How many languages can you speak?  

I suppose then you are British or American, are you not planning to learn another one??

Good, so I understand you like me can speak well at least two languages. I have studied french for quite some years but as much as I love languages french never gave me any interest, I can speak simple french like I said, but I never feel like I want to improve it or learn more. Good luck with your italian, I'm pretty sure you will like it, even though it can be difficult for its grammar.

Nice to have found another italian Mylotter :) and it's weird that even though we speak the same native language we have to communicate in english here, but that's fine. It's really nice that you can speak 5 different languages, but can you speak them all fluently?? And yes Italian is not spoken much abroad but even that we both know that big part of italians can't speak any language beside their own.

Yes it is strange that we come from the same country and we must speak in english here on mylot but you know mylot's rules are these eeehhe!!Anyway,in mylot there was in the past many italians as in many gpt sites now i don't know if there are more or few than before!!as regards languages i can speak fluently french,spanish,english,italian ehhe...Russian i know it but i can speak not as good as other foreign languages i know also because i studied and practiced it for a few time compared to other ones!!

Yes I agree with you about being glad to speak english, since I have started learning english on my own the world became so wide for me and gave me the opportunity to get to know lot of people. what is your mother tongue learn2earn? if I may ask

Our national language is Filipino, but we have a lot of tongues in our area.

Wow that is a big plan, mandarin is the most spoken language in the world am I right?? but I also know it is really difficult and a word can change its meaning just from a very small sign, so good luck with it. Are you planning to study a latin language or ancient latin itself?? I have studied ancient latin and greek, but they are considered dead languages and I think that people who can actually speak them are really few in the world.

I'd love to study the ancient latin. That is the reason itself. Why let cultures die?

Someone used to teach me mandarin, but after college I stopped. Yes, I find it as the toughest one to learn, but then again, that's the challenge. :)

Agree, when something is challenging can be one more reason to not give up, and then be proud of yourself once you had success. Good luck :)

Well what to say? Great my friend, it's really nice to know that some people are able to understand so many different languages. I can only speak fluently Italian and english, but like I said dutch is on my list and plans already. And it's true if we don't practice or speak a language for some time we will forget some words and it will be more difficult to speak it again. Practice is the key.

I have the same idea as you do about people who can speak more than one language, I have noticed such a difference when I learnt to speak english fluently, of course it is not perfect, but people can understand me and that is the most important thing. People do grow intellectually and culturally when they learn a new language and everytime the world gets bigger and bigger, because to communicate is the basic need of us human beings. Are you planning to learn some other languages?

We also have very many different dialects in Italy and yes they are considerate as real languages, I forgot to mention that so that adds also one more to my list :) Spanish it's a nice language I have been studying it a little, it's very very similar to italian and I can understand it pretty easily, I can also let myself be understood by some spanish but I am not able to speak a grammatically correct spanish and I will probably make up lots of words. Let's not forget that in spain there are more than one language, all the little provinces have their own language.

Good, I think it always help having one or both parents from another country, that implies you will grow up being able to speak two languages and get to know two different cultures. German can be a little difficult language, I know that some parts of its grammar can be difficult for germans too, some do make mistakes daily, once I learn dutch German will be pretty easy for me since they have some common roots

German like I said in the post above can be a difficult language at some points, but it sounds pretty nice to me, sounds hard and tough but I like that. And about russian, I liked it back then, now I have forgotten almost everything, the only thing I can still do is to count from 1 to 10. haha

I only know to 2 languages Filipino our national language and English. I also can speak a little and I can understand Ilonggo which is my parents dialect from Iloilo. Some Filipinos who responded to your topic already explained why we can understand Spanish because our language has a mixed of Spanish.