What languages can you speak?

Italian, English & French.

 

I pulled a C+ in Spanish 2, so I would say I am highly qualified and speak both English and Spanish.

 

English
German
Spanish
Italian (not really that good, but I'm fine in Italy)
American Sign Language
I can understand a lot of Dutch

I like languages. My dad can speak 8 languages, so I guess it is genetic. I wanna learn Russian next, then Farsi. Probably Swedish some day also.

 

American
Engrish
Spanglish
Ebonics

 

Fluent in English
Highly proficient in Spanish (perfectly fine in everyday conversation, but don't have the specialized/technical vocabulary for say school or a job)

I've also studied Italian (working on it at this very second, in fact), Japanese (have forgotten almost all of it), and Latin (give me a dictionary and I'm good).

 

Texican

 

Forgot about ebonics! Spend a lot of time in the "rougher" areas of Denver so I guess i can say ive leared what a lot of it means, but i dont speak it

 

I live in West Philadelphia, and I still can't understand half of it!

 

French & English - fluent
Spanish - moderate ability
Japanese - basic ability
Italian - currently learning the language

 

English and enough spanish to find out where the bathroom is!
Erik

 

English and enough spanish to hold a conversation

 

English
Spanish
Italian
French
Norwegian
German
Polish
Canadian
Australian
British
Ebonics
Nascarese
Redneck
Other American Dialects

 

I speak Jive!

 

English
French
Spanish - a little
German - a very very little
Korean - a very very little
Russian - a very very very little

 

English, French and Russian more or less fluent. The latter two get better after I've been around them for a day or two.

Spanish, German and Italian to get by.

Enough Mandarin and Japanese to not get treated like a tourist...

 

English
Conversational French, German
Limited vocabulary in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Italian

Vulcan, Romulan and a little bit of Klingon

 

English
"Survival" Spanish
Bubby's Yiddish
More Portuguese than my wife realizes
One prase in Hungarian that could get me slapped at any time.
F*** You in Chinese
Gus is teaching me Italian.

 

Damn you beat me to it!!!

Mark

 

Another good one for you to know.

Cha na je sher sha ma.

"What the F is this?"

Helps when you see Fido going in the hot pot...

 

OT. I knew a Mark Severino when I was a kid. We played AYSO soccer on the same team and had a couple of mutual friends.

He was.......different!

 

My grandmother and some other family members taught me spanish as a boy (much of my family is fully or partly hispanic) and I speak it fluently.

I also can do sign language and have taken about 1yr of latin.

On my list to learn: Italian, German, Japanese, and chinese.

 

English
French
Urdu
Ebonics

 

English
Spanish (Fluent)
French (Fluent) (College study + yspent a year abroad in Nice & Cannes)
Italian (College study + a summer abroad)
Chinese (College study, and I'm back at it now too)

Langauges are awesome. The key to learning a language is to understand that languages evolve, and that evolution generally means that things are the way they are for a reason. Most rules make sense, most exceptions are there not arbitrarily but to avoid ambiguity or to maintain consistency (i.e., with pronunciation).

But enough about that. I should say that it's my opinion that the only languages that are going to matter (uh, that means, you better know how to speak them!) are English, Spanish, and Chinese. It's just a numbers game, folks! (Think about 20, 30 years from now...)