How many languages can you speak?

@ronaldinu (12422)
Malta
October 14, 2008 3:50pm CST
Besides my native language Maltese, I can speak English fluently and Italian. I have also learned Arabic and French too but I can only understand too little of them. I cannot speak nor French nor Arabic. How many languages can you speak?
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32 responses
• China
22 Oct 08
wow, you are great, so many languages, i only know a little english besides my native language, i think it is so cool and useful to know so many languages nowdays, i try to learn some other languages, but i can not insist then i only know a little about that, i am so lazy to learn now. i hope i can speak so many languages but i don't do enough work, this is a daydream.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
27 Jan 09
Not but one. I can only do the English language although I do know like one or two words of another language I wouldn't have a clue how to speak it besides those two words.
@youless (112103)
• Guangzhou, China
22 Oct 08
You really know a lot of languages. My own language is Cantonese and Mandarin. Besides, I know English. I learned a little French but I am not good at it. I love China
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
7 Nov 08
I am only fluent in English. I took French in school for years, but it's been so long now, I'm not sure how much I'd remember. But because of those years studying, I am still able to understand a bit of French here and there. Unfortunately, not nearly as much as I'd like.
@vicky30 (4766)
• India
7 Nov 08
I can speak four languages.English,Hindi Marathi and Tamil.I know English very well.Hindi i can manage.Marathi i can speak a few words.Tamil i can speak here and there because my family members speak in Tamil.
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
8 Nov 08
That is awesome that you know several languages and I bet it is pretty cool being able to speak languages other than your native language,I am not sure if I can speak any other languages other than English when I was in middle school I took a Spanish class because they made me so I can speak a little Spanish and I have heard a few phrases in French that I can speak and understand,and I can understand a few Spanish phrases,and I think that one day maybe I will try to learn another language so that way I could say that I speak several languages,even though I do not really plan on visiting any other countries so I guess English should suffice even though there are people who are speaking other languages in the United States,and there probably be even more people who are going to start speaking other languages in the United States but hopefully most of them know English.
@cuttyrish (2667)
• United States
19 Oct 08
i can speak english and tagalog, and a bit of spanish. i want to learn how to speak german, french, and other languages.
• Ireland
16 Oct 08
I can speak three languages fluently - Irish, English and French. Irish is our native language and it was compulsory to learn it at school although there are few places left in Ireland where it is used everyday. I have a number of friends who speak Irish whenever possible so when they come to visit, we converse in Irish. I speak fluent French but I am hopeless at writing it.
@ketybhagat (4123)
• India
22 Oct 08
I am from India and hence I speak a lot of regional languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, besides English which are all fluent in reading and writing. I have also learnt a little schoolgirl French which I can speak smatteringly.
• India
15 Oct 08
Hi friend, I can speak telugu,english and hindi.Beyond this i can understand some words of tamil but can't speak. Have a nice day,
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
18 Oct 08
I'm sorry to say that I only know English. We're not big on bi-lingual skills here in the U.S. although it's a very useful thing. We used to be required to learn Spanish, French or German in high school but I don't think they even do that any more.
• Singapore
22 Oct 08
I can speak English, my native language and another language I learnt at uni but now I have lost touch since I seldom speak it.
@iyah10 (4115)
• Kuwait
22 Oct 08
I am an Arab nationality so it is my understanding to understand those nationality which is near by and almost the same as I have spoken like French, and in any other Arab Country that are using as there dialect and English is the one of them in which I can considered myself as half professional by writing and speaking English most of the time and then it is Tagalog for their national language from my wife as well as Visayan from Cebu Philippines and Spanish....
@vmksvmks (413)
• Canada
16 Oct 08
I think i can speak English (He he ) so that is one and i can get bye with Italian Here something to smoke in your pipe I took French for 5 years in High School and all i remember is i qui and s'il vous plaise Come on my French experts i know i have likely spelled them wrong Good Luck
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
15 Oct 08
My native language (Romanian) aside, I can speak good English (I guess that's supported by my presence on myLot), and fairly good French. I also speak some Italian and Spanish, both Latin-based languages, related to my native language. If I spend some time in a Spanish or Italian-speaking collective, I speak those languages better and better. I've also studied some Russian in school, but I can't speak it on a satisfactory level. I can read and write Russian, but I don't know enough grammar, and my vocabulary is too poor to speak it properly.
@austere (2812)
• Philippines
15 Oct 08
i speak Filipnio, that's our language.. and i ma also fluent in english because that's what we use in school.. the lessons are all taught in english.. then i speak, some languages in the country like cebuano and bantayanon.. these are really different dialects, different words..
@quinnkl (1667)
• United States
15 Oct 08
I can speak German, but not as well as I used to because I don't use it often enough. I know a few words of Spanish, but wish I could speak and read that better. I wish we were more diligent here in the US at having more languages taught in school as they do in Europe and other countries. We are getting better at it I think. I have often thought about taking another language class, and now that you brought up this discussion, maybe I will consider it again!
• India
15 Oct 08
On an International level, I can speak two languages. English and Hindi. Also I can converse a bit in French, although I have to whip out my dictionary most of the times. As India is a diverse nation with many languages in different parts of it, most people tend to learn more than two or three languages. I know three regional languages. Kannada being my mother tongue, Telugu and Marathi. It's good to know these languages because communicating with people becomes easy when you are out on the road. bourne
15 Oct 08
Hi ronaldinu, I can only speak one language and that is just English. Tamara
@Humbug25 (12540)
15 Oct 08
Hi there ronaldinu My mother tongue is English but I also speak French relatively well but wouldn't say it was completely fluent, I speak it confidently though. I also speak a bit of Arabic and can read and write it a bit too. Arabic is a very hard lanuage to learn to speak thoough it is not so hard to read and wrtie it once you know what all the letters are. Good luck!