How many languages do you know?
By turist1
@turist1 (175)
Bulgaria
August 30, 2010 6:29am CST
Ok, I'm interested in how many languages do you speak? My mother tongue is Bulgarian, I speak English well, German not so well, I can read Greek. Also I can read Korean and I know a few phrases in Chinese, Japanese, Korean ( that's because I'm interested in Asian counties). Russian is close to my mother tongue, that's why i can easily understand it. So tell me what languages do you know.
6 responses
@kayra1 (77)
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8 Sep 10
I don't put my native language in the "languages I know" category. I have been learning English for twenty-three years. I can put it in that category. As for other languages I can read and write Spanish a bit and I am interested in French. I need to go a long way to be able to say that I know these languages. It's really disappointing, demotivating when I think this way, but I enjoy learning languages.
@turist1 (175)
• Bulgaria
8 Sep 10
For most of the people here English is a second language. I also don't put Bulgarian in the category of known languages, but I don't think a lot of users speak my language. So mostly I'm interested in their mother tongue because you can see for your self n one country how many different dialects are there.
@chayapathys (2111)
• India
4 Sep 10
My mother tongue is Tamil and my father tongue is Telugu. I studied in a place where Kannada is prominent. I should necessarily know Hindi which is national language of our country. Of course English in which I am now writing .In this way I know several languages of south India.Pity is I cannot claim proficiency in any of these languages.
@klaudine (3650)
• Indonesia
2 Sep 10
WOW! I am amazed that someone could understand so much language.
I am Indonesian, so Bahasa Indonesia is my mother tongue. But I know English very well, because we had it at school and I am still using it a lot when I interact with people in the internet. And I also understand some Indonesian dialects, like Javanese and Sundanese language.
When I was younger I learned Chinese a little but I already forgot because I rarely use it. But I can understand a little in conversation. And several years ago I came to a trial class for French, so I can make an opening conversation with French, but I might not be able to have a real conversation. LOL
@turist1 (175)
• Bulgaria
3 Sep 10
Wow. I'm even more impressed. I mean Indonesian language turn's out to be one of the most widely used languages in the word. I'm really sorry for not having known that till now. Do you have many dialects, because in Bulgaria (my country) even though it's a small country, we have around 10 dialects and it's a bit hard to understand each other.
@l4ur33 (72)
• Finland
30 Aug 10
i live in finland so i can speak finnish :]
evryone in finland can speak some English and Swedish becose you ahve to study them in schools for 9 years (more if you want real education).
i once tried to learn egypt when i was there on holiday, didn't go so well but i think i could still say numbers from 1 to 10 if i tried realy hard
