How many languages you speak?

[bika]

When I post the topic of Cultural Shock then one member replied that in Nigeria they speak 512 language, so I thought it would be interesting to talk about how many language you speak?
I speak, Nepali, English, Hindi, little bit french and yes, I speak many national languages of my country.

[keeper]

I don’t think that he is referring to what he can speak but rather how many language their country has. In our country there are lots of languages.

I can only speak Tagalog and English but I think that speaking English is just a common thing because this is the accepted language of all.

[Gloria]

Originally Posted by bika

When I post the topic of Cultural Shock then one member replied that in Nigeria they speak 512 language, so I thought it would be interesting to talk about how many language you speak?
I speak, Nepali, English, Hindi, little bit french and yes, I speak many national languages of my country.

I speak English and some french and I am learning spanish and swahiri.

[jimmys devoted]

I speak english with a slight southern twang, yiddish just a tad and I can read and write hebrew...
I can read a bit of french and some dutch...
basically though I speak bad english.,
I want to learn dutch though.......

julie

[maryelser]

I speak english and german. I know a smattering of spanish and chinese.

[Lorence]

I speak two languages. English and Tagalog. Tagalog is my native language. I'm from the Philippines. We have a lot different dialects in our country but I only speak here the most common dialect which is Tagalog.

[twocents]

Cool topic! I was raised speaking English, Spanish and French all languages that my parents spoke. I then took German, Italian and Latin in school and am fluent in those three as well. Since school I have also picked up Polish and Greek.

[Liberty Bell]

I speak english, and a bit of czech. I am pretty good with understanding spanish, but can only speak a bit. German is my strongest foreign language, I understand most of it and speak quite a bit. I know people that speak 7+ fluently. Crazy!

[Indiescribe]

I am from India. We have many languages as we have many cultures and even within them lie innumerable dialects. The 1991 census recognizes 1,576 classified "mother tongues". There are supposed to be 6,912 worldwide. I myself speak English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, a bit of Punjabi and Urdu.

[maryelser]

Ok, I was looking back through this thread and I want to know something. What is tagalong, lol? I've heard of it before but didn't know what it was then either.

[keeper]

Originally Posted by maryelser

Ok, I was looking back through this thread and I want to know something. What is tagalong, lol? I've heard of it before but didn't know what it was then either.

It is not Tagalong but Tagalog!

This is one of the many languages that is used in the Philippines. Tagalog is the most accepted language on my country. I’m not saying that no one likes to speak other language but we are having some hard time understanding other Philippine language.

[ladyfaith]

Unfortunately, I only speak English. I know a few basic words in Spanish and French, but nothing I would ever try to start a conversation with. It has always been a dream of mine to learn Italian and I just may do it one of these days.

[bluesnow]

I speak English and Chinese. In my country, English is the main mode of communication for the various races, so most people here would know English. Besides English, we have our Mother tongue too, so most of us know 2 languages. If you count dialects, I understand Cantonese but can't really speak it. I'm trying to learn Korean now.

[sham]

Very interesting topic. I can speak three languages Tamil , English & Malayalam. but i love to learn many languages in future. Tamil is my region language , Malayalam is my mother tongue & English is through the school base. it is always good to learn more languages. when we go to a different region that particular regional language should be known to interact. thus learning a language is always good.

[ZammaJann]

Can you say "Ugly American"? Yes I speak only English fluently. I can understand a good deal of Spanish and a little French. I can say "Does this hotel provide toilet paper?" in Russian.

I am currently learning Arabic and Urdu which is very difficult for a monolingual English speaker to learn. Thus far the most I have accomplished is pronouncing the alphabet and figuring out that you need to write from right to left.

[clise]

I am a bilingual, I speak and write in both English and Malay. I can only speak survival Japanese (i.e.: my name, my age, ask how to get to the police station and most importantly to ask the toilet whereabouts :p) I can also speak a few words of Chinese, Thai and Arabic but I guess that won’t count.

[thiag]

i speak 4 languages english, tamil, hindi and french...

[0099]

i belong to India and i know hindi, english, punjabi, dogari, french.....one thing i have noticed in india that the languages spoken in north india are closely related. a person belonging to north india can understand almost every language which is spoken there and same is the case with south india. even languages spoken in west india are up ot some extent understood by northern people. east india is also the same case but poeple from other regions can hardly understand their language, its different.

[candace]

i speak english, hindi and punjabi. punjabi is my mother tongue, both punjabi and hindi are quite similar. i can also write all the three languages. i have studied these languages at school level.

[r1superman]

I speak two languages fluently and those are english and spanish. I can also speak a little french because I spent a few months there. French was the most to learn, while spanish has more uses.

[Dantheman2]

I fluently speak English and Polish, I've taken spanish for a couple of years in school before so I guess I could count that as another language as well. I must say knowing more than one language does come in handy.

[Ziveeman]

I speak only one language fluently and that's, as you can see, English. I have taken a couple of years of Spanish in high school but as most people know, two years is definitely not enough to speak a language fluently.

I should know more languages though. I am of Filipino origin but I was raised in the States, and as a result, my parents (who have lived in the Philippines all their lives before they moved) never taught me Tagalog (the native language) or their dialect when I was a kid, so I was unable to learn it (it gets exponentially harder to learn a language after a certain age).

So whenever there's a meet-up with my Filipino friends, I feel left out because I can't speak Tagalog

[ultimoz]

i can speak three languages but all of them are from India as i don't have any knowledge of other language. one is hindi, english and punjabi

i guess english is global language and one has to be proficient in English..

good luck

[poster87]

i can speak, read and write fluent English. i also know Spanish but not as much
because i cant read or write it. i could only speak it. a language i want to
learn is Japanese i honestly don't know why. i just believe it a complex
language to learn

[ZCY3270]

I can speak chinese and english. Chinese is my native language. In china, students in middle school are required to study english and past exam to qualify for the graduation.

[mcmutt]

I can only speak english and a little Italian, on the other hand The native people of Australia have over 1000 languages as each tribe had their own unique language they could speak.

[CJ2009]

Hi I'm Algerian, i'm 13 and I speak Arabic, French, English and Spanish.
I tried to learn German but i stopped after 2 days

[cena_john]

well, i would have loved to speak more than two languages as it would directly mean more jobs for me outside my country. Write now I speak English, Hindi and a little bit of punjabi. What I am trying to do is to learn Japanese so that i end up getting a job with a Japanese electronics giant such as sony!!

[mteager]

I never really had an ear for language, I did try and would like to be able to speak another language but I don't think i would ever get the hang of it. No i will always have to settle for subtitles.