Post: #1

People have asked about age, height, etc. Some guys have even made Portuguese lounge.

I am curious about what languages do you all speak, and how long?

I'll go first.

I speak:

1. English (native)
2. German (conversant, almost fluent)
3. French (basic)
4. Portguese (survival)
5. Russian (enough to greet a cop and piss him off)
   

I am working on cementing fluency and then I will move on to Russian and Portuguese. One day I may go back to France to get back my French.

Wald

Post: #2

Inglés y espanol. Me he ensenado espanol por 2 anos y 4 meses.

Post: #3

English in a choke hold, hanging in Spanish, just starting to get a good grip on Russian.

Post: #4

Fluent English and Dutch, decent French, some Mandarin, y un poquito de español

Post: #5

English is my native language. I can speak German about as well as a 12-14 year old kid.

Post: #6

1) English (Native)
2) Mandarin (Native - but not literate and cannot read or write)
3) Brazilian Portuguese - Almost 3 years of coursework in intensive 8 month span. Only a little advanced stuff but predominantly intermediate.
4) Spanish - Work in progress
5) Vietnamese -Polite greetings and food words.

Post: #7

English (Native)
Spanish
German
I could also likely pick up Portigee in a month or so from the Spanish I know.

Post: #8

English (native)

French (basic, couple years in high school, I can get by in a basic conversation if I need to)

Latin (I can carry on a good conversation but until the time machine is invented, it's of limited utility.)

Spanish (beginner, the Latin and French make it much easier to pick up vocab. My goal is to be fairly fluent by the end of the year.)

Post: #9

English and "I speak Jive."

Cut to 1:00

Post: #10

english is my first language
gujarati is my mother tongue
hindi is related to the latter and i taught myself that

french is taught to all ontarians in grade school but none actually wind up proficient in it

i am studying spanish and russian right now

Post: #11

(01-22-2013 03:52 PM)bodmon Wrote:  english is my first language
gujarati is my mother tongue
hindi is related to the latter and i taught myself that

Kem cho bhai?

Kahan se aapko,Hindustan?

Post: #12

fluent english
gujarati is my mother tongue
basic french
and bit and bobs in Polish, Croatian and Spanish

Post: #13

I know a few but english is my first language

Post: #14

English (Native)
Spanish (Fluent) - I often get comments from spanish/hispanic girls saying my Spanish is as good as they've ever heard from a gringo before, I attribute this to learning it organically vs various programmes
Portuguese (Conversational) - Learning very quickly because of similarities to Spanish but having some pronunciation problems, I attribute this to not learning organically and using programmes
French (Basic) - I know a few key phrases, after portuguese this will be my next mission.

Post: #15

Cast my vote for "1". Pretty depressing really...working on it though.

Post: #16

Spanish: Native
English: Fluent
Mandarin: Conversational. Can read + write.

Post: #17

(01-22-2013 04:08 PM)bojangles Wrote:  fluent english
gujarati is my mother tongue
basic french
and bit and bobs in Polish, Croatian and Spanish

That's pretty damn impressive bro.

When you say fluent English, but Gujarati mother tongue, do you mean you moved here late in childhood or do you mean Gujarati is what your parents spoke but that you speak English as basically a first language? As in, do you have an accent?

Post: #18

I speak American.

Not what those Brits speak. I mean, I sure don't smoke fags....

Post: #19

1.Latvian (native)
2.English (fluent)
3.Russian (speaking even more fluent then English but writing kinda sucks)
4.German (conversational)
5.French (enough to impress girls who obsess about all thhings Franch but do not understand shit)

Post: #20

English-native
French-fluent
Spanish-conversational

Post: #21

1. Spanish (Native)
2. English (Sometimes better than my native)
3. Hungarian (Fluent)
4. Russian (Used to be Fluent )

Post: #22

English (Native)
Polish (Fluent)
Ukrainian (Intermediate)
Russian (Intermediate)

Post: #23

French native.
Farsi fluent.
English fluent.
Portuguese fluent.
Italian near fluent.
Spanish solid base.
Will be learning Mandarin, Russian and Japanese.

Post: #24

english native
mandarin fluent

Post: #25

(01-22-2013 11:19 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:  French native.
Farsi fluent.
English fluent.
Portuguese fluent.
Italian near fluent.
Spanish solid base.
Will be learning Mandarin, Russian and Japanese.

VP that is impresive. Makes me question, don't you feel that dominating all those languages gives you like a 'fear' of forgetting 'this one' or 'that one', does it happen to you?

I only speak 3 languages so I don't feel that way, but I fear that if I start learning many more languages (say 2 or 3 more) there might be a chance of that actually happening.

What are your thoughts?