:39 PM

Danish, english, swedish, norwegian and german for me..
Or well, can't speak swedish or norwegian fluently but the scandinavian languages are much the same (apart from finnish :p)..
Oh and ofc I also sp33k 1337 ..!
Hmm could add latin for medical use too, learning anatomy is like learning a whole new language :s

It's all about practice man! Some years ago I didn't understand any swedish or norwegian.. Now that 1/3 of my class is swedish and I also know a bunch of norwegians it's piece of cake :d

Posted by: Fran Jan 6 2009, 09:40 PM

Spanish & English here

Posted by: Hisham Al-Sanea Jan 6 2009, 11:24 PM

Arabic as a native language .English as a second also i can speak & understand little yugoslavian language

Posted by: Paiva Jan 6 2009, 11:41 PM

Potuguese as native... english, I suck at French but well I can understand if you don't go to far, and I can understand and talk a little bit of spanish

Posted by: ErikEklund Jan 6 2009, 11:48 PM

I speak swedish and English as a second launguage

Posted by: utak3r Jan 7 2009, 01:43 AM

I write C++, Pascal, Assembler, SQL... and so on

hell well said

As for English: I can easily talk with islanders, but I have some problems with understanding Americans...

Posted by: besip Jan 7 2009, 01:55 AM

I'm Czech so i'm belive i'm can speak Czech

Then a Good English
Good Polish
Good Slovak

and i'm remeber also a litle of Russian

so the total is 4,5

but English,Polish and Slovak i'm never learn at school

Posted by: Col Roberts Jan 7 2009, 02:42 AM

That's interesting, David. I would have sworn that English was your first language. What language do you think in?

Posted by: Outlaw2112 Jan 7 2009, 04:11 AM

i speak uno languages..... english only

Posted by: Barenaked Ninja Jan 7 2009, 05:28 AM

I think you guys have more opportunities to talk to people who speak different languages than we do here in America. I did however live in the Southern USA for 3 years and it was almost like talking to someone who speaks a different language.

Posted by: Marc_Maiden Jan 7 2009, 05:50 AM

I was born in lebanon, so i learned to speak arabic and french, then when i moved to the US i forgot most french while learning english (i was very young) and then i re learned french



so french arabic and english

Posted by: IDontWantMyUsername Jan 7 2009, 02:24 PM

Norwegian, a side version of Norwegian called "Nynorsk" (New Norwegian is the direct translation to English), English and a German that is still under development Tolek can tell how good I am at the last mentioned

I was in the USA last summer, and I was surprised that they didn't even learn a second language. As you see, we have to learn 3 languages + a different version of our mother language!

Posted by: Ijdgaf Jan 7 2009, 02:25 PM

German (and Austrian and Swiss dialects, which are different to regular German), English and French, some Dutch (I live in the Netherlands for 3 1/2 years now, so I picked up a bit)..

I did learn Latin in school for about 7 years which helps me understand a bit of Spanish and Italian, but here i wouldn't say that I actually "speak" those languages

Posted by: utak3r Jan 7 2009, 02:28 PM

yeah, same goes to many French people...

Posted by: IDontWantMyUsername Jan 7 2009, 02:33 PM

And many German people

Posted by: utak3r Jan 7 2009, 02:36 PM

Hm, I know many German people who knows English
But yes, you're right, although in a smaller scale than with Americans and French.

Posted by: Nemanja Filipovic Jan 7 2009, 02:42 PM

Serbian and a bit of English.

Posted by: kaznie_NL Jan 8 2009, 08:34 AM

I'm Dutch... and Dutch tend to speak the langauage in the land where they are, and when Germans or English people are in Holland, we speak in their language as well I'm 15, I speak Dutch, English (quite fluid), German (improvised), and French (hesitating )

Posted by: purple hayes Jan 8 2009, 03:44 PM

Me --> <--you

/not born in the South though.

Posted by: seagull Jan 8 2009, 04:05 PM

LOL

You won't believe this....one of my colleagues said THE EXACT same thing today, when we had this discussion. Of course, he was reffering to both Norwegian and Swedish instead, but the same thing with a potato.

I really think that it's the same for all three countries.

Posted by: Ian Bushell Jan 8 2009, 04:21 PM

English, Afrikaans and a few swedish words;p

Hahaha i haven't heard Danish before but thanks for the description.... that painted quite a picture!

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Jan 8 2009, 04:39 PM

Spanish and..... English (not a great english speaker).

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Jan 8 2009, 04:43 PM

Danish, English, some Spanish and very little German.

Posted by: Sondre Jan 8 2009, 06:29 PM

Norwegian and English. Can understand swedish and danish and im learning spanish at school. Think I can understand germans if they talk really slow.

Posted by: lee Jan 8 2009, 07:16 PM

English,Pig Latin,and Drunkenese.

Posted by: Shadow21 Jan 8 2009, 09:02 PM

I speak spanish and english as native languajes (mi dad is spanish and i also live in spain, and my mum is english)
Catalan in school, and my german is not so good, but i can speak it a little bit


Edited for language - Smells

Posted by: Barenaked Ninja Jan 8 2009, 11:05 PM

Do you have an accent?